Dear Editor,

Common sense, tradition and common law suggest that every suspect is innocent until proved guilty and that extensive media ranting often erodes the possibility of a fair trial in criminal cases. Hence, the media campaign being waged by a certain Jamaican media house for the handing over of Christopher “Dudus” Coke to United States authorities in response to an extradition warrant is disgraceful.

In the Michael Manley era that same medium promoted reactionary, anti-Jamaican, pro-American sentiments to turn back the democratic socialist agenda of the PNP which gave ordinary Jamaicans emancipation from mental slavery but which was undermined en route to winning economic freedom for all Jamaicans, not just the elites above Liguanea.

Moreover, the US and its kind from Euro-America are unrepentant slave drivers and colonisers whose dealings and treaties with predominantly black countries are one-sided and skewed in favour of those white supremacist nations, always upholding their interests which clearly include global domination and the spreading of homosexuality, which spell misery and death for countries like Jamaica and Haiti.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding must be commended for his bold stance in this Coke case, remaining as unequivocal as he was in England against legalising buggery. Diaspora writers and Jamaicans who are US lackeys, including any media house, must remember that most Jamaicans have already heeded the prophetic words of Bob Marley: “Take that veil from off of your eyes/Look into the future and realise.”

It is now time for the US to turn over for trial in Jamaica those criminals, beginning with US government operatives, who are responsible for causing the murders and economic depravity in Jamaica. God bless Bruce Golding.

Rev Dr Mervin Stoddart

INMerv@hotmail.com