Remember when people everywhere were outraged at a Cuban diplomat's remark that Elian Gonzales is the property of the Cuban state. If only their outrage extended to their own homelands! We are living under a system of state schooling, or as it is commonly termed, public compulsory schooling. Under compulsory-education and compulsory-attendance laws, the state requires parents to deliver their children to a state institution to receive a state-approved education from a state-approved schoolteacher using state-approved textbooks and follow a state-approved curriculum. (Socialism) People block out of their minds that through public schooling, children are effectively made the property of the state. Fidel Castro's two proudest socialistic accomplishments are free public schooling and free national health care. If a parent in the country St. Maarten resists these policies, the state will ultimately punish him/her by removing his children from his/her control and placing them in the custody of state officials. On the other hand, the state can and will impose an even harsher sanction on the parent. Over the years, many irresponsible women and men made children with no means of supporting them the result of this is the juvenile criminal delinquent problems that we are dealing with today. Under our form of socialism, the state punishes the wrong party the parent for disciplining the juvenile instead of the juvenile criminal delinquent for stealing and lying to the mother the state is effectively encouraging criminality by rewarding bad behavior by juvenile delinquents. Now, you wonder why we have so much crime. The first order of business of our new country's parliament should be the revision of the criminal justice system, stiffen the penalties' on all criminals' juveniles that commits an adult crime should be prosecuted as adults. Let us give back the power to the parent to discipline their children. Furthermore, it is also about time we empower the victims of crime instead of the criminal.