Divine Denial

What is a gun? What does it symbolize? I was talking to my mother about this and she concurred that guns symbolize power. Makes sense don't it? The question of what guns symbolize came to my head recently. I was watching a local news broadcast some night, may have been last night or on Wednesday...yeah it was Wednesday.

Anyway, I watching the screen dey and see dey talking bout how Trini police went on a Liat flight and seize ah Puerto Rican national who has a history of protesting, yuh know nah, ah professional wajang, with ah cause. As the story goes, the officers boarded the plane with guns drawn, some of the semi-automatic, find the man, take him off the plane, handcuff him then deport him.

Aite cool, so news time now and they interviewing acting commissioner Philbert. He defends the act of his officers stating the dangerous intent of one Alberto "Tito Kayak" de Jesus Mercado (from now on Jesus), and deems that to have not taken action would have been reckless.

Now I hear what the man say, but my brain start doing this thinking thing that it like nah. What the hell Philo mean? Yuh want tuh deport somebody, I could understand that. but explain why one would board an international flight with weapons drawn to remove a man who has never been associated with violent acts. Why not use the same three officers to escort him off the plane into a more secluded area?

See I studying how it look to the Spanish moms and dem, who sit down looking out the window, only fuh d door tuh open and three black, shiny, heavily armed and heavy breathing man tuh storm past she, hit she with ah rifle butt in she head, drag out ah man, only tuh hit she in she head again.

The irony is that Philo saying his main thing was not to be reckless. Yet his actions in authorizing such an operation was reckless. If Jesus had decided to strike an officer would he have been shot? If an officer tripped, trying to manouevre his bulky frame down the aisles of the Liat plane and his weapon went off, what would Philo have done then?

Jesus has been allowed entry into Israel, the United States, namely New York and the United Nation headquarters. But not Trinidad. And I believe that has more to do with our police force's incompetence rather than Jesus' danger level. To try to justify it any other way is a denial of divine proportions.

So guns symbolize power. A little power is a dangerous thing and right now it seems the little bit more that Philo get has made him a little more dangerous. I hope that it dissipates with the summit. Next thing you know we will have officers jumping out of jeeps with guns drawn at vehicular accident scenes when they coming to 'lend assistance'.
Oh...wait...that going on already...