[quote]Originally posted by Mike Coordero:
>I had a feeling people were afraid to talk
about this one. I thought those the believe in the PNP would say something the same with the PPD and not to meantion PIP. Well, maybe I am wrong.<
Mike you left out New Zealand which also has a politically eccentric relationship to Great Britain.
Frankly I don't think that we Boricuas with our Latin and Taino heritage would find the British solution of commonwealth status suitable to our nature and humor.
Personally, the thing that I have found engaging is the legal system of Common Law as opposed to our system of Civil Law which comes from the Napoleonic era of the French.
I think something based on a common law point of view would eventually be better for Puerto Rico, then the current mess of civil law in conflict with a loose interpretation of common law under the aegis of the U.S..
Most P.R.'s I discovered who are thrown into the legal system don't know really which law applies to them, i.e,, either they are innocent until proved guilty as the common law maintains, or they are guilty until they prove themselves innocent if given the chance to do so. I say if given the chance, because I know of cases were prisoners awaiting months for an ajudication of their cases were murdered in their cells, shot like fish in a barrel by prison guards.
How convenient for the guards when they based their actions on the civil law that the prisoners were guilty anyway. AND THEY GOT AWAY WITH THESE MURDERS!
In a future Independent Republic of Puerto Rico, I maintain that we have to resolve this legal confusion and choose either/or for one system of the code of law or the other.
Personally, I lean towards the common law side, although I have had to overcome my Latin and Taino reserve to the eccentricities of its British heritage.
In short, I now find it overwhelmingly better than the old and murderous civil law option.
But other than that, I cannot really make headway in understanding the commonwealth association of all those countries you mentioned, and New Zealand which I added.
Regards Boricua,
EddieR #1
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