tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-191995972024-03-23T14:12:22.752-04:00BOYCOTT ARUBA--JUSTICE FOR NATALEEPurpose: Spreading the word of a VOLUNTARY boycott to the island of Aruba.
This consumer grassroots movement urges everyone to abandon any plans to travel to Aruba or the Netherland Antilles until this case is resolved.Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.comBlogger1240125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-22001551267316194262009-11-11T23:53:00.000-05:002009-11-11T14:06:17.856-05:00BOYCOTT ARUBA AND HAVE A VOICE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: trebuchet ms;" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7977/1351/1600/Boycott%20Aruba%20New.0.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 371px; cursor: pointer; height: 220px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7977/1351/400/Boycott%20Aruba%20New.png" border="0" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;font-size:180%;"><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"> <img src="http://cdn-img1.imagechef.com/w/080720/anm6fca3db2f0677d2f.gif" /><!-- Start Bravenet.com Service Code --><br /><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://pub25.bravenet.com/counter/code.php?id=382461&usernum=2064519062&cpv=2"><br /></script><br /><!-- END DO NOT MODIFY --><br /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:georgia;font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank">email:</a></span><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">mrsimonsen@yahoo.com</span></a></span><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"> </a><div style="text-align: center;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><a href="http://www.imagechef.com/" target="_blank">Check out my true crime blog:<br /></a></span><a href="http://michellesaysso.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);font-size:130%;"><br />MICHELLE SAYS SO</span></a><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" href="http://michellesaysso.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);font-size:130%;"></span></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/R1x-50l-dgI/AAAAAAAABXY/-xikI9Rfzqo/s1600-h/US+Flag.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142124406385833474" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 381px; cursor: pointer; height: 14px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/R1x-50l-dgI/AAAAAAAABXY/-xikI9Rfzqo/s320/US+Flag.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Want to write to Aruban and Dutch Officials?<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><a href="http://arubanboycott.blogspot.com/2005/09/contacts.html"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Click Here</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Sign this petition to BOYCOTT ARUBA</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:times new roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br />until JUSTICE is served!</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/holloway/petition.html"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.petitiononline.com/holloway/petition.html</span></span></span></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SLLzS8vDYVI/AAAAAAAAC5s/mpqa7Z83Qnc/s1600-h/ID_Guest_Blogger.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SLLzS8vDYVI/AAAAAAAAC5s/mpqa7Z83Qnc/s400/ID_Guest_Blogger.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238516823451984210" border="0" /></a></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-77270224642104836782009-11-11T13:54:00.005-05:002010-03-07T13:28:15.759-05:00MISSION POSSIBLE--QUICK TRIP TO ARUBA REVEALS DECLINE<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SvxKymqiJmI/AAAAAAAAD5c/fMhr4w_GJIQ/s1600-h/PICT0116.JPG"><br /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SvsK_01IveI/AAAAAAAAD5M/SEJ-0ugvsTo/s1600-h/legal_and_insurance.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 166px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SvsK_01IveI/AAAAAAAAD5M/SEJ-0ugvsTo/s400/legal_and_insurance.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402924269590592994" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:16px;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Bob, a member of Boycott Aruba since it's inception recently took a cruise to see the Panama Canal. Unfortunately, one of the ports was in Aruba. Bob turned unfortunate circumstances into fortunate and interesting discoveries about Aruba TODAY. Not four years ago. October, 2009.</div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:16px;">Here's the "Aruba List"...thanks for all you do, Bob!<br /><br /><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit; "><span lang="EN"><span><br /><ul><li>Aruba is almost dead as vacation resort.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>The people I talked to on the cruise ship about Natalee refused to go ashore because of what Aruba did or did not do. </li></ul><span><span><span><br /><ul><li>At most ports of call there where at least 50 to 60 excursion buses; in Aruba maybe 8 to 10.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>Hardly any taxis came up to the ship and those that did complained if the ride was short and did not cost a lot. </li></ul><br /><ul><li>There have been 1000 workers laid off at the Valero Refinery and production is down. However and this is a first for you and it is no where on the internet. </li></ul><br /><ul><li>Aruba has installed 9 or 10 wind generators near Arikok National Park. The last set of props was being installed when we were there. I was right under them as close as they would let me.