St. Maarten Private Eye

Marlin - Catch of the Day?

I have witnessed much huffing and puffing on radio and in newspaper print from William Marlin about corruption. I wondered why? Then I realised that corruption is a subject about which he knows everything. I discovered that he is on the list of Hero Brinkman’s Antillean Mafia for receiving political contributions from building companies.

(http://antilliaans.caribiana.nl/politiek/car20080612_nota-brinkman)

Bingo! So what he is voicing is no less than the opinion of a connoisseur!

He is the “pot calling the kettle black” and he is worthy of the biblical imperative: “He who is without sin, cast the first stone!”

And then he has the nerve to inform the island that he is unable to go to The Netherlands for constitutional talks because of more pressing politics here. What can be more important than constitutional talks?

Aruba gained its independence through giving up the politics of bickering and finger pointing. The parties came together for sake of the union.

But Marlin is after blood. And we know it. His emotional and dramatic outpourings of hypocrisy are not worthy of the party he represents.

The job of an opposition party may well be to oppose but if party members have any brains, they will present themselves as an alternative government. Is Mister Marlin huffing and puffing (and coughing) about important issues such as dump bonfires, excessive airport fees, and illogical turnover taxes, bridge fees that are driving the mega yachts to the French side, sewers that are overflowing, gas hikes or sky rocketing food prices?

Not Mister Marlin.

To exhaust the list of quotations: “Those who live in a glass house should not throw stones.” In other words, those who are vulnerable should not attack others!

I would remind Mister Marlin that in politics, the past has a habit of catching up with those who pretend to be the moral guardians of our society. If he wants to play the role of public laundry, he does so in full view of the public eye.

His hypocrisy is blatant. And it does not behove him!