tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post6417381270875219277..comments2023-09-07T01:46:58.215-07:00Comments on Active Voice: Crying out for Peace in Jamaica: The Extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ CokeAnnie Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18002716362243335338noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-67964294346896267442010-06-28T15:25:32.498-07:002010-06-28T15:25:32.498-07:00that's part of why I find it so hard to flippa...that's part of why I find it so hard to flippantly cast judgment ... we all know there's MORE to the story. It needs to come out ...<br /><br />... and hasn't man already conquered the moon?? :) ;)ruthibelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14478877906463303463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-58542011308338518822010-06-28T07:01:00.097-07:002010-06-28T07:01:00.097-07:00No Ruthi, you're asking for the moon. The whol...No Ruthi, you're asking for the moon. The whole truth?? that will never come out...<br /><br />the truth doesn't always set you free. Look at how many years Mandela spent in prison, didn't everyone know the truth about Apartheid already?<br /><br />It's difficult to change the situation when you're operating in the dark though so i agree we need to know a lot more about the role of the US, about Dudus, about the system he ran in Tivoli, about our stinking, foul dangerous politics before we can easily point at any person and say he's evil or she's good.Annie Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18002716362243335338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-46092899660258871342010-06-27T14:48:02.626-07:002010-06-27T14:48:02.626-07:00A bit late on this one, but excellent post.
I don...A bit late on this one, but excellent post.<br /><br />I don't know what i feel when I look at Christopher Coke, to be quite honest. And I really haven't spent time to try to figure it out except to say there is ambiguity ...<br /><br />I just want to hear the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me(/him/her/us) God ... <br /><br />Really, is that too much to ask??ruthibelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14478877906463303463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-21151489583104838242010-06-25T16:34:21.441-07:002010-06-25T16:34:21.441-07:00Morgan Freeman playing the Rev. Mr. Miller in Driv...Morgan Freeman playing the Rev. Mr. Miller in <i>Driving Miss Dudus</i> doesn't seem seem like that great a stretch.FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-7602666956346559792010-06-25T15:12:15.024-07:002010-06-25T15:12:15.024-07:00I don't know that I'd want to call Coke &q...I don't know that I'd want to call Coke "a tragic figure." That suggests a hero with a self-destroying flaw, a man (or a woman) who brings pain and hurt to himself and those around him, and whose career must, ultimately, end in his own useless death. Coke is an entrepreneur whose enterprise has risen in the interstices of the allowed and the forbidden and who, as you point out, provides services that the state does not (because it is inhibited from doing so by its masters in the multilateral institutions). He has become a power in the land because those who should be exercising power on behalf of the people of Jamaica have abdicated their responsibility to those who elected them and chosen to be nothing more than the spokes(wo)men of an international power structure that uses them as its geldings.<br /><br />In such a context, a medium-scale criminal entrepreneur like Coke, can present himself to the residents of Kingston's slums as a social bandit who cares for the poor, when those who should be speaking for them are stamping on their faces.FSJLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15803079547494458258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-44646004316490683022010-06-25T10:55:38.830-07:002010-06-25T10:55:38.830-07:00Lovely account, Annie. you gotta send this to Huff...Lovely account, Annie. you gotta send this to HuffPost, if you haven't already!Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05974754968045758692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-45375627717363087072010-06-25T07:46:45.679-07:002010-06-25T07:46:45.679-07:00Great piece Annie. So revealing this whole affair....Great piece Annie. So revealing this whole affair. Thank so much for the updates.www.ginaathenaulysse.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-91853995063482959212010-06-25T07:16:01.365-07:002010-06-25T07:16:01.365-07:00What a drama. I find it all quite surreal. Every b...What a drama. I find it all quite surreal. Every bit of it. <br />I look forward to a critical dissection of the statement. I also wonder whose bright idea it was (actually, I'm pretty sure I know whose idea it was.) My initial reaction to it is that it's disingenuous and completely inappropriate given the scale of destruction that has taken place. I feel like this ostensive contrition makes a mockery of everything and everyone.Diana Chen Thorburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05746215639762323279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-27955575183640084122010-06-25T06:24:33.355-07:002010-06-25T06:24:33.355-07:00@hubert, it is a brilliant statement by a very goo...@hubert, it is a brilliant statement by a very good lawyer, and the job of a good lawyer is to humanize his or her client. It says nothing at all about a client, their true feelings, or their real nature. A good lawyer begins to shape public sentiments toward their client right from the word go, and as your comment shows, the lawyer who drafted this statement is already doing one hell of a good job doing just that.<br />- OluAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-64819126857663051682010-06-25T06:24:33.354-07:002010-06-25T06:24:33.354-07:00@hubert, it is a brilliant statement by a very goo...@hubert, it is a brilliant statement by a very good lawyer, and the job of a good lawyer is to humanize his or her client. It says nothing at all about a client, their true feelings, or their real nature. A good lawyer begins to shape public sentiments toward their client right from the word go, and as your comment shows, the lawyer who drafted this statement is already doing one hell of a good job doing just that.<br />- OluAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953848556540874315.post-33653866418960254852010-06-24T22:43:02.466-07:002010-06-24T22:43:02.466-07:00this is a wonderful piece. and i cant help but be,...this is a wonderful piece. and i cant help but be, dare i say touched' by the humanity of mr cokes statement. it reminds me that he is not the only guilty party.<br /><br />huberthubert neal jrhttp://thevisualpoetssociety.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com