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>Half of who I talked to were split between she was murdered and dumped in the sea to she was sold as a sex slave.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>When Aruba says look how crowded our beaches are; there is a reason. If two ships like ours is in port they usually allow liberty for about 300 crew members. Where do they go; but to the beaches. So for six hours their beaches are crowded with about 600 non paying cruise ship crew members.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>I asked a few Arubans about Natalee; the one’s I asked did not recognize the case or know her name.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>There are no street signs outside of Orangestad so it is difficult to maneuver unless you know the area.</li></ul><br /><ul><li>The pond that Dave went to in March 2009 was dry. (Monserat Pond) I was there and it is full of broken bottles and glass.</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">"Bob" even had a chance to peep on over </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">to check out the Van der Sloot residence:</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SvxKymqiJmI/AAAAAAAAD5c/fMhr4w_GJIQ/s400/PICT0116.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403275886170613346" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;"><i>Photos Private Property of Bob, Aruban Boycott's anonymous source</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Even the fence looks like a blue web of deceit!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, serif;font-size:14px;"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SvxKyWshtJI/AAAAAAAAD5U/UW_4tuwKGxQ/s400/PICT0115.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403275881884005522" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-23234777100259786222009-10-21T08:22:00.006-04:002009-10-21T08:32:18.246-04:00HAPPY 23RD BIRTHDAY NATALEE<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/St7-d9mLzvI/AAAAAAAAD5E/HdsR3RDjACE/s1600-h/Natalee_Holloway_yearbook_photo.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 278px; height: 381px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/St7-d9mLzvI/AAAAAAAAD5E/HdsR3RDjACE/s400/Natalee_Holloway_yearbook_photo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395029194340814578" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><div style="text-align: justify;">Today would have been Natalee's 23rd birthday. She would have been in medical school by now, on her way to becoming a doctor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We are all missing you and thinking of you on this day in 1986 when Beth and Dave became proud parents who named you Natalee Ann.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GOD BLESS NATALEE, and all her family and friends! We haven't forgotten and never will.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-20896017878042238772009-10-20T17:00:00.006-04:002009-10-20T17:11:55.559-04:00ARUBA'S BABY SMUGGLING OPERATION BUSTED<tr><td align="left" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sounds like this woman is trying to pull a "Casey Anthony" by claiming her child was kidnapped. At least this baby was saved, unlike Caylee Anthony.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/St4mehiP8oI/AAAAAAAAD4w/-mZqA6FJjGI/s320/liar-main_Full.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394791709476385410" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px; " /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you are going to be a liar, then you better make sure you're a damn good one...what pieces of human GARBAGE.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Three Arubans involved in selling of baby</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/St4mj4Y9SsI/AAAAAAAAD44/EMl_OrmAr5Y/s400/ef472e9d-2ae6-c05e-3a56-3af3898a7035-baby_with_pacifier_bb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394791801510775490" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 195px; height: 143px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">19 Okt, 2009, 08:20 (GMT -04:00)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">ORANJESTAD/MARACAIBO — Three Arubans have been arrested by local authorities in Venezuela for their involvement with the abduction and selling of a baby. Venezuelan media announced that the corps of criminal investigation (CicpC) had rescued a barely two-month old baby.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Supposedly, eight persons had been apprehended amongst which were Arubans. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the suspects, the baby’s aunt, had claimed that the baby had been kidnapped last Friday. At least, that is what she had told her sister, who was the baby’s mother. However, it was she who had sold the baby. It was reported that 18,000 Bolivar (8,373 dollars) had been paid in four installments for the child.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The baby’s aunt had sold the child to an international gang involved in human smuggling.</b> The police had rescued the baby on Saturday evening before the suspects had boarded the airplane.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the police interrogation, H. admitted that her husband Melesio Riera and her daughter Manifer Johaina Barrios (23) had assisted with this case as well. She also admitted that the baby had been stolen with the help of the Aruban Georgina Currie also names Gina. