Based on the circumstances surrounding the death of Lance Thomas in Sint Maarten, this report evaluates the incident against the legal standards of the European Union and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which apply to Sint Maarten as an Overseas Country and Territory (OCT) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Lance was a man whom I knew personally; he was well-loved in the community. Lance was a professional Carpenter who obtained a diploma as such at the Milton Peters College in Sint Maarten.
Lance was a well-travelled Rastafari who travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean, where he was present at many Rastafari gatherings. He supported himself as an agriculturist. Thomas was a father who lived in St. Peter’s in his own home with his wife and son.
1. Right to Liberty and Security (Habeas Corpus)
Under Article 6 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 5 of the ECHR, every individual has the right to liberty. Thomas’s detention without being suspected of a crime is a severe departure from these legal norms.
Lawful Arrest: Detention is only permitted under specific conditions (e.g., suspicion of a crime, non-compliance with a court order, or for the prevention of the spread of infectious diseases).
Arbitrary Detention: Holding a person without a charge or a legal basis (such as the missing KZ-verklaring or Declaration of Insanity) constitutes arbitrary detention.
2. Protection of Persons with Mental Health Issues
The mention of a “Declaration of Insanity” suggests that Thomas may have been experiencing a mental health crisis. EU standards provide specific protections for “persons of unsound mind” (Article 5(1)(e) ECHR).
The Winterwerp Criteria: According to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), for a person to be detained on mental health grounds:
A true mental disorder must be reliably established by objective medical expertise.
The disorder must be of a kind or degree warranting compulsory confinement.
The validity of continued confinement depends upon the persistence of such a disorder.
Administrative Failure: The absence of a signed declaration due to a Minister being “off-island” does not legally justify the suspension of an individual’s fundamental rights.
3. Right to Life and the Duty of Care
Article 2 of the EU Charter and Article 2 of the ECHR (Right to Life) place a “positive obligation” on the state to protect the lives of those in its custody.
Heightened Responsibility: When a person is detained, the state is fully responsible for their physical well-being. This includes providing adequate medical care and monitoring, especially in solitary confinement.
Operational Failures: Finding an individual “lifeless” after four days in a holding cell indicates a potential breach of the state’s duty to provide a safe environment and necessary medical intervention.
4. The Right to an Effective Investigation
Following a death in state custody, Article 47 of the EU Charter and the procedural limb of Article 2 ECHR mandate an independent, thorough, and prompt investigation.
National Detectives (Landsrecherche): The launch of a criminal investigation by the National Detectives is a required legal step to ensure accountability.
Transparency: While the Minister of Justice cited the “integrity of the investigation” to withhold details, the law requires that the next of kin (the Thomas family) be involved in the process to the extent necessary to safeguard their legitimate interests.
Summary of Potential Violations
Provision
Legal Basis
Context in Thomas Case
Right to Liberty
Art. 6 CFR / Art. 5 ECHR
Detained without charge or legal “insanity” declaration.
Right to Life
Art. 2 CFR / Art. 2 ECHR
Failure of the state to protect a person in its custody.
Dignity & Health
Art. 1 & 35 CFR
Potential lack of medical care and improper use of solitary confinement.
Effective Remedy
Art. 47 CFR / Art. 13 ECHR
Requirement for the National Detectives to provide a transparent, criminal-level accounting of the death.
Genre: Non-fiction / Political Theory / Pan-Africanism
Overview
The Groundings with My Brothers is not merely a book; it is a historical artifact of revolutionary Caribbean thought. Published shortly after Walter Rodney’s expulsion from Jamaica in 1968, the text is a collection of speeches and essays that document his radical approach to history and activism. It captures the essence of “grounding”—the act of a scholar sitting with the marginalized to share knowledge and listen to their lived experiences.
Core Themes and Analysis
The Concept of “Grounding”
The title refers to Rodney’s practice of leaving the “ivory tower” of the University of the West Indies to engage with Rastafarians, urban youth, and the unemployed in Jamaica. For Rodney, history was a tool for liberation. By “grounding,” he demystified the role of the academic, arguing that the intellectual’s duty is to place their skills at the service of the oppressed.
Black Power in the Caribbean
Rodney provides a unique articulation of Black Power tailored to the Caribbean context. He argues that while the Caribbean was governed by Black faces after independence, the underlying structures of power remained white and imperialist. He defines Black Power as:
The break with imperialism (specifically British and American).
The assumption of power by the Black masses.
The cultural reconstruction of society in the image of the African diaspora.
African History as Resistance
A significant portion of the book is dedicated to reclaiming African history. Rodney challenges the colonial narrative that Africa had no history before European arrival. He utilizes his expertise as a historian to show that African civilizations were complex and thriving, providing a sense of pride and identity that colonial education had sought to erase.
The 1968 Rodney Riots
The book provides the intellectual backdrop for the “Rodney Riots.” When the Jamaican government banned Rodney from re-entering the country after he attended a Black Writers’ Conference in Canada, it sparked massive protests. This text explains why the government feared him: he was successfully bridging the gap between the educated elite and the grassroots, a combination that threatened the status quo.
