Monday, September 19, 2011

THE ROOTS OF COLONIALISM DEADLOCKS Part1


If I should die tonight, It will be with the joyful feeling that I have accomplished my utmost best so that the gift God has granted me may live on forever as an enlighten source for my fellow-Patriots and following generations. I have put it all in this book, now available on line on LULU.

THE FORGOTTEN HOLOCAUST

THE ROOTS OF COLONIALISM DEADLOCKS

FRENCH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES

THE CONTENTS: EUROPEAN CONQUEST OF THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS: - The Forgotten Holocaust – Afro-Caribbean to be Sons in rupture with the Soil or to be authentic Sons of the Soil – Exploration and exploitation by the Spaniards – COLUMBUS DESCRIPTION OF THE PRE-EXISTING INDIGENOUS: - Arawaks & Caribs! Imaginary classification – Description by missionaries of the 15th & 16th centuries – Description by missionaries of the 17thcentury – THE INDIGENOUS REFUSED TO BE ENSLAVED – TRIBAL WARFARE - THE COLONIZATION EPOCH – FRENCH COLONIZATION OF THE CARIBBEAN ISLANDS – SLAVE-TRADING – CONCEALING THE HOLOCAUST OF THE FOUNDING INDIGENOUS OF THE CARIBBEAN – LEGISLATORS EFFORTS TO AFRICANIZE SLAVERY – BRITISH ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY/EMANCIPATION COMPARED TO FRENCH ABOLISHMENT/ABANDONMENT – Abolishment of slavery & Abolishment of slave-trading – No emancipation in French colonies simply abolishment and abandonment – Indians implantation on the plantations in substitution of ex-African slaves – ADMINISTRATION OF THE FRENCH COLONIES FROM COLONIZATION EPOCK TO END OF SECOND WORLD WAR 1939/45 – FRANCE'S RESISTANCE AGAINST INTERNATIONAL ANTI-COLONIALIST PRESSURE – Caribbeans and African tribute in France's liberation – French and Dutch resistance to the U.N. Decolonization policy – French territorial integration/assimilation process – The French Republic territorial extent – GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE DECOLONIZATION OF FRANCE'S AFRICAN POSSESSIONS – The after General Charles De Gaulle decolonization maneuvers – EMANCIPATION IN THE BRISTISH COLONIES – Administrative Institutions in the British Colonies – Development programs instituted by the Crown – Post world War 1914/18 Administration of the British West Indies – BRISTISH WEST INDIES DECOLONIZATION PROCESS – Institution of a transitory Government from 1952 to 1961 – Independence and efforts towards a West Indies Federation – Constitution of new Caribbean States – Economic development of the new Caribbean States – International trade agreements – Administration of the new Caribbean States – Social crisis. - DUTCH & FRENCH EVADE U.N. DECOLONIZATION POLICY – Dutch Antilleans constitutional changes – Dutch Kingdon recent efforts to reshuffle links with the N.A. - Government of the N.A. - Dutch aid to the N.A. - Island Territories approach to the dismantling of the N.A. - WHAT FUTURE FOR FRENCH CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES? - The colonial context – France's Governing Institutions – Discrimination against local intelligentsia – The preparation of Africans to their decolonization – GENERAL CHARLES DE GAULLE POLICY: -General Charles De Gaulle concept of National Sovereignty – Nation's historic democratic legitimacy compared to the illegitimacy of circumstantial democracy – TERRITORIAL INTEGRATION FACTS: -Integration/Assimilation process of French Overseas Territories – Reduces to colonial links of no avail in international relations – Obsolescence of the March 1946 Integration/Assimilation law – Nation's Sovereignty & State's Sovereignty - "SOCIAL COMPACT" OR "SOCIAL PACT"? « Loi d'Orientation » fruit of a long demagogic tango – Similitude between the Republican Pact and the 1930'S Colonial Pacts - Legislative & Executive – TWO WEIGHTS TWO MEASURES: -Elaboration process of an Economic and Social program for Metropolitan France – OVERSEAS STATUS WITHIN STATE AND E.U.: -Can we proudly acknowledge our National Status? - Overseas Territoroes Access to E.U. Fundings – Difference between an Administrative status and a politic status – The genesis of of St-Martin's movement for a change of status.- PHILOSOPHIC & CONSTITUTIONAL DEFINITIONS: -Philosophic definition of a democratic Republic – Constitutional definition of a Republic and Nation's sovereignty – National Sovereignty within an unacknowledged Federal Republic – O.N.U. & E.U. Institutions – Historic predictions of a United States of Europe – Similitude between the Colonial Pact and the Social Pact – PRIVATIZATION OF THE LITTORAL: -Origin of the « 50 Pas Geometriques» - The sell out of St-Martin Littoral – The « 50 Pas Geometriques » a Governmental imposture – Recent legislation affecting the littoral – PARTITION & COMMUNITY TREATY – LOCAL POLICY & POLITICS: -Do the price we pay worthwhile? - The wrong approach to the creation of a Territorial Collectivity – Analysis of the transferred BudgetCooperation Agreement between French & Dutch – BREF HISTORY OF ST-MARTIN'S COLONIZATION.– ANNEXE: -Letter Addressed to Mr. Nicolas Sarkosy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Leopold Eugene Placide BALY was born on the called French Side of St-Martin on October 5th,1945. He Attended the first part of his secondary schooling in St-Martin up to the BEPC then continued from 1963 to 1966 in the technical high schools of Guadeloupe: Lycee Gerville Reache in Basse-terre and of Baimbridge Abymes from which he was graduated with a BSEC (the actual Baccalaureat) qualifying to prepare an university degree.

From 1966 to 1967 he attended the University of Law and Economy in Pointe-A-Pitre (Institut Henry Vizioz), and was part time teacher in private technical schools. 
From the end of the school year 1967 He was employed as accountant of Air France in Pointe-A-Pitre/Guadeloupe and was promoted Commercial Administration manager of Air France Local representation of Guadeloupe and Northern Caribbean Islands from 1969 up to his resignation in 1974 to prepare for his return to St-Martin, his Homeland.

After following correspondence courses from INTEC/Paris and sitting yearly to exams in Bordeaux and in Paris he graduated in 1973 with a DECS qualifying him to be a probationer certified public accountant.

Founding member and president of St-Martin's Youth Association (ACJSM) founded in Guadeloupe in 1968. Founder and Editor of a monthly publication:Trait d'Union from 1969. 

He was Candidate to General Councilor's cantonal elections in 1979 and in 1981.

From 1974 to 1977 he entered the National Education technical teaching profession as public appointed teacher at the technical High schools of Gerville Reache and Lamentin Guadeloupe. After this teaching experience he resigned at the end of the school year 1977 and returned to St-Martin where he created a private tertiary sector technical High school preparing young people to State's technical professions exams (CAP, BEP, Baccalaureat). 

For economic reasons, insufficient pupils to cover cost, he was obliged to close down in 1981 after four of very successful school years with an average of 80 to 100% pupils success to State's exams including to the Baccalaureat. 

From 1981 he survived in his Homeland St-Martin by performing voluntary administrative works in behalf of the underprivileged who cannot always afford the services of a lawyer and by digging into a diversity of self-employed businesses from Family run hotel, to Sea-food wholesaler, to agriculture while at the same time building personally his dwelling home in Friar's Bay









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