It is Now Time To Declare War on Crime In Jamaica

Cry Havoc and Unleash the Dogs of War!!

It seems the only “Short Term” solution to Jamaica’s crime problem is to continue/restart the 2010 Dudus levels of policing because certain areas in Jamaica need to be under constant nightly lock down, curfews every night for the next couple of months or years, house to house searches, street check points and detention of suspected criminals. The situation in Jamaica demands that we change our tactics to a “Get Tough on Crime” tactic. This is the only thing the criminals within our society seem to understand and respect.

The Government should implement a constant State of Emergency as certain areas requires Marshall Law type suppression. Everyone needs to understand that “if you want good… you nose a fi run” and you cannot make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, thus in the short term some good must suffer for the bad, the few over the many, until the good turns on the bad and hand them over, give them up.

Yes poverty is a major factor to contributing to crime and the Government must come up with a long term economic solution, to grow the economy and absorb these people into a Structured crime free life but in the mean time, while we are waiting to be killed, slaughtered like sheep, they must do something, they must put the boot in. There is far too much guns in Jamaica as it is way too easy for imported barrel upon barrel of these America's weapons of death to leave the North American ports and enter our country.

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Man chopped to death in Trelawny

44-yr-old Driver shot dead in Portland

Pregnant Woman shot dead during Police Confrontation in Yallahs 

3 killed in Central Village identified

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Now I know the Group Jamaican’s for Justice will be against any Get Tough Crime Plan, the JFJ was against the crime bill and the get tough stance of the previous Government, everyone complained about Human rights abuses at the time. People complained about the 73 people killed during the Tivoli incursion and the JFJ reported that 4,000 Jamaicans, including children, were detained under the 2010 State of Emergency, everyone also complained about the increase in the number of fatal shootings by the police which numbered 320 by December 31, 2010 but all of this resulted in a 7% reduction in major crime as such in 2011 murders reduced from 1428 in 2010 to 1124. It is clear there is a lesson to be learned from this is that the “Get Though Stance"... that is taking the fight to the criminals was working and we need to get back to that because this current Hug and Cuddle a gunman plan of the current Government is clearly not working.

But what happens every time the spot light is turned on these crimes ridden areas? The people in these communities put on their “Poor Thing Black Pickney, Suffering Face”, cry and scream in front of TV cameras that they are being persecuted, oppressed because they are black and poor. Then which ever party is the opposition put on their “Defender of the Poor and Downtrodden Vote getting Face” and cry and scream how the Government is trying to exterminate poor people, so nothing gets done. The Government withdraws the security forces , the opposition milk the situation for votes and the crime ridden ghettos with its population of Criminal “Ghettonians”, keep a big victory dance, “Tun-up-di -music –till-it-buck-and-stuck” why don't you because they live to kill another day.

One would think that if this country was under attack that a bipartisan consensus on crime coupled with a joint unified statement from the political class outlining their plan of attack and a support for the concept of us against them would have been the strong natural reaction to this attack on Jamaica but instead we get small minded partisan bickering little pricks. The PNP laughed at the previous JLP Government claiming that they said they would fix the crime problem, so they should just fix it and now the JLP Government is doing the same to the PNP Government and in the mean time Jamaica and Jamaicans are under siege regardless of which political party they support. Crime is an affront to who we are as a people, to our National Heroes, to our nation building experience and future generation of this country, this partisan, Political school boy bantering must stop especially since it is costing lives.

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Teen shot dead in Waterhouse

2 killed in Ocho Rios

Man shot dead in Trelawny identified

Two killed in Hope Pastures

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The problem is everybody watches too much Hollywood CSI TV shows and believes that somehow crime can be eliminated based on some fictional techniques and wishful thinking, but that is because Jamaicans do not live in the real world, our bodies are in Jamaica but our heads are wondering the streets of first world countries, in the real world nothing will happen until you declare out right war on it, just like how America declared war on terror and Trinidad declared war on its criminals. Bad man in Jamaica is not afraid of police in the current context and everyone else is out of ideas, people are saying the Government should fix the problem but no one knows how, the Country is being overrun by criminals. Government needs to engage the Americans and ask them to do more to prevent the export of their weapons of death.

I have been told that a war on crime will not work, that we should “establish a strategy of effective law enforcement instead” which sound sweet, genuine educated lyrics but is as vague as saying we need to grow the economy with out actually giving any details on how to grow the economy or implementing anything. The Jamaican Technocrats always amazes me, they love to hear themselves talk, so full of "First World Education" with a string of letters behind their names, full of big talk and know how, while never actually achieving anything... "The Fluffers", ...."Well you know we should Gismick this and Gismick that or the socio-economic condition based on micro/macroeconomics indicator… blah, blah, blah, blah… brain going numb…”.

