People of St Maarten wake up. Our conservative life style of correcting our children is being punish by a liberal court system that believe no parent should correct a child. No one advocate child abuse, and the case about the mother correcting a child with the belt is strange to me. I do not know all the facts. However the way the prosecutor puts it is like at no time you should use a belt to correct your child. We live in a Democratic country that is rule by laws. In a democracy governments and courts system rules or applies laws in their ideological principles. Holland is a very liberal country where children can legally have sex at a much early age or may I say it is accepted for children to have sex at a very early age. Marijuana is accepted as a normal habit and parents are not allowed to hit their children with the belt. I hope that people of StMaarten begins to understand that our values and ideology about life is different than our fellow Dutch citizens in Holland. Can anyone tell me when the government has the right to punish parents for correcting their child and you know I am not talking about abuse or ill-treatment of children. Our St Maarten values of right and wrong or our moral values of right and wrong is being dictated by a liberal socialist system that hates our conservative moral values of right and wrong. Our liberal legal system gives the children leadership over the parents. Imagine your ten year son or daughter telling you I am going to do what I want and if you hit me I am going to the prosecutor? What we are seeing is a clash of ideologies the left verses the right or Liberalism verses Conservatism. The same method of governing is applied in political ideology. People living in St Maarten are mostly from a conservative life style, but we elect socialist and liberal political parties which bring in liberal judges and prosecutors who believe in rehab and not in punishment. These people believe in humanism, they do not believe that God is the one we should worship and follow. These people may have education but they do not have values, this can be very destructive on our society. We need education with values. Imagine a PhD degree who is an atheist. God forbid that will be destructive. I remember Jesus, John the Baptist, Noah, Moses taking on governments to stand for right and wrong, unfortunately I do not see the strong Conservative preachers willing to protect morality to please God. If the Church cannot take a stand who will. The Church should be the last line of defense to fight for morality if they cannot who will? Slowly but surely the people in StMaarten is becoming property of the state, socialism is here. A local politician tells me but we are property of the state, I told him I am property of God almighty. I did not get chance to finish I would have ask him if you are property of the state that means the government own your house your wife and children. In short conservative believe in small government and private ownership which is capitalism, socialism believes in government ownership of the people and government should own the private sector. (Socialism or communism). That is why Liberals believe it is the government right to tell you how to correct your child which is very dangerous. God gives us laws to follow, which mean it is your responsibility to live by the law (personal responsibility). People of StMaarten make it your business to find out how the people we choose as politicians and judge's mentality is, because they will determine how much freedom we will live by. Conservative are rightwing and God fearing people, Liberals are leftwing and usually hate moral values. We as people must decide which people we will love not only to govern us but whom we love to lead our courts or legal systems. I respect every person choice of life style, but we have to ask ourselves do we believe in hope and I mean true hope if our values are not of who we are as a people. Again I ask you the question is our children property of the state?
Yours truly
Miguel Arrindell