AntiColonial Media

By Olusola O. Muhammad
This article originally appeared in The Final Call to POWER (get PDF of the article)

Proof that Scotland Yard is the true Yardie! We demand that the British Government get tough on this gang! We do not own any poppy fields, factories or ships for the production and importation of drugs, neither do we own any gun manufacturing plants. In this In-depth analysis on drugs and guns in the Black Community, we ask, how and why it is so prevalent?

The British Government, it appears is diametrically opposed to the Black Community living a life of freedom, justice, equality and the pursuit of happiness, given the increasingly sad socio-economic condition of Black people. Some people resort to ‘any means necessary’ in order to provide for their families, when the harsh realities of racism and mis-education prevent them entering the employment market.

Some however, out of an ‘evil heart’ and motive, feed and prey on others, delighting in their ill-gained profits and acquired luxuries from the trade of illegal goods. For some this is fostered on them as the only means of earning a living, when the lives of drug dealers are portrayed as glamorous in today’s films.

Illegal Drugs Industry

Dope Inc

“The illegal drugs business is now believed to be worth $500 billion [£309 billion] a year. And, being formally untaxed, its global profits may well be larger than those of any other business.” (The Times newspaper, 8 November 1999).

According to former Chief Constable Francis Wilkinson, writing for The Times newspaper, he goes on to say, “…Drug related violence is the largest category of killing in the UK. It has engendered a gun-carrying sub-culture in Britain.”

‘Not Another Drop’ Campaign

At a campaign, ‘Not Another Drop,’ to stop gun violence in Harlesden, North West London, politicians, local Councillor’s and the Chief Metropolitan Officer, Sir John Stevens, attended the ‘Bridge Park’ complex to articulate solutions to this problem.

Sir John Stevens said, this “is about the taking of young lives, the snuffing out of people who had life in front of them…” Offering solutions to the “massive evil,” as expressed by former Home Office Minister, Paul Boateng, who was also in attendance, Sir John Stevens again said, “…the gauntlet that is being thrown down by evil, selfish, wicked people has been taken up, and will be thrown straight back into the faces of those people….”

Caught In The Act

For years ‘black-on-black’ violence has been rampant in our community, yet the Government has done nothing to stop it. Why now?

Far from trying to stop crime in our community, in 1995, a Metropolitan Police Officer, “Superintendendent John Rees a member of the Lambeth Consultative group said his bosses are unlikely to back down on the use of yardies, which they see as a necessary evil.”

According to the New Nation newspaper, 18 November 1996, “Scotland Yard … back in 1995 recruited Jamaican Eaton Green to help uncover an international drugs ring.”

A year later, the New Nation newspaper reported on 16 June, that “Community leaders are threatening to walk out of talks with Scotland Yard, because they believe the police are sponsoring violence in their community. The delegates are angry over a policy of recruiting Yardies into the country to use to work as paid informants. The terrible consequences of the police policy were highlighted with the murder of Marcia Laws by gangster Delroy Denton, a murder for which Marcia’s sister Mercy Akenzua is demanding a police apology.”

In an article ‘Yard’s Yardie is too hot to handle,’ by The Guardian 1/5/96, the activities of Eaton Green were further outlined.

“…..According to the Home Office sources other detectives in London came across evidence of crimes Green says he committed while on Scotland Yard’s payroll, but were blocked from investigating them by his handlers, who wanted to keep their informer on the streets. Home office guidelines forbid this.”

“It is understood that Green has routinely used a firearm, committed armed robberies, bought large quantities of Crack Cocaine, and ran protection rackets in South London where he and his “crew” extorted money from Black Businesses.”

“He was never prosecuted for any of these offences, and was finally brought to book only when he committed the armed robbery in Nottingham where his handlers were unable to protect him.”

“…Green and others used guns to hold up 150 people at a Blues party… were convicted and sent to prison. Eaton Green was taken to a Metropolitan police safe house.”

“…Eaton Green confessed to at least 10 murders in Jamaica, some of them allegedly ordered by leading politicians.

So, whilst the present Government talks tough on crime and is determined to bring in harsher sentencing, can we be sure that a hidden agenda does not exist? Perhaps a cursory glance at the book, Dope Inc. by Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, banned by several governments, will show how governments plot to destroy nations and people.

Or is it just an excuse to unjustly persecute the Black Community again, when police officers have and are complaining that they can no longer, harass Black youth because the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report, by Sir Ian McPherson, labelled Britain “Institutionally Racist?”

Government Responsibility

Crime in any society must be stamped out, but Black people in the UK, do not own a tooth-pick factory, much less the capacity to produce and distribute drugs and guns.

Governments are duly elected to serve, act on behalf of, and protect the citizens of this nation.

What is the real motive and agenda for the offensive in areas such as Harlesden? Is there truly the desire to rid our community and this Nation of drugs, which engenders a “gun sub-culture?” When the likes of Paul Flynn, a Labour MP, and government official, “Campaigns for the legalisation of cannabis,” The Observer, 15/100, page 3.

Police Policy and the existence and proliferation of drugs in this country, which ill-effects users, demonstrates an unwillingness to stamp it out, complicity, and even tacit support for the use and distribution of illegal drugs.

This hypocritical ‘War on Drugs,’ and being ‘Tough on crime,’ injures an innocent people in dire need of redemption and reformation, due to four hundred and forty-six (446) years of enslavement.

We are a people tricked and still ‘held captive,’ denied the rights of freedom, justice and equality, the pursuit of happiness, high civilisation, culture and refinement, trying to make a way among a people and civilisation that seem to hate the very shadow that emanates from ourselves.

Watch this space for more, god-willing.