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What Exactly Are You Accusing Me Of, and What Law Backs It Up?

 📎 SWANK Dispatch: 27 Questions, 0 Answers — A Letter That Outlined the Whole Game

🗓️ 26 August 2020

Filed Under: institutional evasion, demand for specificity, parenting interrogation, compost toilet policing, pandemic risk ignored, lawful home education, disability accommodations, asthma protection, retaliatory safeguarding

“If you’re going to accuse me of endangering my children,
you’ll need to do better than vague concern and compost-phobia.”
— A Mother with a 27-Point List and a Very Clean Garden Bed

In this immaculate, no-nonsense response to a letter dated 19 August 2020, Polly Chromatic directs her attention to Ashley Smith-Joseph, Child Protection Worker in Grand Turk. What unfolds is not a rebuttal — it is a systematic, itemised dismantling of an unsubstantiated case file.

It is what happens when a mother demands evidence, citations, and legal authority — and expects to receive them in writing, not whispered through insinuation.

🗂️ I. 27 Questions. No Room to Hide.

The letter methodically asks for:

• The specific concern
• The basis for that concern
• And, where applicable, the legal foundation

From truancy dates that fall in summer holidays to questions about:

  • Clothing inside her own home

  • Her outdoor bamboo shower (for asthma accommodation)

  • Sleeping arrangements involving a $1000 hygienic mat

  • Temporary compost toilets used during renovation

  • Use of compost beds for animal and human waste — which is legal and ecologically informed

Every question demands clarity, law, and respect.

🧠 II. The Real Subject: Obfuscation by Authority

The letter reveals a key pattern:

  • Accusations after formal complaints were submitted

  • Concerns without citation

  • Assumptions about hygiene, learning, and health rooted in bias, not law

  • Ongoing disregard for her high-risk medical status during a pandemic

And she makes it clear:
She is not declining a meeting.
She is simply declining a charade.

📞 III. Her Conditions Are Reasonable. The Department Is Not.

She agrees to attend a meeting, under these conditions:

  1. It must be remote (due to her asthma and pandemic risk)

  2. Her attorney (Lara Maroof) must be present

  3. The meeting must be rescheduled to 4 September to allow time for written clarification of all listed concerns

This is not resistance.
It’s due process — in an island that seems to fear due process more than it fears illness.


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Recycling Is Noble, But Refusal to Collect Waste Is Neglect in Disguise

 🗑️ SWANK Dispatch: The Trash Truck Drives By but Never Down My Road

🗓️ 16 July 2020

Filed Under: public service neglect, municipal bias, infrastructure inequality, disability rights, waste injustice, asthma accommodation failure, environmental hypocrisy

“The trash truck sees me. It simply doesn’t stop.”
— A Mother with a Bike and a Diagnosis, Not a Car

Dear Archive of Civilised Disgust,

In what polite empire does one recycle religiously, write formal letters, and still not receive basic waste collection?

On 16 July 2020, from her lawful home on Grand Turk Island — marked precisely on a map — Polly Chromatic wrote to Kenrick Neely about an infrastructural absurdity:

💭 The trash truck drives past her road
🚮 But never collects hers
🛑 Even when she asked directly

And what’s her supposed crime?
Living on a road with homes flattened by hurricanes.
Riding a bike instead of owning a car.
Having severe eosinophilic asthma that makes hauling waste physically dangerous.

♻️ I. This Is Not a Complaint About Trash — It’s a Complaint About Access

She wrote:

“We still have trash that needs to be properly disposed of… I have severe eosinophilic asthma which limits my physical abilities.”

She recycles. She organises.
But she cannot drag bags down the road, through donkey-strewn terrain, in the tropical heat, gasping for breath.

And still—nothing.

🗺️ II. The Map Was Attached. The Address Was Clear. The Refusal Was Deliberate.

She even pinpointed her location and the truck’s weekly route.
Not metaphorically. Literally.
Yet the service passed her by like a caste system on wheels.

📅 III. All She Asked Was for a Collection Day and Time

“Please tell me what day and time I should expect them… to avoid the donkeys tearing up the trash.”

This was not an abstract request.
It was a mother asking for basic municipal cooperation — and being met with institutional apathy disguised as logistical inconvenience.

🌿 Final Refuse:

When a mother with asthma rides a bike to recycle and still writes civil letters for the right to dispose of waste — that is not civic failure.
That is bureaucratic neglect in technicolour.

Labels: waste management neglect, environmental discrimination, asthma accommodation, rural infrastructure failure, municipal exclusion, hurricane aftermath, public service bias, single mother advocacy, eco-justice, donkeys and dysfunction

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