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Currie had supposedly already been pretending for a while on Aruba that she was expecting. Currie had only worn wide clothing lately to make her family and friends believe that she was pregnant. She had been in Venezuela during last August, supposedly due to so-called pregnancy complications, where she had run up a debt during her stay in the Venezuelan clinic. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Currie had informed her colleagues at work that she had encountered financial problems due to aforementioned debt. Her colleagues had supposedly even helped her out financially. She had left for Venezuela last week to give birth to her so-called baby.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It had therefore been Currie’s intention to purchase a baby in Venezuela. She had even paid a man to act as her husband. <b>The three Arubans, including Currie and another five involved persons, are imprisoned in Venezuela now.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not known whether they have a lawyer or if the Dutch embassy is informed of this case. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(OF COURSE they don't know this...they don't know their arses from a hole in the wall. No one in Aruba knows what's going on...absolutely PATHETIC.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_64004.php">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_64004.php</a><br /></span></span><br /><br /></span></span><table><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-14604597224909778742009-10-19T18:04:00.011-04:002009-10-19T18:57:17.457-04:00MEMBERS OF THE CURACAO "SECRET CLUB" CAUSE A DIKE FAILURE IN DUTCH TRAFFICKING PLAN<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StztCUxZskI/AAAAAAAAD4g/E5HhUX2KeBU/s1600-h/elements.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StztCUxZskI/AAAAAAAAD4g/E5HhUX2KeBU/s400/elements.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394447077874446914" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StztBm6J8GI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/Rwpcd8Xv1Tc/s1600-h/member_of_the_secret_club_for_super_cool_party_keychain-p146931245519085011qjfk_400.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /></span></span></div></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">It's amazing what can happen in THREE DAYS. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This first article was published on October 12, 2009. A group of anonymous Curacao "professionals" started a "secret club" going under the name "The Institute Kòrsou Fuerte i Outónomo--KFO. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(Sounds like an online degree program? Maybe these are their some of their graduates?)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The group, I mean, "Institute" started throwing fists (or shall I say, throwing fits) by openly refusing the Dutch's proposal for a statute law for the traffic of persons...literally calling it, "unacceptable", yet offering no alternatives. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StztBm6J8GI/AAAAAAAAD4Y/Rwpcd8Xv1Tc/s400/member_of_the_secret_club_for_super_cool_party_keychain-p146931245519085011qjfk_400.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394447065563132002" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style=""><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The "secret club's" logic? Check out these brain marbles:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> “This intended legal regulation by the Netherlands is an example of the general tendency in your country, where these kinds of regulations are considered a solution for the problems with the Antillean youngsters, without bearing in mind the human rights of those involved.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sounds like a bunch of big babies with sour grapes to me.</div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Objection against Statute Law for the Traffic of persons</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">12 Okt, 2009, 09:48 (GMT -04:00)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">WILLEMSTAD — The proposal to constitute a Statute Law for the Traffic of persons is unacceptable. The institute Kòrsou Fuerte i Outónomo (KFO) state this in an open letter to the Dutch Minister of Justice Ernst Hirsch Ballin (CDA) who arrived on Curaçao today. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the open letter, the institute – consisting of professionals who had supported a No during the referendum – denounces that they will not stop their opposition against the statute law.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">KFO points out to Hirsch Ballin, that in the meantime the States of the Antilles but also the Island Council of Curaçao have vigorously renounced the draft statute law. “This intended legal regulation by the Netherlands is an example of the general tendency in your country, where these kinds of regulations are considered a solution for the problems with the Antillean youngsters, without bearing in mind the human rights of those involved.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to KFO, the citizens of the Antilles have free entry to the Netherlands. “The approach of the problems of a specific group or high risk youngsters in the Netherlands through a statute law that has legal force in the entire Kingdom, is heavy artillery and not an appropriate means to solve a problem that is taking place in the Netherlands, and the solution does not serve a legitimate purpose”, according to the institute.