In addition of being falsely accused and incorrectly used as a scapegoat for incompetency by the political and other social authorities, it has always been my position that the Commissioner of Police, himself, has been and was unwise to have assumed, in the first place, responsibility for something that has nothing to do with him or his portfolio as Commissioner of Police.
Poor thing has allowed his 'Office' and 'Officers' to have been carrying the bag for the blame for as long as I can remember. The operative words to focus on in the name title 'The Royal Bahamas Police Force' is 'POLICE' and then 'FORCE'. The law Institution is meant to be a social tool that is called into play to regulate (that what it means to police), and then, where there is a breach in the regulations/rules/laws/orders etc, the Institution is called upon to help to arrest the offenders and to the en-FORCE-ment of the law. He, nor his officers, are the leaders of the citizens/the people of this Country. This is not 'a police state'
The people are only following their elected leaders to the extent that the leaders are able to inspire them. If then these persons hold themselves out as our leader, then turn around and notice that no one is actually following them, they then ought to conclude that they are by themselves, and, are only out for an exercise, a walk. Leadership is 95% inspiration.
In a significant amount of cases, persons are doing criminal acts because that is what they are inspired to do or what they feel led to believe is the alternative to survive and resolve their issues. They resort to means outside the law to remedy some injustice done to them. Otherwise, there is absolutely no light in and Judicial or Criminal Justice systems.
Moses and Jesus taught the people... this was essential. However, one can hardly teach anyone if they are not able to inspire the audience to whom the teachings are needed. Nor are the leaders able to reconcile with the present generation.
But too many of Commissioner Greenslades' ranking officers were enjoying the false but nostalgic feeling of being important and projecting themselves as being indispensable to law and order. I have always argued that Our Police Force has been operating out of protocol for years.
I hope now that they realized how their egos have cause them to act out inappropriately and disproportionately to their own embarrassment and the decline of us all inclusive of other institutions and governing bodies.
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars..." While I can understand the frustrations, and in some cases, agree with the need to echo the comments regarding the governing party (PLP); however, if one were to step back from all the emotion being vented in these comments, one might still want to admit that Bradley Roberts is a dynamic and highly effective Chairman for his political party, the PLP.
Yeah... laughing is our most convenient attempt to mentally block it all out. In psychological terms its called transferring... hang in there though! :-).
i love the bahamas... and that means... all of you too. My friends... I sincerely feel your frustrations. The callous disregards for the natural environment for illusion of financial gain is what irked me. Remember, however, that the PLP did not come into power without the support of the majority of the eligible voters.
In this regard, i am the only bahamian, under the Constitution of The Bahamas, who cannot be blamed, or held responsible, for the fiasco that Our Beloved Bahama-land is now having to go through and must endure. Not to taunt you, my Beloved Fellow Citizens, but during the time of the last general election, i held no bahamian status. Of course,... the administrations of the Prime Minister, both now and prior, would not want you, the general public to know this.
The pure wretched ways of those governing The Bahamas had gotten to me and I was compelled to flee the Country... yes... the Land in which all of my forbears, right on back to the days of slavery and the Loyalist, were born. You see I had applied for refugee status in the United Kingdom and I was there from March of 2012 to the 23rd of July, 2012. And so, I am sincerely feeling the pain which we all are having to go through, and, what can oftentimes leave us all feeling like we are in a state of hopelessness.
Since my returned, but now with a reinvigorated mind to try again, I reflect on the course of my decisions and actions... and after seeing all these social unfoldings and disappointments and tragedies etc... I have no regret for taking the course that I did. This place can cause you to go crazy, if you let it... That is, if you don't prepare yourself with an exit strategy that is aimed to get you away so as to put some distance behind you; in the event, you can then re-energize and catch yourself. Who knows, you may come to be of some good to somebody else if not The Bahamas.
