At the Morgue.
Spoke to Kareem Fahim, NYT, several times to seek a good time to book him for the show and found he is most occupied chasing dead bodies in the morgue in Kingston, Jamaica, after a week of chaos and breakdown in the former British original paradise island of Jamaica. At the center of the tale is Mr. Christopher "Dudus" Coke, 41, who was deported form the US in the 1980's and now operates as the Godfather of Tivoli Gardens neighborhood, a druglord with a reputation as generous toward the meek as brutal toward the strong. The trail of Mr. Coke leads to neighborhoods in NYC where his gangsters distribute drugs from back home -- and also purchase weapons that are then shipped to Mr Coke. The trail also points to direct involvement of the PM and government of Jamaica, who treat Mr. Coke as a political boss who can deliver favors and votes.
Missing.
The presenting cause of the murder wave the last days is that there is a warrant for Mr. Coke's detention that was engineered by the US government. The usual long arm of the law. Mr. Coke promptly vanished into the fog of war. The body count keeps rising, including police officers. Who knew that Jamaica had become a narco-state ruled by romantic mass murderers? Is this in the tourist brochure? Does the Obama administration have a policy here? It would seem to involve the US, especially NYC, and I am certain that Ray Kelly can handle all the noise. But still, this would have been a big story back in the Clinton days, when Haiti occupied the Oval Office. Now, Port-au-Prince is destroyed off-stage, and Kingston is a failed city in a failed state and no comment from State or Homeland or the White House. Must be the holiday weekend. Or the trouble with BP. Perhaps when the oil slick gets to Jamaica, BP will pay for Mr. Coke's losses.
Eric Holder Stirs on the Holiday Weekend.
From Kareem Fahim update:
...73 civilians had been killed, although in 6 cases it was not clear if they were related to the raid, and three soldiers and police officers had been killed.
While those numbers provoked loud debate in Jamaica, the Obama administration expressed its support for the operation, which aims to extradite Mr. Coke to face charges in New York. "As the Jamaican government seeks to uphold the rule of law, the United States stands in support of its efforts to ensure public safety and to combat drug trafficking and other criminal activity," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in Washington.
Meanwhile the Joe Sestak affair is gathering steam in Washington. There are two disturbing trends at work here (here, meaning ‘everywhere’ - in Jamaica as well as in Washington, Mexico City, Caracas, Tehran and elsewhere): liberalism and corruption. The two always go together hand in glove. Liberalism softens up the general public by undermining its institutions. It prepares the ground for corruption to follow and flourish unfettered.
If you want to see where we ourselves are headed, just look at Jamaica - once a(n island) paradise, now a brutal killing ground.
http://peterkoelliker.blogspot.com/
Why should I be concerned? I'm not a habitual drug user, just a little on the weekends or a little pick me up at night.
Are we going to send the Marines down there on another boy scout mission?