This letter is directed to the ones who dare take responsibility to the general public and their leaders. Be aware of this message from the Ombudsman. Rituals create discipline. It happens at the ritualistic military funeral as well as at the rituals in the church and in, a different sense at, the theaters. Rituals bring a feeling of togetherness to those that attend. The performers and the public create a bond that is as strong as love. Leaders of people use rituals to bind their flock together. That is why the VKS leaders may have used the untimely self-inflicted deadly departure of one of its members as a pretext to do the military funeral ritual. It was great and awesome. Deeply impressed and fully committed were the crowds that did attend. Any soldier killed in the line of duty should be honored with a military funeral. A soldier must obey his superiors. Even if they are wrong. They must always be vigilant, courageous and alert. He must defend the honor of the uniform at all times. Even out of uniform and off-duty, a soldier must still possess the qualities that the uniform represents. However, the case of (tragic) self-inflicted death of the soldier, not killed in the line of duty is without merit. It did not merit a ritualistic military funeral. It should be contemplated that not every time a soldier who kills himself irresponsibly while driving drunk, can or will or should get himself a funeral with full military honors. That not every soldier must believe that no matter how he or she behaves out of uniform, off-duty, he will get such honors if he happens to kill himself. Integrity to the uniform and what it stands for is a must and will lead to respect and honor. Be aware of this and err not. Furthermore, it must be said that those responsible for the white lines and road markings are partly to blame for this and other gruesome accidents that occur on our roads all too often. The absence of clear road markings reflects the incompetence of those responsible. The general public should demand safer roads from the authorities to prevent costly medical and painful emotional events resulting from future accidents.

No flags fly halfmast, no mourning at island level. Oh no. That’s for when the far away Queen dies, or her first minister maybe, or some soldiers that died fifty years ago, far away. But when about 30 persons die right here, close by, on the doorstep so to say, not a word. 'Sorry' says the island boss, 'It can not be helped.'

However, the tightening of the immigration laws not only here, but in every wealthy country, is the reason for more poor people trying to get out of poverty.

Respect is what people crave, respect and dignity, for death comes to all , it should not be wiped under the carpet as if it is not important. One day of mourning should be observed, or at least one minute silence for every person that died in the battle to try to survive. The war here is not with guns and bombs, but with hourly wages and visa. Respect for the poor who make the walls of the houses that the rich live in. Those workers that make this world so full of goods, luxuries and commodities themselves live in shacks, with unpaved roads and no sewage. Also here on prosperous Sint Maarten. Go see Cay Hill ghetto, Middle region and Dutch Quarter ghettos, no roads, no sewage. There live the people that seek education, relief of centuries of suppression of the rich and powerful. It is them that died on their search for a better life. Remember them, when you hear of brotherly love from the pulpit, remember them.

Bless the day we be free of streetdogs. Bless the day the department of hygiene, Public Health and Public Works employ a dog catching unit. Bless the day we see no more garbage strewn around collection points. Bless the day the hairless flea infested tick covered skinny eyesores are gone. Bless the day when all loving dogowners keep their dogs inside their property. Bless the day when all dogowners have to register their dogs and pay tax on them, have them tagged and vaccinated. God bless the dog who has a good master. Nothing is as miserable as a dog alone, dogs are natural cowards and bark only out of fear. They attack always from behind a person, and in packs. They always look for food or they sleep. They are useful as flea catchers and tick gatherers, because a flea prefers a dog over a human, dogs put their noses in any kind of dirt, rotten fish, horse manure and roll in it if possible. Dogs shit indiscriminately wherever people must pass. Bless the day all owners keep their dogs on leash when outside. Bless the man who loves his neighbour more than his dog. As is the man so is his dog. Throw it to the dogs, but let sleeping dogs lie.

