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File a Class Action Lawsuit in US Courts
For almost three decades Jamaicans have died by the bullet.
Several attempts have been made by various people including the late, great, Hon. Robert Nesta Marley to stem the tide but with little success. It is now time to think outside the box. Pun intended.
In the USA some people have gone to stores daily to buy cigarettes. They then smoke two packs per day for forty years. If they or their spouse develop lung cancer they then sue the cigarette manufacturer and win millions of dollars.
Therefore, if one’s family member was killed by a gun manufactured or sold in the USA, one should be able to sue the gun manufacturer and win.
Individually it may be difficult to accomplish. However, as a group it is can be done successfully. This is called a Class Action Lawsuit.
These are the procedures for individuals or organizers to follow:
1) Make a list of all the people who were killed by the gun in the past 10 to 30 years. This can be collected from, the police, newspapers, hospitals and family members.
2) Make a list of the types of guns used in murders in Jamaica in the past 10 to 30 years. This info is also available with the police and newspapers.
3) Contact a Class-Action attorney firm in the USA. They do not charge anything up-front. They take about a third of the award if successful.
While consulting with the firm find out if it would be possible to include the Police, JLP, PNP and their leaders in the suit.
If their selfishness and thirst for power will allow them to provide guns to poor youth to kill each other, maybe taking their earthly possessions will stop them.
If they can not be included, maybe they can be brought to the World Court or the United Nations.
There could be some merit to this lawsuit considering that it is documented that the US has refused to cooperate with the previous JA government on screening shipments leaving the US to JA; but of course all kinda pressure on JA to screen shipments/goods from JA to USA.
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The Jamaican Society is about to imoplde. It will become so unstable that neither the rich nor the poor will be able to enjoy it.
At that time the thought of football will be far from everyone's minds. The teams will stop qualifying for anything. We don't have to look far to see the future.
SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE!
Just in case you have missed the mayhem.
Gang has police hit list Constabulary on high alert in St James KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter walkerk@jamaicaobserver.com Monday, December 10, 2007
Police in St James are on high alert after receiving information that a notorious gang based in the parish have compiled a list of cops who they have marked for death.
Assistant commissioner in charge of the Major Investigation Task Force, Les Green, yesterday confirmed that the Stone Crusher Gang, which has been blamed for a series of murders and other violent incidents in Montego Bay and its environs since last year, has masterminded the hit list.
"We are aware of that list and we are following it up," Green told the Observer yesterday. "Police officers are aware and special measures are being put in place so that they are not at risk."
Guns of all sorts, shapes and sizes are being paraded before our eyes in the media to indicate the variety of the arsenal which is in the hands of criminals. Just two nights ago a spanking new high calibre weapon with a price tag of US$7,000 was found in St. James. It is a fact that many criminals would kill with knives, stones or their bare hands.
Illegal guns
However, access to guns makes it all too easy. So the number-one problem facing law enforcement is how to remove the estimated 1200 or so illegal guns that are circulating in the criminal world. I recall that former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller named a squad which was charged specifically with getting the guns. I have not seen any reports to indicate how successful they have been in their efforts. The scale of the problem urgently demands new initiatives.
No longer is criminal activity concentrated in tough inner-city neighbourhoods which we all try to avoid. Marauding criminals have fanned out into once rural idyll with such ferocity that has stirred public alarm.
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Illegal guns, ammo fetch high prices
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A collection of guns including the Glock, the 9mm and shotgun which were seized by the police. Klao Bell, Staff Reporter
GUNS of varying makes and models are available in illegal sales in Jamaica, some at very high prices.
While the police have seized more than 200 illegal guns since the start of the year, the sale of the firearms continues to thrive, with the wide range of prices linked to the type of weapon, the time of year or whether or not there is "war" or peace in some areas.
Detective Inspector Michael Scott of the Flying Squad told The Sunday Gleaner last week that he has heard of "9mm weapons going for $80,000 (each) while bullets cost $60 to $100 per round," in the criminal underworld.
But a man from east Kingston who identifies himself as a "former shotta" (former gunman) gave The Sunday Gleaner an insight into the illegal gun trade.