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The institute describes the leaked out draft of the statute law as ‘another attempt to bar Antillean and Aruban Dutch citizens from the territory of the Kingdom in Europe, based on their origin’. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to KFO, this law fits in the line of thought of the cross reference Antilleans (VIA), and the return regulation, which both had a repressive character.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“You even go as far as that in the framework of this law it is legally possible to detain Antillean and Aruban Dutch citizens, while this was never the case in the past. Even if the Council of State had given the green light, as occurred in the past in the framework of the department administration of justice with the VIA, as a nation we will never ever cease our opposition against such a statute law.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63710.php</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Then three days later, on October 15, 2009, we see this?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Three arrests due to human trafficking</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">15 Okt, 2009, 08:58 (GMT -04:00)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">WILLEMSTAD — The police apprehended two males and one female yesterday afternoon because of human trafficking. They were holding two Dominican females against their will in the nightclub De Rode Leeuw on the Weg naar Sta. Catharina. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The two females are being taken care of by the Bureau Victim Relief. The authorities were tipped on the case yesterday morning. The police immediately launched an investigation. On the spot, it appeared that two young Dominican females had been locked up. The females were naked and were not given anything to eat or drink. Their passports had been confiscated. The females, who had worked as exotic dancers, had refused to have sex with customers.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Various buildings on the terrain were searched, where video images of monitoring cameras were secured. The personal belongings of the victims were found and were returned to them. The managers of the nightclub, a 29-year old male from Curaçao and the 45-year old male from Africa were arrested as well as the 21-year old Dominican female A.E. They are being suspected of unlawful detention casu quo human trafficking.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The suspects have been transferred to the police station for interrogation. The victims have been taken care of by victim relief for aftercare.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The investigation in this case is being carried out by a team of the Division Organized Crime (DGC) of the Corps Police Curaçao under supervision of the Prosecution Council. This team – which was recently composed on request of the Prosecution Council – consists of members of the Corps Police Curaçao, the Criminal Investigation Cooperation Team and the Royal Military Police. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">As of today, they will be responsible for the combating of human trafficking and human smuggling cases on Curaçao. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(And who was in charge before? Deputy Dog? Reno 911?)</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>In an American report of a few months ago, it was mentioned that the Antilles hardly take any action against human trafficking. That is why the land was put on a watch list. The Netherlands also see to it that the Antilles takes this phenomenon seriously. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Memorandum of Understanding was signed at the beginning of this year to cooperate with the combating of human trafficking. Former minister of Justice David Dick (PAR) said the American report was superseded because much had actually been realized in the meantime. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(Am I smoking some of Patrick van der Eem's weed, or does that sentence make absolutely NO SENSE?)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63857.php</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></span><div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-90592282751650128622009-10-11T22:40:00.006-04:002009-10-11T23:40:10.704-04:00CRUISE SHIP ADVENTURE OF THE SEAS SAYS GOODBYE TO ARUBA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StKYu4HMROI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/bOEK0bIZ-lA/s1600-h/adventure.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 239px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StKYu4HMROI/AAAAAAAAD4Q/bOEK0bIZ-lA/s400/adventure.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391539635019859170" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span><span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>Adventure of the Seas abandons Aruba</b></span></span></div></span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">ORANJESTAD — The cruise ship Adventure of the Seas from Royal Caribbean will not be visiting the harbor of Oranjestad after April 20th, 2010.</span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">The ship, with a capacity of more than 3000 passengers, will be cruising in Europe. Various media have announced this. Alfonso Becloud, director of the Aruba Ports Authority (APA) confirms that the route of Adventure has been changed and that the ship will no longer be visiting Aruba as of the end of April.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The cruise schedule, which can be viewed on the website of APA, also confirms the departure of the Adventure of the Seas.The sister ship, Serenade of the Seas of the same company, will be visiting the Aruban harbor instead of the Adventure. