Rodney Moncur with the effigy.
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
A LIVE demonstration of a straw man being led to a fake gallows and hanged is expected to be a part of tomorrow’s “pro-hanging” march and motorcade, event organiser and social activist Rodney Moncur said yesterday.
Mr Moncur said his team named the straw man “Jerimiah Murderer” who represents a 32-year old “Negro male” granted bail for six murders before finally being convicted and hanged.
Mr Moncur said the demonstration is intended to show people how “serious the capital offence of murder is and to put pressure on the government to remove the impediments that prevent capital punishment from taking place.”
Tomorrow’s march and motorcade begins at the Golden Gates Shopping Centre. Participants will march onto Bay Street before returning to the Golden Gates Shopping Centre.
Comments
TalRussell 10 years, 2 months ago
When twelve men and woman find you guilty its called a legal killing carried out by the state. When you kill someone its called a murder and a twelve person jury sentences you to be hanged by ya neck until ya is dead, dead, dead. Can it be the objective of Comrade Rodney to see how many totally offense things he can pull off and now we have what has be a most troubling tourist attraction. Maybe Comrade Rodney can make a spot of remembrance to parade straw effigies of the innocents the hangman's have lead to the state's death trap doors. Even our former prone to hang'in "poor blacks" colonial masters have done away with hang'in in Jolly old England. Finally, DNA's Comrade may have found a parade them he and and colleagues will march in, cause how many more press releases can they think of to issue from Village Road?
Jcarey 10 years, 2 months ago
The death penalty may be an important instrument in preserving justice. However we must be mindful that no unnatural, assisted or forced death should be celebrated. Only God the father can create life, men can only procreate. Hence the enforcement of the death penalty must be done by a process and method which demonstrates an indissoluble consciousness to the sanctity of life.
John 10 years, 2 months ago
Your point is moot..a person may celebrate a hanging not for the fact that another human being is being put to death, but for the fat that justice is being done to someone who has murdered a loved one and took their life. But there was great celebration when Jesus Christ was nailed to the cross an 'put to death' albeit for the wrong reason.
JohnDoes 10 years, 2 months ago
He is not celebrating anything. This march will be important because it will show that people actually do have a voice. Simply covering things up or not carrying out law because of the way another country is run is simply ridiculous. Are we really independent? The privy council seems to have more power than the prime minister himself.
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
I don't know why that has to be reported beforehand...but anyway...and is that one of the busts from Junkanoo? It looks a little tattered...I hope it wasn't used originally to represent a real person...I'd hate to think it was now recycled to simulate a hanging
JohnDoes 10 years, 2 months ago
the effigy is smiling as well..
GrassRoot 10 years, 2 months ago
ok. If a guy kills a guy and he knows because he killed a guy, he gets killed himself, either through the vigilante system or the judicial system, what keeps him from finishing up his job and take a few more on the way? Now, I hope someone at the DA's office filed the paperwork correctly, else they hang the wrong one (I don't expect the judicial system being able not to mix up DNA probes neither). And last but not least, in another case, if a guy raped a woman in 2012, wtf is he doing out on the street on 30th of January 2014? And if he did not like the food and the TV programs at Fox Hill, I guess they should have let him out with a chastity belt rather than an ankle monitor. cheaper too.
pat242 10 years, 2 months ago
If hanging would ever continue i would like to see it being done fair. ANYONE who commits an offense that is so serious is warrant the death penalty then so be it. But do not target black men in particular, everyone straight across the board. And who is the banner a black male. Are you trying to say only black men is deserves to be hanged.
GrassRoot 10 years, 2 months ago
agree with you 100%. However lets face it. If you go to a Chinese rural community and someone commits a crime, chances are that the perpetrator is close to 100% Chinese. Reality is that, it is the young black Bahamians (that does not mean the other members of society in the Bahamas, whether green, yellow, white or red) are mostly at risk of being sucked in the devious cycle of drugs, material wealth, girls and testosterone pushing due to the fact that across the Bahamas the common sense has lost its case and due to ruptures in the social fabric. The French have a saying: 'Ne churches pas quatre heures a midi" - don't look for four o'clock pm at Noon. Lets not fool ourselves.
juggie 10 years, 2 months ago
I totally oppose the death penalty. With only a 5% conviction rate with respect to serious crimes, that tells me clearly that police officers particularly those in CDU have beaten suspects and forced them to sign false statements. I am convinced that there are many innocent men on death row in Fox Hill prison. For this reason I cannot support the hanging of any man or woman. Our system is too corrupt. The police force is by far too politically laced. I cannot stand those corrupt easy to buy bastards at CDU.....
by juggie
TalRussell 10 years, 2 months ago
There can be not justice delivered when a gallows-knot which kills by strangling is tied around the neck of just one innocent human being wrongly convicted by a known broken Bahamaland justice system. Comrade Juggie if my information is correct fortunately due to legal interferences by the Privy Council there is but one individual awaiting the hangman to show up at her Majesty's Fox Hill Prison gate to prepare to collect his $1924.31 per "noose" hanging government paycheck.
pat242 10 years, 2 months ago
(Juggle). You have know knowledge of what goes on in any interview room in any police station. You are simply babbling on with Physiological Reddit. So until you have have hard evidence to back up your claim shut the hell up. As far your opinion of the system being slack there is know perfect system anywhere of any profession around the globe. So to take the argument to its logical conclusion many people go the hospital are miss diagnose and are miss treated and as a result much have died. Never the less when you get sick you put your trust and hope in that same system. But know body say do not go to the hospital because the system is broken. If you abandon the medical system the over whelming majority are saved by it will most certainly die. By contras if you abandon the judicial system crime will run rampant and we will be living in a literally wild wild west type of society. So when you become better inform and have more of a realistic view on the topic i suggest you keep quiet.
