MORE CORRUPTION WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS? TIES TO ARUBA
Henry Hyde, Illinois U.S. Representative
Republican Henry Hyde, Chairman of Committee on International Relations in the US House of Representatives, commented yesterday to local media that he believed the boycott call by the Governor of Alabama is not receiving true support in the U.S.
He considers the boycott an individual action and not one that would be sustained nationwide. "We want to resolve this case as fast as possible. We do not believe that the boycott would help the case," Hyde said.
I believe the relationship between the Aruban and the U.S. congresses is good. I think the people who understand the complicity of the two justice systems are less worried and will not support the boycott, he added. "Aruba is a very important strategic area. It is a friendly island and we have to maintain a strong relationship with it," he said. Hyde and a delegation of 5 other congressmen had been on the island for one night, staying at the Renaissance Resort.
According to who? I guess his 'people' aren't getting all the right information from their constituents.
He considers the boycott an individual action and not one that would be sustained nationwide. "We want to resolve this case as fast as possible. We do not believe that the boycott would help the case," Hyde said.
I believe the relationship between the Aruban and the U.S. congresses is good. I think the people who understand the complicity of the two justice systems are less worried and will not support the boycott, he added. "Aruba is a very important strategic area. It is a friendly island and we have to maintain a strong relationship with it," he said. Hyde and a delegation of 5 other congressmen had been on the island for one night, staying at the Renaissance Resort.
There's another local connection to the case of Alabama teenNatalee Holloway, who has been missing in Aruba since May. Veteran TV news producer John Pauly, of the Main Line, who worked as Channel 10's investigative reporter in the 1980s, has been working as an adviser to the Aruban Strategic Communications Task Force. Currently stateside, Pauly's spent seven weeks in Aruba, and may go back next month to further serve as a media liason with the Task Force, made up of government and tourism agencies. Pauly says print media and major TV networks have been mostly responsible, but that some outlets are airing unsubstantiated reports with reckless abandon. The biggest culprits, he says, are CNN/Court TV's Nancy Grace, and Fox News' Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes and Bill O'Reilly.
A newsman who covered the case but wished to remain anonymous praised Pauly, who set up regular noon briefings to allow Aruban authorities to correct errors and rumors. "He was always ready to help, doing his best to get information from a government almost always mute or sparing of words, and often anticipating the reporters' requests," the source replied in an e-mail. "A newsman himself, he understands the press. One can only hope he helped the Aruban government understand it better."
Pauly felt the cable news offenders never gave the Aruban government and other officials credit for giving employees days off (wowie zowie! Wasn't that just so generous!) to search for Natalee, using three F-16 fighter jets with special radar to search for her and conducting an Arms Across Aruba prayer vigil for her. "That got about maybe 20 seconds and then they went right back to the nonsense," said Pauly.
Pauly feels his "greatest triumph" was persuading Aruban authorities to hold a press briefing when the suspects were released and made available for interviews. "The Aruban police thought the American media were morons because of all the misinformation they were putting on the air," said Pauly. "So they weren't about to cooperate with them."
He persuaded the police to cooperate with the media or risk the probability that the media would stake out the prison and suspect's homes and there would be threats to public safety. "This was the first time in the history of this investigation that the police actually cooperated with the media," said Pauly. "So the media got their access to ask questions."
Unfortunately, the question of what happened to Holloway may never be solved. "Look at it from a logical point of view," said Pauly. "There's no body, so there's no murder. There's no crime. There's no rape because there's no complainant. There's no forensic evidence, no credible witnesses. So what are you going to do with these guys?"
Pauly felt the cable news offenders never gave the Aruban government and other officials credit for giving employees days off (wowie zowie! Wasn't that just so generous!) to search for Natalee, using three F-16 fighter jets with special radar to search for her and conducting an Arms Across Aruba prayer vigil for her. "That got about maybe 20 seconds and then they went right back to the nonsense," said Pauly.
Pauly feels his "greatest triumph" was persuading Aruban authorities to hold a press briefing when the suspects were released and made available for interviews. "The Aruban police thought the American media were morons because of all the misinformation they were putting on the air," said Pauly. "So they weren't about to cooperate with them."
He persuaded the police to cooperate with the media or risk the probability that the media would stake out the prison and suspect's homes and there would be threats to public safety. "This was the first time in the history of this investigation that the police actually cooperated with the media," said Pauly. "So the media got their access to ask questions."
Unfortunately, the question of what happened to Holloway may never be solved. "Look at it from a logical point of view," said Pauly. "There's no body, so there's no murder. There's no crime. There's no rape because there's no complainant. There's no forensic evidence, no credible witnesses. So what are you going to do with these guys?"