Critical Impact
Rodney’s writing is remarkably accessible. Unlike many academic treatises, The Groundings With My Brothers is direct, passionate, and urgent. It shifted the focus of Caribbean politics from mere electoral representation to a deeper, more structural transformation of society.
Conclusion
The Groundings With My Brothers remains a foundational text for anyone studying post-colonialism, Pan-Africanism, or social justice. Dr Walter Rodney’s message—that the intellectual must be a servant of the people—is as relevant today as it was in 1969. It serves as a powerful reminder that history is not just about the past; it is a weapon used to shape the future.
Key Quotes
“I was prepared to go anywhere that any group of Black people were prepared to sit down to talk and ‘ground’ with one another.”
“Black Power is a doctrine about black people, for black people, preached by black people.”
De auteur introduceert het verhaal als een coming-of-age-verhaal in de postkoloniale Caribische context, waarin jonge mannen zichzelf “soldaten” noemen en beïnvloed zijn door bewegingen zoals de Black Panthers en de ideeën van Malcolm X. Het verhaal is gebaseerd op echte gebeurtenissen en personen, maar met fictieve elementen om privacy te waarborgen. De auteur benadrukt de complexiteit van de regio, waarin drugs, wapens, slavernij, terrorisme en politieke corruptie met elkaar verweven zijn [1].
Dit document is een uitgebreide en complexe fictieve vertelling die diep ingaat op de politieke, sociale en culturele dynamiek van de voormalige Nederlands-Antillen, met een focus op Sint Maarten en de bredere Caribische regio. Het verhaal verweeft thema’s zoals drugscriminaliteit, raciale en culturele identiteit, politieke corruptie, terrorisme en de strijd om onafhankelijkheid en zelfbeschikking. Het document bevat ook uitgebreide reflecties op het onderwijssysteem, de invloed van Europese koloniale machten en de opkomst van alternatieve ideologieën en bewegingen binnen de Caribische gemeenschap.
Hoofdstuk 1: Oorsprong en ontwikkeling
Hier wordt de politieke en sociale achtergrond van de Antillen geschetst, met nadruk op de rol van de eilanden als doorvoerhavens voor mensen, goederen en drugs. De educatie is eurocentrisch en creëert een “serfklasse”, maar de jongeren zijn intelligent en mondig, met studies in Europa en Noord-Amerika. De protagonisten raken betrokken bij de marijuanahandel en vormen een organisatie genaamd Nguzusaba, die ook symboliek en kleding gebruikt om hun identiteit te versterken. Conflicten ontstaan met schoolautoriteiten over het dragen van dreadlocks, wat wordt aangevochten met behulp van de Universele Verklaring van de Rechten van de Mens [2][3].
Er wordt een escalatie beschreven waarbij de groep betrokken raakt bij cocaïnehandel, gewelddadige overvallen en politieke intriges. De protagonist Imru werkt ook in een bank en bouwt een muzieklabel op, waarbij hij samenwerkt met artiesten en betrokken raakt bij de lokale en internationale muziekscene. Tegelijkertijd raakt de groep verwikkeld in terroristische netwerken en paramilitaire plannen, waarbij conflicten ontstaan tussen idealisme en de realiteit van geweld en criminaliteit [4][5].
Hoofdstuk 2: Spirituele evolutie:
Chip, een sleutelfiguur in het verhaal, wordt geïnitieerd in een geheimzinnige Afrikaanse orde, de Orde van de Heilige Slang, die hem voorziet van occulte macht en politieke ambities. Deze orde heeft diepe wortels in Afrikaanse tradities en voegt een spiritueel en mystiek element toe aan de politieke en criminele activiteiten. Chips ambities omvatten het vestigen van een nieuw rijk, gesteund door esoterische krachten en politieke manipulatie, waarbij hij een belangrijke rol speelt in het leiden van een revolutionaire beweging in de regio [6].
Hoofdstuk 3: Politieke en sociale strijd
Het document beschrijft de groeiende spanningen op Sint Maarten, waarbij politieke corruptie, criminaliteit en terrorisme escaleren. Er wordt een aanslag beschreven waarbij een politicus, Hellener, wordt vermoord door een vergiftigde cocaïnedosis, wat leidt tot een machtsstrijd tussen verschillende facties. Imru en zijn bondgenoten plannen vergelding en consolideren hun macht terwijl de sociale orde instort. Tegelijkertijd worden de complexiteit van de criminele netwerken en hun internationale connecties duidelijk, evenals de rol van terrorisme binnen de regio [7][8].
Hoofdstuk 4: Europese connectie en criminaliteit
De groep breidt haar activiteiten uit naar Nederland, met Rotterdam als een belangrijk centrum. Hier ontstaan conflicten met andere criminele groeperingen, waaronder de Turkse en Marokkaanse maffia, en wordt een gewelddadige confrontatie beschreven tussen rivaliserende bendes. Imru zoekt bondgenoten in de onderwereld, zoals Peaches, een beruchte figuur met een gewelddadig verleden. Tegelijkertijd ontwikkelt Imru zijn muzieklabel verder en streeft naar legitimiteit door samen te werken met artiesten en grote muziekmaatschappijen [9][10].
