St. Maarten Private Eye

Dear Anonymous,

Please don't make the dangerous assumption you are dealing with reasonable business people. You think these guys will let you squat on the edge of their pretty green golf course? Not a chance.

If we were dealing with honest ethical business people, then maybe they would respect acquisition by "Deed of Prescriptive Rights" as Antillean Rights Law, but these are a bunch of fugitives and scum bag money launderers who don't respect anyones' right---squatters or otherwise. The only right they respect is their right to make money, and woe betide anyone that gets in the way of them making lots and lots of moolah.

Take for example our prominent Italian member of the business community who was arrested aboard his yacht by French authorities and kept in their prison for some years. This same man has been been under investigation by Italian prosecutorial task force for years, only to have the head of that task force murdered in cold blood, and the investigation seemingly pursues him to SXM, only to return empty handed. And yet this upstanding individual walks free as a bird to this day. That is the ilk of people you are asking to repect your rights to squat. The law may be on your side, but you interfere with their unhindered right to make money and see where it gets you.

I would guess squatters (with or without a foundation) would just meet a terrible fate or be just found dead after an alleged fight, and the media would report some crack heads fighting over some little thing and that will be that. Problem solved., you say!

Still, it's a noble thought...

SXMObserver