Steve Cohen, "friend of Aruba" since 1979
ORANJESTAD: A press conference given by the Strategic Communications Task Force (SCT) took place on Friday, where the CEO of AHATA and members of the SCT that they held a meeting and they came to the decision to name a special person to be spokesperson for SCT, for everything that has to do with the case of Natalee Holloway.
ATIA’s president, Serge Mansur, said that the decision was to name Steve Cohen for this post. Steve Cohen has worked as a reporter and presenter in the US, where he was a ‘Senior News Executive’ in Los Angeles and New York.
According to Mr. Mansur, Cohen is one of the creators and producer of the famous Court TV in the US, where he had experience in more than 150 big cases in the courts of the US. Steve Cohen was also vice president of CBS during 12 years.
Steve Cohen took the podium, where he thanked those who gave him the position of spokesperson. According to Cohen, 6 months ago, Aruba was a country that was c
onsidered as safe, where tourists were safe in their beloved vacations.
Now, 6 months later Aruba is still the same, but the image that the US has given Aruba has changed, because of a worried family and others who think that Aruba did not act fast enough, speak and think badly of Aruba. The objective in the months to come is to change this back. We do not have the amount of criminality that America has and we have one of the best police corps in the area of the Caribbean.
This, according to Cohen, who said that this is the message that has to be heard for Americans, but Beth Twitty is still saying that the judicial system of Aruba is not working and that it is corrupt.
The fact that a person or family is sad, does not take away that they always have to speak the truth about what has happened.
The press asked Cohen how he thinks he will do this. According to Cohen, he will try to go on talk shows to try to relay his message to Americans. He said that attorney Arlene Ellis Schipper has done a tremendous job, but cannot confront alone all those that they have put against her in the American programs.
ATIA’s president, Serge Mansur, said that the decision was to name Steve Cohen for this post. Steve Cohen has worked as a reporter and presenter in the US, where he was a ‘Senior News Executive’ in Los Angeles and New York.
According to Mr. Mansur, Cohen is one of the creators and producer of the famous Court TV in the US, where he had experience in more than 150 big cases in the courts of the US. Steve Cohen was also vice president of CBS during 12 years.
This person was on the case from the beginning and has been coming to Aruba since 1979.
Steve Cohen took the podium, where he thanked those who gave him the position of spokesperson. According to Cohen, 6 months ago, Aruba was a country that was c
onsidered as safe, where tourists were safe in their beloved vacations.Now, 6 months later Aruba is still the same, but the image that the US has given Aruba has changed, because of a worried family and others who think that Aruba did not act fast enough, speak and think badly of Aruba. The objective in the months to come is to change this back. We do not have the amount of criminality that America has and we have one of the best police corps in the area of the Caribbean.
We? What's with WE? You are an american citizen I believe, Steve.
This, according to Cohen, who said that this is the message that has to be heard for Americans, but Beth Twitty is still saying that the judicial system of Aruba is not working and that it is corrupt.
The fact that a person or family is sad, does not take away that they always have to speak the truth about what has happened.
The press asked Cohen how he thinks he will do this. According to Cohen, he will try to go on talk shows to try to relay his message to Americans. He said that attorney Arlene Ellis Schipper has done a tremendous job, but cannot confront alone all those that they have put against her in the American programs.
Frank Rizzo, Jr.
In a day of ceremonial resolutions and unanimous votes yesterday in City Council, there was one moment of genuine debate. At hand: A resolution cosponsored by Councilmen Juan F. Ramos and Jack Kelly urging Philadelphians to boycott Aruba because of alleged Aruban foot-dragging over the case of missing American teenager Natalee Holloway.
"Evidently, Aruba doesn't work [as] well as the United States does," Kelly said. He said Holloway's mother had to have others order her food when visiting the Dutch territory because of fear that devious locals might try to poison her for her agitation over her daughter's case.
Rising to Aruba's defense was Councilman Frank Rizzo. "The people of Aruba are good people," he said, adding that a boycott could "also be very hurtful to Philadelphia," because U.S. Airways, the ailing carrier that dominates the city's airport, flies 9,000 people there monthly. Kelly wasn't very impressed with Rizzo's economic argument. "U.S. Airways serves many, many islands," he said.
What Rizzo didn't mention then is that he has often been one of those people. He said he had been vacationing on the island for years and planned to buy property and possibly retire there. "I know the people, I know the politicians, I know the police chief," he said later. "They've cooperated."
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I hope you are not the son of THE Frank Rizzo former Mayor of Philadelphia. If so your daddy would have wooped your butt for saying what you did.
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