Hoofdstuk 5: Pan-Caribische visie en onderwijs
In een toespraak op een conferentie in Jamaica legt een spreker, George, de nadruk op de noodzaak van een onafhankelijke Sint Maarten en een verenigd Caribisch front. Hij bekritiseert het koloniale onderwijs en pleit voor een onderwijsmodel dat aansluit bij de culturele realiteit van de Caribische jongeren. Het document bespreekt uitgebreid de problematiek van drugsgebruik, gangcultuur en de invloed van Amerikaanse hiphop en rap, en benadrukt het belang van een collectieve klasstructuur om nationale identiteit en sociale cohesie te bevorderen. Het pleidooi richt zich op het ontwikkelen van een eigen Caribische intellectuele en culturele identiteit, los van Europese invloeden[11][12].
Hoofdstuk 6: Spirituele en politieke climax
Het verhaal culmineert in een dramatische terroristische aanslag op Sint Maarten, uitgevoerd door twee jihadistische strijders, Amir en Absalom, die vanuit Guyana en Nederland zijn gestuurd. Deze aanval veroorzaakt enorme chaos en vernietiging, met een grote impact op toerisme en veiligheid. Tegelijkertijd ontplooit Chip zijn plan om politieke macht te grijpen via zijn netwerk en occulte macht, waarbij hij gebruikmaakt van de chaos om zijn invloed te vergroten. De nasleep toont een samenleving in totale ontreddering, waarbij politieke leiders vluchten en de orde instort. Imru en zijn bondgenoten proberen hun positie te consolideren te midden van de chaos [13][14].
Overige elementen
Het document bevat ook diepgaande beschrijvingen van personages zoals Gibraud, een gevreesde gevangene met een sterke spirituele achtergrond, en Isabell, zijn machtige tante. Daarnaast wordt het belang van culturele symbolen, zoals de vlag van Sint Maarten en de Brown Pelican, benadrukt als uitdrukking van nationale identiteit en onafhankelijkheid. Het document sluit af met reflecties op de rol van islamitische ideologieën, geheime genootschappen en internationale politieke machtsstructuren die de gebeurtenissen beïnvloeden [15][16].
Above the logo of the Soualiga Youth Foundation. Profiled on this BLOG in the HOME section.
ST PETERS Sint Maarten: Since 2000, the Foundation Soualiga Youth wrote a detailed report which was presented to the Minister of Education,n Sarah Wescott Williams. In said report, the Foundation outlined a comprehensive plan of action pertinent to Economic revitalization of the Caribbean economies, using Agriculture and Eco-Cultural Tourism as an alternative to the present hedonistic people-destructive trend in tourism. The plan was never taken seriously, and experts worldwide are predicting the imminent collapse of the Tourism sector as a viable economic pillar regionally. This article is a mirror of what the Soualiga Youth presented to the government of Sint Maarten.
Nov 21, 2012 (Menafn – Caribbean News Now – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) –There is indeed a continuing conversation in many global quarters about the type of prescription necessary for the revival of the Caribbean economies. In Washington, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) are lamenting about the evolving middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean.
While they have exercised much care and caution about defining the specific nations where the middle class is emerging, we must not lose sight of the fact that these two powerful agencies have not substantially addressed the growing poverty issues and decrease in quality of life among certain sectors of the region’s population. In addition, there have been no indicators from these two agencies as to how an emerging middle class will contribute to the control of poverty, improve youth employment and improve the quality of life for the disadvantaged in a sustained manner.
To the great disappointment of many other global observers, the Washington and Geneva multilateralists are aggressively pursuing their selfish development agenda through the deployment of financial resources and development of phony collaborative partnerships with their regional counterparts.
These agencies and their collaborators are yet to come forward with any viable and achievable suggestions regarding the revitalisation of our economies; managing our foreign policy reserves by decreasing imports, and most importantly, development strategies for a sustainable path that would alleviate the region’s social and economic ills.
Addressing youth unemployment, rural development, access to information technology tools and ensuring some initiatives will bring tangible benefits to the disadvantaged are innovations and expectations that should become key development and policy planks in the region.
As efforts and suggestions are developed for advancing and sustaining the Caribbean economies, there are at least three sectors that require immediate attention and hopefully will result in some improvements. However, it must be noted and recognised that successful and sustainable outcomes will only be derived from a genuine change of attitude, recognition of the need for broad-based planning, participation and an acceptance that the global community is changing and Caribbean governments and institutions are obligated to fall in line with these global changes.
Agriculture has long been recognised as the central mainstay of Caribbean economies. Unfortunately, this economy has disappeared, and there has been no coordinated or demonstrated effort to revive and sustain it. Short-term tourist dollars seem to be the priority. Accumulation of foreign currency in any Caribbean nation should not be dependent only upon tourism.
Many of our small farmers have been abandoned as weak-kneed regional policy experts associated with various governments have embarked upon a wild and ill-fated chase for tourism dollars, which is unlikely to increase.
While the chase of tourism dollars might be justified by the weak-kneed policy experts, evidence clearly indicates that Caribbean economies should not rely only on the tourism sector, given global economic uncertainties in Europe and North America. Tourism should not be embraced as the saviour of Caribbean economies. Agriculture should be the priority.
