WATCH ONLINE--20/20 THE FINAL HOURS OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY

If you are reading this blog, I am assuming most of you have seen this 20/20 documentary done in 2008 where hidden cameras caught Joran van der Sloot speaking "the truth" to undercover rogue, Patrick van der Eem.

For those of you who missed this, check it out:

February 5, 2008

A STATUTE PERFECTLY SUITED FOR JORAN VAN DER SLUT

Let's refresh our memories...not too long ago, Rudy Croes publicly decried after the "hidden video" tapes of Joran's confessions to Patrick van der Eem aired, that van der Sloot is "persona non grata" on the island of Aruba. He was quoted, “Let Joran be the first example of a Dutchman that is not wanted in Aruba”, said the minister, who also knows that judicially, it’s going to be difficult to really deny him admission to the country. “I simply do not want him here.”

Although it is known Joran has traveled back to Aruba on occasion, maybe this statute will banish his ass forever so he may continue to seep into the sick, dark world of Thailand that he seems to love so much.

WILLEMSTAD — When the Statute Law passenger travel becomes effective, a Dutchman / Dutch woman (read everyone with a Dutch passport), can be deported from another part of the Kingdom, and prohibited from ever returning to that overseas territory. This appears from the draft-version of the Statute Law passenger travel.

“A ban on admission and residence can be ordered for reasons of public order or public safety to a Dutchman / Dutch woman who have not been a resident in a country or public body for a period of ten years.

If a Dutchman / Dutch woman has been a resident for more than ten continuous years in a country, then a ban on admission and residence can only be ordered for compelling reasons of public safety”, according to the enactment.

“A Dutchman / Dutch woman, who have been issued a prohibition for admission and residence, cannot obtain or retain a lawful residence in the territory of the country that issued the prohibition. In case he/she has already obtained admission to or residence in that country, this prohibition will be enforced by means of deportation to another country or public body within the Kingdom.”

Work

The Statute Law passenger travel further determines that a Dutchman / Dutch woman has the right to reside in a country or pubic body for a period longer than three months if they have employment or intend to look for employment. (We all know what Joran's "employment" is...I would say that is not "applicable" or legal employment. These individuals should be absolutely shunned by all Arubans in order to redeem themselves and protect their future.)

A Dutchman / Dutch woman may also reside in that country for other purposes. In that case, the Dutchman / Dutch woman must have a medical insurance for him-/herself and his/her family members and his/her family may not form any unreasonable burden for the social security system of the country or public body where they have taken up residence. This latter condition is laid down in consideration of the limited financial resources of the island for the protection of their social security system. Therefore, this condition does not apply for residence in the European part of the Netherlands.

The prohibition on admission could for that matter also be (temporarily) removed by the minister who had issued such. This is possible ‘if the personal conduct of the relevant Dutchman / Dutch woman no longer forms an existent, actual, and serious threat for a vital importance of the society’. (Is Aruba finally getting their act together and no longer in denial in preventing these low-lives that cause irreparable harm to reside on their "one happy island"?)

In any case, the minister will determine this if the prohibition on admission or residence was not followed by deportation of the relevant Dutchman / Dutch woman within two years after the announcement thereof, according to the enactment.

The minister may also temporarily remove the prohibition on admission or residence in exceptional and urgent cases. Conditions will then be deployed regarding the place of entry and the duration of the residence. In that case, there must be ‘conclusive reasons of humanitarian nature’ or it must be ‘in the interest of the country or the mutual country’s relations’.

The Dutch minister of Justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin (CDA) explained to the Upper Chamber three months ago, that the Statute Law passenger travel is not a result of the agreements of 2006, ‘but it is something that should be brought to one’s attention with the realization of the current cabinet’. It was also laid down in the coalition agreement, that such a Statute Law passenger travel should be constituted.

Hirsch Ballin: “It was brought to one’s attention – that the connection was explicitly made with the realization of the cabinet – that something similar had to be realized at the moment that the Netherlands Antilles will be split up into three countries.

The existing complication in the passenger travel of the Dutch people between the countries of the Kingdom would otherwise multiply. From an international point of view, it is actually very peculiar that forms need to be filled in when Dutch people move in one direction within the Kingdom, and strongly resembles that, which is required for the application of a visa upon visiting a foreign country where relations are limited. This is certainly peculiar as we have the communal citizenship.”

‘Wild-west stories’

The minister of Justice also denied that the Statute Law passenger travel would be some kind of deportation regulation in another version. “Wild-west stories have been circulating in the West, as if this would be some new version of a submitted enactment by a former minister for Alien Affairs and Integration, directed at the deportation of some Dutch youngsters from this part of the Kingdom (who you be referring to Joran?).

These are truly wild-west stories. (Again contradicting themselves...continuous denial of admitting the REAL issue.)

The purpose of the proposed Statute Law will be entirely different from that of the withdrawn enactment. It is good to clearly express this to all parts of the Kingdom, so that there is no confusion whatsoever on that withdrawn enactment, that this regulation is based on article 3 of the Statute for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, as this after all leads to a Kingdoms Affair, the status of the citizenship, therefore the Dutch nationality, and certain aspects of the passenger travel of Dutch people as well as of foreigners.”