Therefore I can relate to you All and I hereby reiterate that I can feel all of your frustrations... it hurts to see your country go to the dogs!!! Yes... I am frustrated too. But let us not give up... Let us begin now to fight this darkness that comes from the ignorant...
A friend once said to me, "if we fail, let it not be for not trying". Friends... if this is the case, that we are to fail... let's us fall with our face flat out but pointing to the direction in which we ought to have been going to make it better... Love you ALL.... Stay strong... because we still got more miles to go...
In addition of being falsely accused and incorrectly used as a scapegoat for incompetency in the political and other social authorities, it has always been my position that the Commissioner of Police, himself, has been and was unwise to have subsumed responsibility for something that has nothing to do with him or his portfolio as Commissioner of Police.
Poor thing has allowed his 'Office' and 'Officers' to have been carrying the bag for the blame for as long as I can remember.
The operative words to focus on in the name title 'The Royal Bahamas Police Force' is 'POLICE' and then 'FORCE'. The law Institution is meant to be a social tool that is called into play to regulate (that what it means to police), and then, where there is a breach in the regulations/rules/laws/orders etc, the Institution is called upon to help to arrest the offenders and to the en-FORCE-ment of the law. He, nor his officers, are the leaders of the citizens/the people of this Country. This is not 'a police state'
The people are only following their elected leaders to the extent that the leaders are able to inspire them. If then these persons hold themselves out as our leader, then turn around and notice that no one is actually following them, they then ought to conclude that they are by themselves, and, are only out for an exercise, a walk. Leadership is 95% inspiration.
In a significant amount of cases, persons are doing criminal acts because that is what they are inspired to do or what they feel led to believe is the one alternative to survive, resolve issues or to remedy some injustice done to them. Otherwise, there is absolutely no light in and Judicial or Criminal Justice systems. Moses and Jesus taught the people... this was essential. However, one can hardly teach anyone if they are not able to inspire the audience to whom the teachings are needed. Nor are the leaders able to reconcile with the present generation. Personally, I have been waiting to be taught something of value from the leaders of this Country from 1966 and I am still waiting... hell no!!! ...i went on and got mine enlightenment through tertiary education by the help of The LORD.
But too many of Commissioner Greenslades' ranking officers were enjoying the false but nostalgic feeling of being important and projecting themselves as being indispensable to law and order. I have always argued that Our Police Force has been operating out of protocol for years.
I hope now that they realized how their egos have cause them to act out inappropriately and disproportionately to their own embarrassment and the decline of us all inclusive of other institutions and governing bodies.
One thing that I have noticed is missing from this discussion, and it is not deliberate but probably just a matter of knowledge. It is the employment of psychoanalysis. Now... there is a social danger in employing of this type of treatment in a smal society like The Bahamas; notwithstanding, it has been proven to be the most effective and advanced treatment for mental illness. And I suppose that is why the governing interests in The Bahamas never push hard for it to be employed in the public health system.
Psychoanalysis is a process whereby the patient is diagnosed as to whether or not their ailment is neurological, or, the result of a mental or psychological trauma. Often it can be the result of latter... which is deemed curable by creating conditions similar to that which existed at the time the patient became ill. The patient, psychologically, revisits, and in a sense, relives the moment of the trauma. He/she is then carefully guided psychologically to cope or in a manner overcome mentally the traumatic experience.
Why is this a scary prospect for The Bahamas socially??? It is because the result of such cure would bring to light a whole lot of 'folly' which affluent persons of the societies' higher echelon and persons in high office would have done to the persons for them to be in the mental state that they are in. We rather protect the noble but false opinions of those persons rather than for the person to be healed and for the cause of the trauma to become known. It won't matter what one would say happened to them as a child, we rather the bastard go crazy and then we get to say, "he's a fool, don't listen to him/her... dey is go-and-come".
