The Purposeful Suspension of Common Sense... (23 Years Later, No Justice Done...)

When the Acting Commissioner of Police gave the Jamaat al Muslimeen permission to march through the very city they attacked so violently twenty three years ago, did he not possess the presence of mind to imagine how it would come across to the survivors of that horrific event and to law abiding people everywhere?

Talk about rubbing salt in a wound, many of the same businessmen on Frederick Street who rebuilt their businesses out of sheer determination after losing everything to the looting spurred on by the violence and who were never compensated by either state or insurance had to look on in quiet anger as those responsible sauntered by. Many were left with debt that carried on long after those who committed this atrocity managed to squirm free of justice, and it is dark irony indeed that it is only though their determination that the very city these anarchists marched through today rose from the ashes of their violence.

What of those who lost loved ones, to whom the anniversary of this horrific event is a fresh opportunity to mourn? What of them Mister Commissioner, did they not cross your mind?

In our zeal to appear all things to all people we sometimes lose perspective of the trees for the forest. These victims are all people, and they were wronged in 1990, and they were wronged again on a Friday evening in 2013.

Can you imagine Al Qaeda terrorists being granted permission to march through New York City to commemorate 9/11? Or even being interviewed at the end of that march as to why they did what they did?

When the members of the Jamaat al Muslimeen took up arms against the duly and democratically elected government of the day they became enemies of the state, and regardless of the fact that they managed to evade paying for their crimes, it doesn't in any way make them any less culpable or guilty.

Perhaps if they really need to celebrate something about 1990 they should build themselves a gallows and march around it in thanksgiving that their treasonous necks are still intact.

Granting them permission to march as conquering heroes through the capital city they so brutally attacked was an unforgivable abandonment of reason for which someone must be made to pay; this error was not forced upon the Acting Commissioner of Police, he had a choice. He could have said no. He should have said no. For his lack of sensitivity for a nation still coming to terms with what happened, for not understanding that the granting of a permission in some instances sets a dangerous precedent, for his failure to appreciate that by this action this nation turned its back on all those who lost their lives during that dark time in our history twenty three years ago, Acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams needs to apologize if not step down. Make no mistake, this march was a slap in the face of every law abiding citizen of this country, and the fact that they got permission so to do makes it that much more abominable. As if we needed another clear demonstration of how badly off course we as a nation are.