DUTCH TO THE NETHERLAND ANTILLES:

WE CAN COME TO YOUR ISLAND, BUT FORGET ABOUT COMING TO OUR KINGDOM

How obvious is it that the Dutch don't want to be associated with the residents of Aruba, Antilleans and Curacao citizens, yet they feel free to infiltrate purely for illegal and corruption purposes. The ultimate "fall guys" are Aruba, et al.

One-way traffic

The political party Pueblo Soberano calls the Statute Law passenger travel ‘apartheid’ – ‘the sixth Statute Law’ in the framework of the political reformations. According to Pueblo Soberano, “the presumed free passenger travel is a one-way traffic”. “The enactment introduces a number of conditions for Arubans, Antilleans, and Curaçao citizens, and what is called the BES-islands (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba), to prevent our people from going to the Netherlands. The party is convinced that this enactment was deliberately suppressed until after the referendum. “The Netherlands, PAR, PNP, and FOL want to prevent our people from going to the Netherlands but have our islands overrun with their people”.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_61198.php

Sounds like the Arubans don't want the pompous Dutch living in Aruba. Maybe they've finally quit drinking the kool-aid, and realized that Aruba looks bad BECAUSE of those certain Dutch nationals who are obviously complicit in a 4 1/2 year old conspiracy and coverup that have irreversibly tainted their island.

Their country has suffered due to a Dutchman (I use the word "man" extremely loosely) like Joran, including his well-connected "judge" father, his political friends, the dutch police commissioners, the dutch government, and the dutch judges involved in dismissing any wrong-doing in the unsolved murder of Natalee Holloway that has garnered such world wide attention for over four years.

They know Natalee's story and legacy will not go away, and they've finally realized how powerful the "little people" can be.

WHAT DOES FOUR YEARS OF DAMAGE LOOK LIKE?

Has the injustice of Natalee Holloway wrecked a permanent havoc on Aruba’s tourism, economy and reputation for the last four years?

Let’s see…

EXHIBIT A:

 

Google “Aruba Boycott” and get 1,400 hits.

Google, “Boycott and Natalee Holloway” and get 22,700 hits.

Google, “Boycott Aruba” and get 26,000 hits.

Do I need to try other search engines to make my point?

 

EXHIBIT B:

In 2008 alone:

The E! Network put out two “documentaries”.  One was “The Final Hours of Natalee Holloway”; and “20 Most Shocking Unsolved Crimes” in which Natalee’s case was listed as the #1 “most shocking” unsolved crime.

This was above Jimmy Hoffa. 

Above the Zodiac Killer. 

Above Jon Benet Ramsey. 

Amazing!

2008 also gave us A&E’s Bill Kurtis and the famous series “American Justice” that produced an hour special on Natalee’s case.  Using a different take, the show focused more on the ongoing recovery efforts to find Natalee’s body.

Haunting Evidence did an hour special using a psychic and some “ghost buster” toys in order to find out the truth of what Joran did with Natalee that last night.

…AND DON’T FORGET!  The Peter de Vries Special that changed EVERYTHING.

ABC’s 20/20 with Chris Cuomo did an hour long story on Natalee’s case up to date, including the aftermath of the “Peter de Vries Hidden Camera” scandal, and Joran’s “side job” of “alleged” sex trafficking of women between the borders of Thailand and the Netherlands…all conveniently caught on secret videotape.

A “Sex, Lies and Videotape” of the new millennium?  Could be…

Last, but never least…Greta van Susteren’s “career changing interview” with Joran after her multi-month man hunt across the globe to obtain interviews with witnesses and Joran himself who told Greta on camera that he did not kill Natalee, but sold her to an unknown man in Aruba for $10,000 after two brief exchanges in the casinos of Aruba.

Hours after the taped “confession”, Joran contacted Greta via email and recanted his entire story.

 

EXHIBIT C:

Only half way through 2009…

The Natalee Holloway Story was produced by the Lifetime Movie Network and was viewed by a record setting 3.2 million people when it aired in April of 2009.  It was the highest viewed movie in Lifetime’s 11-year history.

 

ENOUGH SAID

When in history has a “missing person-turned-corruption-case” garnered so much worldwide attention, especially after four years?

It is because of the people.  These are the "little people" with a HUGE voice that want to see justice.  They want to see the new developments or what Joran’s new lie will be.  They want to see punishment for those involved, and they want Natalee’s family to obtain closure.

The media feeds off what the public wants to see and hear.  Thanks to the media, Natalee’s case has never “gone cold”.  With every movie, documentary and book, Aruba’s massive wound continues to rip open with an increase of pain each time.

I know there are people out there who have no clue of Natalee Holloway.  However when I mention to someone that I write a blog about Natalee Holloway, and they say, “Who?”  The only words I need to use to jog their memories are “Aruba” and “missing”. 

Ah ha!  It works every time.

Each time just one person mentions her case to another person, those negative images and stories are stored either in one's immediate conscious or will lie in the subconscious. 

