The Editor, Sir:

The unprofessional behaviour of our politicians is a perfect illustration of the type of seed we sow and, therefore, we are now reaping its rewards. These politicians pose a definite threat to national security and act as if they are immune to the laws of Jamaica.

Politicians must be reminded that even though they make decisions for the country, they are subjected to the laws just like other citizens. Members of the country's main security forces are expected to act in a professional way at all times, notwithstanding the intensity of their job, yet, the persons who sit in Parliament and make the laws of the country and decided what is best for the people of Jamaica, behave even in the eyes of the public like amateurs.

I could not have pictured that politics would become as corrupt as it has lately, or that the separating line between politics and crime would get as indistinguishable as it is.

Feeling the lashes

It appears as if our politicians took the help of criminals and their actions to detain power, and now it has become a part of them, and we the Jamaican people, who have subjected ourselves to their lethal and unprofessional actions, continue to feel the lashes of their unbearable outer bands of accomplishment. This phase we are passing through is the dissolution of politics. One shivers to think what the ultimate conclusion might be.

A culture reaps what it sows; if we sow seeds of honour, we will harvest honourable acts. But the seeds of anger will eventually yield violence. The law of the harvest is a part of the divine design for human society, and it allows no exceptions. A people who sow professionalism for life will reap a society of gentleness and a legacy of respect. A people shorn of this seed will ultimately fabricate a harvest of awful horror, suffering, anguish, violence and brutality.

I am, etc.,

LERON MATTISON

leronmattison@yahoo.com