St. Martin (North and South), making use of its God-given right of self-determination to finalize the constitutional emancipation process of its colonized people towards that of a constitutional democratic unified sovereign republic (2015-2020), must think seriously out of the box when, during this transitional period, it re-negotiates its constitutional relationship with the European Union to become a fully fledged constitutional democratic unified sovereign member state with a permanent exempt status within the European Union (EU).
This is the proposed third option: EU membership.
The conference of European member states in October 2007 consented to modify Article 299 of the draft that governs the European Union treaty and the treaty of the European community where it relates to St. Martin.
St. Martin will be able to consider a third option, that is to say negotiate a status specifically to suit the needs of an island with a unique identity.
A proposed third option for a constitutional democratic unified sovereign state must be presented as the original thinking out of the box, thus creating the window of opportunity for both Dutch and French to establish a unified indigenous government structure in the form of an autonomous constitutional assembly during the transitional period.
A unified Franco-Dutch autonomous constitutional assembly during the transitional period will not only have as task the unification of French and Dutch St. Martin into one sovereign state, but will also have as its main task to prepare St. Martin to meet all criteria to be admitted to join the European Union (EU) as a sovereign fully fledged member state with a permanent exempt status, by July 1, 2015.
This proposed political independence in the for of "St. Martin third option",  would entitle the citizens of St. Martin to hold St. Martin European passports as fully fledged EU citizens.
St. Martin as a fully fledged European Union (EU) member stat with a permanent exempt status would have legal competence as a sovereign nation to conduct international relations to certain degrees with other sovereign states outside of the European Union (EU), also with direct participation and integration into the United Nations (UN), the Caribbean Community  (Caricom) and other regional and international organizations.
Now, considering the fact that the conference of European member states in October 2007 consented to modify Article 299 of the draft governing the European Union treaty and the treaty of the Euopean community  to enable St. Martin to consider a third option, that is to say negotiate a status specifically to suit the needs of an island with a unique identity is reason enough for we as a St. Martin people  to get our act together by holding an island-wide constitutional referendum on EU membership.
St. Martin (North and South) will never be able to make use of its God-given right of self-determination to achieve its full socio-economic potential as a constitutional  democratic unified sovereign republic if we as dignified  people  do not have the political will and courage to overcome the North/South political divide to pursue this proposed third option guided by the principle of fll statehood: "One people. One state. One destiny.
The key to political independence in honour of our noble ancestors- freedom
fighters is hereby presented to the people of St. Martin by a proud descendant of "One Tete Lokhay".
To quote reverend Jesse Jackson "There are no more impossible dreams."

THEOPHILUS F. PRIEST

According to my proposal there are over 25.000 undocumented persons willing and able to pay a US $3,000 yearly flat fee to government to be permitted to stay and work in St Maarten without the possibility of becoming  naturalized Dutch citizens.
In a time when our island faces a catastrophic economic slow down, one must conclude that government will need all extra revenue to fill the expected  hole in its budget while negotiations continue with the Dutch Government in The Hague to formalize St. Maarten's new constitutional status as a neo-colonial entity within the Dutch Kingdom.
An outside-the-box way to prevent any future revenue shortfalls in the budget would be for government to adopt the suggested proposal of "Pay to stay" as an exempt extraordinary measure within the present Executive Council's new employment permit policy ("NEPP").

THEOPHILUS F. PRIEST,
A NATIVE ST MAARTENER

This article was submitted by Gerard Bijnsdorp to the Daily Herald.
Mr Bijnsdorp, is a regular contributor to the Daily Herald, and is known by many on the island as "The Unpaid Advisor to the St Maarten Voter".
According to Mr Bijnsdorp, the below article, which criticizes the DP, was never published.
In fact, since he submitted this particular letter to the Daily Herald, they have refused to print any more of his opinions.
So in the spirit of fairness, I am willing to print what the Daily Herald refuses to touch:

Unpaid advice to the voter

Today's election is costly and unnecessary, so I do not yet know if I am going to vote. If I go out to vote, I will not vote for D.P. politicians.
While enriching themselves, they created an overweight island, where our students do not want to come back to.
Education, infrastructure, immigration, health care, GEBE, it is all a mess.
I hear Mike Ferrier shouting: "But Gerard, I cleaned up my party". Sorry Mike, Louis was framed by his "friends", Theo ran away, and the only thing you did was doing away with Marietje, who may have been a little bit naughty, but who compared to other D.P. ers was a pretty decent girl. What to think of the D.P. commissioners who pressed R.O.B. civil servants to sign illegal building permits in a hurry?
The civil servants got the blame, while in fact government had the responsibility. The rumors about R.O.B. all proved to be true.
There are as many rumors about bribery concerning the building and financing of the new government building (the white elephant). Why were those rumors not investigated by the SOAB? Why did the D.P. government never give the financial administration of this building to the newspaper "Today"? If the D.P. has nothing to hide, what is it afraid of? O.K., Mike "cleaned" his party, but he only used one bottle of Windex. He should have used a gallon of Clorox!
The next meeting of the DP, after the election, will probably be at the Emerald Funeral Home, with Mike, not as cleaner, but as caretaker.
My not voting for the DP has nothing to do with Miguel Arrindell's remark that there are two homosexuals on the D.P. list. If Mike and his whole DP were homosexuals, I would vote for them if they were doing a good job.
If there is a homosexual who can solve the problems of GEBE, let him come forward. Better gay current, than heterosexual blackouts.

I talked with politicians of our political parties, telling them that the root of all that goes wrong in St Maarten is overdevelopement, and that I would vote for the party that would call for a building stop. I do not see that in any party program, so I should vote.
But............
If, at the last moment, I still decide to vote, it will probably be for Gracita.
I think she has a great, fresh team. Many good women in it. Women are the backbone of St Maarten. They work hard, they do better in school than men in the absence of Caribbean fathers, they do a great job as educators.
My advice for St Maarten voters: vote PPA or NA.
Together they can make a better future for St Maarten.


