European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Doily Magazine jamaican  Neft Kintly to jamaican arid especially to the yet the  ruling Peoples National party am the Jamaica labor just As of protestant a the Island it rely of tit iwo fundamental to All Rasta Are late Erik Mun emperor Halle Selassie or Jahi and uie Mack Man must leave Bab y Ion world and return to 1 in Vert Frueh Rait Farlan father arid sorts Tri with hair in rope like Tise a ill by Gerald Fraser new York times men claiming Devotion to a 47yearold jamaican cult that is rapidly being spread to Canada and the United states by emigrating have been accused of trafficking in drugs and committing robberies and murder in new since August murders of alleged rastafarians have occurred at the Rale of one a month in new the most dramatic killings took place in Brooklyn where four men were round slain Inan apartment on easier bound hand and each victim had shot through the ail our were known to the police As one lived in the Flat police there were pictures of the late ethiopian emperor Halle Selassie and other indications that the tenant was a has to develop a picture of the rastafarian movement and its if with crime in new the Neia York conducted an investigation in new York City and in Kingston among Law enforcement officials and observers of the Hoe following conclusions May be made crime linked to rastafarians in the United slates is often related to marijuana and to traffic in in a Quan Tity of marijuana was found in the apartment where the our rastafarians were found murdered on easter r the variety of marijuana cultivated to universally referred to in the by its original Easl Indian is highly popular in the United Stales and is smuggled into the United states in a variety of Many involving the Waslaf arianism is a still growing movement in Jamal there Are an estimated rastafarians and sympathizers on the both in Kingston and new York there Are pseudo rastafarian As Well As real rastafarians Are found All Over the Island of in they have crowded into the slums and into Rasta communities of huts on Sun arched Hills and Black Sand beaches of the Southern half of the nations most striking to outsider Are us rasps appear Ance and their use of Rasu Mariau believe Bat hair should not be tit my therefore let their hair grow into Long rope like that May reach to their waists and Hose strands arc referred to As the or just or massive amounts of Ganja Are smoked daily by Rasta either in hand rolled spliff or in the a water pipe Ihal is passed in ritual fashion from one to the rastafarian cult began in the Early Marcus the backs Africa exponent who built the larg est Black organization in United states history the Universal negro improvement association and was deported to his native Jamaica in continued to advocate a return to Africa Lor those who were clearly descendants of he said at one Point look to whore a Black King shall be for the Day of deliverance is this Prophesy was fulfilled in Ethiopia with the Coronation in 1330 of or Ras As the emperor Haile jamaicans propose that Ras later Hulk was thus the living preachers to Jamaica and in new York begun a close analysis of the this resulted in the founding in new York of the ethiopian world federation in the my duos and the creation in Jamaica of the Appeal in Jamaica was to the some of whom i the Bible steeped Christian land saw in the White mans religion a rejection of everything every thing african and above All a rejection of themselves As human As much As the Rasalas have withdrawn from Haile fulfilment of cult Prophesy years in Jamaica rasps and police whom Rasta farians refer to As Babylon have the original outcast status and the fact that some criminals have grown dreadlocks and moved into Rasta communities for have Alt brought rastafarians and the Law Lido conflict in to Lessen the Rasta Arlath sought and obtained an academic study of the conducted the report on Jamaica concluded the general Public believes a wears smokes and is liable to sudden Vio this Type is a real danger is that if All rastafarians Are treated As if they Are like More and More will become what strikes the on the is How deeply religious the Brethren rastafarian police relations an still but of the jamaican constabulary said the police View the Rassai Ai Rcd Loui Bermu skilled in Art and be Are now Belt tag police Rool out criminal i in rate Farlan after u months of a massive Public relations he nobody it afraid of Ras Michael and the sons of a Rasta Farian band whose music lops jamaican popularity performed for recruits at a police training Lias Michael a lifelong said his free concert there was to thank the police for their evenhanded treat ment of him and his group after a confrontation ill g Roadblock earlier this the reggae Ras in an said Rasta Doest really do anything that is wrong the Only one thing i know that Rasta do is draw smoke and that is evident that there is nothing wrong with smoking Rasta no nor Tell nor Rasta is upright people Rasta Rascal a the police official said that the peasants who cultivate Jamaica Ganja whose popularity is based on its a Lith concentration the Active ingredient and who Load the planes Are the mules working for a Strong organization in new two Federal the drug enforce ment administration and the immigration and naturalization and the intelligence division and youth gang units o the new York police voiced apprehension about the Ite safarians As they know All expressed fear that rastafarians May become a new Black hand reminiscent of thai group of sicilians who Migra cd to America decades preyed on fellow sicilians and Laid the foundation for a Branch of Arn Crinan organized rastafarians in Brooklyn have also been accused of extorting rent Money from tenants in buildings owned by Absentee they have been of taking Over an apartment or a holding one occupant hostage White another goes to work and returns Slih Money for the alleged jamaicans Call this Cap Hargrove added that rastas have demanded jots or places on payrolls of some Antipoverty one of Jamaica bes known scholars in Rex nettle he directs the University of the West indies depart men of extramural he is cultural adviser to the prime minister and was one of the three authors of the i960 report on the Raitar arianism is tic thing of organic protest be in an it is the indigenous form of of telling the world that in the Dias Pora we Are 1 would imagine Ihal a lot of people in Tortola or new York mho claim to be rastas would be disclaimed by Belr a nun because peace and love an very Central to the Ras tatar an Creed calling themselves Nettleford is a Way those jamaicans have of identifying themselves As different from the Black these jamaicans take onto themselves an identity which Marks them off and presumably gives them a sense of superiority Over their american counterparts nobody wants to throw in his lot with the duos 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