Remember some years ago the young man who was tried and convicted for the rape and serial murders of young boys in Freeport, Grand Bahama? Which of us wanted to hear him when he said that his elder sister often sexually molested him as a child??? During the trial, this same sister of his, it was noted, was a high ranking police officer. But never mind that... let's just "throw his ass in jail for raping and killing them boys". Alright??? Nonetheless Bahamas, remember... "hurt people, hurt people", Robert K. Greenleaf. How many of us curled in from wanting to get help after that rebuff???
John, your expression is agreeably indicative of the issues and does not represent in much way the approach or solutions. All that you've said with respect to what persons suffering from mental illness has to confront and deal with environmentally and institutionally is true; however, I invite you to look closer at the double tribe of what you've said with respect to crime. Canada has a criminal system that never loses sight of the valuabilities, if that's a word, of the criminal as apart from the criminal act. In one mouth your cry "exercise tolerance and forgiveness", and in the same mouth you say, "penalty for murder has to be swift and severe". I say the response to crime should at all times, and in all instances, be calculated and rational. As to "toting a gun as a fashion statement... etc"... We should fight the battles which we know that we can win... and in assessing this, we can then realize, calculate and be able to make decision as to appropriately allocate resources to confront those battles which we are more doubtful of the outcome. Inevitably, we will lose some battles, but, this should be on our terms... and not due to the present level of backward, ignorant and incompetent leaderships.
As I have stated in another forum... the present view of 'Majority Rule' serves more to divide The Bahamas than unite it. The History of The Bahamas began long before the 10th of January, 1967, or for that fact, the 10th of July, 1973. There are persons and families who have, long before these dates, contributed and laid a solid foundation to what was once a Great Country. No attempts to write over what is the real and and most lasting history of The Bahamas will change this, i.e. the visionary and founding father, Sir Stafford Sands, to what is now the Countries Tourism and Financial sectors. Yet, there is not one single substantive memorial set up in his honor. Like I say, the whole celebration appears more divisive and prejudicial than a celebration meant to brings us together as One Country.
Cobalt, we need to promote a more healthy understanding and a mature outlook of mental illness. In which case, the suffering persons and their families won't feel so embarrassed at the prospect of having to get help for what is a natural factor in the lives of every human being. Too long our society has shown in-compassion and have instead ridiculed persons for what is a natural sickness capable of being address.
The fact of the FBI now becoming involve in our domestic problem is now a reality. This law institution is itself a domestic branch of law enforcement in the USA. BahamaPundit, your response is a constructive response, however, the solution for this scourge is indeed right here among us Bahamians. Now I would agree with you that those were and are responsible to resolve the problem, and who are at the forefront of leadership, do not possess the vision, nor will nor competency to do the job... but the solution & answer to address our problem is right here among us... That is an empirical fact. The arrogance and pride of the present and previous leaders won't allow them to accept the advice from persons not within their click or lope. Their very persona don't resonate with younger generations to themselves so as to be able to speak with authority. Humans are not all that complicated as we sometime make them out to be. It is their greed and selfishness that has cause the marginalizing and disenfranchisement of those who are now lost and have no sense of right belonging. Hence, the marginalize are apt to give themselves over to reckless abandonment, i.e. criminal acts and personal retaliation for wrongs done to them. It's a mess... but it may still worth some of us putting up a fight to regain Our Bahamaland out the hands of incompetent leaders. With this said, I am moved in my heart to put my pen to paper and draft my vision of what I feel is needed in the first instant to be done. Thanks.
Godson says...
In addition of being falsely accused and incorrectly used as a scapegoat for incompetency by the political and other social authorities, it has always been my position that the Commissioner of Police, himself, has been and was unwise to have assumed, in the first place, responsibility for something that has nothing to do with him or his portfolio as Commissioner of Police.
Poor thing has allowed his 'Office' and 'Officers' to have been carrying the bag for the blame for as long as I can remember.
