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CONVERT IN NEW STATUSSES, ‘ANTILLENIZATION’ INTO ‘ST.MARTINATION’, ‘STATIANIZATION’,’ BONAIRIANIZATION’,’ SABANIZATION’ & ‘CURACAONIZATION’

Judging from the great number of reactions to my previous article which proved that as the new (draft) constitutions for all the islands of the Netherlands-Antilles now stand, they de-facto constitute a betrayal of the concept of ‘Antillianization’, which resulted from the ‘Trinta di Mei 1969’-revolt that took place on Curacao.Based on this concept, ‘Antilleans’ were given special privileges in their own country, the Antilles, even over their own Dutch European counterparts living in the Antilles.One can call it whatever, but without any doubt, it served to protect us Antilleans in our own country every since.With all the new constitutional arrangements that are now being put into place in the separate islands of the Antilles, such a protective provision is nowhere to be found.That means that, instead of us as Antilleans truly emancipating and getting more rights in our separate-islands, we in fact wind up losing rights, we had gained through the sacrifices of the May 30, 1969 revolt.The only ‘winners’ are the politicians, who can now create nice positions for themselves and their cohorts.

This is nothing but a betrayal of ALL Antilleans !!!

Consequently, if properly presented, ‘whole-sale sell-out’ this can never be accepted in any court-of-law.

It is in-conceivable in this time and age, that a people loses its hard-earned human rights to be protected in their own country.

We hope that our politicians will realize this betrayal and try to correct it…pronto.

This can be done be amending the various draft constitutions and other agreements to include the following provision.

In keeping with the legal precedence of the notion of ‘Antillianization’, even-though the Antilles as it now exists, will cease to exist, it is decided to transfer the spirit of the ‘Antillianization’ into a specific form applicable to the individual islands of the Antilles.

Therefore, this will mean for the island of St. Martin, the defining of the rights attached to the process of ‘St. Martinization’.For Saba, ‘Sabanization’, for St. Eustatius, ‘Statianization’ for Bonaire, ‘Bonairization’ and for Curacao, ‘Curacaonization’.Meanwhile, we will contact the UN and other entities to champion this cause as wellClearly, failure on the part of the politicians within the Kingdom to continue protecting the Antilleans living on the individual islands of the Antilles, even in the new statuses, will mean that indeed it was the intention to commit genocide by substitution against the people of the Antilles.

This a crime against humanity that carries sanctions.

Copies to;

Kingdom Government

UN

CARICOM

Etc.

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Leopold James

President SNBF & L'Esprit de Concordia

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2 Comments

Proud SXMer July 02, 2009 200.7.35.242 Votes: +0	I absolutely agree with your article. Instead of going forward we are going backwards. . . report abuse vote down vote up
Leopold JAMES July 02, 2009 200.7.50.20 Votes: +0	Dear Proud SXMer Thank you. However, no-one can accept going backwards under the guise of progress and under so-called 'Country St. Maarten'. There is NOTHING remotely 'St.Martinish' in this piece of paper called 'constitution for country St. Maarten'. It is certainly not acceptable, that our human-rights built up over the years by our people (= our rights as Antilleans to be first on any island of the Antilles), can not be reversed. That is an act of crime against humanity and a betrayal of the blood, sweat and tears shed by our ancestors and those who made the 'Trinta de Mei' revolt of 1969 possible. It is a shame and we intend to have it corrected by having the socalled constitution amended to refelct, our history, our emancipation, our struggles and our rights as Antilleans and as natives on each Antillean island. The fight has just begun. Keep hope alive and yes, we can. Leopold JAMES report abuse vote down vote up