By Peter Polack

Peter Polack

Many people who live among us are unable to distinguish right from wrong. Not the Old Testament type of right or wrong but the common sense and barely moral, doing the right thing, when confronted by an urgent, often nonsensical desire to fulfil the immediacy of some outlier desire, often influenced by the social networks or some irascible, unhappy confidant pouring poison into your ear.

The recurring problem lies not only in the wholesale distribution of Caribbean sociopaths but their ubiquitous presence in all walks of life.

Sociopaths can be found among relatives, friends, co-workers, policemen, judges, politicians, leaders, cane cutters and jerk chefs. It can be a very difficult exercise to separate thoughts and desires imprinted on the innocently gullible, only to wake up one day and discover the large pickle you are in from a series of bad decisions that often start with an over valuation of you as a person or your social, business, political or professional position.

Such are the ever revealing tales of Andrew Windsor formerly Prince Andrew and his exploits with Jeffrey Epstein that are sufficiently concerning to the UK royal family that many British Caribbean media outlets, some visited by Andrew Windsor, have failed to make a timely report on Andrew. They should close up shop and simply become repeaters of government or corporate press releases.

All this energizes the push for becoming a republic and turning off the lights at Commonwealth headquarters. Royal honours now have no value and now, unfortunately, an association with the unclean.

Identifying sociopaths does not require intricate technology or information as it is a behavioural based assessment that many have identified, some of whom do not know the actual name.

The problem lies with close family members or public leaders with significant support that intimidate a possible whistleblower, often a government official, from uncovering the darkness of the morally conflicted. 

Andrew was able to perform much of his wrongdoing while under the official protection of the English police. Such is the scenario for many politicians observed by assistants, security, deputies and even family members that continually escape judgment day. Distraction of the public by other events is a key instrument of the sociopath tool box, as is the likelihood of collateral damage to connections near and far.

It may all sound familiar.

There are many Andrews among us.

Peter Polack is a former criminal lawyer from the Cayman Islands for several decades. His books are The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017) and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2019). He was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His latest book is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with almost five hundred Soviet spies expelled from nearly 100 countries worldwide 1940-88. 

His views are his own.