What happened on Wednesday afternoon in the Belize Supreme Court is a national shame and disgrace – una infamía. The evidence confirmed what the streets have been saying for a long, long time: the Belize Police Department is seriously corrupt.
Locked inside their air conditioned SUV’s, their carpeted homes and their oligarchy–loving churches, the bourgeoisie of Belize have consistently found ways to avoid admitting to the rot and smelling the stench. The streets always know before the suburbs. The bourgeoisie are always seeking to deny the evidence of real circumstances: denial is more convenient, more comfortable, less stressful.
There are members of the bourgeoisie who are in the business of talking and writing publicly, which is basically the same business we are in. The talking and writing members of the bourgeoisie to whom we refer, are quarrelling with the independent media to have themselves considered as professional journalists. Whether they were once professional journalists in the past, or whether at some point in the future they will become, or resume being, professional journalists, is not the point. What is the point is the fact that in the immediate and graphic present, they have been hired and are being paid by party politicians and political parties to say and write whatever it is they are now saying and writing.
There is a concept these hired talking heads and pens ignore every day they are signing checks made out by politicians and political parties. That is the concept called “the truth.” Party politics is not about the truth. Party politics is about versions, angles, spins, and so on and so forth. The sum total of all the aforementioned is what we universally refer to as “propaganda.” It is the greatest of tragedies when propagandists begin to believe their own propaganda.
Today all the opprobrium in the Bou-Nehra case accrues to the policemen who perjured themselves, and it is right that that opprobrium should so accrue. But no one in the streets was surprised by what happened, only by how it happened. Normally it has been the pattern, for many, many years, that high profile cases are subverted at the level of the jurors instead of in the Police Department. In the Copius/Bou-Nehra case, there were large people, it would appear, who felt they could not take a chance with this emotional manslaughter matter going to a jury.
This is now a case, we think, for the Ombudsman, in the first instance, but that worthy is himself a politician of sorts. He is not a hero, though he is supposed to be. Theoretically, that is what an Ombudsman should be – a hero of the people.
The mechanism of the legal apparatus works as follows. The police gather the evidence when there is believed to be a crime. The police apprehend the suspect(s) until the matter is processed, in a preliminary sense, before the courts, where a decision is made as to whether bail should be offered. When the case reaches the courts for trial, Magistrate’s or Supreme depending on the gravity of the offence, a prosecutor (policeman or lawyer) presents the case for the Crown (the state), while a lawyer often appears as defense counsel for the accused. In the Supreme Court, there is a judge to advise a jury on legal matters, but the jury of the accused’s “peers” is the ultimate jurisdiction for serious cases.
Between the police and the courts, there is an Office of Public Prosecutions where lawyers decide if the police have gathered enough evidence for a legal conviction. In other words, the Office of Public Prosecutions decides if there is a case worthy of taking to court for trial. In the Bou-Nehra case, the boss of Public Prosecutions became embroiled in conflict with the boss of the police, because the Director of Public Prosecutions, who is constitutionally superior to the Commissioner of Police, found that the ComPol was refusing to obey his instructions. That DPP, largely because of that controversy, was forced out, and a new one appointed.
The new DPP refused to be the scapegoat, so it eventually became the “responsibility,” paid responsibility one assumes, of four policemen to derail the legal prosecution of Chayben Bou-Nehra. This is how it does appear.
There is a message we have to give the bourgeoisie of Belize on this matter. The corruption in the Belize judiciary began for real after political independence in 1981. That corruption was initiated by the lawyers (“officers of the court”) who were politically connected on both sides of the political fence. It became so bad fifteen, eighteen years ago that there was a politically elected/appointed Attorney General who was writing decisions for a respected Supreme Court justice. That is Gazette. You bourgeoisie go to the cocktail parties and mingle with the same socio-political elite who are responsible for the shame of our legal system. In a sense, these four policemen are scapegoats. Once the new DPP refused to cooperate, and it being the case that the large people did not want to taka a chance with the jury, then it had to be the cops to do the thing, so to speak.
The streets are not fooled. It is always the bourgeoisie who are fooled. The “bourgies” are fooled because they want to be fooled. And
What happened on Wednesday afternoon in the Belize Supreme Court is a national shame and disgrace – una infamía. The evidence confirmed what the streets have been saying for a long, long time: the Belize Police Department is seriously corrupt.