Perhaps that particular conversation knowingly or not, will be the cause of one less person visiting Aruba.

OH, and by the way, Carlos-n-Charlies in Aruba closed (due to the poor economy..yuk, yuk...)

WHERE DID THE "SWINE FLU" ORIGINATE?

Here's the host of the Swine Flu

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT--

A TRUE PIG

RETRO REWIND: JAN VAN DER STRATTEN

JOSSY MANSUR ON NANCY GRACE

October 4, 2005

GRACE: … Jossy, regarding the connection, what I perceived to be a close connection between the judge, Paulus Van Der Sloot and the retired chief of police who initially handled Natalee`s case, Van Der Stratten, were they friends?


MANSUR: Of course, they were friends. It stands to reason they were friends because Paul Van Der Sloot had many friends within the police department; he had many friends within the Department of Justice. And he had many friends with -- and he was friendly with all the judges in Aruba. He worked out of the same office as they did and did the same work.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/04/ng.01.html

JORAN'S BOOK

In the book, Joran states that of course he is innocent of any wrong doing, but if he were to have killed Natalee, he wouldn't have done it the way people hypothesize. "Believe me," Joran stated, "IF I would have had anything to do with her disappearance, you wouldn't see Deepak or Satish around anymore." When asked if that was a threat against his former friends, van der Sloot stated, "What do you think?"

The book also details how IF he had killed Natalee he would have taken her to the home of Jan Van der Stratten.


"The old man was on his way out...heading to retirement. He could have hidden her body for me and no one would have questioned him."

Joran also eludes that he would have forced his father's friend, Yolanda Wever, the owner of the newest crematorium (which was financed by Daddy Sloot) on the island.

"I would have made sure that she (Natalee) would have been cremated...no body, no crime." Joran laughs, “Maybe that’s where my shoes are!”

Scared Monkey's interview regarding Van der Stratten
with Tito Lacle of Aruba Today

• SM: When Mickey John was arrested he told me that 14 LE showed up at his house including Jan Van der stratten…..is this common for van der stratten and 14 ALE to go arrest one man?

• Tito: Yes...he is. He was at all the arrests. He headed the case and was present at all arrests.
  

• SM: Now that Jan Van Der Straaten is no longer working this case can he be questioned in any way regarding any aspect of this case? If so, can his statements be presented as evidence by way of a summons to appear in court to provide those statements under oath?

• Tito: Unlikely. He was part of the investigation.
  

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2005/08/12/tito-lacle-of-aruba-today-cross-fire-scared-monkeys-style/

National Enquirer Excerpts

By David Wright
April 24, 2006




June 13, 2005, Jan van der Straaten said Joran told him he believed Deepak raped Natalee and "did something to her."

Van der Stratten replies, "Where is the girl buried?" Joran states, "I think she is buried next to the fishermen's huts, next to the wall."

Van der Stratten, "Has the girl been dumped in the ocean?"...Joran stated, "No...I mean I don't know.

Jan van der Stratten stated, "During the conversation he sometimes shows his emotions by whistling; sometimes he cries and sometimes he answers direct."

Dave Holloway's Observations

In October Dave Holloway and the investigator observed Jan Van der straaten, the former Chief of Police leaving Jacobs office. A young dispatcher informed the investigator and Dave Holloway that he (Van der Stratten) was a frequent visitor to the office.




The investigator is VERY suspicious that Van der straaten is still pulling the strings of this investigation and he has his hand picked investigator, Jacobs, who has sabotaged the case at every turn.

http://arubanboycott.blogspot.com/2006/02/dennis-jacobs-instrumental-in-cover-up.html

JOHN Q. KELLY ON HANS MOS--"NOTHING BUT DEAFENING SILENCE"

JOHN Q. KELLY--WE ARE NOT GOING AWAY

John Q. Kelly wants action. In a letter to Aruban Chief Prosecutor Hans Mos, Kelly calls for the arrest of Joran van der Sloot, his father, Paulus, and the Kalpoe brothers.

ARUBA'S RESPONSE TO KELLY'S LETTER?

KELLY: Nothing but deafening silence of Aruba...no I haven't heard from him (Hans Mos).

VAN SUSTEREN: This is the story. Either he has gone on vacation...or he is incompetent, or he is corrupt...He does not want to see it. They do not want to solve this or make any attempt to either prove this or disproved this.

KELLY: I think incompetent would almost be kind. There are sinister things going on.


KELLY:...He is just ignoring the whole issue, and it is a shame. And, quite frankly, we are not going away...Beth and Dave or any parent out there watching, to just think that if their child was missing, there was a one in one in a million chance that they could still be alive somewhere. And, believe me, there is no evidence to the contrary that Natalee Holloway is not possibly alive somewhere, to think for one second these parents would let go of this is just sorely mistaken.

HOLLAND'S INDIFFERENCE?

VAN SUSTEREN: But this is what I don't get-what is Holland's problem? Holland has responsibility in this too. And Holland is just sitting up there I don't know how many thousands of miles away from Aruba looking the other way, refusing anyone just to look at this information.