In reviving and sustaining this important industry, there are several factors that require a radical change in thinking and perception about production and market penetration. The application of new information technology tools, identifying and building new partnerships, creation and creating and sustaining a strong national marketing board that will assist agricultural stakeholders in exporting and selling their products.
The days of the Geest Line, Harrison Shipping, Atlantic Lines, the Saguenay and Canada Steamship Lines are remembered by many for transporting our agricultural products in better times. Unfortunately, maintenance and sustainability of these exports are disappearing, and very little efforts are being made for the production and export reliability of these products. Like the tourism industry, they are foreign currency income earner,s and this is why the rationale and need for the agricultural economy is vital to our future.
The tourism industry is an important sector for the region. While the importance of this industry is recognised and encouraged, like the agricultural industry, it also requires radical changes and understanding. The Caribbean tourism industry is very competitive and exceeds the old antique marketing strategy of white sand beaches, bikini-clad women with tantalizing physique and beautiful white teeth.
Potential vacationers are looking at affordability, safety, quick, accessible transportation and potential venues or attractions that suit their interests. These expectations require many changes in the management of this industry. Pricing, target marketing, and promotion are essential if Caribbean nations are interested in holding their niche.
Tourism income earnings are fine and must always be encouraged. However, consideration must be given to a more intricate and sustainable link with our agricultural industry. Tourist vacationers must be encouraged to consume more local foods and other consumption goods associated with the tourist industry.
Preserving Local Cultural Economic Models:
The preservation of the local arts and craft industry is of critical importance. This would require effective monitoring and maintenance of existing legislation that addresses trade preferences and the import of these products. Irrespective of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) hype, our local arts and crafts industries should always be protected.
As I examine the plight and future of the region’s disadvantaged, it is crystal clear that unemployment, sexual exploitation, youth delinquency, crime, and lawlessness will continue to confront Caribbean governments. At the same time, many regional individuals have embarked upon further education only to discover after graduation that there are no immediate employment opportunities at home.
Therefore, Caribbean governments need to broaden their perception of another potential foreign income source. Given the decline of the tourism industry, the collapse of the agricultural industry and limited export products, the denial must end, and our leaders need to get down to work to address local economic conditions and stop blaming global economic conditions.
No Need To Reinvent The Wheel:
Jamaica and Barbados maintain fairly good tourism and trade infrastructures that earn them foreign exchange. However, these two CARICOM nations are actively and aggressively engaged in labour export that provides opportunities for their unemployed skilled workers to seek temporary foreign employment in the United States and Canada. While these two nations, like their other regional colleagues, are engaged in the Canadian seasonal farm workers program, they recognise that it is minuscule and there is a need for sourcing other potential opportunities.
Many of our regional governments need to take a page from Barbados and Jamaica, as labour export generates good foreign income and also contributes to the improvement of the quality of life. Those regional governments with tunnel vision on labour export must understand that they need to go beyond the seasonal farm workers program.
Exploiting New Growth Avenues:
Our governments can begin exploring new labour market opportunities by putting their consular officials to investigate and identify employment opportunities for skilled unemployed workers in their domain. Canada and other Western nations have growing temporary employment opportunities that can utilise the skills of our employees. We need to move beyond the farm workers program.
Recognition and implementation of the above suggestions require our regional Ministries of Labour to become more innovative and forward-looking in addressing labour market opportunities in their domain. They might wish to solicit the assistance of the Trinidad-based International Labour Office (ILO) if they decide to become innovative and creative.
The murder of Trinidadian, Venezuelan, and other Caribbean nationals by the American government under the Trump administration is unprecedented in modern times and completely illegal, as per Western international law. Placing the entire Trump Administration in the criminal bracket. Calling Trump a war criminal is an oxymoron. Who is America at war with in the Caribbean? Which Caribbean country is at war with America? Is Venezuela at war with America? Is Cuba at war with America? The boats that Trump has ordered destroyed in Caribbean waters are fishing vessels. All illicit narcotics shipments to America are sent by submarine vessels and through shipping ports, or go fasts. Not fishing boats, which cannot safely reach the US.
The US government, which touts itself as a paradigm of democracy and a protector of democratic freedoms, have murdered defenceless fishermen classified as terrorists. The insanity of present American geo-politics vis-à-vis the Caribbean is mind-boggling to say the least. Presenting no evidence, the US government is conducting an insidious pogrom in our region, in direct contravention of international law. The ramifications of the actions of the US government under Trump will have far-reaching, dire consequences for decades to come. For fishermen in many Caribbean islands, their industry has been devastated their ability to feed themselves and their families, all but taken away. Fisherfolk are forced to remain on land since no one knows when they will be targeted by the US government if they dare venture out to sea to fish.
Regional uncertainty:
Many Caribbean governments are in a state of uncertainty due to the mercurial nature of the present American foreign policy, which has negatively impacted the region’s economy, which is heavily dependent on its tourism sector. Climate change, illicit narcotics trafficking and the modern gangs spawned in the Caribbean, government corruption and recently terrorism.
