They want Dudus
Photo by Seen -- Tivoli Gardens at night
The notorious Tivoli Gardens Don Man, Dudus, who lives not in that ghetto, but in the luxury of upper St Andrews. He’s now wanted by the US government who are reported to be filing extradition papers. They want him for drug trafficking.
I’ve written about Dudus on this blog before – see some more background on him in this post, and also this post.
Dudus’s father was Lester Lloyd Coke aka Jim Brown – now dead, he was also wanted by the US authorities in 1988 who accused him of running a multi million dollar drug ring known as the shower posse; so named for spraying showers of bullets in over a 1,000 alleged murders. Read all about Jim Brown here.
Could this be a classic case of like father like son?
Perhaps so, but with the war on drugs and the need to get those higher up the chain behind bars, getting Dudus may well be a good catch for the US.
As I was reading about Dudus’s father, I found that the man who was said to be the brains behind his whole operation (Vivian Blake) is now out of US prison and back in Jamaica – god I bet he’s got some stories to tell. Where that guy at?
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Why we can just all get along and live in Peace and harmony like the late great Bob Marley always preached
Could this be a classic case of like father like son?
Perhaps so, but with the war on drugs and the need to get those higher up the chain behind bars, getting Dudus may well be a good catch for the US.
Where are you from my brother–are you a journalist from Wonderland or are you a secret agent for the white status quo?
Do you really believe that ghetto black youths from any corner of earth are the “higher ups” in the drug game?
Did you know that it was US aim to keep Jamaica capitalist, (by giving weapons, support and free escape, to JLP thugs from TG who became fugitive of the Manley Government), which created Shower Posse and the Posse Phenomenon in Jamaica?
As your good white friends go off to work each day to make more guns, mainly used by criminals, deadlier bullets able to go thru bullet proof vest… as the weapons somehow find there way across borders to take non-white lives, let us write some more blaming the oppressed black ghetto youths who are being used as scapegoats to hide the real powers in the Carribean.
Drug transhipment thru the Caribbean is an established money pipeline that will be here after Duddus’s death or lifetime incarceration. There are millions of no hope youths lined up for the chance to live wealthy for a few years before death rather than to sit in poverty and be treated as boys for 70 years… so as long as people like you advocate bandaids for decaying sore foot, there is no hopes of a change.
To The Major — thanks for your comment.
I actually agree with you that the ghetto youth and drug soldiers on the streets are mere pawns in the game. Follow the money and you will quickly get to the white elite and politicians.
Yes the drugs will continue after dudus – no doubt about that, but the fact that he faces charges of trafficking and is undoubtedly more than a notch above the ghetto youth, tells us that there is blood on his hands as this is a ruthless industry. Should he not be punished for that? should all black youth be exempt from prosecution just because white men control the game?
Nina, if Duddus is to be punished so be it… but who should be the punisher.
Is the US morally capable of been the judge of the new world order.
Can we punish any of them for their theft which has caused this global crisis?
Can we punish them for creating the US highway for young blacks from high school to prison?
What can we punish them for?
All I know is, the drug game has been the escape for a lot of new money Jamaicans. It has paid for and is paying for the education of a significant section of this and the next generations of professionals… don’t get me wrong, the drug game negatively affects all of us, but it has given poor people more wealth than Bauxite and tourism combined. What do we expect them to do?
Live and die behind a zinc fence without the audacity of hope?
I can’t say I’m prouder of those who have chosen waiting on the Lord in poverty… and I can’t say I’m sorry for those who are caught in its trap, but I hate the assumption and insinuation that we are the problems of this drug game.
jus leave him alone
[...] Vivian Blake and Corruption Posted October 19, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: american, BET, corruption, gangster, posse, shower, vivian blake | This man, Vivian Blake was in a US federal prison, for eight years for being part of a notorious, violent drug gang called the Shower Posse. I have written about him on this blog before – see that post here. [...]