The operative words to focus on in the name title 'The Royal Bahamas Police Force' is 'POLICE' and then 'FORCE'. The law Institution is meant to be a social tool that is called into play to regulate (that what it means to police), and then, where there is a breach in the regulations/rules/laws/orders etc, the Institution is called upon to help to arrest the offenders and to the en-FORCE-ment of the law. He, nor his officers, are the leaders of the citizens/the people of this Country. This is not 'a police state'
The people are only following their elected leaders to the extent that the leaders are able to inspire them. If then these persons hold themselves out as our leader, then turn around and notice that no one is actually following them, they then ought to conclude that they are by themselves, and, are only out for an exercise, a walk. Leadership is 95% inspiration.
In a significant amount of cases, persons are doing criminal acts because that is what they are inspired to do or what they feel led to believe is the alternative to survive and resolve their issues. They resort to means outside the law to remedy some injustice done to them. Otherwise, there is absolutely no light in and Judicial or Criminal Justice systems.
Moses and Jesus taught the people... this was essential. However, one can hardly teach anyone if they are not able to inspire the audience to whom the teachings are needed. Nor are the leaders able to reconcile with the present generation.
But too many of Commissioner Greenslades' ranking officers were enjoying the false but nostalgic feeling of being important and projecting themselves as being indispensable to law and order. I have always argued that Our Police Force has been operating out of protocol for years.
I hope now that they realized how their egos have cause them to act out inappropriately and disproportionately to their own embarrassment and the decline of us all inclusive of other institutions and governing bodies.
On Fighting crime
Posted 13 January 2016, 7:24 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
"Dogs don't bark at parked cars..." While I can understand the frustrations, and in some cases, agree with the need to echo the comments regarding the governing party (PLP); however, if one were to step back from all the emotion being vented in these comments, one might still want to admit that Bradley Roberts is a dynamic and highly effective Chairman for his political party, the PLP.
I wish I had a bulldog(Chairman) like him...
Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson
On Roberts mocks FNM candidates
Posted 13 January 2016, 6:49 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
Yeah... laughing is our most convenient attempt to mentally block it all out. In psychological terms its called transferring... hang in there though! :-).
On QC: Bimini’s dive tourism sacrificed for minimal gain
Posted 13 January 2016, 5:13 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
i love the bahamas... and that means... all of you too. My friends... I sincerely feel your frustrations. The callous disregards for the natural environment for illusion of financial gain is what irked me. Remember, however, that the PLP did not come into power without the support of the majority of the eligible voters.
In this regard, i am the only bahamian, under the Constitution of The Bahamas, who cannot be blamed, or held responsible, for the fiasco that Our Beloved Bahama-land is now having to go through and must endure. Not to taunt you, my Beloved Fellow Citizens, but during the time of the last general election, i held no bahamian status. Of course,... the administrations of the Prime Minister, both now and prior, would not want you, the general public to know this.
The pure wretched ways of those governing The Bahamas had gotten to me and I was compelled to flee the Country... yes... the Land in which all of my forbears, right on back to the days of slavery and the Loyalist, were born. You see I had applied for refugee status in the United Kingdom and I was there from March of 2012 to the 23rd of July, 2012. And so, I am sincerely feeling the pain which we all are having to go through, and, what can oftentimes leave us all feeling like we are in a state of hopelessness.
Since my returned, but now with a reinvigorated mind to try again, I reflect on the course of my decisions and actions... and after seeing all these social unfoldings and disappointments and tragedies etc... I have no regret for taking the course that I did. This place can cause you to go crazy, if you let it... That is, if you don't prepare yourself with an exit strategy that is aimed to get you away so as to put some distance behind you; in the event, you can then re-energize and catch yourself. Who knows, you may come to be of some good to somebody else if not The Bahamas.
Therefore I can relate to you All and I hereby reiterate that I can feel all of your frustrations... it hurts to see your country go to the dogs!!! Yes... I am frustrated too. But let us not give up... Let us begin now to fight this darkness that comes from the ignorant...
