My thoughts on…the Jamaican “bomber”
The news has been at the front of all the local media. Jamaican Kevin Brown (which is oddly the name of one of my former high school buds) is held at the Orlando airport with bomb making materials. It was also on the front pages of the American media as well, but that’s no longer the case. I guess this was when people found out that he was headed TO Jamaica, not from it. I’ve been to the forums of a certain site whose name sounds akin to an infamous curse word, and I’ve been assualted with weed jokes. Little suburbanite punks “surprised” that he didn’t carry bong making ingredients instead. I swear if any of them says “mon” one more time I’m gonna…anyway.
I don’t really care about the guy, but I don care about how Jamaica is perceived on the world stage. The whole Malvo thing was bad enough. In his defense, he claims that he was only carrying the items to show his friends how he made bombs in Iraq. Apparently the guy’s whacked out, suffering trauma from Iraq and the loss of his mother. Am I the only one who detects a cruel irony in the fact that a war started to prevent people from blowing us to high heaven (or so they say) is causing people to do the very same thing? Still, I’m more willing to give Kevin the benefit of the doubt than the sensationalist-driven media. Why? Because many people have been suspected for terrorism for a lot less. Case in point. An MIT student caused a bomb scare because…wait for it…she wore an device with LED lights attached to her shirt. Hooray for paranoia!
