Balluk – on the deed of cession, you wrote, "I have read the original deed of cession in Prince Albert hall in London. Which in my opinion and those of various legal experts, was clearly a request for a temporary protection, from one Monarch to another?"
To that I say, "my ass"- your opinion don't count – and what legal exeperts are you talking about……..and don't try an impress folks in here with that "I have been London" line.
Here is what was given by old boy Seru, a failed businessman, to Queen. See if you can figure it out…and BTW – these chiefs would sell their own people into slavery too.
"That the possession of and full sovereignty and dominion over the whole of the group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean known as the Fijis (and lying between the parallels of latitude of fifteen degrees South and twenty two degrees South of the Equator and between the Meridians of longitude of one hundred and seventy seven degrees West and one hundred and seventy five degrees East of the meridian of Greenwich) and over the inhabitants thereof, together with the possession of and sovereignty over the waters adjacent thereto and of and over all ports harbours havens roadsteads rivers estuaries and other waters and all reefs and foreshores within or adjacent thereto, are hereby ceded to and accepted on behalf of Her said Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland her heirs and successors, to the intent that from this time forth the said islands and the waters reefs and other places as aforesaid lying within or adjacent thereto may be annexed to and be a possession and dependency of the British Crown."
You with me – what part of that says anything about temporary. And when the British handed over power, they did that to a legitimate government of Fiji after a constitutional conference – not to the GCC. So if you have a problem with this – your complaint should be more with what old boy Seru did.
Now let us look at your Indian history – that the Raja's pushed out the Indians from India. You dumbass, go check your history – the British were in total control of India when this indenture system started – that was right after slavery had ended. One of the reasons these Indos were leaving was because the British had changed the agriculture system with cash crop farming and land taxes – and the British had set up a very efficient system with railroads etc to haul out most of the foods and other raw material. So when the monsoon wasn't good, the drought now meant famine – and that is one reason why we had this migration in the 1800's – so cut out the crap about the Rajas.
As for your untouchable theory – BTW, I don't buy into this caste crap, however, the British get very good records and anyone can go research at the archives in Suva and figure out that the majority of Indos that came were not untouchables.
As for your need for retaining our chiefs – all societies, as certain stages of evolution, had something similar to the chiefly system that we have – and those Indians had their Rajas, you have your Ratus – and as these societies evolve – life every other society you start off with the cavemen, and then kinda evolve into a hunter/gatherer type, then become sort of like the slash and burn agricultural communities that we had in Fiji before the arrival of the white men – otherwise you continue into bigger, more agrarian society – with farming animals, irrigation etc. Somewhere along that line there come a need for leadership such as the chiefs, and you gradually evolve into where you don't need the chiefs and democracy would just do fine – the Ratu's, Raja's, the big Kahuna types disappeared – and in Fiji we are at a stage that in about a generation of so, this chiefly system will go the same way – this political upheaval that we are going through now may just speed up that process.
If the chief want to play a role in leading his people – he should contest an election, just like some of the former Rajas in India have done.
BTW – if you and others like you cut out the racist crap, we all will be better off. The Indian presence will always be there, though there numbers are rapidly declining – so the conflicts that you have in Fiji has more to do with Fijians themselves – just look at why that Vunivalu position has remained vacant since 1983 – mayabe we should just leave it that way.
Time to move on dude – and all that foul language – does it make you feel good, because it don't bother me none.
You see Balluk – you are just a dumbass – so who paid for your trip to London?
