The Concern Is Real.

It seems to me that the only people seriously looking at the dangers inherent in an embedded ‘bill of human rights’ and its ‘human rights commission’ IS the Cayman Minister’s Assoc. I attended the presentation they gave, hosted by the UDP,( I understand that they have given all their information to the gov’t as well.) It was a very well researched and lucid presentation. It was backed up by a reference of documents and articles with specific cases from the UK and Canada. It was intelligently presented and discussed, and the intention was to bring some awareness of what is truly at stake and to seek a way, within the framework of ‘what is possible’ to protect Cayman, and avoid the social nightmare of our brothers overseas.

It is not a ‘partisan’ concern. It’s a concern about the basic right of Caymanians to express and live their lives according to their own beliefs. Protection of freedom .

Some would have us believe it’s all about imposing belief on others. Not so. It’s about retaining the ability to maintain our own beliefs.

Others would have us believe that there is nothing to BE concerned about. A ‘bill of rights’ is all good. No evil ever could come of it.

Is that the experience of the rest of the world? NO. The U.K. and Canada , for example, are constantly in conflict because of their courts’ ‘interpretations’ of rights. Canada is currently being embarrassed by its HRC’s seeming indifference to rights of those it doesn’t ‘agree’ with, their social activism, and their penchant for politically correct decisions (as opposed to ‘just’ ones).

Society in both countries has undergone extreme societal changes in the last 30 years, and much of it has been engineered through the ‘rights’ movement. And no, it’s not the rights of the poor that the EU and the UN are all ‘het up’ about. They wish to ensure that every member country has adequate ‘reproductive health’ rights(a.k.a. ABORTION) and not surprisingly, this seems to go hand in hand with ‘making’ everyone ‘respect’ homosexuality. Not homosexuals themselves as individuals, but homosexuality itself. We ‘must’ acknowledge that every woman has the right to abort if she chooses, and we 'must' acknowledge homosexuality as a valid lifestyle. This is not scaremongering. One has only to ‘google’ UN activities to read from their own reporting, their activities over the last several years to ensure this.

Currently, in the UK and Canada, a person’s ability to speak his mind, teach his child, preach a sermon, hire his employees, wear his religious symbols in public, protect his child from propaganda supporting ‘alternative’ lifestyles, write a magazine article that contains ‘the potential to offend’ someone, or to know when your minor daughter is arranging an abortion, has been curtailed and sometimes punished. Again, a cursory look at what HRC’s decisions have been, how they conduct business, and HOW THEY LOOK FOR COMPLAINANTS willing to further their social agenda, informs one as to the overall intent of a ‘bill of rights’. Social engineering ?

The actual need of a ‘bill of rights’ in this age is NOT clear. What actual rights are currently withheld? Which ‘rights’are not addressed in legislation already enacted?

It behooves Caymanians to take this seriously. If we don’t the U.K. will continue to take a hard line. There is no compelling reason for all Overseas Territories to ‘fall in line’ with Britain – other than they want us to. It has to do with THEIR international obligations. How about Poland.? Poland doesn’t let it’s membership in the EU and the UN, infringe on the rights of the Polish people to live according to their conscience. In spite of their international responsibilities, Poland has so far managed to protect the freedom of it’s people to live freely . (Having fought so long to acquire it!)

WHAT DO WE WANT. Let’s at least go into this with our eyes open. Let’s at least ask for the best , instead of settling for what ‘seems o.k.’ Compromise is ok for those who don’t believe anything. Nothing lost. Is it o.k. for us? Is Cayman a relativistic society or a rational one? Do we have our own sense of 'right' and 'wrong' or do we require the EU and the UK to impose their 'sense' on us?

Let’s see some stories in the local media that highlight some of the difficulties that have arisen in the UK and Canada. Let’s get some advice from someone who isn’t advocating FOR an embedded ‘bill of rights’. Let’s be intelligent enough to learn from the agony of others. Let’s protect our identity and freedom, at least as well as Poland, and better than the U.K. And please , let’s not become a quagmire of state sponsored and imposed ‘political correctness’ , like Canada!