Dear Editor,
AN OPEN LETTER TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
In response to your letter suggesting that I direct my request to remove you as Head of State to the Government of Jamaica, I must hereby inform you that, in 2011, I expressed my concerns to the Government of Jamaica in an open letter to the Prime Minister requesting that Her Majesty be removed as head of state. The letter generated many responses from the Public supporting the removal of the Queen.
The present prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, soon after she was elected in 2012, publicly declared that she will have Her Majesty The Queen removed as head of state. Since 1978, the prime ministers of Jamaica have all made public statements that The Queen should be removed as head of state.
Your Majesty, your representative, the Governor General, should have informed you of the public statements made by the prime ministers for your removal.
Your Majesty, the neo-colonial Government of Jamaica has a serious problem. The legacy of slavery and colonialism has inflicted a serious debilitating inferiority complex on them to the extent that they appear to be incapable and afraid to do anything that will affect the ruling monarchy. All these public declarations by the Jamaican Government have not resulted in any action for constitutional changes.
It is time for Jamaica to be free from all forms of servitude and colonialism. I reflect on the brutal hanging of my fellow Jamaican, Sam Sharpe, and the slaughter of his supporters by the British colonial army in 1831 during their struggle for emancipation from slavery.
This resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1838. Notwithstanding, this did not put an end to the struggle. The British brutally hanged Paul Bogle in the public square and slaughtered his supporters in their struggle for justice and independence from British rule in 1865. The British labelled Sam Sharpe and Paul Bogle as rebels, criminals and murderers. Jamaicans honour them as freedom fighters, emancipators, martyrs, and national heroes.
It was not until 1962 that Jamaica was granted a neo-colonial form of Independence with The Queen as head of state. During the 51 years that you have been head of state, Jamaica has neither achieved constitutional nor economic independence. Today, the economy of Jamaica is controlled by the International Monetary Fund.
Your Majesty, please be gracious enough to let go, step aside and give Jamaica its independence and allow us to decide our own destiny.
Donald G Morgan
Caribbean Close
Kingston 10
Graciously step aside, Your Majesty
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AN OPEN LETTER TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
In response to your letter suggesting that I direct my request to remove you as Head of State to the Government of Jamaica, I must hereby inform you that, in 2011, I expressed my concerns to the Government of Jamaica in an open letter to the Prime Minister requesting that Her Majesty be removed as head of state. The letter generated many responses from the Public supporting the removal of the Queen.
The present prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, soon after she was elected in 2012, publicly declared that she will have Her Majesty The Queen removed as head of state. Since 1978, the prime ministers of Jamaica have all made public statements that The Queen should be removed as head of state.
Your Majesty, your representative, the Governor General, should have informed you of the public statements made by the prime ministers for your removal.
Your Majesty, the neo-colonial Government of Jamaica has a serious problem. The legacy of slavery and colonialism has inflicted a serious debilitating inferiority complex on them to the extent that they appear to be incapable and afraid to do anything that will affect the ruling monarchy. All these public declarations by the Jamaican Government have not resulted in any action for constitutional changes.
It is time for Jamaica to be free from all forms of servitude and colonialism. I reflect on the brutal hanging of my fellow Jamaican, Sam Sharpe, and the slaughter of his supporters by the British colonial army in 1831 during their struggle for emancipation from slavery.
This resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation of 1838. Notwithstanding, this did not put an end to the struggle. The British brutally hanged Paul Bogle in the public square and slaughtered his supporters in their struggle for justice and independence from British rule in 1865. The British labelled Sam Sharpe and Paul Bogle as rebels, criminals and murderers. Jamaicans honour them as freedom fighters, emancipators, martyrs, and national heroes.
It was not until 1962 that Jamaica was granted a neo-colonial form of Independence with The Queen as head of state. During the 51 years that you have been head of state, Jamaica has neither achieved constitutional nor economic independence. Today, the economy of Jamaica is controlled by the International Monetary Fund.
Your Majesty, please be gracious enough to let go, step aside and give Jamaica its independence and allow us to decide our own destiny.
Donald G Morgan
Caribbean Close
Kingston 10
Graciously step aside, Your Majesty
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