⟡ SWANK International Harassment Archive ⟡
“You’re Being Investigated Because You Keep Asking Why You’re Being Investigated”
Filed: 1 November 2016
Reference: SWANK/TCI/SOCIALDEV-HARASSMENT-TIMELINE-01
📎 Download PDF – 2016-11-01_SWANK_SocialDevelopment_Harassment_Timeline_TCI.pdf
Author: Polly Chromatic
I. This Wasn’t Oversight. It Was Performance Art in a Government Lanyard.
This timeline documents a multi-year siege by the Department of Social Development in the Turks and Caicos Islands — an institution that neither protected nor clarified, but simply appeared. Repeatedly. Without warrant, without coherence, and without shame.
At the centre:
A mother who homeschooled legally
Children dragged into systems meant to protect them
And a parade of officials who mistook persistence for legitimacy
No crime. No threshold. No transparency.
Just paperwork, intimidation, and silence — dressed as duty.
This wasn’t investigation.
It was bureaucratic loitering with a clipboard.
II. What the Timeline Proves
That the Department of Social Development:
Failed to articulate the legal basis of its repeated interventions
Ignored written educational permissions under national law
Demanded personal documents without formal justification
Engaged in home intrusions, hospital coercion, and adjustment-violating behaviour
Repeatedly withheld case reports — in breach of the Children Ordinance
And most offensively:
Claimed to act in the child’s best interest while institutionalising distrust as policy.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because harassment is not legitimised by timestamps.
Because endless “visits” without resolution constitute state stalking.
Because the only thing more dangerous than unchecked authority is unchecked routine.
We filed this because:
No parent should have to document this much to justify peace
No child should grow up surveilled instead of supported
No department should be allowed to wear the word “development” while obstructing it
Let the record show:
The family complied.
The state escalated.
The questions were lawful.
The answers were never delivered.
And SWANK — delivers the audit instead.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept surveillance disguised as safeguarding.
We do not accept silence when law demands explanation.
We do not accept social workers acting as both enforcers and forgetters.
Let the record show:
The dates were recorded.
The names were repeated.
The intrusion was patterned.
And the archive — is now permanent.
This wasn’t protection.
It was a government hobby with no exit strategy.
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