THE BIG BAD ORGANIC LAW

Our present government has gone fom saying that the Organic Law was not a priority and would not be touched to saying it must now be done in two months. It would seem as if people a being given the impression that we have been given a "second chance" to change or modify the organic law. New Caledonia has modified its organic law at least seventeen (yes, 17) times since it went into effect.


I do not want to believe that the people I voted for in the last elections could allow crap like this to be propagated. Nor do I want to believe that those that I did not vote for could believe it. No wonder France seems to be determined to chop off the head of the group that gets elected. Having done it twice, as they say, look for "jamais deux sans trois". It would seem as if the once the head is gone all you end up with a caretaker government.


People, an Organic Law is a MALLEABLE DOCUMENT! Meaning open for modification as often as necessary. Something you ask for today may no longer apply five years down the line!


Minister Lurel knows in his heart that the left will suffer in the upcoming elections, and if a reshuffle of the national government is carried out the risks are high that he may no longer be Minister of Overseas Territories, and therefore will not be able to crow that he was the one who gave Saint Martin a "second chance" to modify its organic law.


Neither the Senator, the Deputy nor the Minister can ask for a modification of the organic law. Do you not think that if the Senator could do that it would not have been doene? IT HAS TO COME FROM THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMEN?T OF THE COLLECTIVITY!


That said, as much as possible should be done to have it modified now, especially since it may not be looked at again for several years.


Girls who make children before their eighteenth birthday become of legal age by virtue of that birth. Saint Martin may have acquired article 74 before enough people were ready for it, but guess what??
Tough! We have it, we delivered our baby, we are now of legal age!


Get up off your duff and do what you have to do. If you don't there can only be two reasons why you won't: Either you do not KNOW what to do and not humble enough to find out, or you very well know and do not WANT to put in the work that is necessary, because it is a lot of work.


TAKE YOUR PICK!