I am often told that I was mad or that I am mad; but I wonder if madness is not a precondition for living in the Cayman Islands?
Super cop Mr. Murphy has said Cayman does not have laws allowing police to set “low-level conditions” on suspected gang members so as to control where they congregate or who they associate with. And that is the goal of the revised gang legislation under the penal code, as well as the dispersal orders.
It seems we are engulfed with so many issues and the disturbing reality is that there is no recognition of the important role ideology or vision could play in our democratic society. Say what you may; but democratic or motivational institutions are dependent upon an ideology or ideologies for the realisation of common societal objectives. I will not say what people should believe; but in a democracy the citizens must have at least one vision if they are to survive as a cohesive entity.
Yes there are those whose faith in the Bible leads them to postulate that religious belief by itself can motivate and regulate behaviour in modern society; but the real righteous among us are a minority in a sea of hypocrites and parasites. I have no intention of offending the real stalwart believers in the principles of Jesus Christ, but I must confess that a sinner like me has not had the opportunity to witness the good deeds of very many here.
In these Islands, politics and religion seems to be about grandstanding and the sought after rewards seem to be material rather than spiritual. I guess parochial theologians have convinced themselves that they ought to be fed before their flocks are fed because they believe only in their own purity. Judge you not less you be also judged, not by man but by the Father, does not seem to evoke humility among so many of us. I am thinking now about the super exploitation of so many poor working people in our midst. I know of a man working for Burger King. A humble black man who worked among us for 15 years yet failed to qualify for PR by 11 points because he has no property. And he has no property because for 15 years he was super exploited in our plantation economy. On the other hand, I know a man who got his PR because he had property, because for 10 years he has exploited Caymanian people and physically and socially segregated himself and his family from us. Where are the justice and the love of Christ in these Islands?
Christ knows if I had the money I would take the Permanent Residency Board to court and fling the law books at them for their discriminatory point system; failing by 11 points because I was in the lower occupational level where I was super exploited by my employers?
The silence to injustice in this country deafens me Mr. Murphy. And as much as I pray that there will be those ready to fight for the rights of others, the more I hear about us, us Caymanians. Are there none with the courage or means to fight this racist plantation system? None lead by God to seek justice first for others before seeking it for self? I pray there are! I know there are!
My email is [email protected] and I am asking whoever will help me fight for a humble man who has slaved in this country for over 15 years and who failed because he was super exploited by some in our Christian community to contact me! And I also need money and help to throw the law books at the present government for destroying the affordable housing scheme and throwing poor Caymanian families on the streets and labelling our youth as gangsters! Mr. Murphy, you should have brought us a vision, not another slave code! We needed a vision; a new vision!
Frank McField
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