The Editor, Sir:A country, like a human being, needs a spine. Just as the human or other animal needs a spine around which muscles and ribs coalesce to give form and substance to bear its burden, so must the spine of the society
operate.
The spine of the society is the consolidation of laws supported by morality and morality covers both secular and religious mores, although some will argue that there is no morality outside of a religious structure.
Jamaica's spine has been threatened by several diseases: corruption, 'badmanism', crudeness in behaviour and a general crassness and incivility.
But the greatest threat to its health is the open and brazen warfare now declared upon the
society by those who hold command over life and death by firepower.
The attack on the Cross Roads Police Station is not the first of such attacks. This time, it is in the uptown area in which many unthinking persons thought they were safe.
I realise that the Government will mobilise more by words and by the deeds of the harried and exhausted paramilitary forces and mount a response, but sooner than later we will be right back in another strike on law enforcement.
There is an admixture of things, circumstances and events which have brought us to this cross roads (no pun intended).
Where the spine is attacked, it is only serious surgery or revolutionary rehabilitative methods that can return the body to a state of health.
I am, etc.,
MIDDLETON WILSON
mwilson530259391@aol.com
Miami, Florida
