The best lack conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity
"The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats
As the count down continues we see what appears to be the Public Sector Organisation of Jamaica’s initiative to fight crime in the country unraveling at the seams. Let us replay the focal points of this stance to see why the thread is thinning.
On the first day of the infamous protest the masses cried out that they were not in support of this movement why?
They too have been having crimes inflicted upon them for many years and the elites of the business sector did not seek to protest with them.
No one asked for their say in the top down approach to fighting crime.
The members of Parliament as well as the PSOJ debated that the masses were losing sight of the big picture and were not thinking of the country only of themselves. Point duly noted.
Next was the request that politicians disassociate themselves from criminals what was the outcome of this furor in the house.
Members of Parliament protested that politicians were being made scapegoats in the private sector's current protest against rising crime.
Legislators criticised the prime minister and the opposition leader for agreeing to a set of demands made by private sector leaders
Private sector has also done a lot to encourage criminality in this country.
The PSOJ and the masses could equally say that the members of parliament are also losing sight of the big picture and are thinking only of themselves.
The fact is as always that all parties have lost sight of the big picture. The big picture was never the escalating crime rate this was only a symptom of the bigger picture. The bigger picture has always been the erosion of the moral fabric of this society in the struggle for power and money.
At the risk of using clichés, when will we all see that the whole can become greater than the sum of the parts. We need to unite as a collective and attack this problem together. The big picture is not about the private sector jumping up to take the reigns and the glory of performing this feat that the state has been unable to do, it is not about the state failing to protect its citizens, it is not about the citizens who are now filled with a sense of apathy. It is about everyone saying “we have all sinned”. We have all contributed to the decadence and we are all going to work together to make the change.
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