Locked inside their air conditioned SUV’s, their carpeted homes and their oligarchy–loving churches, the bourgeoisie of Belize have consistently found ways to avoid admitting to the rot and smelling the stench. The streets always know before the suburbs. The bourgeoisie are always seeking to deny the evidence of real circumstances: denial is more convenient, more comfortable, less stressful.
There are members of the bourgeoisie who are in the business of talking and writing publicly, which is basically the same business we are in. The talking and writing members of the bourgeoisie to whom we refer, are quarrelling with the independent media to have themselves considered as professional journalists. Whether they were once professional journalists in the past, or whether at some point in the future they will become, or resume being, professional journalists, is not the point. What is the point is the fact that in the immediate and graphic present, they have been hired and are being paid by party politicians and political parties to say and write whatever it is they are now saying and writing.
There is a concept these hired talking heads and pens ignore every day they are signing checks made out by politicians and political parties. That is the concept called “the truth.” Party politics is not about the truth. Party politics is about versions, angles, spins, and so on and so forth. The sum total of all the aforementioned is what we universally refer to as “propaganda.” It is the greatest of tragedies when propagandists begin to believe their own propaganda.
Today all the opprobrium in the Bou-Nehra case accrues to the policemen who perjured themselves, and it is right that that opprobrium should so accrue. But no one in the streets was surprised by what happened, only by how it happened. Normally it has been the pattern, for many, many years, that high profile cases are subverted at the level of the jurors instead of in the Police Department. In the Copius/Bou-Nehra case, there were large people, it would appear, who felt they could not take a chance with this emotional manslaughter matter going to a jury.
This is now a case, we think, for the Ombudsman, in the first instance, but that worthy is himself a politician of sorts. He is not a hero, though he is supposed to be. Theoretically, that is what an Ombudsman should be – a hero of the people.
The mechanism of the legal apparatus works as follows. The police gather the evidence when there is believed to be a crime. The police apprehend the suspect(s) until the matter is processed, in a preliminary sense, before the courts, where a decision is made as to whether bail should be offered. When the case reaches the courts for trial, Magistrate’s or Supreme depending on the gravity of the offence, a prosecutor (policeman or lawyer) presents the case for the Crown (the state), while a lawyer often appears as defense counsel for the accused. In the Supreme Court, there is a judge to advise a jury on legal matters, but the jury of the accused’s “peers” is the ultimate jurisdiction for serious cases.
Between the police and the courts, there is an Office of Public Prosecutions where lawyers decide if the police have gathered enough evidence for a legal conviction. In other words, the Office of Public Prosecutions decides if there is a case worthy of taking to court for trial. In the Bou-Nehra case, the boss of Public Prosecutions became embroiled in conflict with the boss of the police, because the Director of Public Prosecutions, who is constitutionally superior to the Commissioner of Police, found that the ComPol was refusing to obey his instructions. That DPP, largely because of that controversy, was forced out, and a new one appointed.
The new DPP refused to be the scapegoat, so it eventually became the “responsibility,” paid responsibility one assumes, of four policemen to derail the legal prosecution of Chayben Bou-Nehra. This is how it does appear.
There is a message we have to give the bourgeoisie of Belize on this matter. The corruption in the Belize judiciary began for real after political independence in 1981. That corruption was initiated by the lawyers (“officers of the court”) who were politically connected on both sides of the political fence. It became so bad fifteen, eighteen years ago that there was a politically elected/appointed Attorney General who was writing decisions for a respected Supreme Court justice. That is Gazette. You bourgeoisie go to the cocktail parties and mingle with the same socio-political elite who are responsible for the shame of our legal system. In a sense, these four policemen are scapegoats. Once the new DPP refused to cooperate, and it being the case that the large people did not want to taka a chance with the jury, then it had to be the cops to do the thing, so to speak.
The streets are not fooled. It is always the bourgeoisie who are fooled. The “bourgies” are fooled because they want to be fooled. And because it is that you want to be fooled, you decide to be fooled, then you well-bathed and well-groomed bourgeoisie of Belize are covered with all the filth and feces of Wednesday afternoon, October 24, in the Supreme Court of Belize. Straight like that.
Power to the people.because it is that you want to be fooled, you decide to be fooled, then you well-bathed and well-groomed bourgeoisie of Belize are covered with all the filth and feces of Wednesday afternoon, October 24, in the Supreme Court of Belize. Straight like that.
Power to the people.