TRUE OR FALSE?

VAN SUSTEREN: ...We got an e-mail from someone, and I do not know if it is true or not, but I posted it on gretawire.com, that Joran was seen last night at a casino in Manila.


MICHELLE SAYS SO: I found this comment on www.nowpublic.com today: "Joran is hiding in Manila. I saw him last night playing poker at the Hyatt casino in Manila. He's going by the name Murphy."

(http://my.nowpublic.com/world/thailand-wants-van-der-sloot-transcript)

Watch Video:

PAULUS DENIES ALLEGED PHONE CONVERSATION WITH JORAN

Do we know when that conversation between Joran and his father took place? He could have been talking about the recent human trafficking scandal he's caught in. Joran could have easily spliced in him bringing up the situation of Natalee and insert the human trafficking line of his father's to coincide with his story he told Greta. Joran was never specific on when the phone calls took place and Greta has not been able to prove when the recording was made. I'd like to see the experts opinions on the validity of these recordings.

Besides, have you listened to it? It sounds like Darth Vader having a conversation under a wet blanket.

I still think Joran is lying and he's throwing his father under the bus....which doesn't bother me a bit. However, do you remember what he told Greta after she asked him if he was still speaking with his parents? He said he wasn't. She asked him if that was HIS doing or THEIRS. He said HIS.

The more Joran throws crap out there the more convuluted this case is and it stops the process of the REAL leads that are not being looked into!!!

Could it be Joran's newest lies were in attempt to throw off the validity of the two recent witness accounts? Specifically the witness who saw Joran that night at 4:00 wet, dirty, with one shoe and then seeing Paulus in his red jeep pick up Joran. That man passed two polygraphs in the U.S.

How about we get Joran to submit to a polygraph?!?! That would end this once and for all, Joran. You claim that is what you "really want", isn't it?

Paulus Van Der Sloot's Motto: "Deny, deny, deny..."

Paulus van der Sloot, father of the Holloway case suspect Joran, is refusing to respond to allegations that his son told him about what happened to the missing American teenager. In an interview aired in the US on Tuesday, Joran told Fox News TV how he had sold Natalee Holloway to a Venezuelan man on the beach in Aruba for 10,000 dollars.

A Fox News reporter managed to show Mr Van der Sloot's father some transcripts of tape recordings of him talking to his son about the Natalee Holloway case. At one point, the transcript shows how his father says to Joran,

"But what you've done is pretty bad. Human trafficking is a serious crime."

Fox News TV also aired the audio recording of the telephone conversation between Joran and his father. They spoke in clearly understandable Dutch; the audio was subtitled in English on screen. Confronted with the possibility that Natalee might still be alive, Paulus van der Sloot went into his office and broke off the outdoor interview.

The reporter says that Mr van der Sloot did not deny that the transcribed conversations actually took place.

Joe Tacopina, who was Joran van der Sloot's lawyer in the Aruba investigation, says he also spoke to Paulus van der Sloot. To Tacopina, Paulus said he had never had such a conversation with his son, suggesting that the audio recording had been doctored. Mr Tacopina was accusing Fox News of paying Joran for the recordings and his interview simply to make great tv and increase ratings. The lawyer also said Joran is "despicable" and "on the verge of [being a] sociopath".

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/081126-holloway-father

TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE...THAT IS THE QUESTION

Last night on Greta Van Susteren, she revealed an interview she did with Joran in Thailand. WHY? Joran wanted to come out with the "real truth" this time.

The real truth?

How many "truths" are there?

This time Joran's truth amounted to the fact that he did not dump Natalee's body into the ocean. This "truth" comes in the form of "I sold Natalee for $10,000 to some guy" he met while gambling a few days before meeting Natalee.

While some of his admissions could be plausible, I DO NOT believe this version of his "truth".

However, I do believe that this COULD have happened--but it did not pan out because Natalee was drugged and overdosed on the beach. Maybe this was his original plan, but "something bad happened" which interrupted the course of his intentions.

I surmised in a previous post that Joran could have learned about the sex trafficking business while living in Aruba as a teenager because one does not just enter into the world of human trafficking on a whim. He had to learn how to do this prior to Peter De Vries capturing him on video tape in Thailand luring women into the "business". It was evident in the undercover video that he was a pro. He was clear and concise on how he would get these girls phony identification and work permits and what they would have to do in order to earn their keep. SEE HERE.

However, last night's "confession" was unclear, murky, and full of holes. Complete with empty and unanswered questions of previous confessions. If he really did sell Natalee to this unknown man, then why did he tell the police in his interrogations that she was dead? He wouldn't have had to say these things if he REALLY passed her off to some unknown man on a boat.