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Serenade is of the Radiance-class and, in comparison with the Voyager-class of the Adventure, carries approx. 2400 passengers. The Serenade is newer and more modern. The passengers of the ship are also different, according to Boekhoudt. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Adventure of the Seas attracts younger passengers with its facilities such as a skating-rink, wall bars, and a basketball field.”The homeport of the Serenade of the Seas lies in the Bahamas. Boekhoudt says he regrets the decline of passengers, especially during the low season, but is positive about the possible chances of Aruba attracting other ships from Royal Caribbean. “Nothing has actually been said on this, but it is possible that the cruise company could for example decide to have the Grandeur of the Seas visit Aruba more often, when the demand becomes high enough”, said the APA-director.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The cruise ship Adventure has continuously visited our harbor for years. During the high season, this ship visits our island every week, and every two weeks during the low season. In Europe, the Adventure of the Seas will be departing from Malaga in Spain and sail a route in the Mediterranean Sea. </span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I LOVE THIS EXCUSE:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">According to Boekhoudt, there is no specific reason for the departure of the Adventure of the Seas. “It is probably just a change of the ship’s sailing schedule, just like all ships do every few years.” Therefore, he does not consider it obvious that the ship would return to Aruba within short. “It takes at least four to five years before they adjust their route again.”</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/StKYqX_2eKI/AAAAAAAAD4I/RF_o00hx-LE/s320/buh+bye2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391539557679659170" style="text-align: justify;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 291px; height: 320px; " /></span></span></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:medium;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_63202.php</span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><table style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><span class="arttext"><p> </p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-52647402897643559912009-09-25T02:51:00.000-04:002009-09-25T13:34:14.312-04:00ESCAPED TRAFFICKER SUES PRESS FOR RELEASING HIS PICTURE<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrvAPWmGoTI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/bocYs2INuXo/s1600-h/sabanbaran1_jpg_657749d.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrvAPWmGoTI/AAAAAAAAD3Q/bocYs2INuXo/s400/sabanbaran1_jpg_657749d.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385109149447528754" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm posting your picture! SO SUE ME! </span></div><div></div><span><span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Michelle Says So:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">I think this guy has balls as big as Joran's...who in the hell does this guy think he is by telling the press they can't use his picture when he is an escaped and wanted criminal? Someone please catch this monster who "owned" and trafficked over 100 women and spare us all by castrating him, locking him up and losing the key.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/Srz-mpU21XI/AAAAAAAAD3Y/6oOHE8ZxOas/s400/castration.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385459194310088050" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 383px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">A dangerous criminal on the run after escaping from jail is going to sue the press for publishing his picture. The man's lawyer says the photograph published by Dutch media was taken during his client's wedding behind bars and can't be used as it is a private image.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The escape of the man, Saban Baran, who is routinely referred to in the press as a violent and dangerous criminal, caused nationwide consternation. Whilst serving a seven-and-a-half year sentence for his crimes, trafficking women and forcing them into prostitution, he was given weekend leave to visit his new born baby. During the visit he absconded and has not been seen since.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Saban married in prison with a former prostitute exploited by him. Police sources suggested to the Telegraaf daily that he married her with a view to getting out of prison.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>Beatings</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Saban and his brother Hassan were found guilty last year of forcing over 100 women into prostitution. The women were branded with tattoos so everyone who laid eyes on them could see that they were "property of" the brothers. The men also hit the women with baseball bats and forced them to undergo breast enlargement operations.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Sylvia, one of Saban's victims, told RNW, "as soon as we received a customer, Saban or his brother would come inside to take the money, so that I could keep nothing for myself. If we didn't co-operate, they would use violence."