This is not a situation where you have either “Effective Law Enforcement” or a War on Crime, both can happen at the same time but we must send a strong message to communities who shelter criminals because criminals keep dance and give them money, that their lives will change because of this and if the change is too much to live with, than hand over the gunman, give the police the information they require to find and remove these evil murdering people.

On the other hand how do we hope to win this War on Crime or create “Effective Law Enforcement” when most of our Garrison Ghetto Communities were created, sustained and protected by the political Class themselves? Yes people those very same Members of Parliament who sit in the Seat of Government and pretend as if they are the solutions to Jamaica’s problems are the ones who created this Cancerous Criminal Empire that is murdering over 1000 Jamaicans a year…. ”and We Let Them”.

The reason why I say “We Let Them” is because law abiding upstanding Jamaicans far outnumber Criminal Jamaicans who is a fraction of the population. We are the majority but instead we run and hide in our grilled up prisons we call homes, sleeping with various weapons in our beds as if they were a hot sexy significant others, our senses on high alert, ready to fight-or-flight , listening for any sound that maybe out of the norm…. This is not how civilized people should live. We not only need to take back Jamaica from criminals but we also need to take it back from the head criminals themselves the "Political Class", the people we hire to do the job.

When a person has cancer sometimes you can treat the illness without invasive surgery but there comes a time when you just have to put the patient under the knife and remove the cancerous tumour. We are at that point in Jamaica, crime is Jamaica’s Cancer and certain elements of the Jamaican population are making a mockery of Jamaica 50, laughing in the face of the Jamaican people, its rich history and National Heroes who died so that we could live … and we are letting them.

We somehow feel that if we lock down the country and unleash the security forces it will NOT look good in the international press and may affect our earnings, so we try to put a band aid on an open sore with a smile. Our economic condition causes crime and crime causes our economic condition, sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and stop the vicious circle, grab the bull by the horns and declare to the world that “Enough is Enough!”, we done talk, Jamaica is temporarily closed for house cleaning. Our only short term solution must be to remove this crime cancer and the long term solution is to grow the economy within a more secure Jamaica, one needs to happen before the other can take place.

Feedback: You can't win a war against crime. in a war everybody loose. How about establishing a strategy of effective law enforcement instead??

Feedback: I disagree with that statement its time to declare war on crime. By declaring war on crime we are putting restrictions on how we fight crime. The best way is to have an effective police force and an effective judicial system.

Response: To tell the truth, I do not really care how we fight crime so long as the result is saving lives in both the short and long term and the Jamaican people can live in peace and get on with the business of Nation Building, so if putting in place an "effective Police force and Judicial System" are the answers then please get on with it. I would think that by now on this our 50th Anniversary of Independence, we would already have an effective Police force and Judicial System in place. If we do not have these things in place then how long will it take to put them in place and what should the Jamaican people do in the mean time? Continue to die? Live in fear hiding behind our grills? This is not an either or situation, we need all of the above, both war/tough on crime plus an effective Police force and Judicial System and anything else you can come up with that will saves lives in the short term and get us back on the right track, to build this Great wonderful country of ours and for the record it is not the system that is bad but the people running it, systems are not fool proof especially when every single Jamaican have mastered the fine art of beating and making a mockery of the system.

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Fatal shooting in Cumberland

Two bodies found in Kitson Town

Man fatally stabbed in Spanish Town
Two shot dead in Independence City

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Independence and Freedom means absolutely nothing without a strong sense Responsibility and Discipline. 

Bad Man Fi Dead!

By Declaring War on it!!!

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Jamaica Returning Residents Info

You have been living away from Jamaica for some 20,30 or 40 years, in all that time you have not been a regular visitor to the island but now you have decided that it is time for you to retire and you want to retire back home in Jamaica. In all the time you have been away you have been carrying around these romantic memories of how life use to be, how wonderful life was in the area where you grew up and you have spent all these years dreaming and pining about returning home to recapture the moments.

There is nothing wrong with this except, you have been away from Jamaica for such a longtime and like anywhere else life change, people change, places change, some for the better and others change for the worst but you would not know that because you have disconnected yourself from Jamaica and like Neo from the Matrix, you have been living in a romantic dream world.

First let’s clear up a few simple facts about Jamaica Today:
First Fact, Jamaica can be a Blood Sucking Black hole when it comes to money, once you prime that pump with a few dollars it quickly transforms into a transatlantic money sucking vacuum cleaner.

Second Fact, there are people in Jamaica who have mastered the art of the “Hard Luck Story”, all they need is a willing ear and before you know it you are sucked into another dimension, the twilight zone where they ride you like a Jackass without giving you a drink of water. Heck even the Government have mastered this fine art, they sell poverty, hard luck stories and "poor ting pickney look", (kind of like puss in boot from the shriek movie) to every lending agency willing to listen. Jamaica it seems has mastered the art of existing at the mercy of others, so do not believe everything you hear because there is a method to their madness, they live by the saying” When you find a jackass, you ride him to pasture”.