SEE VIDEOS HERE

This comment was left on Greta's blog last night by a man named "Bill" that I agreed with 100%:

"Over the past 15 years, I have interviewed countless young people, who have been accused of committing a variety of offenses, some of which were violent offenses, and I have developed an interview approach that helps me sort out their credibility. In my opinion, after watching the interview this evening, I have no doubt that this young man was dishonest about much of what he said. His answers to questions were vague, time frames shifted continuously, and the actions he described just didn’t make sense. What is really puzzling is what motivates him to continue to talk about what he may or may not have done. It may be that he likes the media attention, but that is risky and can backfire, it may be that he is experiencing a significant mental illness, or he may be one of those rare antisocial personalities that will continue to cause pain and suffering to everyone they run into (in some way or another)..."

http://gretawire.foxnews.com/2008/11/24/tonights-on-the-record-at-ten-pm/all-comments/#comments

ARUBAN BOYCOTT HITS THE AIR THIS SUNDAY!

LINK TO LEVI PAGE SHOW

Michelle Simonsen who blogs at the "Boycott Aruba -- Justice For Natalee" blog will join us to discuss the latest in the Holloway case.



CALL IN AND VOICE YOUR OPINION!


Call-in Number: (347) 838-9781


Sunday, November 23, 2008

Show Begins 10:00 PM EST

Aruba Boycott is 2nd segment at 10:30 pm EST

Topics to be discussed:

• Prosecutor Hans Mos, and his refusal to meet with Greta

• The investigation into the new witnesses (the former girlfriend of Joran, and the man that placed him and his father, at a pond)
  

• The recent allegations that Joran is involved in a Thai sex ring.

Also on the program beginning at 10:00 pm EST:

• Pat Brown criminal profiler weighs in on the disturbing case of a 8-yr old Arizona boy, charged as an adult for shooting his father, and his fathers friend.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/HeadingRight/LeviPage

TACOPINO COMES OUT FROM HIS CAVE...AND FEEDS MORE B.S.

Fox News, 11/20/08

Joe Tacopino finally came out of his hole after weeks of laying low and finally gave his opinions on Joran's recent conduct and the new witnesses that could help solve Natalee's case.

It's been a long time since we've heard from Taco boy, so don't forget about his condescending mis-truths and lies. Some attorneys are total scum and he is one of them.

On crack.

In denial.

No conscience.

Speaking total bullshit.

Tacopino's "Deep Thoughts..."


How does Joe current feel about this case?
So is Peter de Vries really a bloodhound life sucker?
Is it all really much 'ado about nothing'?
Do these new witnesses have no real value?


Enquiring Minds Want to Know!

"You know I had really nothing to say about this John until today when I received the press release from the Aruban Prosecutor who have certainly not been friends of Joran or the defense team for that matter in this investigation. And what they basically said is that 'you know, it's more of the same'.

They basically put out a press release saying 'there's been a lot of stories going on, a lot of releases about new witnesses coming forward with value to this case, new allegations of another covert operation by this Dutch reporter who seems to making a living off of Joran, and really what they are saying in this press release as I just showed you, it it is 'much ado about nothing.' No further leads of any value regarding the Natalee Holloway investigation and really that's all I care to speak of."

Joe, how do you REALLY feel about these witnesses?
One who even passed a polygraph in the United States?

"...you know I honestly don't know who these witnesses are, there have been plenty of witnesses that have come forward in this case that have later proved to be either absolutely insane or just absolutely incredible.

The prosecutors claim that this is not a new witness, the witness we've heard about in the last week or so, that they've investigated the statement of that witness and the prosecutor does not give the police further leads to investigate; nor does it help in solving the case. (All because Hans Mos doesn't "believe" in polygraphs!) And help is a very low standard. So, if this thing doesn't help in the case clearly...there is not any evidentiary value."

So, do you know what Joran's been up to?

"You know, he's been tracked in Thailand. He's in school. (Did you have a bowl of stupid for breakfast? School of sex trafficking, maybe. I guess that sort of runs under the "business" major he once wanted...)

He's trying to get on with his life, and he's not doing well with it, obviously. You know he's made a lot of mistakes in the aftermath of this investigation, you know those things I quite frankly don't have any, you know I'm not trying to make any excuses for some of this conduct, but it has nothing to do with the Natalee Holloway investigation.

And you know he's sort of become a lightning rod for people that want to pin things on him (WTF??? Video tapes don't lie sweetheart...) and he's given them fodder for that, I mean, they offer him money, you know, to speak and so those aren't things that credible journalists do, but anyway..."

Aruba won't really "close" this case, will they?

"...It won't go away forever until there is new material evidence. I mean if they come up with a video tape of evidence of this crime or if they come up with something substantial, much more substantial (what's more substantial than Joran HIMSELF confessing on hidden video? Joe, you should probably lay off the koolaid.) and must continue to investigate until the cows come home.

They actually have to petition the Court, the judge to be able to re-open and (Oh, you mean there's actual "work" involved? Wait, 'let me shave and eat my corn flakes first' before I do that...) there's got to be some sort of finality and some closure.

Look, if they come up with some real evidence, not these, you know bits and pieces of things that may not be credible, or may not be truthful, even things coming from Joran's mouth (Typical attorney...perfect knack for talking out of his ass.) I mean they really cannot pursue this, I think that's all they are saying.

Best Quote Ever

"...Because you know, the notion that the Aruban prosecutors don't want to solve this is ludicrous. "

Aruban Prosecutors--Stupid or Just Misunderstood?

