I have never had a taste for politics. I never wanted to represent people because I figured I have enough problems of my own to be taking on other people's troubles. I still feel this way but after decades of watching the people who are supposed to represent us, it sometimes makes me wish I were prime minister for six months. Just six months, because that time is all the time I would need to fix some of the problems that we now have.
During those six months, certain liberties we now enjoy would cease to exist but it would be worth the sacrifice.
When you think about the gangs that have political affiliation, the levels of corruption that exist everywhere, especially in state-run organisations, I would need to make some hard decisions and some things would not be allowed, at least not until the problems are fixed and the relevant people removed from positions of influence and locked away from the public.
Nation doesn't care what happens
What we have here in Jamaica is a nation of people who for the most part, don't care about what happens to 'John-down-the-road' so as long as we get ours. So, we enter into deals with the different devils in society, deals that ensure that we keep food on our plates never mind that thousands more will be deprived by our actions.
You tell me what you would do if you were prime minister and had the opportunity to punish those trading marijuana for guns, weapons that are being used to take lives at an unprecedented rate in this country?
Would you hang them in public or sentence them and the beneficiaries of their evil deeds to life imprisonment at very hard labour, or would you banish them to some remote volcanic island?
I know what I would do but I can't say it here, it's too graphic for human consumption.
What would you do to the people who block roads in protest against the arrest of some 'don' who is nothing more than a parasite to society? You know what peeves me the most about these people? They always say they want jobs, but they don't go looking because they really don't want to work. They prefer to lounge around all day and live off extortion money and the spoils from robberies and other criminal activity. Those who claim to want to work want to be paid as much as an executive does, but who possess absolutely no qualifications. Well, not any academic qualifications because I am sure they are well schooled in other more salacious disciplines.
Unaffiliated
If I were prime minister, because I would not be affiliated to any existing political party, I would be hard on these people without fear of political backlash. That abundant energy that they always seem to have and which they use to drag old cars into the road and set trees trunks and tyres alight would be put to good use serving the state for very long periods of time. No point having all that energy continuing to go to waste.
It would be a long six months for many, but for most of us I feel it would be a blessed time. Because for at least that time, we all would feel like we are taking back this country from the ghouls who now make it difficult for us to go about our daily lives without being fearful. It would also be a time when our tax dollars would be used to do the things that they are meant to be used for.
What is happening now is ridiculous and it makes me sick, sick enough to want to become something I have absolutely no taste for.
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