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The photograph in question appeared across Dutch media in the immediate aftermath of Baran's escape. The man's lawyer Gerard Spong told the Spits newspaper that there was nothing unusual in his acting on his clients behalf, despite the fact he is on the run, in regard to the claim about publishing the photo.The criminal disappeared a week ago - police suspect he may well have returned to his native Turkey.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b>No home leave in future <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(How about NEVER?)</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">As a result of this case, judges will no longer be involved in decisions to allow prisoners out of jail on home leave. The Dutch Justice Minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin was called to the Lower House today to explain why Saban Baran was allowed out of prison on home leave in spite indications he may be planning to abscond.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">The minister told parliament that responsibility for the release of Saban Baran lay first and foremost with the judge. Nevertheless, he thinks the Public Prosecution should have done more to prevent his release. In future it will be the prison governor who decides whether prisoners are entitled to compassionate leave, under direct responsibility of the justice minister. In response, a prison directors' association says, prison directors do not have enough time to consider whether or not prisoners are entitled to compassionate leave.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/criminal-run-wants-sue-press</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div class="article-content-body" style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></span></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-37529832078984356502009-09-24T12:33:00.005-04:002009-09-24T12:44:19.823-04:00"THE OLDEST PROFESSION IN THE WORLD KEEPS UP WITH MODERN TIMES"?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SruhjqcOujI/AAAAAAAAD3I/feeT5fiKLPg/s1600-h/corrupt_politician_the_second_oldest_profession_tshirt-p235804519528565330trlf_400.jpg"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">CITIZENS WANT CHANGE, GOVERNMENT RELUCTANT</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Michelle Says So:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Why would the government be reluctant to change the laws of prostitution in order to protect women and children? Could it be that these "legal" businesses give handouts to the politicians so change does not occur?</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, fantasy;font-size:14px;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SruhjqcOujI/AAAAAAAAD3I/feeT5fiKLPg/s400/corrupt_politician_the_second_oldest_profession_tshirt-p235804519528565330trlf_400.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385075413511748146" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px; " /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">WILLEMSTAD — In reaction to the public canvassing of girls for the prostitution, the appeal sounds for the legal curbing of this line of business. Prostitution alone is not punishable in the Netherlands Antilles, when it regards adults (eighteen years and older).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">‘The oldest profession of the world’ also keeps up with modern times. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">An escort bureau has established itself on Curaçao, and presents itself, as well as canvasses for personnel via internet. In addition, the Amigoe was offered an advertisement for webcam girls at the end of last week. Although this was refused, the advertisement still made it in a morning newspaper the next day. “I am making an explicit appeal to the politics to now grab pen and paper to have the law amended”, says the director or Social Development, Keith Carlo, former-chairman of the Child Welfare and fervid adherent of female and child rights.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“Members of parliament should consider not issuing any more permits to escort bureaus. The law should be amended accordingly.”Lawyer Berry Scheperboer also pleads for an amendment of the law. <b>He is of the opinion that a whole lot can be done, but that the political will is lacking. “The ‘legislator should act immediately’, if this is to be tackled”, said the lawyer, as it is now a ‘free for all’.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b></b> “We have never had any problems with prostitution as we never departed from the viewpoint that females and children were objects worthy of protection”, according to the lawyer. “It concerns money and not love; the right of the strongest applies.”“If the government states that it cannot do anything, they are right, but they are legislator and they are capable of changing the legislation. Regulations should be implemented that can be enforced appropriately.” </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>As long as the government stands aloof, they are an accessory to these practices, according to Scheperboer.</b> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">The younger, the better</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Basically the proprietors make use of the poverty, which many people, in particular females, contend with on the island. “One third of the population lives under the poverty line. The risk exists that families contending with poverty will exploit their girls to earn money.” He considers it ‘clever’ that they are on the lookout for adults. “Who checks whether this girl (or boy, as this often occurs as well) is fifteen or sixteen year of age; or is it simply the younger, the better.