Dire regional reality:
The phenomenon of many nationals of Trinidad and Tobago making Hijra to Syria and Iraq to fight on behalf of ISIS/ISIL is a reality threatening peace and security in the Caribbean. With the addition of the insane and criminal policies of Trump, the Caribbean is faced with a dire reality: which leaders will stand forth to guide the region beyond these troublesome times, certainly not the present crop of useful idiots. The NGO’s effective thought leaders and the many innovative leaders on the ground in the region are needed more than ever before in the Caribbean if any meaningful and effective changes are going to be brought to the fore. More to come on the serious, fast changing geo-political reality in the Caribbean.
Iam elated to announce that, after a long hiatus, this blog has been upgraded and will soon become a full-fledged website. Much has changed in my personal life. I still live in and work in Rotterdam, and now, increasingly, we work outside of Rotterdam. The Foundation Lalibela is now functional in North Africa, namely Morocco; more about that at a later time. Soon to come, my forthcoming book, “Soldiers”: a dive into terrorism, illicit narcotics trafficking, gang culture and corruption in government, from a Caribbean-centric perspective. The book takes the form of a novel and is based on factual events, with, of course, some fiction. Stay tuned for much more from us on this site. Bless.
In the upcoming posts, I will delve into the realities of Cocaine trafficking in the Caribbean and the other existential threat to the region and its people, Climate Change.
Cocaine trafficking has created the present political hierarchy regionally and shapes and guides our political destiny. Climate change, however, is the natural threat that has already forever transformed the region and guided us on an irrevocable course now and into the future.
Cocaine trafficking has created the present realities in specifically Haiti, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Curacao, Sint Maarten and the rest of the Caribbean. All islands are vassals of the drug barons and their cartels. I endeavour to elucidate our regional reality in the era that we now live in and propose herein a realistic approach going forward for ordinary people to grow and thrive despite the twin threats of climate change and illicit narcotics trafficking.
This is to certify that Soualiga Youth is now resident in Rotterdam. Out of Foundation Soualiga Youth foundation, Lalibela was formed by Bernardo Bailey and Ivan Richardson+. From now into the foreseeable future, I will highlight the work of Foundation Lalibela which is inextricably linked to Soualiga Youth since they are one and the same. Foundation Lalibela has done and is still doing, vital work here in Rotterdam for over 20 years.
Bernardo Bailey aka Ras Enoch in Shashamane Ethiopia aka Ityoppia duringFoundation Lalibela’s pilgrimage to Lalibela Ethiopia.
An Ethiopian monk showing members of the Foundation Lalibela incense used in the church there in Lalibela Ethiopia.
Art work
Members of Foundation Lalibela with young men from the community in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, second from left Ivan Richardson middle Bernardo Bailey (founders of Lalibela Commonunity).
Foundation Lalibela has been supporting Ethiopians in Ethiopia since 2011 with financial assistance and the purchasing of medicine and dry goods to aid communities, families, and individuals there in Ethiopia. Recently the war in Tigray (northern Ethiopia), comprising ethno-regional militias, the Federal Government, and the Eritrean military has garnered the attention of foreign governments and NGO’ssince 2020. Foundation Lalibela – has been involved in the relief effort and I will – do several post’s about – that in the future. This is a new epoch and era in the life of this Blog, more posts will follow expounding on our work in Ethiopia and the Caribbean. Blessed love.
In Roman Catholicism, we can see traces of the worship of the sun god Rah of the Egyptians. Therefore, by dint of practicality Roman Catholicism is in fact ancient Egyptian sun god worship, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the Christian Judaeo principle called monotheism. Catholicism is polytheism cloaked under a sophisticated Christian-sounding veneer, where the Egyptian gods are either called saints or some other convenient title to cloak their original identity.
Interestingly enough practitioners of the Santeria blood cult and Vaudon all worship and accept the saints of Roman Catholicism, they claim that the Catholic saints all correspond to their pantheon of deities, and they see no difference whatsoever between their demon gods and the so-called Roman Catholic saints. The Greek culture co-opted many of the Egyptian gods and goddesses, hence the polyglot of religious veneration that typifies Modern Greek culture. The Greeks were later conquered by the Romans, who adopted many forms of Greek culture, including many of their gods and goddesses alongside, those already venerated by the Romans.
Take note of the so-called Monstrance or sunburst in the Roman Catholic priest’s hands. This is the same symbol represented by the Egyptians, as their God the Roman Catholic institution is, worshipping the Egyptian sun god Rah and not Jesus of our bible.
Figure: Pope Johannes XXIII Note the crown on his head, it is a triple crown directly mimicking the description of the crown in revelations, where it is said on his (Jesus’) head, that he wore many crowns.
The Roman Catholic church purports to be a God-ordained government and is a body that wields massive political, as well as religious influence, globally. Since their practice of idolatry disqualifies them from God’s perspective from being true sons of God. They are a religious cult, and their dogma is false, these are the people that some claim are representatives of Jesus on earth this notion is erroneous, as the bible clearly defines a messianic community to be comprised firstly of Apostles, Pastors, Preachers, Teachers, Governments, Helps/Tongues. No mention is ever made of a Pope, a Madonna, or any icon as an object of worship and there is no mention made of a Cardinal or any of the designated roles that Roman Catholic leaders cloak themselves in.
