Jamaica Normalize Crime and Corruption

Jamaicans are very selective when it comes to corruption, crime, criminals, and victim outrage. We love to pretend that we are outrage about corruption but for the most part we are not. Jamaica as a society normalized various aspect of corruption and crime, it is seen as an opportunity and all depends on who is the perpetrator, who is benefiting and who is the victim. I once wrote that I had to cut down all the fruit trees in my yard because I was tired of coming home finding people in my yard and up my trees. Based on the response I got from some, one would think I went into the yard of the people who were in my yard and cut down their food trees depriving them of a meal. I became the criminal for cutting down my own tree and they, the invaders of my yard became the victims.

We give cute names to crimes we love Scamma and Choppa, and worship community dons, warlords, and Scammers because they are seen as providers for the ghettos. The people respect the fact that they came from nothing, little ghetto youths, go up against the system and found a way to make money, flashing the wealth from their criminal enterprise around the community. And some are upset when they are targeted by the security forces, claiming persecution of the little black ghetto youths.

There are many victims because of these recent financial corruption scandals. Many human lives disrupted, and some people lost all their life savings. These people however, remains faceless and nameless because as far as Jamaicans are concern there is only one victim, Usain Bolt, and everyone else is fair game?

Fraud is not only limited to financial institutions, it exist at every level of the Jamaican society because greed exists at every level. There are no bigger criminals in Jamaica then Religious Criminals. Pastors and Preachers of Jamaica favorite pastime is to prey on the weak and vulnerable almost daily. Every con artist has a gimmick of some sort and the people preaching in churches have the best gimmick of all. The use of religion to get the same things drug dealers, warlords, Dons and politicians want out of life. That is to enrich themselves at the expensive of the weaker more vulnerable members of our society while preaching of the better that will come.