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August 12, 2008 01:18:16
HAITI’S ‘UNBROKEN AGONY… what are the lessons ?
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Posted: August 19, 2008 - 05:43:12 PM
FROM LIVING IN DENIAL... TO INDEPENDENCE.
After so many years of living in denial…...
After so many years of labeling and demonizing outspoken, patriotic St. Martiners and other St. Martiners-at- heart, as xenophobics and haters….
Finally,…….finally, the people are awakening to many of the scary realities threatening our very existence…‘smack in our face’.
Abuse of our social welfare system, domination by foreign, imported cultures,norms and values, imported poverty and illiteracy, career criminals, over population, un-controlled and rampant immigration, transformation of certain sections of the island into slum-areas, the over burdening of our infra-structure, our carrying capacity and of our social institutions, constitute just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
Now, today, few, if any St. Martiners at all, including the leaders of the country, would any longer dare to pretend that the Friendly island’ is not facing a socio-economic calamity of historical proportions.
Consequently, the quality of life and the image many St. Martiners and others painstaikingly sacrificed to build, can be undone by others in no time.
Coming to grips in finally accepting the existence of the realistic challenges the island is facing can be considered a ‘major breakthrough’.
This conclusion is based on the fact that increasingly many of our people are coming to their senses and are realizing that continuing living in denial of the factors threatening our existence is totally unacceptable.
Although many would consider this ‘mental conversion’ late, we believe that now is the time…...
Now is the time to rise up and to proudly and bravely reclaim our land and our ancestral and civil rights as a native-indigenous St. Martin people.
Now is the time to create a new ‘St. Martin Order’…one of balance and fairness to all stakeholders, while acknowledging the moral task and mission of native-St. Martiners to lead the process of developing their own country thereby allowing for others to follow and to become part of the new St. Martin nation, along with us over time….
By refusing to continue to live in denial, we have now laid the foundation for self-empowerment -, growth and mental independence and who knows, for political independence in due time.
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