This is the official flag of Vatican City. The City has an armed elite division. The Pope has special guards called Papal Guards. The Vatican has its own national anthem. The coat of arms to the right of this page is Pope Francis, the current Pope. The coat of arms was recently updated, the insignia of the order of Jesuits is present, as a heraldic ensign on this emblem, the five-pointed star of witchcraft was changed to an eight-point star, and the cluster of grapes was also modified. The ever-present sunburst or monstrance is also visible, which is the god of Roman Catholicism.
Above a papal guard at the entrance to Vatican City.
Map of Vatican City which sits on seven hills.
The Roman Catholic Institution is in fact a country a nation possessing its own constitution and leadership. The word Catholic means ecumenical all-embracing, worldwide, universal. The total population is 850 people of mainly Swedish and Italian backgrounds. The official languages are Latin and Italian. Vatican City is a sovereign state that is independent of the Italian state, since the 11th of February 1929. Only Cardinals younger than 80 years can vote. Their total income is 175, 5 million dollars per annum, the bulk of this income is said to come from the sale of souvenirs, stamps, and books. Out of this church came the ecumenical movement. At present Francis, the current pope has appointed and according to the Vatican news outlets as well as secular news outlets, “eight cardinals from all around to help him “govern” the church”, there you have their own words stating that they are a government and not simply a church. Under Roman Catholicism, many Africans in the Diaspora were forced to adopt what is in fact ancient Egyptian sun god or Ishtar worship cloaked under a Christian veneer. Some Spanish-speaking descendants, of enslaved Africans, call themselves, “Latinos”, the true Latin man is an Italian, and the Spaniards, the black descendants of slaves calling themselves Latino, are simply former slaves with no knowledge of their past. The ability of the European to divide and rule African descendants in the Western hemisphere is astounding and a cause for concern, since it even inhibits people from accepting the preached gospel of Jesus Christ.
Sir George in his letters to the Christians of Scotland had this to say (quoted from Bishop Alexander Hislop: The Two Babylons); “Romanism is a refined system of Christianized heathenism, and chiefly differs from its prototype in being more treacherous, crueler, more dangerous, and more intolerant.” Note the idol in the back of the pope of a dead man on a stake they claim that the image is Jesus. The image is a character created by the artist Michael Angelo for the Roman Catholic Institution, he was commissioned by the papacy to create such art. Note the Pope above praying to the goddess Isis (Virgin goddess), middle above in front of a huge painting of Isis and her son Horus, note the color of the woman and child (black), the last image is an enlarged picture of the woman. In Haiti she is called Erzili Danto (Isis), the scar on her identifies her, for in the Vaudon pantheon of deities that is how she is portrayed.
At the right of this page the Black Madonna and Pope John Paul with the halo around his head, he is now a Roman Catholic saint, not unlike the ancestors of other religions who become gods and goddesses and receive prayers. Here again, is more proof of the paganism in Roman Catholicism. Pope Benedict XV1 prays inside the Grotto of the Apparitions’ also called Grotto of Massabiele. September 13, 2008, in the Sanctuary of Lourdes. Pope Benedict made a pilgrimage to Lourdes to mark the 150th anniversary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in 1858.
The crown above
is used by female witches in their ceremonies, it is referred to as the goddess crown, the symbol on the front of the crown symbolizes the moon. The same symbolic moon can be observed on the head of the woman in this illustration, proving that this is a witchcraft piece of art and not Christian at all, yet the Roman Church has for centuries incorporated her into their institution’s iconography. In Haiti and in many cultures throughout the Caribbean the woman above is called Yemaya, “Mami Wata”, Yemaya is a Vaudon deity who possesses the attributes of the Roman Mary, the Vaudon claim that their Yemaya is associated with Isis.
Ancient painting depicting Artemis/Serimaris the Sun goddess and her son. Note the twelve stars above the head of the woman mimicking the twelve Apostles, this woman represents the modern EU or European Union with their flag, which has twelve stars. This is one of the deities that the Roman Catholic institution, has adopted and plagiarized as their version of Mary and Jesus. This painting is a Greek adaptation of the Egyptian Goddess Isis and her son Horus, which was later adopted by the Romans under Constantinople. This symbolic woman, the so-called “Queen of Heaven”, came to represent the mother of Jesus, they simply merged their pagan culture with Christianity, in order to create a government ruled by a Roman hierarchy yet the symbolism and the rituals remained Roman and Greek paganism. The early Catholics sacralized, Roman and Greek culture and passed their culture off to the world as holy. The Greeks called Isis Artemis.
Figure: The “Black Madonna and Child” of the Roman Catholic Institution, known to Anthropologists and researchers as Isis with her son Horus.
Figure: Another example of paganism and idolatry as practiced by the Roman Institution, indirect defiance of biblical precepts.
Aset and Heru/Isis Horus, original Madonna and child in the Vatican here is Pope Benedict XVI the former pope, and Francis the present Pope, praying to the ‘Black Madonna’. These “Black Madonna’s” can be found throughout Europe and are revered by all Roman Catholics. This work asserts that the bible clearly renounces the worship of idols as idolatry and paganism; it is in their adaptation of pagan worship that the Roman institution is in error. The error is a grave one indeed, as billions of souls are being deceived, by the idolatry practiced by the papacy.
