‘Your oppressors will never set you free’- Bishop Cline
Bishop Cline made the comments in an address via the My BVI page on November 3, 2022, which he said comes as the VI continues to experience tempestuous times and that there comes a point in every country's history where the fight against external forces becomes more important than the fight between the people of that country.
No suspension of constitution- Bishop Cline
“We will not stand by and see our constitution suspended. We will seek to have the threat of it being suspended removed from over our heads, and we will not stand by and see no election being held in 2023. Let it be known election must be had.”
Bishop Cline argued that it is the collective responsibility of the people of the VI to stand together, while adding that collective responsibility is not just for the executive branch of government.
“It is for we the people, it is where each man must help his neighbour. It is where parents must work with teachers, farmers with fishermen, and the preacher and the pastor with the man on the street. It is where the strong must help the weak all for a better and stronger BVI,” he remarked.
He said in the days of Theodolph H. Faulkner and Isaac Glanville Fonseca, it was not about political party alliance, which seems to divide the VI, but rather, it was about a Virgin Islands bond that represents a people proud and strong and intelligent and full of courage.
“Who would have imagined that 72 years after the Great March we would be fighting for our rights to self-governance or, even worse, fighting against direct rule by the United Kingdom? Who would have imagined?”
Former colonies had removed Queen - Bishop Cline
Bishop Cline added that while many of the former colonies of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean are now independent and some have even gone further and removed the Queen, now King as Head of State, he questioned why the VI is still contemplating what they should do, “Why are we still in limbo about being under the hand of our colonial masters?” he added.
Bishop Cline reminded the UK is the same people that enslaved the VI, murdered and rape our ancestors along with building their country on the free labour of our forefathers.
“We as Virgin Islanders have allowed our prosperity to give us a false sense of security and not true liberty. After 72 years, some seem to be still mentally bound to our colonial past and our colonial masters. I asked you to wake up because your oppressors will never set you free," he said.
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47 Responses to “‘Your oppressors will never set you free’- Bishop Cline”
Of course he refers to the UK as our Chief oppressor.
But he has failed to mention our local oppressors. The political leaders that we have voted to represented us every four years, except for bi-election, they too he should have included as oppressor, not only the UK.
Bisbop John Cline has given us some historical facts on order to justify his arguments, but he has cunningly brought his arguments to us in a propaganda way, failing to me to mentioned 72 years of deception, and mismanagement of our finances by most, if not all our past, and present political leaders. Because of his
onesidedness, it is clear to all of us that favour true accountability from our elected leaders, the Bishop John Cline is in words deeds a hypocrite, in mine genuine, honest opinion.
Don't allowed him to fool you. Honesty is still the best policy for bring in of good governance for all the citizens of the British Virgin Islands. Mismanagement of our finances by those that we have untrusted to lead our political affairs contridict good governance.
Will history prove you right? That the people of the VI choose the wrong political association?
Have we lost our local politics to the globalists in London, is this our future.
A government from London really?
As a matter of fact, if it were not for our " local" oppressors, the Kingdomers would not be here in full force!!!!
Drug runnings, underhanded dirty deals, land grabbing, dirty handed contracts, nepotism, "religious" enslavement,criminals walking FREE, because of corrupt judicial, legal, and law enforcement officials,-I can go on and on!!
I AM IN FULL SUPPORT of the Kingdom coming in and straightening out the the mess that our local enslavers has caused!!
Perhaps, you too, Mr. Cline has been one of our "religious" enslavers, that needs founding out, by the Kingdomers!!
IT IS, now time for the enslavement to be over!!
Thank you, United Kingdom!!!!