Dear Editor,

The law is indeed an ass if there is any just and moral difference between whether Manatt, Phelps & Phillips was employed by the Government of Jamaica or the Jamaica Labour Party to forestall the extradition to the US of the former Tivoli Gardens ‘president’ on charges of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and gun running.

This ‘president’s rule over his “citizens” has come to much wider light since the security forces launched their incursion of the barricaded Tivoli Gardens in May.

The security forces seem to want to argue that the associated decrease of violent crime islandwide indicates that Christopher Coke was something of a ‘don of dons’. Thus, a nation would have been concerned, and still is, that its representative Government was involved in seeking to protect someone accused of contributing to significant crime and violence in and out of Jamaica.

Representatives of the Jamaica Labour Party were democratically elected to be the Government of all Jamaica. Any legalese to now distinguish between national party and national government amidst national fright about widespread crime and violence amounts to attempted buggery of democracy by the law.

The leader of the elected political party is the leader of the nation who is expected to protect and promote national interest otherwise he and his party are part of the problem.

The Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair and the saga of Trafigura — such gall of leaders in contempt of citizens — are examples of the nation’s representatives beholden to all sorts of sinister forces.

Kelly McFayden

kellymcfayden@yahoo.com