"...This has been such a dark cloud over that little island, and certainly that office, they've been mobbed and ridiculed (boo hoo...let me get out my little violin for the poor lazy incompetents...) and sometimes rightly so, the fact of the matter is I think they look at this office as much as anyone."

We're Not Talking About the Thai Investigation, Joe...Stay Focused.

"...Most of this latest stuff has nothing to do with this investigation (Two witnesses? Isn't that the bulk of it, Joe?) and it's a new trap they laid for him, whether he did or not I really don't know and quite frankly don't care, it has nothing do to with the Natalee Holloway case.

You can look at the whole tape, not the snippet that they played or sold...he made five different sorts of statements that were all inconsistent and disprovable. It doesn't excuse his conduct, I'm not here to apologize or ask for an excuse or an understanding of this conduct, but I'm evaluating it as a lawyer, looking at the evidence and how it relates to this investigation."

PROSECUTOR HANS MOS DOESN'T WORK WEEKENDS

Segment from last night's Greta's show discussing Hans Mos and his incompetence as a prosecutor.

Here are some great quotes of the evening:

After the latest witness came forward, even after PASSING a polygraph test in the United States Hans Mos "does not believe him."

Dave Holloway: (regarding witness): "...he has, he has spoken with Hans Mos probably about four months ago in the presence of Vinda Sousa, an attorney down there, and of course, many of the people with the EXCEPTION of the prosecutor believes this witness!"

"...when he got to the point about talking about the judge (Paulus Van der Sloot), Hans Mos made a comment 'what a nice guy he was' and all this other kind of stuff, then the witness said, 'I've had enough' and ended the statement. Then he came to us begging us to search this pond located near his home."


Bernie Grimm: "...and you agree to fly down to Miami and meet him halfway and he says, 'I'll take door #1, which is FLAT OUT not gettin' off your rear end LAZY...lazy is an easy way out and there are words I can't use on FOX that I would use to describe this..."

PROSECUTOR HANS MOS "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"!

Greta weighs in on this "new witness" information from last night's show. Jossy Mansur of Diario newspaper thinks that the prosecutor is doing NOTHING to investigate new leads or this witness. He said "they are indifferent to this case...people of Aruba are not interested in this case."

"TIPS RENEW HOPES OF SOLVING CASE?" WHATEVER...

As many of you know, I have been actively reporting on Natalee's case from day one, and most of you have been following this case just as closely if not closer than me.

Do you know how many of these "new reports" that will "solve the case" have surfaced over the last three years? Every time something new is reported, or someone comes forward, nothing happens.

Do I think they ever will conclude Natalee's case with the justice she deserves? Probably not. I just don't take these reports of "solving the case" seriously anymore. We've already solved the case. We know what happened. It's just a matter of putting the right people in prison.

Last year after Joran Van der Sloot confessed under hidden surveillance that he deposed of Natalee's body in the ocean, the Dutch prosecutor in Aruba, Hans Mos did NOTHING.

His logic?

Since Joran had lied so many times in the past, how could he know he was telling the truth now? Therefore, he never pursued any of the new information, nor did he bring anything to the Judges in Aruba.

What was Joran's defense after spilling the beans? He was lying because he was high on "pot". That boy has more lies than Pinocchio.

Even Natalee's father Dave Holloway stated, "As far as Aruba’s concerned, I doubt very seriously if they are going to do anything. It seems like every time you try to give them some information it’s discounted by the judges who are over this case." (http://www.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/dutch_expose_reveals_new_information_into_natalee_holloways_disappearance/46176/)

It was recently reported that Hans Mos has decided to "close" Natalee's case at the end of the year. To the denial and dismay of the Aruban Tourism Authority, their economy and tourism has greatly suffered since this debacle of justice. The "powers that be" want this case, Beth Holloway, and the name Natalee Holloway to go away. Sorry. I think Aruba's reputation will forever be tarnished. There are millions out there that will not forget what happened to Natalee.

Incidentally, none of these reports and witnesses are "new" evidence and Hans Mos has pubicly dismissed them in the past. So why is he changing his tune now? Could it be that he has some political pressure on him? Or is this just another opportunity for him to look like he's doing something?

With the whacked-out legal system in Aruba, Joran has a better chance of seeing prison after his sex trafficking scandal in Thailand.

Read the "new hopes" here. I'm not holding my breath:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/18/grace.coldcase.holloway/index.html?eref=rss_crime

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT--A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY PART II

Joran Van Der Sloot--The Man With
Many "Shortcomings"

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JORAN VAN DER SLOOT--A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY PART II

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JORAN VAN DER SLOOT--A MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

SEX TRAFFICKING FACTS: THAILAND & THE NETHERLANDS

THAILAND & SEX TRAFFICKING

• Around 80,000 women and children have been sold into Thailand's sex industry since 1990, with most coming from Burma, China's Yunan province and Laos. (Mahidol University's Institute of Population and Social Research, "Trafficking of children on the rise," Bangkok Post, 22 July 1998)
  