I am not saying you are not supposed to trust people because some of the nicest people I have met are Jamaicans in Jamaica, just apply common sense.

Building your Jamaican Dream Mansion:
So you have chosen to build your dream house instead of buying a readymade house, well one word of advice “You cannot be an Absentee Builder”, if you are going to build your house in Jamaica then you must be in Jamaica to oversea what is happening. I am not saying you cannot find a trusting developer to do the work for you, but there have been so many reports of people sending their money to Jamaica to build a house and when then come home, no house and no money.

Now you have it in your head that you are going to build that dream house to rival all other dream houses, your version of Buckingham Palace. The problem is you are going to build this mansion in a village that may not have improved in all the years you have been away, in fact the area may have declined and you are now building a $40 or $50 million Jamaica dollar house in a location where the houses cost on average $1 to $3 million Jamaican dollars. Yes the quaint little village that you grew up in is now impoverished and maybe crime ridden but as I said you would not know that, because you did not do due diligence, you have been away for 20, 30 or 40 years and did not keep up with changing times, you have no idea what is what and who is who and as they say “Location, Location, Location”.

So you built a mansion, a sight to behold, the talk of the town, you import the expensive luxury automobile, wear your pinstripe suit with a bowler hat and cane driving down to the local village market to pick up a few provisions, all the while attracting the attention of the wrong type of people, those that want, what you have and God forbid they decide to come and take it off you. It would be wonderful if the rural country village you grew up in, remained wonderful, charming and peaceful just a darling of a village and I am sure most are but you cannot just move into an area you have not lived in for 20, 30 or 40 years without having firsthand intimate knowledge of life in that area. This place is now completely foreign to you, the people are also foreign to you and you are foreign to them but here you are with all your wealth and worldly possessions on display for all to see, in an area where poverty is all around you.

Common Sense and Street Smart
Whatever street smarts you learnt in your adopted country should return with you to Jamaica, don’t be naive just be sensible. If you are planning to return to Jamaica to retire, then make plans to visit Jamaica often, especially in the years leading up to your retirement. Spend some time not just in the place where you grew up but in other places, research all areas, ask questions about different areas, about the crime rate in those areas, stop by the local police station and talk to the officers on duty, read the daily papers, watch the nightly news online, monitor the property value in different areas, research the schools in the area. Disregard whatever concept or notions you had about life in Jamaica 20, 30, 40 years ago, wipe the slate clean and rebuild Jamaica in your mind from the ground up. At the time when you migrated you may have been in a certain social class but you may have evolved or devolved depending on your experiences and now belong in a completely different social class.

If you are going to build a $40, $50 million Jamaica dollar mansion then try to build it in an area filled with other mansions that value close to that amount, since that is now your wealth bracket and people in that wealth bracket have in place the appropriate security measures to ensure the safety for themselves, family and property, that may also be the right social circle to engage your mind, filled with like minded people. For example Vineyard Town 20, 30 or 40 years ago was a nice place to live but today you would not want to build a 50 million Jamaica dollar mansion in the middle of that area, why? because it is a ghetto, for that price try Norbrook, Waterworks or Jacks Hill, the view from Bracknell Avenue is perfect all year round.

I have a relative who came back to Jamaica for a visit after 40 years away from Jamaica, while staying with us he complained to no end that he hated where we lived, called us bourgeoisie and proclaimed that he was going down to Barbican to be with his “black brothers and sisters”, his words not mine, we tried very hard to talk him out of it but could not, we told him to exercise caution. That night he put on his best English threads and off he went down to Barbican for a drink at Beenie bar with his “black brothers and sisters”. On my way past the bar I stopped in to see if he was OK, he was having a whale of a time and was about to buy the 5th round of drinks for the entire bar, its was as if the man was trying to redistribute the Queen's wealth, people from all over Barbican filled the bar trying to get a drink from the very generous, rich English Gentleman, so I left him and went on my merry way.

In the wee hours of the night after spending all his money buying drinks for Barbican and under a couple drinks he decided to make his way home, but some of his “black brothers and sisters” must have been watching him because they pounced soon after he left the bar. He had no money left but they took his Jewelry, his clothes and his shoes, he had nothing left but his knickers (underpants) he was saved by some of his “black sisters” who had been drinking with him, they came to his rescue and escorted him home, for all I know it was their friends who jumped him. I am not saying Barbican and Beenie bar is a no go area, not at all, my friends and I have on occasion stopped in Barbican at Beenie Bar for a couple drinks over the years but it is an area that requires certain amount of street smart, especially after 1 am in the morning, use some common sense. I am sure there are parts of London that he would not have gone to flashing money about, the same for almost every country, I do not understand why the same level of street smart did not hold true for Jamaica.