Above statue of Ignatius Loyola.
Figure: The Roman Institution has created saints throughout its existence one of their more interesting “saints”, Ignatius Loyola the founder of the order of the Jesuits the Jesuits insignia can be seen above, the letters IHS surrounded by a sunburst/nimbus. His book Spiritual Exercises is visible above at the far right of this page. Through his practice of transcendental meditation Loyola would be seen levitating above the floor by his subordinates. He incorporated several disciplines into his doctrine of spirituality namely, Telepathy, (Parapsychology), Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and a host of others most of the disciplines he employed were either occultic or pseudo-scientific.
Figure: Isis and the child Horus with his side-lock, yes, a dreadlock on the side of his head, this statue shows the original Magma Mater, Queen of Heaven,
The European Roman Catholic interpretation of Isis and her son Horus.
The Chinese Shin Moo is the solar mother goddess of Chinese mythology.
The Green Tara goddess found all over the Orient and in Buddhism, Hinduism and Jainism, she is also found in Tibet.Below is her Hindu equivalent , the nimbus or sunburst surrounds both their heads.
Here is an excerpt from Hislops book about depictions of Mary and Jesus. “When, therefore, it is known that the most famed pictures of the Virgin Mother in Italy represented her as of a fair complexion and with golden hair, and when overall Ireland the Virgin is almost invariably represented at this day in the very same manner, who can resist the conclusion that she must have been thus represented only because she had been copied from the same prototype as the pagan divinities. Nor is this agreement in complexion only, but also in features. Jewish features are everywhere marked and have a character peculiarly their own. But the original Madonna’s have nothing at all of Jewish form or feature; but are declared by those who have personally compared both, entirely to agree in this respect, as well as in complexion, with the Babylonian Madonna’s found by sir Robert Ker Porter among the ruins of Babylon.
There is yet another remarkable characteristic of these pictures worthy of notice and that is the nimbus or peculiar circle of light that frequently encompasses the head of the Roman Madonna. With this circle, the heads of the so-called figures of Christ are also frequently surrounded. Whence could such a device have originated? In the case of our Lord, if His head had been merely surrounded with rays, there might have been some pretense for saying that that was borrowed from the Evangelic narrative, where it is stated, that on the holy mount His face became resplendent with light. But where, in the whole compass of Scripture, do we ever read that His head was surrounded with a disk or a circle of light? But what will be searched for in vain in the Word of God, is found in the artistic representations of the great gods and goddesses of Babylon. The disk and particularly the circle were the well-known symbols of the Sun divinity, and figured largely in the symbolism of the East.
With the circle or the disk, the head of the Sun divinity was encompassed. The same was the case in Pagan Rome. Apollo, as the child of the Sun, was often thus represented. The goddesses that claimed kindred with the Sun were equally entitled to be adorned with the nimbus or luminous circle. From Pompeii, there is a representation of Circe, “the daughter of the Sun” with her head surrounded by a circle, in the very same way as the head of the Roman Madonna is at this day surrounded. Let anyone compare the nimbus around the head of Circe, with that around the head of the Popish Virgin, and he will see how exactly they correspond”. From Alexander Hislop: (The Two Babylons).
Figure: Chin Mu, Shing Moo the Chinese goddess of Heaven, surrounded by her ladies in waiting note the dragon armrests on either side of her throne in Chinese mythology the dragon is a sacred creature. Directly above Yashoda suckling her son Krishna the “blue boy”, the ever-present nimbus also used so prevalently by the Catholics, as an identifier of deities and holy personalities.
Shing Moo and Ma Tsoopo of China: The name of Shing Moo, applied by the Chinese to their “Holy Mother,” compared with another name of the same goddess in another province of China, strongly favors the conclusion that Shing Moo is just a synonym for one of the well-known names of the goddess-mother of Babylon. Gillespie (in his Land of Sinim) states that the Chinese goddess-mother, or “Queen of Heaven,” in the province of Fuh-Kien, is worshipped by seafaring people under the name of Ma Tsoopo. Now, “Ama Tzupah” signifies the “Gazing Mother”; and there is much reason to believe that Shing Moo signifies the same; for Mu was one of the forms in which Mut or Maut, the name of the great mother, appeared in Egypt (BUNSEN’S Vocabulary); and Shngh, in Chaldee, signifies “to look” or “gaze.” The Egyptian Mu or Maut was symbolized either by a vulture or an eye surrounded by a vulture’s wings (WILKINSON).
The symbolic meaning of the vulture may be learned from the Scriptural expression: “There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen” (Job 28:7). The vulture was noted for its sharp sight, and hence, the eye surrounded by the vulture’s wings showed that, for some reason or other, the great mother of the gods in Egypt had been known as “The gazer.” But the idea contained in the Egyptian symbol had evidently been borrowed from Chaldea; for Rheia, one of the most noted names of the Babylonian mother of the gods is just the Chaldee form of the Hebrew Rhaah, which signifies at once “a gazing woman” and a “vulture.” The Hebrew Rhaah itself is also, according to a dialectical variation, legitimately pronounced Rheah; and hence the name of the great goddess-mother of Assyria was sometimes Rhea, and sometimes Rheia. In Greece, the same idea was evidently attached to Athena or Minerva, whom we have seen to have been by some regarded as the Mother of the children of the sun.