A friend once said to me, "if we fail, let it not be for not trying". Friends... if this is the case, that we are to fail... let's us fall with our face flat out but pointing to the direction in which we ought to have been going to make it better... Love you ALL.... Stay strong... because we still got more miles to go...
Godson 'Nicodemus' Johnson
On QC: Bimini’s dive tourism sacrificed for minimal gain
Posted 12 January 2016, 7:33 p.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
In addition of being falsely accused and incorrectly used as a scapegoat for incompetency in the political and other social authorities, it has always been my position that the Commissioner of Police, himself, has been and was unwise to have subsumed responsibility for something that has nothing to do with him or his portfolio as Commissioner of Police.
Poor thing has allowed his 'Office' and 'Officers' to have been carrying the bag for the blame for as long as I can remember.
The operative words to focus on in the name title 'The Royal Bahamas Police Force' is 'POLICE' and then 'FORCE'. The law Institution is meant to be a social tool that is called into play to regulate (that what it means to police), and then, where there is a breach in the regulations/rules/laws/orders etc, the Institution is called upon to help to arrest the offenders and to the en-FORCE-ment of the law. He, nor his officers, are the leaders of the citizens/the people of this Country. This is not 'a police state'
The people are only following their elected leaders to the extent that the leaders are able to inspire them. If then these persons hold themselves out as our leader, then turn around and notice that no one is actually following them, they then ought to conclude that they are by themselves, and, are only out for an exercise, a walk. Leadership is 95% inspiration.
In a significant amount of cases, persons are doing criminal acts because that is what they are inspired to do or what they feel led to believe is the one alternative to survive, resolve issues or to remedy some injustice done to them. Otherwise, there is absolutely no light in and Judicial or Criminal Justice systems. Moses and Jesus taught the people... this was essential. However, one can hardly teach anyone if they are not able to inspire the audience to whom the teachings are needed. Nor are the leaders able to reconcile with the present generation. Personally, I have been waiting to be taught something of value from the leaders of this Country from 1966 and I am still waiting... hell no!!! ...i went on and got mine enlightenment through tertiary education by the help of The LORD.
But too many of Commissioner Greenslades' ranking officers were enjoying the false but nostalgic feeling of being important and projecting themselves as being indispensable to law and order. I have always argued that Our Police Force has been operating out of protocol for years.
I hope now that they realized how their egos have cause them to act out inappropriately and disproportionately to their own embarrassment and the decline of us all inclusive of other institutions and governing bodies.
On ‘Don’t just blame police for crime woes’
Posted 12 January 2016, 5:26 p.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
One thing that I have noticed is missing from this discussion, and it is not deliberate but probably just a matter of knowledge. It is the employment of psychoanalysis. Now... there is a social danger in employing of this type of treatment in a smal society like The Bahamas; notwithstanding, it has been proven to be the most effective and advanced treatment for mental illness. And I suppose that is why the governing interests in The Bahamas never push hard for it to be employed in the public health system.
Psychoanalysis is a process whereby the patient is diagnosed as to whether or not their ailment is neurological, or, the result of a mental or psychological trauma. Often it can be the result of latter... which is deemed curable by creating conditions similar to that which existed at the time the patient became ill. The patient, psychologically, revisits, and in a sense, relives the moment of the trauma. He/she is then carefully guided psychologically to cope or in a manner overcome mentally the traumatic experience.
Why is this a scary prospect for The Bahamas socially??? It is because the result of such cure would bring to light a whole lot of 'folly' which affluent persons of the societies' higher echelon and persons in high office would have done to the persons for them to be in the mental state that they are in. We rather protect the noble but false opinions of those persons rather than for the person to be healed and for the cause of the trauma to become known. It won't matter what one would say happened to them as a child, we rather the bastard go crazy and then we get to say, "he's a fool, don't listen to him/her... dey is go-and-come".