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
Did you miss the men who died while in police custody last year? One while "trying to jump out of a window"...can't recall if he was handcuffed at the time
pat242 10 years, 2 months ago
Your very vague on the in your statement on the matter. Elaborate or shut the fuck up.
pat242 10 years, 2 months ago
The discussion was never about the police beating people. Your arguments lack substance and you are merely babbling on trying to sound like you have something to say. But sound like you where beat up a lot lol. Where you also sexually molested. In fact i have very little to say to you your profile picture says all. You are are a clown indeed. You lure children to your residence and trick them with treats for sexual favors. When you prepare to speak to the topic hit me up. LOL KML Bitch
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
What was that about??? Sexually molesting children?
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
Ok...so maybe that was equally as unhelpful:)
pat242 10 years, 2 months ago
Any other person with the exception of the The Clown I have offended am very sorry.
John 10 years, 2 months ago
REMINDS of the days when Fred Mitchell used to make effigies of L.O.Pindling, his deputy A.D. Hanna and members of the PLP cabinet on Guy Fawkes Day and burn them at the Fort after giving them 'lashes' with a cane. Fred Mitchell had left the PLP in those days and as the ole saying goes,'if ya caa'nt beat 'em, join 'em." Welll Fred Mitchell did this for several years (beat them and burned them) and then he joined back with them (PLP). But on a serious note it is good that someone is taking a stance about murderers in this country. With TEN supreme courts set to be in operation this month (who say the government lie) the question will have to be amswered" what to do with convicted murderers?" Most of them are in their teens or early 20's and if you figure life in prison this will become a very costly exercise for the government. What alternatives as opposed to capital punishment? Set up a separate prision on a remote island and subject them to hard labour and little or no visitation? There has to be something drastic to act as a deterrant!
TalRussell 10 years, 2 months ago
How can a man who presently faces an alleged offense which although if found guilty only carries a maximum fine of $150, yet the same justice system which made him post a high $7,500 bail to win his freedom from Fox Hill Prison is the same damn justice system he is willing to trust to hung poor Bahamalander's. Comrade Rodney says he's struggling to survive and facing his own challenges even while fighting to assist so many of the poor, downtrodden and victims of seeming injustice, yet it is this same poor who are never able to afford honest and fair justice. Name one, just one well-to-do Bahamalander ever hung by the government's "on-call" hangman for his payment of $1924.31 per snapped neck. How many white Bahamalander's do you know of ever hung, if any, since 1940? The hangman's trap door and he noose has always been reserved for black defendants.
banker 10 years, 2 months ago
They actually did purchase a new rope to hang the son-in-law of Sir Harry Oakes. It was a clever ploy to draw attention away from HG Christie. When said son-in-law was acquitted, he cut off a foot of the new hangman's rope as a souvenir.
sheeprunner12 10 years, 2 months ago
John
I have been pushing this idea for a while.
A Bahamian Alcatraz/Robben Island facility for all criminals found guilty of murder/rape and repeated (3) arm robbery charges, treason etc.
They should cut rock until they die
WinstonSmith 10 years, 2 months ago
Violence is the problem, it is not any part of the solution.
banker 10 years, 2 months ago
We do have the death penalty. Someone gets it every few days. Only, it een the government doing it. Look at the execution for rape that took place on Mackey Street the other day.
I don't know why folks are complaining. Murderers are being killed weekly -- just not by the authorities.
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
Because innocent people are being caught up in their craziness (I know you know that)
I was shocked and I mean literally shocked when a friend told me of an incident off Claridge road on Friday evening. A young girl was walking down the street, some boys in a yard called out to her, she didn't acknowledge them so one of them threw a bottle at her cutting her leg!! I couldn't believe it, I'd never heard of anything like that, a girl physically attacked because she did not respond to a catcall??? ...what was even more shocking was my friend was shocked that I was shocked. They asked me where was I living? That was even more frightening...where was I living? They said today, in this town way more serious things than that happen, they're just not reported....these young boys are operating fiefdoms in the poor communities and they act as if they're untouchable. They said to me that in some communities mothers are literally afraid to let their daughters walk to the corner store.
These young boys may be dropping like flies but the atmosphere in which it is happening is the breeding ground for anarchy....I see the day when VAT is introduced, people start losing jobs, parents can't feed their kids and it becomes too dangerous to go anywhere in this town in daylight. I pray it doesn't happen.
Justice needs to be orderly. do all things decently and in order
John 10 years, 2 months ago
if it is not authorized then its another murder!
TalRussell 10 years, 2 months ago
Will we visit the graves of our dear departed parents, grandparents, children and loved ones and tell them, while they never gave up on Bahamaland, we are ready too? Have Bahamalander's really reached a stage during this crime period where we prefer to hang our citizens rather than do what is necessary to deal with the reasons behind it. Do we no long believe we can fix things which have become broken. Are we as a people willing to admit we are no longer capable of remembering how we fixed so many things of years past. How we became the envy of millions of peoples around the world.
John 10 years, 2 months ago
if you look closely the effigy resembles Rodney Moncur minus the beard and goatee
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 2 months ago
I noticed that....weird.
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