Gail Alexan­der

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

“I apol­o­gise to ab­solute­ly no one for tak­ing a stand against the crim­i­nals!”

So said UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar at the par­ty’s Palms’ Club, San Fer­nan­do meet­ing on Thurs­day night.

In fact, she dou­bled down with graph­ic ad­vice for when crim­i­nals en­ter homes, say­ing “I’ll tell you in Trini­bad mu­sic lan­guage, you have to load up the ‘mat­ic (au­to­mat­ic), pull it back, and knock it on them, and then knock it again when the crim­i­nals com­ing through your door!”  

While OW­TU leader An­cil Ro­get and UNC front­lin­er Jack Warn­er were ab­sent, OW­TU’s Pointe-a-Pierre branch pres­i­dent Christo­pher Jack­man and NTA leader Gary Grif­fith were among the speak­ers.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­in­forced her state­ments of Mon­day about UNC’s pro­posed stand your ground law which she had fur­thered by ad­vo­cat­ing, “So when the crim­i­nals in­vade your home, draw your li­cenced firearm and light dem up! Emp­ty the whole clip! Re­load! Fight fire with fire!”

Fol­low­ing crit­i­cisms, Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night aired a voice note of a woman call­ing des­per­ate­ly for help dur­ing an Aranguez home in­va­sion. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “That could be your wife, daugh­ter, moth­er, or you. What would you do when they in­vade your home and rape and rob—what should you do, Row­ley? Emp­ty the clip! Emp­ty the clip, then re­load, re­load!!”

The Op­po­si­tion Leader asked, “What kind of coun­try is it when the Prime Min­is­ter is de­fend­ing the pro­tec­tion of crim­i­nals, what about de­fend­ing vic­tims of home in­va­sions and crime?”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the law was vague on the sit­u­a­tion and needs to be clar­i­fied, “That’s why we say change the law to stand your ground law. That’ll make it clear who to charge,” she said, quot­ing Ex­o­dus 22-2.

She said if peo­ple “Green, pur­ple, brown in­vad­ed your home, light them up! They could have no good in­ten­tion if they in­vade your home!”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, “I want to make one thing very clear con­cern­ing my com­ments to light up the crim­i­nals who in­vade your homes. I apol­o­gise to AB­SOLUTE­LY NO ONE for say­ing to ‘light up’ crim­i­nals in­vad­ing homes, killing mer­ci­less­ly, and forc­ing you to live in fear.

“Af­ter the UNC wins the next elec­tion you’ll have the right to stand your ground. Af­ter the UNC wins the next gen­er­al elec­tion, you’ll have eas­i­er ac­cess to li­cenced firearms.”

De­fend­ing “Trini­bad” mu­sic which she said was youths’ com­men­tary styling, Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, “They didn’t like me say­ing ‘draw your li­cenced firearm and light them up, emp­ty the clip.’ So, I wouldn’t say that, I’ll tell you in Trini­bad lan­guage to­let you know I do lis­ten to them–You have to load up the ‘mat­ic (au­to­mat­ic); load up this ‘mat­ic, pull it back, knock it on them, and then knock it again when the crim­i­nals come through the door. You have to load up the ‘mat­ic ... then knock it, knock it again—knock it on dem again and again!

“I’m stand­ing my ground for the or­di­nary cit­i­zens, we’re will­ing to give you the right to re­turn fire against crim­i­nals who are killing, rob­bing, and rap­ing in­no­cent peo­ple.”

 Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, “The news­pa­per says I’m reck­less for stand­ing up for you, they’re en­ti­tled to their opin­ions, but aren’t I al­so en­ti­tled to my opin­ions? I pre­fer to be reck­less than feck­less ... crim­i­nals’ rights should cease when they en­ter and in­vade your homes!”

 Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who said the TTPS’ state­ment on the is­sue was an “ad­mis­sion of fail­ure”, added that those against le­gal firearms and stand your ground law should not ap­ply for a firearm and should re­move all bur­glar-proof­ing and se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras from their homes.

 “On Au­gust 14 light up this wicked Gov­ern­ment!” she added, promis­ing that a UNC gov­ern­ment’s first leg­is­la­tion to Par­lia­ment would be the stand your ground law.

   Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so claimed that on Ju­ly 27 the Val­u­a­tions Di­vi­sion be­gan home as­sess­ments for im­ple­ment­ing the prop­er­ty tax in Es­per­ance, Philip­pine, and Canaan Vil­lage. “They com­ing by me first–stand your ground! Pelt the Row­ley Gov­ern­ment out from Mon­day when spe­cial vot­ing be­gins!”