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January 23, 2006, 9:19 am PST
01/19 Follow-ups
Quote From: gio777That is my opinion in all of this. OK we all agree the police messed up BIG time here, but can you blame them? They were untill May 30th 2006 only dealing with minor crime and occasional hit and runs mostly involving a car and an animal. But to go that far and boycot the island is simply a selfish act of Mrs. Twitty. Why didn't she think of that when everybody on the island was searching for her daughter. Most of the island, including me, think these boys had something to do with her dissappearance, but there are simply no exact account of what happened that night. I also saw on a tv show how Mrs. Twitty said that these boys raped and killed her daughter on their island. I'm sorry to correct you but these guys are NOT Arubians. They happen to live there, but were not born or descendants of Arubians. Did the rest of the world boycott the USA when innocent foreigners were killed during 911 and your President instead of hunting down the terrorists decided to invade Iraq? Think of that!! I totally agree, the police messed up, we should move on. I don't think a large scale boycott of Aruba is even a possibility. Sure, you'll have people that will do it, just to feel "moral", but guess what I bet the MAJORITY of the tourists fromt he US that go to ARUBA year after year will still continue to go there.
The US should be concerned about correcting its own screw ups rather than the screw ups of another country. Let me give an example, that has to do with foreigners in this country. One of my former tenants and her son are from the Ukraine. Her son is 15 and went home last year to visit his grandmother. When he tried to return to the US he was held in Austria for 14 hours because the INS had the date wrong on his residence paper work so he could not be let back into the US. His mother, nine months pregant at the time had to take the bus up to D.C. from OHIO to take the ORIGINAL paperwork of hers to INS so that they could take those and fax them to Austria so he could coem home. THEN she had to wait for him ALONE for hours to get to DC. It was a mess. We (as in her, my mother and myself) called the office that handled her case to complain, did she or her son get so much as a "We are sorry for your inconveinence''? No, because everyone in the department was trying to cover their backside, and no one would admit it even happened. Sure he ended up back here safe and sound, but what is he hadn't, or what if somethng had happened to his mother in the airport?
Bottom line is, there are screw ups everywhere and you don't always recieve just compensation for the mistakes of others. It's a fact of life.
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