Like a Police Boots on Yuh Corn
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…I‘m just saying you know…cuz you never know if Caribbean Airlines will get into some trouble again, and, well, sometimes it’s good to know what your options are. This particular option comes with sponsorship and a relatively cheap paint job.
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There’s a new series on Showtime that I’ve been wanting to see called Dexter which begs the question, aren’t there some people who just deserve to die?
Dexter was adopted by a Miami police officer when he was orphaned at 4 years old. Recognizing that Dexter has homicidal tendencies, and instead of extinguishing them, he teaches Dexter to direct his passion for killing in a “constructive” way — by killing only heinous criminals that the justice system doesn’t deal with. And so Dexter works as a forensics analyst for the Miami-Dade Police Department all the while working part time as a serial killer.
Aren’t there just come people that have slipped through the cracks who shouldn’t be walking around on our streets today? What do you do with them? Do you just allow them to continue to walk the streets or do you get rid of them? We’re not talking here about taking them out before they had a fair trial. But after the trial and after the comedy of errors that sees the case being dismissed or the accused being found not guilty, can’t there be another option?
You can find the Wikipedia entry for Dexter here. Showtime’s Dexter site is here, but unless you live in the United States, you’re not good enough to go on their website, so you better settle for the Wikipedia site.
*I forgot to mention this. Ironically, Dexter is the latin word for “right” a fact not missed by the producers of the show I’m sure.
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In light of what happened yesterday to Parmanan Persaud (or Permanand Persad…the media can’t seem to agree which is the correct spelling), aren’t there some people who just deserve to die?
I’m struggling to find something relevant to say. But what does one say when a 13 year old boy gets raped, chopped, throat slit, head bashed it, teeth broken and spine broken. What could ever sound relevant? It would be nothing short or arrogance on my part to believe I can say anything that means anything.
All Permanand’s uncle could muster was that he would chop up the perpetrator.
“I will chop him up. If I see him before the police pick him up, I will chop him up. I don’t care what happens afterwards.”
Staring off into the distance and waving his hands to demonstrate, he said this in the coolest, most matter-of-fact way I have ever heard anyone say anything like this.
Who could blame him? With his nephew’s blood spread all over the floor of an abandoned house, who could blame him? Aren’t there some people who just deserve to die?
Where did this evil come from? In light of Dane, Akiel, Sean, Amy and now Parmanan, is Trinidad and Tobago even beautiful anymore?
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