Any status ‘Country St. Maarten’ without St. Martiners is totally unacceptable !
Dear Mr. MARLIN,
With all due respect for your determination to make sure that you are the one who delivered ‘Country St. Maarten’ to the people, let the following be very clear as well.
Under absolutely no conceivable set of circumstances, will we accept our country to be sold out, its native St. Martin and Antillean People wiped out of existence.
We also congratulate you for thus-far having ‘outshone’ the former leader of Government, by in no time eliminating the Labor Permit Policy, pledging to immediately implement compulsory education, as well achieving as this so-called ‘Country St. Maarten status’.
Meanwhile, we are yet to hear you utter one single word of concern, acknowledgment of the St. Martin native people, who have been slowly, but sure wiped out with the cooperation of successive Governments.
While you had a very unique opportunity this time around to do such, you apparently preferred to follow the interests of many of your friends, supporters and financial backers who are not of St. Martin ancestry.
For the record again, let it be known that we are willing to cooperate with your Government and any other Government in terms of doing what is best for this island.
This is the ‘resetting’ of all developments, so that we can start rebuild this nation in the most sustainable way.
That is from the ‘native-indigenous St. Martin bottom up’, while including others as well on the ‘way up’.
Nothing less will work and accepted by the people of this island, Mr. MARLIN.
In addition Mr. MARLIN, rest assured that we too will intensify with determination our mission of building the St. Martin nation, starting with St. Martiners first.
And even if the Dutch Government would consider collaborating with your mission to wipe out the natives of this island, through the ongoing ‘genocide by substitution’, disguised as ‘Country St. Maarten status’, on ‘ground-zero’ it will be an ‘academic’ status, because there will be consequences.
We St. Martiners are sick and tired that our plights have always been subjected to the trumped up so-called human-rights of many who came in here illegally and now are ready to eventually by virtue of their numbers, to take over the country our ancestors shed blood, sweat and tears.
So, ‘William’, please take it a little easy and be careful not to risk provoking the spirit of our ancestors for betraying their sacrifices.
The right thing to do is to sit down with us and others and to complement the existing draft constitution by clearly indicating our history, our emancipation struggles and our ancestral rights, guaranteeing our permanent existence.
With respect,
Proud, native-indigenous and fearless native-indigenous St. Martiner, without apologies,
Drs. Leopold JAMES.