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For that matter, from the language used in the advertisement for webcam girls, it appears to be directed towards girls rather than mature females: “Are you 18 years or older and not shy? Would you like to have a sideline and flexible working hours? Present yourself for the information gathering. It is perfectly alright to take a girlfriend with you.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Awarenes</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">s</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In addition to an amendment of the law, Carlo is of the opinion that the government should initiate an awareness campaign. “For example: Don’t let this fool or entice you.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Deputy Marilyn Alcalá-Wallé (PAR) is in favor of that idea: “We cannot forbid it, and therefore not intervene in the business itself. However, we could warn the population and introduce educative programs. That is an important task for the government, to rear the community to obstruct this matter within their own circles.”The island service Culture and Education will make sure that the activities regarding this area will be well monitored. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Responsible deputy Alcalá-Wallé admits that with the arrival of the new technologies, such as internet, it will become more difficult to keep an eye on all of this. “I am aware that this is developing very quickly, but also the latest developments require contra-developments.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Escort</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is common knowledge that prostitutes are active on Curaçao – Campo Alegre is the widely known example, but there is also prostitution on the outside. In the past but also nowadays, there are various escort bureaus, which simply make telephonic arrangements for their services aboard pleasure yachts. As far as we are aware, it is new that an escort bureau offers its services locally through the internet.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On the website, Relax Escort Services promises discretion and high quality. The bureau is also interested in employing males and females up to fifty years of age and weighing up to 90 kilos. By the way, these are called ‘models’, and the escort bureau therefore offers ‘dates’.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The website (relaxescortservice.com) states that the models and escorts are not prostitutes and therefore do not accept any compensation in whatever form for sexual activities or sexual contact. “Every amount received by their staff or bureau is only meant for the time spent with the model, or the modeling time for the client”, the bureau emphasizes. The prices start at 175 dollars for a topless body rub (non-therapeutic, according to the website.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The offered package is legion. The bureau offers strippers (male & female), dinner dates, and entertainment for couples, and two or more girls. It is even possible to take an escort on holidays. The hourly rate for an escort is 300 dollars.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_62885.php</span></span></div></span></span><p></p></span>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-18682989874812896832009-09-23T19:27:00.002-04:002009-09-23T19:33:40.952-04:00WATCH ONLINE--20/20 THE FINAL HOURS OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY<div><br /></div><div>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.</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: center;">For those of you who missed this, check it out:</div><br /><br />February 5, 2008</div><div><br /><br /><embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=3173681119656186190&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-12079451543306908432009-09-17T19:11:00.008-04:002009-09-17T19:57:40.837-04:00HUMAN TRAFFICKER SABAN BARAN FLEES FROM PRISON--DUTCH CLAIM "TERRIBLE BLUNDER IN THE LAW"<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrLJAZ-RunI/AAAAAAAAD1c/-XoFloORHD8/s1600-h/sabanbaran1_jpg_657749d.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrLJAZ-RunI/AAAAAAAAD1c/-XoFloORHD8/s400/sabanbaran1_jpg_657749d.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382585513470442098" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><h3 style="font-size: 24px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; "></h3><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">HUMAN TRAFFICKER, SABAN BARAN ESCAPES AND FLEES THE NETHERLANDS</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">MPs have demanded justice minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin explain how a convicted and violent human trafficker came to be given a few days leave from prison and then vanished.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrLI__q8yNI/AAAAAAAAD1U/G38iW-t7YPA/s1600-h/ernst.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SrLI__q8yNI/AAAAAAAAD1U/G38iW-t7YPA/s400/ernst.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5382585506410055890" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 235px; height: 325px; " /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ernst Hirsch Ballin</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Saban Baran is currently appealing against a 7.5 year jail sentence for forcing over 100 women into prostitution, together with his brother.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Baran had been allowed home to visit his new baby, born to one of his trafficking victims whom he married from jail in January.