Edward Seaga died around 1.00pm Miami time

[malaise]

he was 89 today.
He will never be forgiven

http://rjrnewsonline.com/local/former-prime-minister-edward-seaga-is-dead



Former Prime Minister Edward Philip George Seaga has died.

Born on May 28, 1930, Mr. Seaga died on his 89th birthday, at 1 o'clock.

He was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, serving from 1980 to 1989, and was the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005.

He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1974 to 1980, and again from 1989 until January 2005.

[irisblue]

1. May his family find hearts ease

🕯️

[malaise]

2. I wish that for the families who lost relatives thanks to him

including ours - not one tear will be shed in this house.

[Polybius]

3. "He will never be forgiven"

What did he do? I briefly looked up his Wiki, but nothing stood out. Perhaps I missed it?

[malaise]

4. Ask him Reagan, Bush the first and the CIA

they all destroyed this country with guns

[malaise]

8. Here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_Posse

[guillaumeb]

5. Manley committed the cardinal sin of supporting Cuba.

And for that, the US helped Seaga.

[malaise]

6. Check out our version of Iran-Contra

the drug dons -Jim Brown, his son Dudus and many others

[malaise]

7. More

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shower_Posse

https://newsone.com/543415/how-the-cia-created-the-jamaican-shower-posse/

[guillaumeb]

9. The CIA has a long history of involvment in the drug trade.

The San Jose Mercury News exposed a part of it, and suffered for exercising their freedom of the press.

[malaise]

10. Dread, beat and blood

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2006/jul/16/urban.worldmusic

Late 1976, and rival political factions are warring on the streets of Kingston, Jamaica, with only Bob Marley calling for peace. In an exclusive extract from her major new book, Vivien Goldman remembers life with Bob Marley at his home on Hope Road and reveals exactly what happened when gunmen came to kill him

[guillaumeb]

11. I had never read this.

There is a price to defying the empire.

[malaise]

12. Bob's response

That book had several problems starting with the author's ignorance on Jamaican history or the numbers of guns in Jamaica at that time.

[malaise]

13. He sang about it as well