by repulsewarrior » Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:26 am
only forty years ago, blackmen hung from trees...can you imagine that in the USA today?
people change themselves, and the world has changed.
what is needed is a good Constitution, which is clear, simple, and easy to understand, based on Universal Principals, aimed at their betterment. And there must be agreement for reciprocal land settlement, which allows all Cypriots who were or will be displaced to choose whether to settle or return as persons in some cases, and as individuals in all others. For ourselves we need a Retribution and answers for the Abused.
seriously, if I can't get what i want, which OP best describes, and you can't get what you want, things basically just as they are, what is the alternative, that is Just and satisficing....and in my proposal, if the enclaves of the south remain unsettled by Turkish Cypriots, as you predict, they will remain under the Jurisdiction of the a National Assembly that is Turcophone and exploited I hope respectfully for their own sustenance. similarly if the enclaves in the north grow prosperous with their own representation through a National Assembly, there will be no harm to the Jurisdiction of the territories which surround them. nothing prevents free movement and the right to free association, and all citizens will be equal as individuals and their individual rights, but you can choose to be living as a majority or a minority, and you are not restricted to one service anywhere on the island. There is a State that is Sovereign above this which represents the body of its citizenship as the defender of their Individual Rights, which charters a territory bi zonally to be serviced through two National Assemblies having for a majority as Persons the opportunity to sustain their society in a manner where they can demonstrate an inclusiveness to others.
this is 'one voice' and 'our way' in demonstrating an identity as a people who have humility, who have charity as a grace, who have respect for our distinctions and who share in their desire for one cause: the betterment of the Human Condition. and it is in line with the evolution of an association which has been built over 350 years, as cooperators with communities that can sustain themselves independantly and because they are as Cypriots have always been, socialised to a high degree, not the last fifty years it seems in Cyprus, where time has been frozen by keeping us isolated from each other, where people are judged by who they are, rather than on what they do.
you cannot call blacks less than Human now, it is not acceptable to hate Turks vilely even if you are Greek, or (some) Turcophones, because of the history of the Ottomans, and you cannot continue to fear Cypriots, because they represent a majority who are Grecophone because they speak and live, as Greeks.
This much, i hope you will agree with me; Cyprus is an island. its Heritance needs our attention and our stewardship, or we will be merely dividing up its wealth.
VP, i have a great deal of sympathy for you, as you know. i have called you wiley as a crow, and i know that given a good reason you would embrace a change as your own. please consider my proposal again. other than what is and what you want, where does this proposal fit in to a future beyond this impasse? you have posted comments, and questions, and i want more because it helps me and i believe that none of us are that far apart.
just humour me and imagine yourself as a PR person from New York hired to pitch this idea.
