MPs should vote people's will
Published:Saturday | June 19, 2010 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I READ the Letter of the Day from Patrick Gallimore and would like to congratulate him for sharing his concerns. Although I agree with his concerns, rather than our parliamentarians voting their consciences, which among Jamaican politicians seem to have become extremely weak, I would rather they vote the will of the people who sent them to Parliament.
If it is democracy that we want in our country then the laws we pass should reflect the will of the majority of the people in line with a focus on generational outcome. As I have often brought to the fore, Jamaica decided in coming into independent nationhood in 1962 that the ethic of our existence would be based in the simple values yet incontrovertibly strong ethic of motto, anthem and pledge, which provides for us a moral MAP by which to conduct the affairs of our nation.
Rule of rabble
Either we can take this MAP seriously and begin to craft our national identity and goals in this unassailable frame of reference, or we can continue to live by the rule of the rabble and lose all semblance of civility, order and respect. Fortunately for us, our founding fathers did not leave the development of our nation solely to the whims of the underdeveloped consciences of politicians.
It is obvious that in a yet-incompre-hensible moment, the Eternal Father gave us "His revealing light" (Fr Hugh Sherlock, Eternal Father, p.73) to create a MAP by which Jamaica would craft her own exemplary history as an independent nation with spec-tacular endowment of our God-given gifts and talents.
It is instructive that the confusion into which our country has descended is not so much an economic one as it is a moral crisis of men with warped ideas of right and wrong subverting the State and doing all manner of evil to protect their subversive activities. The problem is that the protectors of the State have been complicit in the demise of the State in this manner, because of the weakening of their own consciences.
Not mere words
"Strengthen us the weak to cherish" is not mere words, it is a demand upon the strong God who is not intimidated by anything, or anyone at anytime, He who is strong in every way to further endow us with internal and eternal strength which makes of us a resolute people in preservation of righteousness processes unto the purpose of our nation - "So that Jamaica may under God increase in beauty, fellowship and prosperity and play her part in advancing the welfare of the whole human race."
No small ambition for a small nation, but "no problem" for one courageous enough "to work diligently and creatively" and "to think generously and honestly."
I am, etc.,
Yvonne O. Coke