Once you move back or even visit Jamaica it is NOT important for everyone in Jamaica to know you are a returning resident or visiting Jamaica, you are Jamaican then just be Jamaican, in other words, you do not need to follow Ms Lou's advice and say “Poo” instead of “Pa” simply because at times, fitting in works better and to your advantage, sometimes not standing out is what you want to do. There are people who talk more patios and act more Jamaican when they are at home in foreign countries but when they come home to Jamaica they are transformed into a proper English Gentleman and Southern Texas ladies with accents people in both England and Texas would never recognize.

The impressions Jamaicans have of returning Jamaicans was in fact created by returning Jamaicans because of their need to show local Jamaicans that they live in a foreign country, have been changed by it and made it, they have arrived. I know people who spend up to six months’ salary on two weeks’ vacation, splashing it from the minute they set foot at the airport. A person I know would start to splash cash the second he set foot back on Jamaican soil and boast how he spent several grand while still at the airport, I then heard he went back to NY and called another friend to borrow some money to pay for his rent.

Crime in Jamaica
The number one concern for returning and visiting Jamaicans is the issue of crime and rightly so, no one wants to return to a place where guns are barking every night like “mawga” dog on the street and bullets passing your ears more times than buzzing mosquitoes. But if we take the time to study the pattern of crime across the island one would realize that the majority of murders and criminal activities are localized to handful of parishes and very localized within those parishes to a hand full of ghetto locations. If one could look at a murder map of Jamaica, one would realize that the vast majority of Jamaica and Jamaicans are safe and living in peace, the people in these places rarely hear a gunshot or experience any crime what so ever. We have three Counties and 14 Parishes in Jamaica with a population of over 2.8 million people and most of those people and location go about their business in peace and enjoy life as much as anyone else in the world.

I am by no means saying that Jamaica does not have a crime problem, it is a fact that our murder rate has been over 1000 for the past couple years but 98% of those murders occurs in a handful of Ghetto communities within a hand full of parishes and everyone can list these troubled no-go communities. We know which ghettos in Kingston, St. James and Spanish Town and we know to stay clear of them and they seem to stay clear of everyone else.

One of the problem or recent development is that these days, we are now so very connected, a fender bender car crash can happen on Hope Road at 3:00PM and at 3:02PM news of the crash is instantly broadcast to Jamaicans worldwide, Jamaicans living in Germany are aware of the accident as Global satellite systems disseminate information at the speed of light to internet servers and smart high tech hand held devices worldwide. Back in the days if three murders happened today we may hear about 2 in printed or electronic media the next day or over the next couple days and a fender bender would never even make news that would just be idle chatter by the people who saw it. People outside of Jamaica may never hear of it at all, the Daily Gleaner used to be monthly in the UK and people in NY would have to wait for the Star to publish every couple weeks, so most crime would go by with most Jamaicans at home and abroad not knowing it ever happened.

Coupled with the fact that news media’s are competing with each other to see who can find and report the most negative news, because bad news sells and is addictive to most Jamaicans. We are now bombarded up to the nanosecond with every criminal activity, every accident, every little thing and at the rate it is coming in it has started to have on effect on the minds of Jamaicans worldwide, we cannot assimilate that much bad information at that rate about our little rock.

Do your Research and Practice Diligence
There are some wonderful places in Jamaica to live, in almost every County, every Parish but thorough research is required, integrating yourself into any society is a strategy that you must learn and understand. I have read reports after reports of returning residents complaining that after spending every red cent they have to return to Jamaica they are now too broke to leave, disappointed at the condition of the area they moved to or shocked that paying bills is such a manual process, while others complain about the crime rate. The fact is what they are complaining about is known worldwide and not a secret just requires due diligence, research and then research it again, understand what you are leaving behind and what you are coming home to and where you are coming to, weigh the pros and cons with an open mind before making that move.

Jamaica Nice Every time!!!

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Is Arsenal FC a selling club?

Well if it walks like a duck, quack like duck then it must be duck, the behavior of Arsenal over the past couple years will suggest that we are very much a selling club, the club is behaving like a stock broker, buy low sell high and players are the commodity. For the past several years Arsenal have been buying cheap, young unknown talented players then invest very heavily into their development turning them into world class play makers  in demand football stars then selling them to the highest bidder. Because of this Arsenal is in a state of perpetual rebuilding simply since we continue to sell players that make up the core of the squad, players we should build the squad around. The problem is, "if a player wants to leave, there is very little the club can do to stop that player" and in this world of crazy money players are going to come up with rubbish every reason under the sun to justify them leaving instead of admitting they are leaving for more money. Arsenal’s financial guidelines makes perfect business sense but in today’s footballing world does not make much footballing sense.

