PH taxi driver killed pt1
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September 12, 2009 at 3:18 pm
triniwarao
These interviews bring tears to my eyes. I listen to the voices and I hear my own family members speaking. Here are MY parents. Here are MY children, MY fellow Trinbagonians. Thank you Ian Alleyne for going behind the statistics to present the real human beings, the accounts from their hearts of their losses and the impact on their lives. Courage to them, to you and to us all.
Peace
September 20, 2009 at 7:43 pm
JailDeyTail
Yes, I wish that Mr. Alleyne would interview the parents or guardians of the criminals who are responsible for these crimes. I really want to know why these people are allowed to remain like shadows in the background. Everybody pretending like criminals can just spring out from thin air. When a child win scholarship, everybody expect that the parent will come and stand proud with the child in the photo because it obvious to all that the parent give the child good backing. So why the parents of these criminals don’t come and pose for the camera too? Aren’t they proud of what they produced? No, they want to stay home and cry about how their child was so good or how is bad company lead the child astray…well bad company yes, starting right in the home! Nothing will change until you find the nests where they raising these vipers. Nothing will change until the laws are changed so that the parents of offspring who are a danger to society can also expect to be punished. Watch how they will straighten up and fly right if they know that their wayward children can and will put them in jail.
Thanks
September 20, 2009 at 9:32 pm
triniwarao
Jail, I understand your frustration but this is a tricky one. I found this article that I think you will appreciate: Should parents be punished? – parental accountability for crimes committed by their children. It includes a list of other relevant articles. I remember reading once about parental responsibility for children’s behaviour but I think it only applied to children still in their parents’ care. Once the child becomes an adult and leaves home, the parent(s) can no longer be held responsible for their actions and that often is when they commit the most heinous crimes. Logically, I believe that you are correct though. The fruit do not fall far from the trees and if parents are unable to raise children to be productive and law-abiding citizens then they should either not have children or they should be required by law to move heaven and earth to seek remedial assistance for their dysfunctional families and children. As I said, it is tricky stuff that will have some shouting “Human rights violations!” These are issues that most do not want to touch with a ten-foot pole. That is why, we agree to leave them festering in the shadows as you noticed. The questions are simple enough but the answers are complicated because “blame” is something we all want to avoid and these answers will put the blame not only on poor parenting but on the failures of society and the law-abiding as well. Maybe it is the issue of “blame” – its definition, attribution and fallout that needs our urgent attention. Thanks for raising this perspective.
Peace
September 24, 2009 at 12:31 am
triniwarao
Jail, to add to my earlier reply, I just remembered this article “As murder suspect ‘Docs’ laid to rest…Mother Molly sheds no tears” by Geisha Kowlessar of the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian – one of the few interviews of family members of alleged criminals that I have read. It is enlightening to get their perspective on their relative’s way of life.
Peace
October 10, 2009 at 7:45 am
LadyBird
Everyone wanted to crucify deceased Senator Garnet Mungalsingh for his suggestion that abortion be used as a tool in the fight against crime. But the man was justified in his call. In fact, I am of the opinion that his recommendation should have been broader and more comprehensive in that what is really required at this point in time is forced abortion and sterilization on a massive scale. We have to look at which group is responsible for the savagery and barbarism that we have descended into over the past decade and which is responsible for the bloodletting that saturates the nation’s soil. Its some to stop being so damned politically correct and identify and deal with those whose who have failed to properly evolve and their warped offspring who remain trapped in a state of primordial animalism.
October 10, 2009 at 7:47 am
LadyBird
The last sentence above should read “Its TIME to stop being so damned politically correct and identify and deal with those whose who have failed to properly evolve and their warped offspring who remain trapped in a state of primordial animalism.”
October 10, 2009 at 7:56 am
LadyBird
To be more blunt, its time to stop the reproductive process in certain ghetto communities.
October 10, 2009 at 7:03 pm
triniwarao
LadyBird,
Thanks for visiting and for your contribution to the discussion. I hear your distress so I understand the place from which you speak but my hope is that whenever we slip into that place, that we do not linger there. I truly believe that the Devil is despair, and that we work against ourselves and our brothers and sisters when our desperation leads us to grab at unjust, quick fixes. It leads to the circulation of vicious statements similar to this comment left in response to a discussion about the YouTube video “Broke Indian”.
“wah ya call a black gyal who have an abortion ??
crime prevention officer!!!!!!!!!!!” –Biggurs
I want to say again that I understand the emotions that led you to this solution but if we were to extend this final solution to all communities which contribute to the crime in our society, this “Abortion for societal cleansing” plan would also have to include the groups outside of your “ghetto communities” whose criminal elements move freely under the very selective radar and whose criminal exploits are underreported and subsumed under the euphemism of white-collar crime.
Minister Tesheira referred to this tier during the debate on the “Act to establish the Financial Intelligence Unit of Trinidad and Tobago”
In an earlier comment on this post I said that “if parents are unable to raise children to be productive and law-abiding citizens then they should either not have children or they should be required by law to move heaven and earth to seek remedial assistance for their dysfunctional families and children.” My comment applied to Trinbagonian adults right across the board but I could never recommend or support the abortion of any Trinbagonian already conceived. I do not believe that abortion can ever be justified but my concern does not end there. If we agree that all lives are precious then we must focus instead on ending the abortion of human potential that occurs after a child comes into the world, no matter the race or social class to which that child belongs.
LadyBird, ALL Trinbagonians are at risk now, including yourself, not only our physical bodies but even worse, our humanity. I feel that we are sitting around waiting for some intervention without considering that while we wait, our children are growing up, in the ghettos of the poor, in the mansions of the rich and everywhere in between, learning one simple but deadly lesson from our inaction – that in the end it is each man for himself and the devil is welcome to take the hindmost.
Peace