Only eight percent of people working in Front and Back Streets are of Antillean origin, research conducted into the labour situation in St. Maarten has uncovered. An eight-page report on the research and its findings, a copy of which The Daily Herald has been able to obtain, pointed to what was referred to as an anti-local employment tendency, with a 17.3 per cent unemployment rate and most of the employed being foreigners. The Island Government's Welfare, and Labour Department described the situation as “unacceptable. The current immigration policy is being exploited to import cheap labour. A popular supermarket, for instance, has 24 employees, 12 of whom are managers. That is one manager per employee. That is possible, due to the immigration policies the department wrote. It explained that, as companies claim they can't find local people to employ, they request work permits for managers. (It is common knowledge that requests for work permits for lower-level employees are not likely to be approved). That is why today there is eight per cent local employment in Front and Back Street and why 45 per cent of the remaining 92 percent foreign employees are managers. That is unacceptable, it stated. It also mentioned situations where jewelers have six employees, four of whom are gemologists and none of whom is an Antillean; of a security company with 62 employees, three of whom are Antilleans and 54 of whom are foreigners without work and residence permits. These companies still received permits to employ foreign workers. Why? Because there were no locals available. Companies send for cheap employees and train them to do jobs for which locals could also be trained. Local workers are just too expensive, the report stated. The report contended that St. Maarten has developed in "anti-local" employment tendency which only dupes locals. "Employers (foreign and local) claim that local workers are inexperienced, lazy, untrustworthy and aggressive," the report stated. This, it added, has created a tendency which keeps local people from finding jobs. It has also resulted in an increase in requests for financial support and an increase in job offers to foreigners. It continued: "Noticeable is the increase in requests for permits for Jamaicans and Guyanese. They replace the locals in the security retail business." The report contends further that, because of these tendencies, government's tax income is under pressure, there is chronic unemployment among locals, foreign earnings do not stay here, more shacks are built, crime increases and more and more youngsters go astray.

The department suggested giving unemployed locals the chance to re-school themselves, a re-examination of the policies on scholarships and the establishment of businesses, and an urgent readjustment of immigration policies. Furthermore, it suggested a stricter control of employers to ensure they adhere to labour laws and that violation of these laws is punished.

Here comes Lolita, and she is very real. She is hot , this is (Sint Maarten) scandalous. (not French departement Saint Martin). Her name is changed for privacy.

 Since time memorial, the combination of Virgin and Whore has been the Woman that Men admire most. Before the Jewish Patriarchal (God=father) religion came into being, religion was Matriarchal. God was a Woman and a girl and a mother and was worshipped as such. With the name Aphrodite in ancient Greece, Venus in Rome, as Inane in Sumeria, Astarte in Phoenicia, Ishtar in Babylonia and Isis in Egypt.

 In those days in temples where the Goddess was worshipped, a virgin was to be a prostitute for one time only, to become initiated in sexual knowledge, and eligible for marriage.

 Then came the Jewish religion makers, who scared women and made men their protectors. They replaced the Holy Goddess with a male God. Later Christian religion makers added new stories to the Bible, and in order to take advantage of Her still tremendous Supremacy, they took the former Goddess apart. Applying the principle of divide and rule, they split Her in two. The Virgin, (most impossible christian combination Mary, virgin+mother simultaneously) and the Whore, Magdalene, (JesusÕ devoted admirer).

 Men are attracted to either or both.

 A young (virgin) woman with childish face and firm breasts will always compete successfully with a grown, motherly woman, when it comes to seducing men. The religion makers created an impossibility to be worshipped; the virgin mother. Worshipping an impossibility leads nowhere, and the religion makers knew it...

 Young women, nearly ready to become mothers, have a God given strong attraction over men.

 Everywhere in the world growing up girls find the power this gives them very exciting. Some successfully exploit it. Also here in our own society. We have a very young mother, almost still a virgin.

 Now you'll read how Lolita, our child wench, came to be what she is. How creation's natural attraction between the sexes is taken advantage of for money.

 Her mother got pregnant at 14 years of age and baby Lolita was born when mother was 15. Father unknown; and not a year later, mother was selling sex. She had to feed her child after all. No education or schooling, but the education of the street. Lolita grew up in the little shack where mother received her men. Sex was her economic education, together with raffling and gambling. As soon as her breasts started showing at 11 years of age she became the object of interest of men that where with her mother. She was sometimes taking part in the activities in the big bed, encouraged by mother. Just stroking and fondling and kissing a little, to the delight of all involved. Mother could now charge more for something out of the ordinary. Lolita was good at it and basked in the warmth and the interest, the praise and compliments. She then tried what mother did on her own, and although she hardly knew when, or from whom, she was pregnant as soon as she became fertile at the tender age of 12. The baby grew inside her womb and her baby daughter got born when she was 13. It was delivered by Caesarean method, as her birth canal was narrow. It was good, men like it better so, said mother.

Her mother had never been to school, and did not put her daughter to school either, and now, after the baby and all that, Lolita did not feel at ease with other children who did not have experience like she. She never learned to write and read. But she was so much wiser.

 Grandmother took care of the baby, far away, and at 14 Lolita was feeling very good when she discovered that she could get almost anything from any man by touching their private parts. They would be as putty in her hands and do whatever she asked. Which was exactly what she did when she let herself be picked up at bus stops pretending to need a ride. From asking for bus money it went to asking for a five dollar note, a ten note and more. Of course most men wanted something in return, and that she knew very well how to give, had she not done that all the time, with her mother together? When asked her age she always says that she is 17, going 18. It is for her the safest thing to say.