Most of the players who left Arsenal leave because of money, with maybe the exception of Cesc Fabregas who I truly believe just wanted to return to his beloved Barcelona and if I am not mistaken took a pay cut to do so, however Barcelona only wanted him after Arsenal made him the player he is today, we gave him that chance to shine and Cesc Fabregas used Arsenal as a stepping stone back to Barcelona, I believe it was always his intention to leave since day one. It is now being reported that Alex Song might be leaving Arsenal for Barcelona and by the time you read this, it may already have been a done deal but here is a player who came to Arsenal when he was 17 for only £2.75m. He is now world renowned in demand Master Midfielder and once again Arsenal might be losing another one of their best players and its back to the drawing board, building and rebuilding like Fraggles in Fraggle Rock.

If I am reading this correctly Wenger is saying the Song can leave because we have adequate cover in midfield but having adequate is not the issue, the real issue here is having the best cover and the best man for the job is Song. Most of the players he listed only play if Song is injured or having a bad day... They are good but not as good a play maker like Alexandre Dimitri Song Billong .

Our Rivals are winning trophies simply because we keep selling our best players to them, last season I looked at Manchester City celebrate winning the title and all I saw was former Arsenal players lifting the trophy.

Summer Clearance Sale:
It seems almost every summer the big rich clubs (Barcelona, Chelsea, Manu and Man City, Real, Inter) line up at Arsenal’s gate waiting to buy our players like buyers at Billingsgate fish market. To them Arsenal is like a summer garage sale with quality merchandise to sell. During the transfer window Arsenal is targeted, I see no other club being targeted as much as Arsenal FC. These big rich clubs are happy when Arsenal buy cheap, young underdeveloped players because they know in a couple years’ time these players will be well trained, fully developed, become master of their craft and cheap.

A question was asked of me as to "why Arsenal is targeted more than any of the other club". The simple answer is because of Arsenal’s financial guidelines, we are cheaper than the big rich clubs and we produce top quality players which makes us the center of market activities. It is not hard to lure our players away, it is very easy. Players who are at Arsenal now are at Arsenal because the Big Rich Clubs have not yet come a calling. The days of club loyalty by players is over and young players come to Arsenal because Arsenal have a reputation of turning young unknown players into in demand football masters, it is the best place to develop. Arsenal FC is being used by young players as a stepping stone and by big rich clubs as a source of cheap developed talent and all because of our Financial Guidelines which by the way is Good for the Club business wise.

Cesc Fàbregas joined Arsenal at Age 16 in 2003 because he believed he would have limited opportunities if he stayed at Barcelona, became Arsenal Captain in 2008, left Arsenal went back to Barcelona in 2011 for an initial fee of £35m, he was making £110,000 a week at Arsenal.

Robin Van Persie joined Arsenal in 2004 for £2.75 million, he became Arsenal Captain in 2011 and leave Arsenal for Manchester United for £24million after that club agreed to pay him a weekly wages of £250,000, £12.2m-a-year, Arsenal had offered him £130,000-a-week but that was not good enough. What really bothers me is not that we sold RVP but that we sold RVP to a top 4 rival like Manchester United or to any club in in the Premiere League. If Wayne Rooney wanted away from Manu, would Alex Ferguson sell him to Arsenal...? I think not!!!! RVP should been sold to another country, in another league... The fact that he is still playing in the Premiere League and at Man United is just disgusting and an insult to all Arsenal supporters.

Samir Nasri Joined Arsenal in 2008 for a fee of £12 million, reason for joining “Arsène Wenger gives great opportunities to young players”. In 2011 he transferred to Manchester City for a fee of £25 million cursing Manager, club and supporters on his way out and doubling his weekly wages to £175,000.

Gail Clichy Joined Arsenal in 2003 at the age of 16, in 2011 Clichy joined Manchester City for a fee of £7 million, Clichy’s salary increased from £58,000, excluding bonuses, to over £90,000 a week.

Kolo Toure Joined Arsenal in 2002, for a fee of £150,000, in 2009 he joined Manchester City for a fee of £16 million and then helped them secure the services of his Brother Yaya from Barcelona. In 2010 Kolo Toure was the world’s third highest paid defender with £470,000 per month, totaling £5.5 million per annum.

Ashley Cole was created by Arsenal, emerging from the youth system to become one of the best defenders. Cole has a nose for smelling cash and quickly picked up the scent from Stamford Bridge. At least he was somewhat honest enough to admit that he left for the money after demanding £60,000 a week Arsenal only offered him £55,000 a week. Later he signed for Chelsea for £90,000 a week and to add insult to injury they threw in that whining Bitch William Gallas and the dressing room was never the same again.