GERARD BIJNSDORP,
UNPAID ADVISOR TO THE ST MAARTEN VOTER.

Enlightened45: egomaniacal narcissists have a supremely hypnotic effect on people who have little to no self esteem. They control, manipulate, criticize, put down, abuse and then fake humility and sincerity to entangle their victims. If they are also successful in any way shape or form they will hold their success as evidence that they are correct in all things. These people spend their entire lives building a cult of personality to try to make themselves unassailable. It's no wonder Linda Hamilton feels she needs to expose the truth; she was probably groomed to feed into Cameron's lie for years, leaving her little support or ground to stand on afterward.

It's political off-season, so what I'm doing is updating and adding to the blogsite. I have also been spending a lot of time speaking with St Maarten historians, to get a deeper perspective of St Maarten.
I am currently networking and working with other St Maarteners, who are also interested in seeing St Maarten, it's history, and it's culture uploaded in its entirety online.
Photographs, documents and video, cassettes etc. are being scanned, converted, digitalized and uploaded to the web and onto various sites that have been created e.g. BiographyStMaarten.com, will be dedicated to St Maarteners, Antillians, and Caribbean Natives whose births have made a significant impact on St Maarten and the Caribbean. The site is not just about current and historical figures who have done great things, but also those who have done not so great things.
It's monumental work, in most part because there is actually comparatively very little online about St Maarten and its true history and culture.
Click on St Maarten/ St Martin anywhere on the web, and you will get a resort hotel promoting itself, or some horrific crime.
Anyone, anywhere in the world should be able to Google St Maarten Indigenous, St Maarten Culture, Soualiga, etc. and get the FULL story.
We have already started the associated social sites on Facebook, so look forward to your invite, to join us, and if you can provide us with facts and info about St Maarten.
We are very interested in speaking with older St Maarteners, the ones that used coal in their irons on Sundays to iron their clothes, and cooked outdoors
using a coalkeel.
We are also diligently adding to our newly created "St Maarten" social networking sites such as Mefeedia, Fark and Twitter.

If you live in St Maarten, or have visited the island for any extended period of time, at some point you have either had to sit and listen to the details of someones dreams, or chances are you felt compelled to describe your own dreams to someone else in detail.
From my earliest childhood, dreams were always it appears as important, if not more important than the physical itself, because it was predictive, an omen, it foretold what was to be, so when the dream was actually fulfilled, it was simply considered a consummation of the dream.
Times are changing, and it seems that all of the old time St Maarten Dream Readers are dying out, as we are consumed by new age technology, and rise further above the rich soil of St Maarten.
I was always raised to believe that there were two distinct stages of dreaming.
The late night dream, which was considered a rehashing of the day's, or past events. You fell asleep, and whatever was preoccupying your mind at that was resolved in your dream, in a subconscious state.
The early morning (madrugada) dream, usually between 4am-6am, were considered the predictive dream.
It is supposed to foretell of events to come.
Now if you spoke to an older St Maartener, chances are they will confirm the above written statements, however if you spoke to one of the younger generation, they might laugh or scoff at the statement.
St Maarten is Americanized, and Europeanized, but like most countries built on the backs of imported African slaves, they still hold strongly to their African ancestry, culture and rituals.
In Afro-Latin countries, it's usually called "Santeria".
I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr Patrick, a local historian who works at the Kadasters office.
He wanted me to know that I was a direct descendant of the slave "Lukie", the Harriet Tubman of St Maarten, who rescued babies before they could be sold into slavery.
I never knew this, and I've read ALOT of books.
Of course, now I'm eager to learn more about my slave ancestry, because this is the first time in my life that I'm learning about this.
Someone said that she even has her own statue at the medical center. That her breast was hacked off, to teach her a lesson, and ultimately kill her, but in the age before antibiotics, and modern medicines, she survived her breast being chopped off, and continued undaunted on her rescue missions.
There are no coincidences, within a week of meeting Mr Patrick, who is publishing a historical book about St Maarten, I ran into Mr T Roumou-Priest, for the first time.
I didn't know him, but obviously we are related, I knew his dad, T. Priest, we also had some conversations that have to be continued.
There is so much about St Maarten that I am just now learning, because they never taught us ANYTHING, but a few basic facts about St Maarten in history class.
We learned about the Spanish Armada, the Romans, The Boston Tea Party, Napolean Bonaparte etc, etc, etc.
But we have NEVER been formally instructed about our ancestors and where we come from.
I learned for the first time that the signed the Concordia treaty in My yard, the yard I grew up in at Marigot Hill.
I learned about the government building being burnt in 1975 by protesters.
Can I ask why St Maarteners are being hidden from their true history?
I believe that with a Dutch Education System implemented, that it was intentionally left off of our syllabus and educational curriculum, because I guess that they didn't want us getting any ideas about rebellion.
I do remember reading about slave rebellions in Curacao, and The Jamaican Maroons, The Caribs, The Arrowaks, learning that we used to be called Soualiga.
Every bit of St Maarten's history and culture is dying out, being washed away.
Do they at least offer courses at the university about The Indigenous St Maartener?
If anyone knows of any courses being given on Indigenous St Maarten Culture and History, please let me know.
I am in the process of uploading historical documents, archives and deeds to the internet, in an effort to have ALL of St Maartens information digital, so that anyone on earth can type in the words St Maarten History, and pull up ALL of our history, not just a few appropiate and carefully selected quotes.
My next blog will be titled:
A PATTERN OF SYSTEMATIC SUBMISSION.

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