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Topic: EDWARD SEAGA – Who is this man?

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Date: 12:38 06/11 2008

EDWARD SEAGA – Who is this man?

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Edward Seaga

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I should like to point out I have no personal feelings against anybody, Mr Edward Seaga included. As a Jamaican and brought up as one, I cannot readily accept that I have nothing to say or worst still my opinions must be formed by someone else's thought-process. Nor do I have any fear whatsoever of anybody who expresses other opinions which may even be the complete opposite of my own. My sole interest is to look into the main causes of the current extraordinary level crime induced social problems facing Jamaican society today without fear or favour.

In todays party-dominated societies including Jamaica, there is an unjustified overbearing pressure to go along with the views of this or that party even when great wrongs are being committed by those parties. There is an overbearing and unjustified pressure on the "small man" or "woman" to grin and bear it and opt for the party of the "lesser evil" and so on. Who ordained such approaches? Who are these individuals who says a person "must" support this or that party? Or vote for this or that Party? Everyone should think for themselves and reject this obscurantist and feudal approach, especially in this 21 Century where our very home, planet earth itself is facing a possible catastrophic environmental future not to mention man-made social and biological disasters.

Jamaica is a piece of land populated by humans of the same genetic structure as anywhere else. And like human beings everywhere else individually and collectively we are duty bound to fulfill our role as the most advanced biological species. And that role is to do our best as individuals and as a nation, scattered as we are around the world, to fight for the progress of our people as the most important contribution to the massive human pool of people everywhere fighting for general progress of all.

As such, it it very wrong to permit a very small handful of people to decide amongst themselves behind closed doors, every important decision in the life of the country, whether those decisions are bad or good. In ancient times this was inevitable. But not today and especially when decisions are adversely felt by the majority. Humans have the unique quality over other biological organisms to THINK and solve the most complex problems. Like everywhere else Jamaica has its own problems and its up to Jamaicans to think and work out how to solve them.

This writing on former PM Edward Seaga, was prompted by the thought of a friend from Grenada asked me why did Jamaica send troops to help the Americans invade their country in October 1983? Fair question. Edward Seaga was the PM of Jamaica at the time and has been part of the problem that our country has been facing since Independence. These people calling themselves leaders should not be permitted to do as they please and then stand on a rostrum and expect uncritical acclaim. If we Jamaicans do that then we have learned nothing from the 20th Century. We are not biologically programmed insects, like "worker bees" here to serve the "queen" and thats it. No we are human beings here to solve problems to improve our individual and collective short lives.

HISTORY
October 25, 1983 was the day of the American armed assault on Grenada. Grenada, is an even smaller and poorer Caribbean country than Jamaica. The invaders killed hundreds claiming they went in to "rescue" American students. The Jamaican Prime Minister at the time, Edward Seaga, a close friend of the US President Ronald Reagan, sent in Jamaican troops "to help" his American compatriot. Only a couple of other Caribbean countries followed Seagas example. This shadowy figure still continues to have certain elements in Jamaica under his mythical spell. So, just who is Edward Seaga?

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