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They allowed crime to grow and did nothing about it except dump millions into useless public relations exercises and expensive "toys" pretending they were fighting back. Under their watch crime continued to grow while they looked the other way.
Patrick Manning chose to deal with crime by anointing crime bosses as "community leaders" and making deal with them to keep the peace when he should be locking them up and breaking up the gangs. He gave them lucrative government contracts as peace offerings.
One top PNM official once said it would be political suicide for the PNM to demobilise gangs.
Is it any wonder then that the PNM is so opposed to the State of Emergency, which is aimed at dealing forcefully with crime?
Perhaps what is most worrisome in the declarations from the opposition People's National Movement (PNM) is the warning of what is to come in the aftermath of the State of Emergency.
Colm Imbert and others from his party are saying the criminals would return with a vengeance and things would get worse.
My interpretation of that is that they want the government to behave like the PNM and let the criminals have their way. Let them continue to rob and kill people, and terrorise the nation instead of dealing with them for fear that things would be worse if you try to attack the criminals.
These people - the PNM and Manning - ran the county since Christmas Eve 2001 to their defeat on May 24, 2010.
Perhaps what is most worrisome in the declarations from the opposition People's National Movement (PNM) is the warning of what is to come in the aftermath of the State of Emergency.
Colm Imbert and others from his party are saying the criminals would return with a vengeance and things would get worse.
My interpretation of that is that they want the government to behave like the PNM and let the criminals have their way. Let them continue to rob and kill people, and terrorise the nation instead of dealing with them for fear that things would be worse if you try to attack the criminals.
These people - the PNM and Manning - ran the county since Christmas Eve 2001 to their defeat on May 24, 2010.
Every year they spent millions on crime; they knew how many gangs were operating and how many members they had; their leader knew Mr Big. Yet crime grew every year and the number of murders and serious crime continued to grow.
And now there is clarity about why it happened.
The PNM wanted it to be be that way because many of those gang leaders and gang members were part of the PNM's voting block. And they didn't want to upset crime bosses for fear that they might be angry and go on the warpath.
And now there is clarity about why it happened.
The PNM wanted it to be be that way because many of those gang leaders and gang members were part of the PNM's voting block. And they didn't want to upset crime bosses for fear that they might be angry and go on the warpath.
The PNM crime strategy was to give criminals and gang leaders handouts to try to keep them in check. It didn't work and it can never work because if you give an inch to a bully he will demand a yard.
It reminds me of a story I used to read for my kids about a moose entering the kitchen, causing fear and threatening to wreck the place.
So they gave the moose a muffin and hoped he would be satisfied and go away. He didn't. Having learned his "strength" he demanded a glass of milk - and got it.
This is how the PNM dealt with crime. Today it is telling the Kamla government to do the same.
And it is acting most irresponsibly by injecting fear in the nation by telling them that since the People's Partnership refused to give the Moose a muffin and a glass of milk, the animal would wreck the place.
Well, it aint going to be be so. Because the people who run the kitchen now are not afraid of the moose and they are going to deal with him.
The People's Partnership is determined to deal with crime. They promised it and they are doing it.
It reminds me of a story I used to read for my kids about a moose entering the kitchen, causing fear and threatening to wreck the place.
So they gave the moose a muffin and hoped he would be satisfied and go away. He didn't. Having learned his "strength" he demanded a glass of milk - and got it.
This is how the PNM dealt with crime. Today it is telling the Kamla government to do the same.
And it is acting most irresponsibly by injecting fear in the nation by telling them that since the People's Partnership refused to give the Moose a muffin and a glass of milk, the animal would wreck the place.
Well, it aint going to be be so. Because the people who run the kitchen now are not afraid of the moose and they are going to deal with him.
The People's Partnership is determined to deal with crime. They promised it and they are doing it.
Jai Parasram - 4 Sept. 2011
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