Monday, December 10, 2007

Maybe It's The Slow Tourist Season

Hans Mos, the prosecutor in Aruba, reversed course and released the Kalpoe Brothers, and then Joran VanderSloot, within a matter of days after rearresting them in connection with the disappearance of Natalie Holloway, claiming new and compelling evidence.

After releasing them, he now says he will close the case. What is particularly disturbing is the fact that Holloway's father had made plans to engage in a large scale search of the ocean off the coast of the island, based on the prosecutor's earlier announcements of a break in the case.

Jossy Mansur, the newspaper editor who has investigated the case, is outraged, and can offer no explanation.

I think he was either threatened, or bribed. Of course, as I implied in the title, it could well be that the tourist season in Aruba has gone to hell, which it well should. There are too many places to spend money on a vacation. The people that have such money to spend should seriously consider other options, in addition to how likely they would be to receive justice in they event they themselves were victimized.

Like I said in an earlier post, if you want to visit a place where you can be raped and murdered and your body hidden in a remote area, come to Kentucky-we need the money too.

2 comments:

sonia said...

I think he was either threatened, or bribed....

...or maybe he just didn't have any evidence to persecute them.

Aruba is Dutch territory. It's not some banana republic ruled by a tinpot dictator shaking in his boots because American tabloids will malign him...

SecondComingOfBast said...

If he didn't have any evidence, why did he rearrest them? It seems obvious to me that it was a game geared toward repairing what damage might have been done to the Aruba tourism industry. In the meantime, they managed to rub a great deal of salt in the Holloway's obviously still open wounds. They have gone through enough pain as it is.

Like I said, Americans should find other places to spend their time and their money. If the world don't like it, let them go to hell,and let the Arubans live in fucking poverty. What can they do about it? Fuck them.