ONLINE FEEDBACK

Below are edited excerpts from comments posted online at www.jamaica-gleaner.com by readers to yesterday's lead story 'Dudus effect - Toronto police chief says Shower Posse has gone quiet since Coke's capture'.

Fabricated analysis

This is obviously not a proper analysis, or seems to be somewhat fabricated. 'Dudus' and those underprivileged gangsters in Tivoli who were affiliated to him could not possibly have that much power. There are gangsters in the USA and Canada who carry out all the crime that Police Chief Blair discussed and more, and yet do not get half as much attention.

This is obviously a public-relations stunt to give credence to what took place in Tivoli. There was indeed a link, but nothing of the magnitude of what is being portrayed here. Something is just not adding up. The importation of guns to Jamaica on a large scale has been going on even before Dudus was born. If Dudus is guilty, he needs to pay for his crimes, but I think this goes beyond him.

- TVF

Every black gangster is Jamaican

After the Toronto police arrested eight persons and seized 20 guns sometime ago, they came out claiming that those were Jamaicans and members of Tivoli Gardens' Shower Posse and that they would be sending them back to Jamaica. The only problem was, they were born and bred Canadian nationals, and members of local gangs.

Another thing, most young blacks in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada, whether in gangs or not, try to identify themselves with Jamaica.

- Doug

Blair is off track

Police Chief Blair ought to stick to policing in Toronto when he talks about drug gangs. What the dickens does he know about Coke and his supporters, both on the ground and in high places!? This government resisted the request of extradition of Coke to the United States amid some very unusual circumstances that still have to be made known to the citizens of Jamaica.

Coke, the alleged Shower Posse leader, was deemed the JLP strongman by this paper and others, and here we have Blair talking about removing the big men. What big men? Certainly not in Jamaica, since they are still walking around and giving big speeches.

All Blair cares about is the removal and disruption of gangs in his own jurisdiction, never mind the 70 or more people killed on that fateful day in May in Tivoli.

- Dranks