I hope that I'm NEVER in any type of situation like Mrs. Twitty is now in. But if I am, she will be my role model. What an amazing woman. She's tough, firm, but gracious under fire. My husband has been as impressed as I have. I truly think that if it had not been for her persistence, two men, probably innocent, would have been charged with Natalee's disappearance. Men of color, maybe chosen for that reason in that colonial Dutch paradise. She is helping insure that real investigation and real justice will take place there. The Arubans don't like her because her persistence is helping reveal their own deeply rooted darkness.
Well said.
Some people are calling for a boycott of Aruba because of perceived crime issues. For me, it is not the crime itself, that is everywhere, but the inability or unwillingness of the authorities to do anything after the fact. Are they helping these boys because of who there parents are? Would the black security guards still be in prison w/o Mrs. Twitty's persistence? They can't break down a bunch of young men in what must be one of the most important cases on the island; what hope of help or justice does the regular tourist crime victim have down there?