St. Maarten Private Eye

In the Daily Herald there was a letter to the editor from Mr. Le Poole in regards to the towing issue. Its amazes me when I read these type of notes and I have come to the conclusion of the level of ignorance of many in this society. Obviously this is a general opion which is based on the feedback I have received sofar. Towing is a business as any other business. It has its limit and its boundaries. Limits and boundaries can be set by law as many of the towing happens on the public roads. Which ever companies violates the norms and rules should be punished. The question is who set the rules. Article 35 of the Traffic Ordinance clearly states when a car can be removed. Obviously there is also a law that states that we have to follow the instruction of the relevant authorities. When a police officer ask you to remove a vehicle from a particular spot you do not question the legality of the order because you do not know the reason. Many times people block each other on the public road and we are requested by the police to come and assist. The issue is that in every sector there are people or groups of people that violate the principle of proper and efficient business prinicples. I cannot be blame for that.Whoever is to be blame is the higher authorities who fails to enforce the laws, the people who fails to stand up and complaint whenever there rights has been violated. We have a society which consist of people from every country, culture etc and obviously many of them because of oppression do not speak out. Fear is one of the many causes. Fear of being thrown from the island, fear of loosing a job, fear of repercussion. These are the reasons why the people dont speak out. Also they are those that knows better and can speak out but again for selfish reasons they do not speak out. The issue is not about the towing but the exposure of misuse and abuse of power by a member of the Public Prosecutors Office. During the past years I had encounters with 3 prosecutors, Merx, van Sloten and now Sirian.