We All Reject the New UK Constitution in Turks and Caicos

By: Proud Islander

The headline that I wrote sums it up. We sat there in the house of God as beckoned by the UK Foreign Commonwealth Office. They called us to a holy sanctuary thinking they would deter us from speaking our minds. But God intervened and allowed us to speak our hearts. The British thought that they could play on our fears by bringing us to the church when we could have assembled at a public auditorium.

The pride from my heart turned to overwhelming joy when I witnessed each of our speakers bare his and her souls. We cried out to be heard of the wrongs that we endure with high taxes, high cost of living, no jobs, the heartache of the jeopardy that we face with the new British rule and now a constitution to solidify their occupation. We cried out for us. Not for them. We know that our cries were falling on deaf ears but we did it any way for us to have our say out loud in front of God and our country.

We said no to the bigoted Ian Hendry another white man from England sent to school us and put us in our place. He said that the British call all the shots. You could hear a gasp from all of us at once.

The British try to get us to agree to this or that thing in their constitution draft but we said no, we won't be agreeing to nothing in that document because we reject it. Minor issues are not the debate because we disagree with the draft constitution entirely. The British had trouble understanding, we won't focus on small points in it. Who drafted the constitution? Not us.

Our men dressed real nice and spoke well. We showed the FCO representatives that we have many educated, smart and capable leaders in Turks and Caicos. The church was filled with capable leaders and Ian Hendry can take that back to England because that's a fact. We don't need the likes of the British white men thinking they are superior to us just because of the colour of their skin. Their skin colour does not make them more qualified to run our country when we have good, educated individuals that care about our futures and our country.

We will not play games with their constitution changes anymore. They want us to work with it and we say no. If it were a real constitution it would be made by the people, for the people and voted on by the people. They cannot swoop in to draft a new constitution of their own liking and give their own governor authority over our government at his will and trick us into agreeing to it without a vote setting us back 30 years and taking away our self determination. Ian Hendry can take that back to England too.

There is not a chance that these constitutional lawyers believe in their honest moments that what they are doing is legally or ethically right. They know they are doing dirty work. I call upon Mr. Hendry and his side kicks to withdraw from their duties of wrong doing. No constitutional lawyer with any scruples would advise a people to accept any constitution without a vote and certainly not this one. I can't get over how they are trying to trick us. The FCO are slippery serpents, as is Ian Hendry. Take that back to England now sir.