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To: demkicker
regardless of the fact they've continued to change their stories.

Sorry, this is a rumor and pure speculation....unless you have a source.

In addition, it is Dutch procedure not to make the investigation public. In fact, it is my understanding that it is Dutch procedure not to even release the names of the accused.

It has been reported that the suspects, are from privileged families.

Again, this is completely false. Papa VDS was at first supposed to be a "high judiciary official," then just a judge, then a judge-in-training, and now we know that he merely has a masters in law and is the equivalent of a civil servant. The two brothers are not even Dutch or Aruban.

1,288 posted on 06/22/2005 11:18:31 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: ContemptofCourt

It is beyond comprehension that so many americans can jump to attack this small nation of Aruba for what? Failure to properly investigate a crime. How many thousands of criminals in the US have either not been prosecuted or released for the that same reason. Not in a thousand years will the crimes in Aruba amount to those committed in Florida every year. There are many things about European style justice, which Aruba maintains as a remnant of Dutch Rule, that I think should be changed but it is the people of Aruba that should make that decision, not the US, the UN nor the world court. The hypocrisy of all this. When foreign visitors are victimized in this country as they often are, particularly on the East Coast more particularly, South Florida, americans would be up in arms if their home countries maintained that they should have jurisdiction over the process and blast every effort, effective or ineffective, made to bring someone to justice. What these domestic nutcases are proposing if applied to the US would actually lead to total loss of our sovereignty and freedom to choose our own form of justice as ineffective as it often is. If you want to boycott Aruba, fine. Just don't give me that holier than thou complaints about their legal system.


1,302 posted on 06/22/2005 11:45:54 AM PDT by brydic1
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