Mathieu Flamini Joined Arsenal on a free Transfer and left Arsenal on a Free Transfer even after the club offered him £50,000 a week to sign an extension contract. He joined AC Milan who offered him double the amount, he never realized his full potential after leaving Arsenal.

Alexander Hleb Joined Arsenal in 2005, played some good football in 2007-2008 then jumped shipped for the great Barcelona for £11.9 million he then fell off the face of the footballing world.

Emmanuel Adebayor Joined Arsenal in 2006 for £3 million, in 2009 Adebayor transferred to Manchester City for a fee of £25million and a weekly wage of £170,000.


Alex Song completed his £15m move to Barcelona from Arsenal. Song, who had two years left on his contract, joined Arsenal as a 17-year-old from French side Bastia in 2005.He initially arrived on a one-year loan deal, with a £2.75m fee agreed to make the move permanent. However Song has found first-team opportunities at Barcelona hard to come by and now wants to leave.

Theo Walcott will get a special mention here even though he is still with the club for now. Rumor has it they he refuses to sign a new contract, yes Theo!! Here is a player who use to trip over his own legs, it got to the point where most Arsenal supporters wanted him gone, he was not making an impact like Fàbregas and would totally melt in front of goal but the Club and the Manager did what they do best, invest in the development of the player and now that the player is making an impact he wants more money or else he is away? Walcott is demanding a wage hike, from his current weekly salary of £60,000 to £100,000 however it is reported that Arsenal is offering an increase of £80,000-a-week and i expect him to laugh in their faces and walk, if not this season then next.

Is Arsenal FC A club without Ambition?
The idea that Arsenal Football Club is a club without Ambition is total rubbish, unless you measure ambition by the amount of crazy money you are willing to throw around and how much debt the club can acquire. Above is just a small sample of the quality players Arsenal and Wenger brought to the club, they are good, quality world class players and the club invested in their development but they all left questioning the clubs ambition to sign quality players, they were the quality players and was entrusted to win us titles. They complain that they want trophies, they who are entrusted to score goals and win matches.

As Agent86 said to me …. “I also feel that the players who leave have no spine. What bigger challenge (or way to pay back the faith the manager had in you) than to stick around and win trophies? Taking the easy way out and jumping ship makes you a weaker character to me than chasing more money, even if it is your right to do so“…. And I totally agree with him.


The Real Sugar Mac Daddies of the English Premiere League

At the root of the problem is financing and it all started when British owners decided to cash in and cash in big. This started what is now known as the Sugar Daddy Syndrome as clubs that had problems mastering traditional squad building techniques decided to just throw in the towel and throw money at the problem. All previous attempts at squad building failed so they decided to sell the club to the richest Sugar Daddy they could find who would then proceed to throw crazy money at players as if they were precious metals, (classless new money types are the preferred choice) . The price of players began to sky rocket like the price of Gold and Oil.



Difference between Real Investors and Playboy Owners:
Real financial investors invest in a business, they invest to make a profit and the actual business though important is not their primary goal, the club they purchase is a means to a financial end. They make decisions to maximize their profit margin and those decisions may or may not be in the best interest of the club and they will never put the clubs interest above their own. The owners of Manchester United and Liverpool fall into this category.

To a mega rich playboy there is no difference between purchasing a club, a mega yacht or a fleet of Lamborghinis, they all hold equal value and provide equal source of enjoyment, they are just play things to enjoy until they no longer add any enjoyment to their lives. They do not buy these entities to make money, money is not their problem the fact is, they have so much money coming in and not enough time to spend it or things to spend it on. To them buying a club is just another way to throw around excess cash on weekend hobby, turning cash into capital assets. The owners of Manchester City and Chelsea fall into this category.

Not all of the Sugar Daddy ventures worked out, some clubs and fans were tricked into believing that they were getting a Sugar Daddy to beat all Sugar Daddies who would start throwing crazy money around but instead ended up with owners who just drag their clubs deeper and deeper into debt.

The first real Sugar Mac Daddy was Roman “Macadocious “ Abramovich who bankrolled Chelsea Football Club, the 68th richest person in the world, with an estimated fortune of US$12.1 billion and he was not afraid to transfer large amount of his funds from his personal Bank account into the clubs Bank account.

Players all over the world began to pick up the scent of money and the market became a feeding frenzy, loyalty to club, fans and country was now a thing of the past as players began to shout that now famous line from the movie Jerry Maguire …..”Show Me the Money!!!” to their Managers.

Some clubs, fans and players saw what Chelsea FC had achieved and declared that they wanted some of that but Sugar Mac Daddies like Abramovich are hard to come by. Clubs were sold to people and groups they perceived as Free Spending Macs only to end up with owners who are not idiots but money grubbing business men acting in their own self interest.

