Thread by @MarkJGolding

The Jamaican Dream embraces freedom and democracy.
The Jamaican Dream does not not tolerate exclusion of the vulnerable.
It does not tolerate arrogance by those in authority.
And most of all, it does not tolerate the abuse of state power.
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The Jamaican Dream does not tolerate school children being excluded from school because they wear locks as part of their religious beliefs.
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As Minister of Justice, I developed and pushed through the legislation in 2015 to decriminalize ganja & create a lawful ganja industry. My goal was to liberate and empower the people, not to exclude them from the economic opportunities the industry is creating.
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The Jamaican Dream does not tolerate a lawful ganja industry which keeps out the small farmers who built the Jamaican brand of herb; the same small farmers who suffered from a century of oppressive anti-ganja laws. #PowerInTheDream #BudgetDebate2022

The Jamaican Dream requires them to be facilitated in every possible way, by active state intervention. They must become part of a lucrative, innovative and dynamic industry for medicinal and therapeutic cannabis.
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Any regulatory obstacles standing in the way will be swiftly swept aside by the next PNP Government.
The Jamaican Dream will not permit a Prime Minister to make orders creating criminal offenses, like the amended DRMA, without Parliamentary oversight.
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It will never tolerate Parliament giving such extraordinary powers to one man, on the false basis that the offenses would only attract tickets with modest fines.
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In fact, one year later there is still no ticketing system. W/o the promised ticketing system, we saw ordinary Jcans being locked up because they could not pay heavy fines, sometimes even $200,000, for being on the road during the curfew, or for not wearing a mask in public.

Meanwhile, champagne birthday parties for political activists on no-movement days carried no legal consequences.
These double standards are unjust, and they anger the Jamaican people.
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The Jamaican Dream requires one rule for everyone, no matter where you come from, and no matter who you know or don’t know.
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The Jamaican Dream does not force a youth in custody to apologize in handcuffs on camera to the Prime Minister, for daring to speak out in strident terms against restrictions on his freedoms during the pandemic. #PowerInTheDream

That kind of abuse is a feature of dictatorships, not Jamaica land we love.
We “bun a fire” on those kind of oppressive policies. There is no place for autocratic rule in the Jamaican Dream.
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