 Long ago she found out that she was worth a lot, when her mother furnished a man to sex with her. He paid three hundred dollars she told me proudly, but, that was for her mother, not for her. She did not like that at all and at 15 years of age she had her own shack for 150 dollars a month. She does not want to make money for her mother any more. If she is going to sex, she says, she does it for herself, and she wants to choose who to do it with. Asking if she does it with any man, ugly or nice, old or young, sober or drunk she answers: “Any man of course, as long as he pays and I need money”.

 The rent, she easily gets together by seducing a man when she strolls the roads looking for fun as she calls it. Fun she has, she says, especially when she lures a man, and tantalizes him, to make him believe he’s going to get her, but not yet, maybe later. Some times she gets money without giving sex, she tells me with a smile.

 With her innocent child face she knows exactly how to use her little breasts and bare midriff to her advantage. Today’s fashion, super low cut jeans and tiny tank tops, bare back with a few strings, makes her look tremendously sexy. Asked if she considers herself to be a big girl or a young woman, she answers: ÒI am an old woman in a young body”, and she laughingly walks away, into the night.

 The night hides everything, all bad thoughts, there is nothing ugly here, no evil, she does not suffer, she likes what she is doing. She is good at it, knows nothing else, her mother didn’t know anything else, and her daughter maybe knows no better. She loves Jesus, and He loves her, is all that counts.

 But is she safe? She could contract a sickness. Is she strong enough to refuse the men who want it without protection when offering more money? What does she know about hygiene? She may not be so happy and carefree for long...

 “Unless,......” you say, yes, I listen, unless what?

 Get real, who has the money to pay her lodging and food and her schooling, to keep her from plying her trade? Is here a monastery that will lock her up so she will play hooker no more?

 And the most disturbing, the real impossible part of the issue: What can replace that Feeling of Power she has over men? When she leads them on so they will do anything to get relieve from the urge she has built up.

 Nothing can replace that feeling of Power Over Men.

 So lives child whore Lolita; if we like it or not. She is free to do her thing, and she knows, if nobody else, Jesus loves her.

Sexpert

St. Martiners are aware of those residing among us who would prefer to see the present one pillar economic dependency only on tourism maintained; the system of low wages, modern slavery and exploitation. St. Martin in their eyes must transfer itself into an island of 10,000 artists and drug dealers, selling kitsch and drugs imported from Holland to the tourist. ln their eyes St. Martiners are too stupid to learn anything about computers and E-Commerce. No, that must be only reserved in their eyes for "superior" Europeans. We St. Martiners know better, the youth can take Charles Wattley as an example, who grew up on St.Martin and currently holds a supervisory position in one of the leading United States E-Commerce businesses, QYC. Quoting from Today: "His message for young people of the island is, continue to seek higher education.' He advises that the youngster should find positive role models and take their studies very seriously. Wattley was part of the Cole Bay Theatre Company and he believes that his association with that company has helped to mold and shape him to what he is today. He was of the opinion that there should be more organizations like that for the youth on the island. Wattley stated that growing up in St. Martin was a wonderful experience, people looked out for you. He was of the opinion that the island has developed and think that the officials did the best they should have done with available resources. Wattley attended Simpson Bay Regina School and Milton Peters College before he went on to study and achieve his Masters in International Business at Johnson and Wales University. At his job, he oversees a crew of 45

persons who work in the outbound area of QVC. He added that they are responsible for the packaging and handling of all the jewelry that is sold via E-Commerce. Wattley claims that the company sells the most jewelry in the world.  The National Democratic Party (NDP) estimates that specific Internet-based enterprises on St. Martin engaged in various E-Commerce activities will be able to employ more than 4,000 St. Martiners and skilled Caribbean nationals in well paid job positions at Cyberparks with smart buildings over a 15-year period.

The charlatans among us with their ideas to turn this economy into one base on legalized drug trade can continue with their pipe dreams.

Article in the Daily Herald the day after my letter: citizens ignored

PHILIPSBURG-"The impression should not be created that I'm the man. Of course I can reach the right person to solve a problem, but that doesn't mean that I solved the problem." Chief Prosecutor Cor Merx said yesterday.

He was reacting to a letter to the editor in The Daily Herald last Friday in which "a concerned citizen" was claiming that only Merx had proved powerful enough to take care of a sewage problem in Sucker Garden. "He did so with one call," the letter writer claimed.

Merx said, however, that it was not he who deserved all praise, but Bryson of the Government Security Department and the workers of the Public Works Department who should be lauded.