Manchester United owners the Glazer families are not interested in throwing vulgar crazy money into a club and in fact spend more time taking money out of the club. The club is in debt up to their eyeballs, to the amount of $530 million and it is getting worst every day, plus floating the clubs shares on the New York Stock Exchange is going the same direction as Facebook, down, down, down. The Glazer family does not exist to serve Manchester United but Manchester United exists to serve the Glazer family.




Liverpool FC also thought they got themselves two Free Spending Mac Daddies in owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. But Hicks and Gillett loaded the club with debt causing unmanageable debt management problems. In 2011 British MPs was warned by one of UEFA’s most senior officials, that Liverpool FC’s debt (the club is £350m in debt) problems brought them within hours of administration.

Only one other club achieved the Chelsea like Sugar Mac Daddy status and that is Manchester City Football Club. City was acquired by the Abu Dhabi United Group a United Arab Emirates (UAE) private equity company owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, member of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family and Minister of Presidential Affairs for the UAE (cha ching!!!), they also manage oil reserves worth an estimated $1trillion (£555billion).

Manchester City has reported an annual loss of £194.9m for 2010-11, the biggest in English football history but since owners are allowed to spend their vast fortunes on their clubs this means nothing when that owner is the Abu Dhabi United Group, I suspect Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan spends that amount in a week on cars.

And Again!!! … Players all over the world began to pick up the scent of money but instead of Stamford Bridge their hound dog like noses are pointing towards the North of England to Manchester City and again to justify them jumping ship, bailing on their fans and club they then turned around and accused their club of not having any ambition. It is very clear how they define ambition, if you cannot pay me what Manchester City, Barcelona or Chelsea is offering then clearly you have no ambition, you are a bum!





The current financial system is not sustainable for the vast majority of clubs, they do not have unlimited amount of funds to enter this crazy market, they cannot rack up debt year after year. This is a bubble like the housing bubble, this is a footballing bubble and it will burst if something is not done to normalize the market. European governing body Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations mean all clubs must restrict their losses between 2013 and 2015 to just £38m and Clubs which fail to comply with Uefa's new financial fair play rules could face player bans and points deductions.

“Breaching the regulations could be forced to cut their squads if they continue to buy players while recording such losses, adding that Uefa might exclude teams from European competition altogether if infringements are particularly severe.”

Only time will tell how this will end, I fear something drastic must happen to force clubs to think and act sensibly. It is only when a top four club goes into administration will the clubs wake up and burst the bubble bringing these players back down to earth.

TOP PREMIER LEAGUE WAGE BILLS 2010-11

• Chelsea - £191m (up from £174m in 2009-10)
• Manchester City - £174m (£133m)
• Manchester United - £153m (£132m)
• Liverpool - £135m (£121m)
• Arsenal - £124m (£111m)

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Players Come and Players Go but Arsenal is Forever

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"I was gambling a lot at the time and the move to Boro doubled my wages, but the grass isn't always greener. I regretted it within a month. Arsenal was a phenomenal club."

"It is very difficult to stop players leaving if somebody offers them three times as much,"

he said, he felt it was time for "a new challenge"

Cole, having stated in the publicity for his book that he had been "fed to the sharks" and "hung out to dry", signed for Chelsea soon afterwards, earning a reported £90,000 a week

"We are not naive enough to think it is not linked to money," Wenger said in the days before the deal was completed. "He says he wants to stay, and if he goes somewhere else that means it is linked to what?"

"I can't get used to the chaotic way of life in London, where everyone is racing around 24 hours a day," Hleb himself said in July. "It is uncomfortable and I'm mentally tired."

The move was finally completed in August 2011, with Arsenal having accepted what Arsene Wenger described as a "reduced fee" as the midfielder had refused to countenance other offers.

For his part, Nasri described himself as "really happy" three days later when he completed the move, but Wenger was convinced that money had bought that happiness.

The common thread among most of the quotes above is that they all left for more money. Those that didn’t wanted out of the club regardless. Either we change our wage structure or we keep chancing that the right players will stay long enough to win us trophies before they turn 30. We can fault player or club/manager all we want. It’s just reality. We have a wage structure that should be respected for good or for bad. It’s what keeps us from FN up on a whim and buying a player for crazy money and then paying him crazy wages. It’s not going to happen. Arshavin comes to mind.

From a players’ perspective, if I know I’m not going to make the maximum at Arsenal when I turn 30, why would I stay unless my love for the club is extreme and genuine? It’s a two-way street. I’m not absolving Van Persie in anyway. Hell no! He handled that situation like a proper kont. And it won’t help to pay City-type wages. We’d go bankrupt. There’s a middle ground. We can find it if we really want to. I read a couple months ago that Gazidis is looking into restructuring the wages. Maybe when the current marketing deals run out we can renegotiate them to earn more and have more to pay the want-away stars. Yet I’m not sure that’s going to stop a player who really wants to leave from leaving but it’s a step in the “right” direction, I suppose.

