Dear Editor,
I have written it before, and today we see it again – millions of Euros in one way or the other embezzled from parents via the health department and what happens? The pandemic is about to overshadow the fall of the Dutch government. Those who could not justify the wrong that was happening for years, as usual did the honorable thing and took French leave (as the Dutchman would, say, “vertrokken met de noorderzon”) and it did not take Prime Minister Rutte, who they claim knew what was going for years, too long to submit his letter of resignation as that of his cabinet to the King.
Nothing is said about, arrests and going to courts contrary to what happens down here when our politicians or leaders in government are arrested and indicted for embezzling and messing with much less of the people’s money than was mentioned.
Did I always write that if I was not raised right the first one to be faulted should be my parents? So what about those who have always had and still have supervision over our finances, should they not be categorized the same as my parents who did not raise me right?
When I heard that this was going on for years I asked myself, if it was going on for years, why did they wait until now to report it? Because I am convinced it is a case of DNA or life’s motto, I conclude that the urge to “get you one day” overrode “the right thing to do” and today Holland is without a cabinet.
Some claim that it did not come as a surprise because Rutte was trying his utmost to piece things together, but to no avail. I know that government continues, but in the back of my head the question lingers, what if Knops does not get back in?
If this was going on for years and others knew about it, could I think that they probably were covering up things for each other? And if this is so, could the possibility of coming to the Dutch Caribbean after a few years as consultant or advisers be in the picture?
I do not advocate people being incarcerated, but If people are arrested and sentenced in this case, will we hear about it, like we always do of our people?
Russell A. Simmons
