Actor Steven Seagal Advising Top Cops In Costa Rica?
You know Costa Rica is in trouble and the nation’s top cops are out of ways of curbing growing violence and insecurity in the country, when they turn to “Hollywood”, in the form of actor Steven Seagal, for help. Of is it just media hype?
Nothing against Mr. Seagal, he is a fine actor, a skilled martial artists on film, in addition to being a writer and producer, he is also a Reserve Deputy Chief of the Sheriff’s Office in the community of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.
So, what does Mr Seagal know about Costa Rica’s problems? And does the new ministro de Seguridad (Security Minister), José María Tijerino, the same minister who the cops defied his call to hit the streets, really think that by going Hollywood the country’s insecurity will be over as the credits roll on the screen?
I enjoy watching Seagal movies, but not sure if I can live with the knowledge that I will be safer know that Steven is charge of Costa Rica’s public security.
An AFP report quotes “Rojas” – we can only assume that the refrence is being to Jorge Rojas, the head of the Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ) – that Seagal requested the meeting. “We discussed the strategic alliance we could strike in matters such as training our special tactical units in performance, personal defence and other security-related aspects”, Rojas is quoted as saying.
And here is where matters get confusing, Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister pipes in that Seagal is looking to becoming an honourary member of Costa Rica’s ‘federal police’.
The AFP reportss says that Seagal and Costa Rica’s Foreign Minister, René Castro met “to also discuss security-related” issues.
What does the Foreign Minister have to do with public security and when did he take over running the nation’s Fuerza Pública (federal police)? Does he know something the rest of us don’t?
Maybe Tejerino will better serve Costa Rica by going to the UN as an ambassador now that that post is open after the Bruno Stagno resignation this week.
Stagno was Costa Rica’s foreign minister before Castro, a public servant who never considered public security part of his job and after 20 years of a spotless public record, forced to resign his post as UN ambassador following controversy of his own appointment to the job.
Steven Seagal is the most respected american master of Aikido, and I believe he is the only non japanese practitioner of Aikido to reach the degree of black belt that he currently holds.
Whether or not he is a real expert on security I don’t know, but there is no question in my mind that martial arts training for all of the police forces of costa rica could instill the physical conditioning and discipline that they lack as of now.
We can only hope that a master martial artist such as Mr. Seagal will help with his years of VERY REAL martial arts experience, the fact that he also makes movies is irrelevant.
I hope the writer of this article will look further into the real cause of insecurity which are the extremely corrupt, left wing Judges that release every criminal that is caught in this country for either bribes or a lack of will to protect all of the people of Costa Rica.
I have spoken with members of the fuerza Publica as well as the OIJ and they all have stories of catching criminals red handed and bringing them to court only to find they had been released the next day.
There is absolutely no oversight of these judges and the fact that the new president has not addressed this problem with a regulatory body to hold judges to a higher standard of law enforcement means that no change in laws or new funds poured into law enforcement will have any effect as long as these same pathetic Judges undermine everything the rest of the government is trying to accomplish.
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