Remember some years ago the young man who was tried and convicted for the rape and serial murders of young boys in Freeport, Grand Bahama? Which of us wanted to hear him when he said that his elder sister often sexually molested him as a child??? During the trial, this same sister of his, it was noted, was a high ranking police officer. But never mind that... let's just "throw his ass in jail for raping and killing them boys". Alright??? Nonetheless Bahamas, remember... "hurt people, hurt people", Robert K. Greenleaf. How many of us curled in from wanting to get help after that rebuff???
On Man stabbed to death by relative at Imperial Park
Posted 11 January 2016, 2:03 p.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
John, your expression is agreeably indicative of the issues and does not represent in much way the approach or solutions. All that you've said with respect to what persons suffering from mental illness has to confront and deal with environmentally and institutionally is true; however, I invite you to look closer at the double tribe of what you've said with respect to crime. Canada has a criminal system that never loses sight of the valuabilities, if that's a word, of the criminal as apart from the criminal act. In one mouth your cry "exercise tolerance and forgiveness", and in the same mouth you say, "penalty for murder has to be swift and severe". I say the response to crime should at all times, and in all instances, be calculated and rational. As to "toting a gun as a fashion statement... etc"... We should fight the battles which we know that we can win... and in assessing this, we can then realize, calculate and be able to make decision as to appropriately allocate resources to confront those battles which we are more doubtful of the outcome. Inevitably, we will lose some battles, but, this should be on our terms... and not due to the present level of backward, ignorant and incompetent leaderships.
On Man stabbed to death by relative at Imperial Park
Posted 11 January 2016, 1:19 p.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
As I have stated in another forum... the present view of 'Majority Rule' serves more to divide The Bahamas than unite it. The History of The Bahamas began long before the 10th of January, 1967, or for that fact, the 10th of July, 1973. There are persons and families who have, long before these dates, contributed and laid a solid foundation to what was once a Great Country. No attempts to write over what is the real and and most lasting history of The Bahamas will change this, i.e. the visionary and founding father, Sir Stafford Sands, to what is now the Countries Tourism and Financial sectors. Yet, there is not one single substantive memorial set up in his honor. Like I say, the whole celebration appears more divisive and prejudicial than a celebration meant to brings us together as One Country.
On Man stabbed to death by relative at Imperial Park
Posted 11 January 2016, 8:56 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
Cobalt, we need to promote a more healthy understanding and a mature outlook of mental illness. In which case, the suffering persons and their families won't feel so embarrassed at the prospect of having to get help for what is a natural factor in the lives of every human being. Too long our society has shown in-compassion and have instead ridiculed persons for what is a natural sickness capable of being address.
On Man stabbed to death by relative at Imperial Park
Posted 11 January 2016, 8:44 a.m. Suggest removal
Godson says...
The fact of the FBI now becoming involve in our domestic problem is now a reality. This law institution is itself a domestic branch of law enforcement in the USA. BahamaPundit, your response is a constructive response, however, the solution for this scourge is indeed right here among us Bahamians. Now I would agree with you that those were and are responsible to resolve the problem, and who are at the forefront of leadership, do not possess the vision, nor will nor competency to do the job... but the solution & answer to address our problem is right here among us... That is an empirical fact. The arrogance and pride of the present and previous leaders won't allow them to accept the advice from persons not within their click or lope. Their very persona don't resonate with younger generations to themselves so as to be able to speak with authority. Humans are not all that complicated as we sometime make them out to be. It is their greed and selfishness that has cause the marginalizing and disenfranchisement of those who are now lost and have no sense of right belonging. Hence, the marginalize are apt to give themselves over to reckless abandonment, i.e. criminal acts and personal retaliation for wrongs done to them. It's a mess... but it may still worth some of us putting up a fight to regain Our Bahamaland out the hands of incompetent leaders. With this said, I am moved in my heart to put my pen to paper and draft my vision of what I feel is needed in the first instant to be done. Thanks.
On Man stabbed to death by relative at Imperial Park
Posted 11 January 2016, 8:37 a.m. Suggest removal