The club also has to look at itself if we’re being honest. Why do so many very good to excellent players leave? Is it really all about money? For me it’s more about money than anything else but a good investigation explores all possible causes. We are truly at a crossroads. More so than any other point in the Wenger era!

I won’t be a hypocrite and deny a footballer or any employee their right to make as much as possible. Owners make obscene amounts of money so why shouldn’t the employee earn whatever he can? What I don’t care for is the way players lie through their stinking teeth about why they want to leave if it’s about more money. I have way more respect for the player that leaves because he can earn more and says so than the kont who says it’s not the money and then goes to earn double what we were paying.

One thing is for sure. If we win trophies, the sting from players leaving won’t hurt or last as long.

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Temple of Thieves!

There is an older member of my family who is very religious, who is a bit lonely and getting on in age, he spends a lot of his time going to and from church and entertaining church members at his home. It has reached the point where these church people come and go as they please, as this older person is both powerless to do anything and at times thankful for their company.

It has come to my attention that certain top members of his church are actively trying to transfer the property of this individual into their names, they are trying to get him to sign over his house to the church. The church elders have requested the title to the house claiming that they will ensure that he gets a proper burial when he dies. They have even gone to the trouble of sending over various contractors to measure his house and the yard.

When we paid a visit to this person we noticed that one of his rooms was empty, when asked what happened to the furniture that was in the room, he told us that some of his church sisters came into his house and took it, it seems the members of this church take what they want, when they want.

There is no difference between cross dressing lottery scammers and members of the church except that one wears a dress and the other wears a cheap suit but what they do is the same, they are confidence tricksters, trying to trick the elderly out of their property.

We discovered this when this person had called his daughter requesting the title to the house and when she inquired why he needed it, all was revealed. As a result we contacted our lawyer, got a new will made, a new title transferring his property to his son and daughters name and paid a visit to the church informing them that the line has been drawn and any further attempt extract his property will be met with the full force from either the law or the unlawful.


I cannot imagine just how many other elderly people across Jamaica who has been scammed out of their house, home and various properties by these Religious Church people with promises to bury them when they are dead, only to burn them on rubbish heap like dogs. This is why no man walking on this planet can preach to me and I try never to set foot in any of these so called houses of worship because they contain the worst of humanity, the more they preach, the more disgusting they look to me.

I remember as a student in history class reading about the Catholic and Church of England preachers telling the slaves that they should be good slaves and obey their masters if they wanted to see the kingdom of heaven and I wondered how these people slept at nights. It is one thing to be set upon by everyday wicked people but to be set up on by people who claim to be religious, holy righteous and true, carrying out the words of their God is just pure 100% evil. Religious evil is why more disgusting than any other form of evil on this planet because the religious can be evil today, repent tomorrow and evil again the next day, they can justify their evil ways. The religious church is and always was a temple of thieves, a construct of men as they attempt to control other men.

I remember poor people in third world Jamaica sending their hard earn scarce money to overseas ministries, men in fancy suits and flashy cars for extra blessing. I remember my Grandmother getting a key from Oral Roberts ministry claiming it was blessed and whenever there were problems in her life she would hold on to that key for dear life, waiting for its blessing to work its magic.

"On January 4, 1987, Oral Roberts told his followers that if he did not raise a total of eight million dollars by March, God was going to take his life."

We see in the news time and time again about the evil that takes place in the churches across the world and in Jamaica, pastors sleeping with underage little boys and girls, pastors treating the church like brothels and the woman and men of their congregation like their own personal sex toys. Every con artist has a gimmick of some sort and the people preaching in churches have the best gimmick of all, the use of religion to get the same thing the drug dealers, the warlords, the Dons and the politicians want out of life and that is to enrich themselves at the expensive of the weaker more vulnerable members of our society while preaching of the better that will come.

“Dear Pastor,
I am a regular reader of your column and I must say that you have been doing a superb job. I am 23 years old and I have a severe problem that I would want you to give me some advice on. I have been a Christian since I was 11 years old. I have always been an active member of my church. When I was 16, I got raped by a guy who lived in my community. When this happened, I was so terrified and I had sleepless nights and it took me a while to get over it.

The problem I am having is that, ever since I was raped I became totally addicted to sex. I just can't stop having sex. I even have sex with guys I know nothing about. Sometimes I feel guilty because I am still active in church. **I told my pastor about it and he too had sex with me**. I don't know what else to do or who else to turn to. Almost all the young men in my community have had sex with me and some of the guys at my church too. I am so confused. I have tried to stop but I just can't. Please tell me what to do.“

She went to the pastor for help and got weh the duck get...

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