Dear Editor,
I know who I am and I believe in what I stand for, and I also believe that if you say “A” you should say “B”, but being fair is high among my virtues. My mother used to tell us that it takes just as much energy to do good as it takes to do bad, so preferably do good.
I believe that it takes maturity to be in government. A commissioner once told me that he does not work for me, he bragged about it among his peers and coincidentally he was not re-elected. I made a joke out of it at that time and said that probably if he worked for me it would have worked for he.
I believe that MPs should dedicate more of their time doing what they were elected to instead of investigating a sex scandal between two adults. There are a whole lot more positive things that can be proposed by MPs other than wasting the taxpayers’ time and money on things which should be dealt with by government arbitrators and lawyers.
Because of where I worked desperate people would come to me for advice because of what happened to them. So I know that abuse of power because of sexual advance refusal has been around not alone in government but also in the private sector. Those who have been involved in this practice and who are still involved in it should abstain from this practice because, as we can see, cell phones and taping devices come in all different forms nowadays.
I stand to be corrected for what I am about to write now but I believe that the time has come that if we want to encourage others to do the thing right we should show example. I am of the opinion that Ministers substitute for each other, I am not aware the MPs substitute Ministers. this in reaction to a letter congratulating the people of Dutch Quarter.
More and more people are letting me know that there are a whole lot of gypsies out there who are using cars which are not insured and which are using old French number plates which they take off old French cars. Which encourages me to continue calling on government to put public transportation in the hands of the people and not in the hands of individuals. Probably MP Brison could spend some energy on that.
I believe that if transparency of government is prevelant, finding out what is terribly wrong with the public transportation would be great work. That would be working for the whole community and it would not seem as if he is being personal. I do not think that it is wise for anyone who is just getting his/her feet wet to get them wet in that way.
MP Wescot-Williams called for “justice authorities.” A man told me that he does not make too much publicity of the term “gedoogd beleid” because he is waiting for something to happen so that he could use that to get money from government. I want to know if he was referring to personal damage or material damage.
By the way, now that there are a whole lot of European Dutch in the midst of what is going with the reconstruction after Irma, I expected some signage like they use in Holland when, for instance, diverting traffic, etc. I have not seen any of that and I shake my head and ask myself, “Why not?”
Now this. If we are kingdom partners, what do not all the partners understand and agree with about Statia’s struggles with Holland? Should it not be so that now that we are partners, we should be able to deliberate with each other instead of Holland constantly flexing its muscles? And should not this be proportionate? Is there any difference to when we were colonies? Which age are living in?
Russell A. Simmons