For one of her distinguishing titles was Ophthalmitis (SMITH’S Classical Dictionary, “Athena”), thereby pointing her out as the goddess of “the eye.” It was no doubt to indicate the same thing that, as the Egyptian Maut wore a vulture on her head, so the Athenian Minerva was represented as wearing a helmet with two eyes, or eye-holes, in the front of the helmet. (VAUX’S Antiquities). Having thus traced the gazing mother over the earth, is it asked, what can have given origin to such a name as applied to the mother of the gods? A fragment of Sanchuniathon, in regard to the Phoenician mythology, furnishes us with a satisfactory reply. There it is said that Rheia conceived by Kronos, who was her own brother, and yet was known as the father of the gods, and in consequence brought forth a son who was called Muth, that is, as Philo-Byblius correctly interprets the word, “Death.”
As Sanchuniathon expressly distinguishes this “father of the gods” from “Hypsistos,” The Most High, we naturally recall what Hesiod says in regard to his Kronos, the father of the gods, who, for a certain wicked deed, was called Titan, and cast down to hell. (Theogonia).” From Alexander Hislop: (The Two Babylons).
Figure: The two images above are decidedly African in their physical characteristics, specifically the baby being held by the first woman above, the child is a rendering of Krishna a close inspection of his hair will reveal the thick coarse hair of the African.
The statue directly above is very African in its physical makeup. The physical attributes of the two figures above lend significant credence to the claims made in this book, and in many other scholarly works of a Dravidian i.e. African presence in pre-Aryan/Brahmin India. The most ancient names of Krishna and his mother are, Isi and Iswara, the following is from Alexander Hislop’s, The Two Babylons: “In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms; and even in Tibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her child as devoutly worshipped as in papal Rome itself ; Shing Moo the holy mother of China with a child in her arms, and a glory around her, exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set her up”. Osiris, as the child called most frequently Horus. BUNSEN. KENNEDY’S Hindu Mythology. Though Iswara is the husband of Isi, he is also represented as an infant at her breast. The very name, by which the Italians commonly designate the Virgin, is just the translation of one of the titles of the Babylonian goddess. As Baal or Belus was the name of the great male divinity of Babylon, so the female divinity was called Beltis. (HESYCHIUS, Lexicon) This name has been found in Nineveh applied to the “Mother of the gods” (VAUX’S Nineveh and Persepolis); and in a speech attributed to Nebuchadnezzar, preserved in EUSEBII Proeparatio Evangelii, both titles “Belus and Beltis” are conjoined as the titles of the great Babylonian god and goddess.
The Greek Belus, as representing the highest title of the Babylonian god, was undoubtedly Baal, “The Lord.” Beltis, therefore, as the title of the female divinity, was equivalent to “Baalti,” which, in English, is “My Lady,” in Latin, “Mea Domina,” and, in Italina, is corrupted into the well-known “Madonna.” In connection with this, it may be observed, that the name of Juno, the classical “Queen of Heaven,” which, in Greek, was Hera, also signified “The Lady”; and that the peculiar title of Cybele or Rhea at Rome, was Domina or “The Lady.” (OVID, Fasti) Further, there is strong reason to believe, that Athena, the well-known name of Minerva at Athens, had the very same meaning. The Hebrew Adon, “The Lord,” is, with the points, pronounced Athon. We have evidence that this name was known to the Asiatic Greeks, from whom idolatry, in a large measure, came into European Greece, as a name of God under the form of “Athan.” Eustathius, in a note on the Periergesis of Dionysius, speaking of local names in the district of Laodicea, says the “Athan is god.” The feminine of Athan, “The Lord,” is Athan, “The Lady,” which in the Attic dialect is Athena. No doubt, Minerva is commonly represented as a virgin; but, for all that, we learn from Strabo that at Hierapytna in Crete (the coins of which city, says Muller, Dorians have the Athenian symbols of Minerva upon them), she was said to be the mother of the Corybantes by Helius, or “The Sun.” It is certain that the Egyptian Minerva, who was the prototype of the Athenian goddess, was a mother, and was styled “Goddess Mother,” or “Mother of the Gods.” CRABB’S Mythology. Gutzlaff thought that Shing Moo must have been borrowed from a Popish source; and there can be no doubt, that in the individual case to which he refers, the Pagan and the Christian stories had been amalgamated. But Sir. J. F. Davis shows that the Chinese of Canton find such an analogy between their own Pagan goddess Kuanyin and the Popish Madonna, that, in conversing with Europeans, they frequently call either of them indifferently by the same title. (Davis’s China). The first Jesuit missionaries to China also wrote home to Europe, which they found mention in the Chinese sacred books unequivocally Pagan–of a mother and child, very similar to their own Madonna and child at home.
Figure: Yashoda and baby Krishna as a suckling child, the statue below is a depiction of the same goddess and her son, also known as Isa and Ishwara, the Kemitian/Egyptian equivalent being Isis/Aset and Horus/Heru.