JO - Yes, Bruce!

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Observer

Yes, Bruce!

Mervin Stoddart

Friday, March 05, 2010


Dear Editor,


Common sense, tradition and common law suggest that every suspect is innocent until proved guilty and that extensive media ranting often erodes the possibility of a fair trial in criminal cases. Hence, the media campaign being waged by a certain Jamaican media house for the handing over of Christopher "Dudus" Coke to United States authorities in response to an extradition warrant is disgraceful. In the Michael Manley era that same medium promoted reactionary, anti-Jamaican, pro-American sentiments to turn back the democratic socialist agenda of the PNP which gave ordinary Jamaicans emancipation from mental slavery but which was undermined en route to winning economic freedom for all Jamaicans, not just the elites above Liguanea.

You can always count on some solid anti-American sentiment from the Reverand Stoddart.

Liguanea, by the way, is the part of Kingston where the new U.S. Embassy was sited. You can expect that most Jamaican readers, particularly visa holders, will get the reference.

Read the whole article here.

Snippet(s):

"Moreover, the US and its kind from Euro-America are unrepentant slave drivers and colonisers whose dealings and treaties with predominantly black countries are one-sided and skewed in favour of those white supremacist nations, always upholding their interests which clearly include global domination and the spreading of homosexuality, which spell misery and death for countries like Jamaica and Haiti."

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"It is now time for the US to turn over for trial in Jamaica those criminals, beginning with US government operatives, who are responsible for causing the murders and economic depravity in Jamaica."

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Rev Dr Mervin Stoddart
INMerv@hotmail.com