Lambert Brown has finally lost everything
IMAGINE hearing a Senator — an appointed official who sits in Jamaica’s Parliament — effectively inciting anarchy by suggesting that in matters in which the police failed to act in apprehending criminals, that the people should rise up and exact their own justice.
Lambert Brown has no right to a place in the Senate; or maybe he is still there for the deaf, as he speaks the loudest, or for those who believe in retro fashion, as he still wears suits that the Salvation Army would reject. He has lost his way.
Brown suggested on radio that if any female member of his family was raped, and the police were pussyfooting with the matter, he would take matters into his own hands and inject jungle justice into the process. Was that really coming from a legislator? And in a country where lawlessness prevails? Now, why is this man still in the Senate? Here is what the president of the People’s National Party should do: He must summon Brown to his St Andrew offices, and in his own gentle style, ask him for his letter of resignation as a senator, to be dispatched to the president of the Senate. If Brown does not comply, Golding should then go public and tell us all that he has lost confidence in the trade unionist and he, therefore, does not speak for the PNP in the Senate.
‘Withdrawing’ the comments from the Senate, as Brown sought to do on Friday, is not enough. The damage has been done.
Any lawmaker who touts anarchy in a society that has its share of lawlessness already should be banished to the pit of shame and disgust.