In my sleep I heard them weeping and wailing; the sad lament for the #Jamaica50

I dreamt dreams of the door of no return last night, I saw the holding pens of our ancestors awaiting deportation and envisioned the walk on the plank toward the gentle bobbing ships of our enslavement. 

I heard the weeping and wailing of their tortured souls. And as I awoke this morning, it struck me that those destined for deportation at dawn tomorrow morning this Terrible Tuesday will be filled with a similar sense of mighty dread and deep foreboding. 

The #Jamaica50 will be terrified as they wake today. They and their families will be inconsolable. Many will not have slept. Some will, like our 17^th century enslaved ancestors held in the British slave fort Elmina Castle, Ghana, will have wept through the night. 

They too are looking at the door of no return. 

At around 9pm this evening, the guards will individually shackle the detainees, each one from ankle to waist where they will then be taken to an awaiting bus, all in that familiar chain gang line, restrained, shuffling like their ancestors, dancing the dance of no return.

There will be those who resist and they will be beaten and taken by force. There will be those guards, like the overseers of old, eager for the conflict, flying high on the prospect of sadomasochistic violence. 

They killed Joy Gardner

We remember our brother Jimmy Mubenga and our sister Joy Gardner. 

They killed Jimm Mubenga

We recall the brutal horror of their deaths

And at a lonely Royal Air force runway, somewhere near London, ground staff will be laughing and joking, happily preparing the plane, just as those old pirates prepared their slave ships. 

Tonight, children will be weeping inconsolably for their parents, deeply traumatised by forced separation, whilst guards content in their work and happy with their lot will be donning riot gear and checking their batons and pepper sprays. 

And this morning Titan Airways will be busy counting their cash, having been paid handsomely to transport their tragic cargo of human misery. 

Late tonight Virgin Pilots will be discussing their routes over dinner whilst watching the BBC news, they’ll kiss their wives and children sweet goodnights and prepare to fly. 

And as you sleep tonight and dawn silently breaks this Terrible Tuesday, our people will be forced onto that plane with grimacing, menacing threat and for those who resist, unconscionable violence and unspeakable force  

And as I sit here weeping this Mournful Monday morning, and write this most terrible lament through my bitter tears, awake but still in a dream state, haunted by the visions of our tragic past and the dark portents of the future, I ask myself and the nation in Gods name what are we doing? 

Stop the plane. 

6pm tonight at 10 Downing Street; be there.  

Lee Jasper. 

Tory policy changes to bail sees serious violence offenders free to roam our streets.

I accuse Boris Johnson’s Government of the most cynical and heinous betrayal of the people, letting serious criminals roam our streets with impunity. You may be one of the many people who perennially ask why is violence is rising in our communities? One of the reasons is that Tory’s policy of failing to place serious sex and violent offender suspects on restrictive bail conditions. 

A BBC Newsnight investigation has uncovered that thousands of serious criminal offenders were simply left unsupervised after being accused of the most appalling and serious violent and sexual offences. 

This is horrendous and means that since 2017, at least 93,000 people who should have been either denied bail or been given bail with strict restrictions, were left to kill, maim and rape. 

How many lives could’ve been saved, how many traumas, tears, surgical operations, stress and death have we seen as a result of this catastrophic failure of this lying bastard of a Government? 

How many sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, friends, wives, husbands, lovers and neighbours did we lose? 

How many people today suffered the trauma of serious sexual or violent assaults were victimised as a direct result of this policy? 

This alone, when one thinks of the staggering consequences, should lose the #Tories the election. 

A bloody miasma trail of serious trauma, grief and lifetime of pain’ loss and disability leads straight to the door of No 10 Downing Street. 

The Rt. Hon. Priti Patel should resign with immediate effect. I’m hoping Jeremy Corbyn and Momentum will drive this home. 

The Tories flooded our streets with unsupervised serious criminals for at least the last two years, if not more, given the similar a day utterly disastrous consequences of the probation service privatisation. 

I believe this has been going on for much longer than two years. I have long suspected the privatisation of Probation Services has also had the same effect, dangerous criminals left to roam the streets. 

Is it any wonder our communities feel like the Wild West at times? 93,000 at the last count? 

Imagine, the poorest communities were abandoned to suspected serious sex and violent offenders, as a result of a policy whose primary effect was to unleash hell onto our streets. 

Badman left to roam and marauding our communities at will. Is it any wonder why so few people have any confidence in policing and criminal justice when dangerous criminals reported to the police are simply released back into our communities? 

This policy equates to politically motivated, state-sanctioned, corporate manslaughter, a deliberate policy that saw rape, violence and murder rise in our communities. 

This policy was a violent criminals charter. 

It had the material effect of flooding our streets with dangerous people who should have been denied bail or were either severely restricting their movements or heavily supervised. 

#KnifeCrime #SexCrime #ViolentCrime #YouthViolence #Rape#ToryMurder. #GeneralElection #VoteLabour

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