If you don’t know, ask questions!
Think about it, if we don’t know something, why not seek answers?
If we don’t seek the correct answers, we will remain blind!
In my view, the best way for us to understand the constitutional issues is to attend the public meetings, publicly ask lots of questions, publicly express our own thoughts, listen to the Secretariat’s public and private answers carefully, and make notes.
The Constitutional Secretariat should publish the questions and answers asked of them in private.
Then after we the people have considered them, we should inform the Constitutional Secretariat of our views. We should not be afraid to question anything we hear others saying; we should seek to understand. It is our right to know!
While Caymanians have always had natural rights, such as the rights to life and to not be enslaved, some people chose – and still choose – not to respect our rights. Upon arrival to the Cayman Islands, those seeking a better life were freemen and slaves; the slaves did not officially receive legal recognition of their freedoms until 1834.
I am of the view, that the unprivileged English who came here brought with them the 1297 Magna Carta and 1689 English Bill of Rights, as amended at the time of the first local land grants in the early 1700s. In addition to other rights, these rights I believe still exist today.
While over the years some things in Caymanian life have improved, the desire of some people to suppress others has not changed. Consequently, we must unite in our quest to better express our aspirations in ‘our’ constitution and as one people, and communicate them to the UK with one voice.
Gandhi said, “I was sad because I had no shoes. Then I saw a man who had no feet.” Have you recently stopped to consider at what price were our freedoms purchased? Do you know what it will cost us, not just in money, but in every other way, if we don’t treasure and protect what we have here in the Cayman Islands?
To provide a better life, our ancestors navigated the high seas and fought in wars, while some stayed on the islands to build the needed homes and businesses.
We were one people.
Back then, people did what they had to, but today, many of us are doing whatever we want. Sadly for us and our children, doing what we want is not going to benefit us. Fellow Caymanians, we can either do whatever it takes to achieve our aspirations, or, we can do whatever we desire and live with the consequences, but we cannot have it both ways!
Since we can’t have it both ways, we like our ancestors, should do what it takes to maintain what they worked so hard to create; a special place in the world to live!
We can do it, but the participation of each and every Caymanian in the constitutional conversation is not only important, but required.
We are a free people and as such we don’t need the permission of anyone to think, learn or exercise or right self-determination (our right to make a choice). Rather than saying, ‘No’ in the referendum because we don’t understand something, we should seek answers to your questions and then vote your conscience.
Jesus said, “Ask and it shall be given unto you’. He also said, ‘Ask and it shall be given unto you… For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth…’ Therefore, why are Caymanians being advised to say, ‘No, if you don’t know’? Is that good advice? I say, no it’s not!
I pray God continue to richly bless the Caymanian people with the wisdom needed in these trying times.
Until next week, question, read, listen to everything carefully and let your voice be heard. Your future depends on it!
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