JAMAICA'S MORAL FABRIC?

I have always heard of this fabric that is able to cover an entire land, an entire people...its fiber holds and manifests high principles for proper conduct...it speaks to ethics, it speaks to virtue, to principles and values of an entire nation!

On July 26, 2008 having traversed Youtube for clips from the performances of various dancehall artistes at Sumfest 2008 and stumbling upon clips from 'Pussy Splash' in Waterhouse; I was left wondering where can Jamaica purchase some moral fabric? How much will it cost and can we even afford it?
Because it became as plain as day that in the midst of
the Prime Minister defending "my cabinet",
the Church "quoting scriptures cause they know it by heart",
and faces of the media on cell phone videos arguing "it's not as if I slept with a woman" (does it matter if it was with a woman or man? WITH GREAT RESPONSIBILITY COMES GREAT EXPECTATIONS!)

Jamaica was being left to run amok!

It took me hours to type these few little lines....too many thoughts running through my head, feeling embarrassed to be a Jamaican and a woman, enraged, just plain ashamed...this was my country....the land of my birth.
And I wondered:

1. Why fight for respect for women in society - it is obvious that we don't care (let's just be straight, the world generalizes and if you can find a few women who don't have respect for themselves then all of us lack respect for ourselves...personally I don't know how fair this evaluation is but that's the world right?)
We talk about respect for women in the music, in the work place, the household but is it really worth fighting for when the rotten apples bring us down every day!
What the hell did Nanny fight for? O my bad she may be so far displaced in our minds that some may say Nanny who?

2. Why should I feel that Jah Cure should be punished when the concept of 'rape' in Jamaica is now completely obscure? "Rape legal! Rape legal roun yah suh...rape har an battery har, sharing is caring"
(see Waterhouse video clips)

3. What is happening to the young men? Will the same happen to my 12 year old brother who is growing up in a good household but unfortunately for him it is geographically located in a community that was once the pearl of the island?

4. Regarding Sumfest.
How long can people (fans) take plain ignorance on stage? Don't they ever get tired? If I have ever heard of fans being disrespected by an artiste this clip of Bounty Killa at Sumfest was it!
Is it fair to say that the people who stood up and celebrated his performance full of anger and rubbish are intelligent people capable of writing a sentence?
I grew up listening to this fellow and at 25...I AM WILLING TO STAND UP AND SAY I WILL NEVER SPEND MY MONEY TO GO TO A SHOW WITH BOUNTY KILLA ON THE LINE UP! I WILL NOT SUPPORT PROMOTERS OF THIS MADNESS!
And what of his manager - a woman.

I also wondered who is to blame for this unravelling of the moral fabric...is it the government, the music, the failure of the Church, cable tv? The list is endless
I am willing to throw my vote in with ... IT'S THE PEOPLE!
We all have a role to play in this disaster of a country, but that's just what I think.

See for yourselves and I look forward to hearing your responses.

YOUTUBE
BOUNTY KILLA @ SUMFEST 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYYn5sMtico

CADILLAC DANCERS PUSSY SPLASH @ WATERHOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfUelZd1tqk&feature=related

PUSSY SPLASH@WATERHOUSE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzb-YmtYP2U&feature=related