Patriotism:

[Mosiah]

and I thanked you for your definition. Didn't I?

[Muadib]

Can a Dual Citizen be a Patriot ?

[Mosiah]

That Father's Day dictionary is being put to good use.

Good for you!

[HL]

hell No!!!!!!

[Islandman]

Prior to Historian's concern to the 'hijacking' of his post--I mentioned this trend a few years ago. I described it as "a primary breakdown in the Thread" .

LOL! Dat sound like a chemical reaction!

This kind of language is what separates the intellectuals like HL from the masses!! You "pigeon English" speakers will never understand!

[Mosiah]

at least you're not always wrong.

[Muadib]

In post-election contentions some losing players are seeking to be declared winners by technically knocking out their opponents with Section 40 of the Constitution.

Learned judges will in time decide the validity of claims that will, in effect, benefit just a few individuals. However, the outcome may also determine whether a million Jamaican dual citizens are to be accorded identical and equal rights in representational politics.

The restrictive rule has remained unused for 45 years; and in that time, many a dual citizen has served, without question, in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The country's first Prime Minister may have been a dual citizen, having been, by his own account, adopted in Spain by a Spaniard. In 1944, he forestalled a PNP move to disqualify him as a parliamentarian, but that was because he had not yet formally changed his name from Clarke to Bustamante. There is no report that he ever renounced the Spanish nationality he must have taken on adoption, yet he rose to the highest parliamentary rank in Jamaica.

Bustamante got around Section 40 of the Constitution when he appointed Frank Worrell to the Jamaican Senate. I do not recall any question being raised then or since about Worrell's Barbadian nationality. Norman Manley named Dudley Thompson to the same Senate and nobody bothered about the Panamanian citizenship he had acquired at birth. Nor is there any report that Hector Wynter was required to shed his Cuban credentials. There was no denial of their love of and loyalty to Jamaica; and these appointments by our former heads of Government, might be judged against the explanation of dual citizenship as given by Norman Manley in March 1962.

Because of a tradition of travel and migration, Jamaicans have always placed importance on dual citizenship and the country has benefited greatly from that course of action. It was a dual citizen, Walter Adolphe Roberts, who began the struggle for Jamaican Independence. In 1936, he and other migrant Jamaicans established the Jamaica Progressive League (JPL), with the primary purpose of getting political Independence for Jamaica. The JPL was a sponsor of the PNP when it was founded and it provided inspiration and substantial backing for the self-government platform. I wonder what those giants - Roberts, Wendell Malliet, Wilfred Domingo, the Rev. Ethelred Brown - might say about today's PNP stand against dual citizens

National Hero Marcus Garvey did not acquire foreign nationality. However, it is known that in 1921, he was seriously considering American citizenship as a convenient way of promoting the UNIA. Had he done so, it would have been accepted that his loyalty to Jamaica was undiminished by the act. Dual citizenship as a matter of convenience is well understood by millions who, over decades, have left these shores for social or economic reasons; and no Jamaican politician in his right mind would dare to publicly question the patriotism of the Jamaican diaspora. We all know why Jamaicans often swear allegiance to foreign countries; and the reason is definitely not lack of love or absence of loyalty to the land of their birth.

[Mosiah]

S'Longs as Garvey did know say him coulden run fi MP in Jamaica.

[Lazie]

S'Longs as Garvey did know say him coulden run fi MP in Jamaica.

Suh one rule fi Garvey and another fi Dudley Thompson and di other bredda?

[Mosiah]

Dudley shoulda never did get di wuk tuh! Just like how wi mek Danny Boy slip een as director of elections. Things happen!

[Lazie]

Dudley shoulda never did get di wuk tuh! Just like how wi mek Danny Boy slip een as director of elections. Things happen!

Unuh shoulda been kissing the ground "Danny Boy" walk pon. Its a shame that its the man wid dual citizenship who was able to clean up the electorial system. That should send a message to you and the others. Look like HL was right again.

[HL]

Lazie...'you can't fake the funk'.

chusssss mi.

[Muadib]

Can a dual-citizen be a patriot ??

[Mosiah]

And ongle him one coulda did do it.

[Mosiah]

yuh nuh aks mi dis arready?