Dear editor,
Please let me express the facts how I see this issue and how it can be resolved.
I am only stating on the accusations I saw on social media, cannot say surely it is true. I saw people of French nationality or their children being refused entry to continue on to Marigot.
Legally that cannot or should not be, you cannot stop or hold legal citizens that did not commit any crime to continue traveling within his country of citizenship.
If that is true the local government will be a fool to allow it and not fight for the native people to defend them in a democratic republic as France. People are being stopped not at the border, they are being stop in French St. Martin. Legally that issue is a legal matter of French St. Martin.
A prefect (French: préfet) in France is the state's representative in a department or region. Subprefects (French: sous-préfets) are responsible for the subdivisions of departments, arrondissements. The office of a prefect is known as a prefecture. The prefecture is an administration that belongs to the Ministry of the Interior, and is therefore in charge of the delivery of identity cards, driving licenses, passports, residency and work permits for foreigners, vehicle registration, registration of associations (creation, status modification, dissolution), and of the management of the police and firefighters.
The local government can take the prefecture to courts if the citizens of that territory rights are violated. So, the shame is also on the Collectivité not to stand up for their French St. Martin grassroots people. Every citizen of France has a legal right to carry the government to courts. France is a democratic republic; failure to do so is the citizens’ fault and Collectivité not helping the local French residents to pursue their democratic right as a French citizens.
According to my understanding the préfet established Coronavirus Travel Restrictions. Legally the Dutch side and the French St. Martin is obstructing or violating that coronavirus restrictions. How can French citizens come from France, pass through Dutch side to enter French St. Martin without restrictions and other French local citizens are being harassed and stopped, obstructing their free movement to French St. Martin? That is discrimination.
What law did the local French citizens living on the Dutch side break that he or she is being harassed while the European French citizens are being allowed without being harassed?
Natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct and rights. The Dutch-side government of St. Maarten is also guilty of allowing French St. Martin government to discriminate against other French citizens (Black people) allowing them to abuse the local French citizens while allowing the European French citizens (white people) to come from Dutch side and travel freely without being harassed to French St. Martin. A law for all French citizens be it black or white should have the same rights to access reciprocal through both sides of the island. A government on any side knowingly allowing their side to favour people of same citizens but different colour is just as guilty. Foolishly and shamefully because the Dutch-side government is too weak to defend human rights for all people, they are asking Holland to do what they fail to do.
Shameful as it is, the prefecture is defending her European people, the collectivité does not have power to stop the prefecture but they have the right to carry the prefecture to courts on French St. Martin for ground of discrimination, shame on them. Shame on the Dutch government for allowing the prefecture to use Dutch St. Maarten to discriminate against other European citizens because of their colour skin, you are just as evil for allowing that. The conclusion is, if my grassroots St. Maarten/St. Martin border is not good to let my St. Maarten people pass, then both sides should close the border.
I am the Patriot Miguel Arrindell and I approve this message.
The Patriot Miguel Arrindell
