Dear Editor,
At this point, everyone is used to Government being slow to respond or in most cases , do anything at all when circumstances demand direct action but this time their lack of action is actually killing people.
The dump has been burning now for three weeks. Toxic smoke blankets all areas downwind and is giving people that are young and healthy life-threatening respiratory problems that will last a lifetime. The elderly sit in their homes with the windows closed with no air to breath. People – real human beings – are dying because Government is negligent and catastrophically ineffective.
It is my belief that it has surpassed the normal political nonsense and gum-flapping and now meets the standard of criminal negligence and I formally call upon the Public Prosecutor to charge those ministers responsible for the health and public safety with Criminal Negligence and arrest them.
I call on whoever is in charge downtown to replace those individuals responsible for dump and turn it over to someone that is smarter than a tree stump and that can put out the fires. I would love for some public-spirited lawyer to haul government into court and force them to do their jobs, but that is wishful thinking in the extreme.
It’s better, anyway, if some minister gets arrested and goes to jail because that would at least serve as a deterrent, however unlikely.
It is the ultimate irony that Government and a large part of the population are critical of Holland. That somehow the need for supervision or demand for good governance is a veiled throwback to colonialism of racisms.
Try looking at it this way – for 20 years the parking lot downtown only had one way in or out so cars trying to leave ended up nose to nose with cars trying to get in and for that same 20 years the dump has been burning on and off and killing people. Why would you think you should be allowed to run a country when you can’t even run a parking lot or a dump?
Steven Johnson
