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Law, not spite
Dear Editor,
One of the principle evils of the Jagdeo regime and the custom of practice of the
departments that preside over Jurisprudence in this country except for some cases where courage prevailed , was the use of Law as a weapon of political spite and as the means to an end to silence and to intimidate.
I have witnessed a friend of mine and two acquaintances placed before the courts on one of the most serious indictable charges , that of treason; this would be an ideal case for students of the Law to explore and to understand.
My experience in relation to this event which I need to make public cannot breech any legal decrees as it is what it is, my chronicled experience and the public can only learn from it. ‘Junior ‘ Leonard Wharton is a close friend of many years whom I saw twice a week over the last decade plus years since his move to Soesdyke . Junior had approached me around mid 2010 inquiring whether I could find employment for a young Defence Force officer who had run foul with the new administration. He was especially worried that this young man would get into trouble from conversations they had. ‘Junior’ felt that because I had a small service business I may have some contacts on who was hiring the specialist expertise this young man had.
I was unable to fulfill that promise in the first few weeks. Junior chastised my supposed lack of intense effort to come up with a job offer even temporarily, as a member of ACDA. August/ September I was extremely busy. After the month of emancipation I had begun looking at the Christmas months to extend my services to pick up on the previous drought months so I was unable to follow up on some of those I had asked for help for Junior’s vulnerable GDF officer. Those that I did follow up on were in mining and were filled with their own ‘countrymen’. My service handles any media needs for Junior’s business, and I support his ventures.
One such venture was a fish fry on Saturday 18th December 2010. Though I had promised Junior that I would make it I couldn’t because the following day the Sunday ‘The Ronald Waddel Forum’ was holding its annual Christmas Party on the East Coast and I was one of the organizers.
Junior called me around twelve o clock that Saturday explaining that this ‘troubled’ former DF officer was coming across and he wanted me to hear what he was saying, but, I just couldn’t make it and I thank God and the ancestors that I didn’t. The following Thursday I learnt that Junior was arrested, with the Munroe’s [who I also knew and was told that they saw this GDF officer as a younger relative and had asked others including myself to help] that they were questioned for ‘Treason’ and that this vulnerable GDF officer had taped conversations he had with them about the corrupt racist Jagdeo administration.
Fact; the Jagdeo administration is possibly the most hated that has entered the political life of this country and I knew how easy it is for complete strangers to exchange compatible venom against that Government of 2010. I approached the legal minds on the question of callous entrapment grounded in pure spite by collaborators of a certain persuasion. I was told that entrapment only exists in American Law and though obvious it is not accepted in our laws. The rest in part is public Knowledge. I conclude by imploring those who are functionaries in our legal system to focus hurriedly on reforms of or legal system, because there are dozens of young men languishing in prison for political expediency.
If change cannot be achieved now, then what?
Barrington Braithwaite
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