"I called Mr. Bryson after the gentleman came to me and he immediately took action. Within no time the problem was identified and solved and the water now runs under, instead of over, the street," Merkx said, demanding that praise be given to those who deserve it. "It's not so that the other government departments don't work." Merx said. He stressed that he only fulfills a "letter box duty". Of course anyone who has a problem remains welcome

Isn't it refreshing to hear the BBC news on the Soualiga transmitter? How the Christian way of thinking does not at all applies to the warring factions. How the war of religions continous unabated? Jews and Arabs do the flow of blood great honour. The warring tribes in Africa contribute their share. Traffic accidents adds to the flow of blood. The weaponmakers do their best to let as much blood flow as possible.

All according to the ancient believe of the South American original inhabitants. They worship the blood that streams through your veins. They see blood as the most holy substance in the universe. They go as far as to find no better sacrifice to their God, but blood. It is found in animals and humans alike. For the prosperity of the community it was believed that the Gods be pleased first and foremost . The best way to please the God(s) is to give it that what gives life. That religion is actually still today very much in fashion. Gun-toting, possessed-persons...  shoot holes in others to make them bleed. Cars hit pedestrians to make more blood flow. Drivers hurt themselves to be drained of their live Juice. Like messengers from an Unknown Need the victims take their bleeding moment of fame and die. The cult of bloodletting should be taken under a microscope. Is the head of our traffic department a member? By ignoring the call for safer roads one would think so. Let it flow. Thats what blood is for. Jesus offers his blood in the form of wine. To confirm to the universal truth also the Catholic church makers used blood to gather a flock. That is neither here nor there, blood flows freely in all worlds. In all religions; bloodbrothers are rare; although we are all bloodbrothers. Separated by national borders, by economic borders, separated by religion and language, we have forgotten that we  all are bloodbrothers. As we are all brothers in water. Because we all need water. Which is my idea to wash away the blood. Throw away all jealousy, all desire, all values, all borders. Be free in water. Keep the blood where it belongs. Inside the system, the body, the being. Look inward and see thy blood washes your insides through and through. From top to toe. Then drink a glass of pure water. And we are One. Still I insist that the bloodshed must stop. That is my opinion. Make roads safer, paint white lines. Enforce the helmet rule, do paint more pedestrian crossings and fine the driver who does not stop for a footman. Ban guns and destroy them whenever you can. Prevent skin punctures at all cost. Your blood is most precious, do not spill it. The miraculous healing of skin after a cut is proof that the creator wants to keep the blood confined. Its up to your consciously observing yourself to find out if you belong to the newer credo of bloodpreservation or to the ancient credo of: 'Let it flow.'

Canada legalizes medical marijuana it was in the 1920s that the United States declared several herbs illegal. After the experiment to ban alcoholic beverages, which turned out a fiasco, they banned other pleasurable substances. Which also has become a total disaster.

The drugs that made Sherlock Holmes the most celebrated detective of literature, administered by his faithful doctor Watson at the start of each of his brilliant stories, have become the source of the justice system. The French writer Baudelaire wrote his famous books under the influence of marijuana and that herb too, came on the list of forbidden fruits. To no avail, as marijuana is still the most popular herb used by people in all countries of the world. That nicotine, in the form of cigarettes and cigars stayed legalized until recently the greatest criminal act that the United States committed towards its own and the rest of the world population. The nicotine is so habit forming that after a few cigarettes the user is hooked  for life. Serious illnesses, cancer and other respiratory dements result.

Today, 6th of July 2001 Canada has legalized medical marijuana. Especially to alleviate the ill effects of the sicknesses that result from the legal poison nicotine. Ironic but true, one has to be terminally ill to legally use the herb marijuana. Holland has understood for over twenty years now that marijuana is not a dangerous drug. Like coffee and tea it is labeled soft and less dangerous than the legal substance sugar, which lands more people in hospital than the three herbs marijuana, tea and coffee together. Switzerland has recently also legalized the use of marijuana and England is the latest civilized country that no longer arrests and prosecutes the users. The famous Bob Marley smoked it openly and the Rastafarians use it with the excuse that it is part of the religious experience. The Bible has no bad word about it, still, most countries not woken up to the truth about the herb. Sint Maarten should educate its people on the subject so that it may free itself from the hysterical witch— hunt that takes place in the United States and France against perfectly honest hard working, taxpaying people that like to relax after work with a spliff and good music. One should not have to be sick first in order to enjoy Gods given herb, to first drink alcohol and smoke nicotine in order to become sick enough to benefit from the herb marijuana. The lawmakers in the primitive times 80 years ago did not check what they were doing and they made millions of people suffer, up to today. It is time the example of Holland, Switzerland and England and Canada is followed by our own lawmakers