"You can get guns for $14,000, $3,000, $6,000 - it all depends on who you buy it from. More time man all trade them weed fi gun. You have man weh sell gun. Them just deal with that alone, some man sell shot - them just specialise in that alone. Guns don't have any fixed price, you pay different price for the kind a weapon," he said.
"Machine or high-power weapon sell more on the road," he added. "They want their weapon to be heavier than what the police have - AK-47 sell fi all $70,000 to $100,000. Shot fi all a Magnum cost anything from $50 to $100 (per round)."
Between January and June 17 the police recovered 222 guns. These included six rifles, three submachine guns; four shot-guns; 42 home-made guns; 105 semi-automatic pistols and 62 revolvers. Their origins span the globe.
"We have seen guns from all parts of the world pass through this lab," said Deputy Superintendent Fred Hibbert of the Forensic Laboratory. "Japanese make, Iraqi and Russian models, some of these are really cheap. Some, like the Cobray M11 seem popular with druggists."
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While her husband the great Nelson Mandella was locked in prison for 25 years, Winnie Mandella gave a face to the struggle. She travelled the world and kept the pressure up on the racist Botha. Close to the end of the struggle she was linked to the murder of an oponent and was tried and brought to shame!
I will list some names please post any omissions:
Claude Massop,Winston "Burrey Boy" Blake, George 'Feathermop' Spence, Aston 'Bucky' Marshall, Dennis 'Copper' Barth and Jim Brown.
We all know that they killed nuff, nuff people. We all know to whom they were linked. They were at their funerals bigin dem up!
So how cum not even one politician was charged with any of their crimes?. But if a yout just happen to be in the same area where him fren shoot someone dem charge both a dem.
None of the politicians who circumvented the one-person one-vote principles of the constitution by setting up garrison communities, and having gun-toting chronies force the people to vote for them and divide the poulation can walk in the shoes of Sistr Winnie Mandella.
So howcum no even one charge. Shame,shame shame on the police. Are they part of the conspiracy?
Are they turning a blind eye to the guns coming in then murdering the youths who use them to murder the people?
If the police won't stop it any Jamaican can take these criminal police and politicians to THE WORLD COURT.
What crimes will the Court try?
The Court has a mandate to try individuals rather than States and to hold them accountable for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community - genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, and, eventually, the crime of aggression. A common misperception is that the Court will be able to try those accused of having committed such crimes in the past, but this is not the case. The Court will have jurisdiction only over crimes committed after 1 July 2002, when the Statute entered into force.
Genocide is defined as a list of prohibited acts, such as killing or causing serious harm, committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.
As set out in the Statute, crimes against humanity include crimes such as the extermination of civilians, enslavement, torture, rape, forced pregnancy, persecution on political, racial, national, ethnic, cultural, religious or gender grounds, and enforced disappearances - but only when they are part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population.
The "widespread or systematic" qualification for crimes against humanity is very important, as it provides a higher threshold, requiring a particular magnitude and/or scope before a crime qualifies for the Court's jurisdiction. This differentiates random acts of violence - such as rape, murder, or even torture - that could be carried out, perhaps even by soldiers in uniform, but which may not actually qualify as crimes against humanity.
War crimes include grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and other serious violations of the laws and customs that can be applied in international armed conflict, and in armed conflict "not of an international character", as listed in the Statute, when they are committed as part of a plan or policy or on a large scale
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Use more preventative approaches to crime, drugs - World Bank study published: Thursday | December 27, 2007
A joint report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Latin America and Caribbean Region of the World Bank on Crime, entitled 'Violence and Development in the Caribbean' has said that violence and crime reduction in the region can be achieved through preventive approaches and not just those focused on criminal justice.
Jamaica, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world, is currently experiencing one of its worst homicide rates with over 1,500 people being murdered since the start of the year.
The country has repeatedly been criticised for its criminal justice-focused methods which some human rights groups say are too excessive and reactive.
The World Bank report, which viewed several case studies in Jamaica, the Dominican Republic, the Netherland Antilles and Trinidad and Tobago, presented a variety of approaches which could be used under the preventative approach.
Prevention through Environmental Design
One such approach is Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED). CPTED includes the planning and installation of social infrastructure such as community centres, playing fields, public lighting, zinc fence removal and installation of saf
Another method is the integrated citizen security approach which includes the combination of modern methods of policing with prevention interventions undertaken by both government and non-governmental organisations.