• In Thailand, trafficking is a 500 billion annual business, which is 50%- 60% of the government's annual budget and more lucrative than the drug trade. (Authorites and activists, Kulachada Chaipipat, "New law targets human trafficking," The Nation, 30 Novermber 1997)

• Women from Thailand are trafficked particularly to the Netherlands and Germany of the European Union, Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia and nations of the Middle East. ("Trafficking of Women to the European Union: Characteristics, Trends and Policy Issues," European Conference on Trafficking in Women, (June 1996), IOM, 7 May 1996) and (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)
  

• Thailand is a staging point for the international trade in prostitutes and illegal workers, with facilities for the production of false travel documents and processing of foreign nationals to third countries. (Chulalongkorn University, "There’s money everywhere for Thai police," The Nation, 25 February 1997)

• In Thailand, the new Measures in Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Women and Children Act only issues authorities the right to detain suspected victims of trafficking, not the suspected traffickers. (Kulachada Chaipipat, "New law targets human trafficking," The Nation, 30 November 1997)

• Prostituted women who are illegal immigrants when found by police are deported and blacklisted. (Police Colonel Sanit Meephan, deputy chief of the Tourism Police Bureau, "Thailand popular haunt for foreign prostitutes," The Nation, 15 January 1997)

• Reduced punishments for prostituted women and harsher penalties for pimps and brothel owners has not curbed the problem of trafficking into Thailand. Officers in charge of enforcing the law, particularly immigration police do not take the matter seriously, or fail to take immediate action against violators. (Senator Keerana Sumawon, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, "Flesh trade shrugs off new risks," The Nation, 1 May 1997)

• Number of persons engaged in prostitution per type of sex industry establishment: 11,665 persons in restaurants; 9,397 in traditional massage parlors; 7,338 in karaoke bars; 5,964 in massage parlors; 5,743 in cafes; 5,229 in beer bars; 5,155 in brothels; 3,340 in go-go bars; 2,555 in cocktail lounges; and 1,936 in gay bars. Survey conducted nationwide in January 1998. (Thai Public Health Ministry. Aphaluck Bhatiasevi, "Vice purge hinders campaign as prostitutes go underground," Bangkok Post, 17 June 1998)
  

• Half a million women are in sexual slavery, accounting for 18-20% of all Thai women aged 18-30. (Pino Arlaccki, Head of UN International Drug Control Programme, in charge of UN efforts to fight organized crime, Associated Foreign Press, 13 November 1997)

• Thailand is now one of the world's AIDS capitals. The crisis is most severe in the North, where it is recommended that a state of AIDS emergency should be imposed. Suggested strategies include the immediate closure of all brothels in the region because the main route of transmission of AIDS is prostitution. ("Opening our eyes to the Aids problem," The Nation, 20 May 1997)

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/thailand.htm

• The Thai Government was placed in Tier 2 in the 2007 U.S. Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report for not fully complying with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking but making significant efforts to do so.

• There are reports of local government officials who are complicit in trafficking. (2006 US Department of State Human Rights Report.) Since the September 2006 military coup, Thai government efforts to combat trafficking remain uncertain.

• The 1997 Prevention and Suppression of Trafficking in Women and Children Act criminalize trafficking for sexual exploitation. Penalties range from imprisonment for a year to life and fines of $50 to $1000. Penalties for trafficking of children between the age of 15 to 18 range from 3 to 15 years of imprisonment and a fine. Penalties for trafficking children under the age of 15 ranges from five to 20 years of imprisonment and a fine. (2006 US Department of State Human Rights Report)
  

• The Government of Thailand reported 88 arrests in cases brought against traffickers in the period from September 2005 through February 2007, involving a total of 100 victims. No public officials or law enforcement officials were arrested for being complicit in trafficking in 2006. (2007 US Department of State Trafficking in Persons Report)

http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/thailand

THE NETHERLANDS & SEX TRAFFICKING

The Netherlands...acknowledges that prostitution—called "sex work"—is an inevitability, and has regulated the sex industry by legalizing brothels and creating official zones for street prostitution. The term "trafficking" is used only to designate forced prostitution, and traffickers are duly prosecuted.

Dutch police reports suggest that, as a result, prostitution has become both easier to regulate and socially acceptable. Rights-based organizations like the Network for Sex Work Projects applaud the creation of a safer workplace for most women in the Dutch sex industry, though they criticize the lack of protections for many trafficking victims, including non-EU citizens who are in the Netherlands illegally.

But despite its successes, a Netherlands-style approach has been flatly ruled out by the Bush administration. A State Department fact sheet on trafficking declares: "It is a vicious myth that women and children who work as prostitutes have voluntarily chosen such a life for themselves." Likewise, USAID has announced that "organizations which advocate or support the legalization of prostitution are not appropriate partners for USAID anti-trafficking grants or contracts."

http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2005/05/sex_trafficking.html

• In Amsterdam, Netherlands, 80% of prostitutes are foreigners, and 70% have no immigration papers, suggesting that they were trafficked. (Marie-Victoire Louis, "Legalizing Pimping, Dutch Style," Le Monde Diplomatique, 8 March 1997)

• In the Netherlands, 33% of the prostitutes come from countries outside of the European Union, this increases to 50% in the larger cities (Altink, 1995) ("Trafficking of Women to the European Union: Characteristic, Trends and Policy Issues," European Conference on Trafficking in Women, (June 1996), IOM, 7 May 1996)

• Policy and Law The definition of prostitution in the Netherlands is now based on whether there was any coercion. Dutch authorities have even proposed a new concept: "full consent to exploitation of the self." Dutch policy has been held up as an example at almost every international conference. The Hague played a crucial part in drawing up the European action plan in preparation for the Beijing conference in September 1995, where the concept of "forced prostitution" was established for the first time a European government level. (Marie-Victoire Louis, "Legalizing Pimping, Dutch Style," Le Monde Diplomatique, 8 March 1997)

• The Netherlands government, in response to increasing trafficking in women, amended its criminal law in 1991. The maximum sentence for trafficking was raised from 5 to 6 years, and to 10 years for the trafficking of children under 16 and/or accompanied by serious physical violence. (Marie-Victoire Louis, "Legalizing Pimping, Dutch Style," Le Monde Diplomatique, 8 March 1997)

• The maximum penalty for alien smuggling in the Netherlands is one year. (Tass, 1995, "Trafficking and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Migrant Women from Central and Eastern Europe," IOM, May 1995)

• Official Response and Action Although trafficking in women to the Netherlands and Belgium has risen police and immigrant authorities do not consider it a large problem. ("Trafficking and Prostitution: The Growing Exploitation of Migrant Women from Central and Eastern Europe," IOM, May 1995)

• There are an estimated 30,000 prostitutes in the Netherlands ("Sex tax Ticks off Dutch," Associated Press, 14 October 1997)

• The Phillippines, Thailand, South Korea, Sri Lanka and Hong Kong are some of the primary Asian destinations for organized sex tours from the Netherlands. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific)

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/netherl.htm

• The government of the Netherlands promotes itself as the champion of anti-trafficking policies and programs yet cynically has removed every legal impediment to pimping, procurement and brothels. With the decriminalization of brothels in October, 2000, the Dutch government took a final step in making the prostitution industry fully legal in the Netherlands.

• In the year 2000, the Dutch Ministry of Justice argued for a legal quota of foreign “sex workers,” because the Dutch prostitution market demands a variety of “bodies” (Dutting, 2001: 16).

• Also in the year 2000, the Dutch government sought and received a judgment from the European Court recognizing prostitution as an economic activity, thus enabling women from the EU and former Soviet bloc countries to obtain working permits as “sex workers” in the Dutch sex industry if they can prove that they are self employed. NGOs in the Netherlands have stated that traffickers are taking advantage of this ruling to bring foreign women into the Dutch prostitution industry by masking the fact that women have been trafficked, and by coaching the women how to prove that they are self-employed “migrant sex workers.”

• One argument for legalizing prostitution in the Netherlands was that legalization would help end the use of desperate immigrant women trafficked for prostitution. A report done for the governmental Budapest Group* stated that 80% of the women in the brothels in the Netherlands are trafficked from other countries (Budapest Group, 1999: 11).

• As early as 1994, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) stated that in the Netherlands alone, “nearly 70 per cent of trafficked women were from CEEC [Central and Eastern European Countries]” (IOM, 1995: 4).
  

http://action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=31742&AA_EX_Session=c4aa600742f3c6b446e875f369a34278

• The Netherlands is a primary country of destination for victims of human trafficking. Many of these are led to believe by organized criminals that they are being offered work in hotels or restaurants or in child care and are forced into prostitution with the threat or actual use of violence. Estimates of the number of victims vary from 1000 to 7000 on a yearly basis. Most police investigations on human trafficking concern legal sex businesses. All sectors of prostitution are well represented in these investigations, but particularly the window brothels are overrepresented.

http://rechten.uvt.nl/victimology/national/NL-NRMEngels3.pdf

http://rechten.uvt.nl/victimology/national/NL-NRMEngels4.pdf

• An article in Le Monde in 1997 found that 80% of prostitutes in the Netherlands were foreigners and 70% had no immigration papers, suggesting that at least some were victims of sex trafficking, forced prostitution.
  

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/netherl.htm

http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Netherlands.htm

• An article in the New York Times in February 2008 stated that officials estimate that sexual transactions in Amsterdam account for about 100 million US dollars per year. The red light district is also a popular tourist attraction, so the revenues that Amsterdam earns in tourism can be partly linked to brothels and the unusual appeal they bring to city. Recently however officials have noticed an increase in violence centered around this irregular industry and have blamed this increase on the illegal immigration of individuals into Amsterdam to participate in the sex industry. There were 142 licensed brothels in Amsterdam, with about 500 window displays. Seventy-five percent of Amsterdam’s 8,000-11,000 prostitutes immigrated from Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia. When the Dutch government legalized prostitution in 2000 it was to protect the women by giving them work permits but some fear that this business cannot be normalized.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/world/europe/24amsterdam.html?_r=1&oref=slogin