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Telegraaf, the Arnhem court gave the go-ahead to the <b>compassionate leave </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(Compassionate leave??? What about the compassion to the 100 women he victimized? The Dutch need to get with the program, or I'll make sure that Secretary of State, Hillary Rodman Clinton puts the Netherlands on notice!)</span>, despite the objections of the public prosecution department, which said <b>he was a flight risk and that it had been tipped off he was making travel plans</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Police say they expect Baran has fled to Turkey and an international arrest warrant has been issued. <b>The Netherlands does not have an extradition treaty with Turkey.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/09/fury_over_human_trafficker_esc.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/09/fury_over_human_trafficker_esc.php</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">Michelle Says So: Well citizens of Turkey, keep an eye out for this monster. The Turkish government could have extradited him, but it's obvious their laws and attitudes are not in the best interest of their people, and are not fit for any human being to live under. He is in your hands threatening the safety of your citizens. SHAME ON YOU. Maybe he's hanging out with Joran van der Sloot now, the professional pimp. Bastards!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></p></span>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-72292644916816080642009-09-15T14:47:00.006-04:002009-09-15T19:26:56.421-04:00FRAUD, LAUNDERING, SMUGGLING, AND INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRADE, OH MY!<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">MICHELLE SAYS SO:</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sure, this is in Bonaire, and not Aruba, but it is part of the Netherland Antilles, which most likely means that others in the area do or have done the same things.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, we have corruption in our own country (as many people love to argue with me), but this isn't about the United States. It's about Aruba and The Netherland Antilles, and it just goes to show how shady and conspiratorial they are...all the while calling themselves the "best" in the Carribean. What a load of crock this is.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">MAYBE these people's actions will set an example for other wrong-doers. But probably not...</div><div></div><span><span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">KRALENDIJK — Former minister and deputy Burney El Hage (UPB) ìs a suspect in the investigation on fraud, laundering, gold smuggling, and international drug trade, according to the ‘order for house search’ of which the Amigoe came into possession.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/Sq_j1qBtMoI/AAAAAAAADzc/rHXO17J8uso/s400/elhage.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381770590685049474" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 224px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">Burney El Hage</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the ‘order for house search’ of the Court in First Instance, El Hage is mentioned as suspect just like Willem van Wijngaarden, and Albert de Groof who have both been apprehended; the latter has been transferred to Curaçao. Van Wijngaarden’s wife, Yvonne de Vries, is also mentioned as suspect in the order. El Hage and De Vries have not been apprehended.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Deza (Directorate Economical- and Labor-Affairs) are also mentioned in the aforementioned order as a location, which required searching. Various sources have confirmed the authenticity of the document.</div><span><span><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span>The Public Prosecutor (OM) of the Netherlands Antilles is not revealing anything about the investigation <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(Surprise, surprise...)</span>. The order for house search does not state what these persons are being suspected of. However, there is a list summarizing the documents and administration, which were to be confiscated from a number of companies and real estate- and development projects.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The companies from which the administration should be confiscated according to the order are Questron, Independium Trust, Emphora Fisheries, Struijk Overzee, Kaya Grandi Corporate Service, Bonaire Precious Metal & Minerals, and Bonaire Precious Metals Refinery. Justice requested the Board of Governors to hand over the administration on the issuance of ground leases, as well as minutes of meetings, reports, and conversation notations as of January 2006.</div></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In addition, all administration regarding the Blue Lagoon-project must be confiscated, according to the order, as well as data on a number of properties in Nikiboko and Sabadeco.</div></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In the framework of the (international) investigation, eighteen house searches were carried out on Bonaire last week Tuesday and another four the day after. A house search was also carried out at the residence of UPB party-leader Ramonsito Booi, in addition to the house searches at the residences of El Hage and Van Wijngaarden. Booi’s name does appear on the order, but he is not considered a suspect. The 39-year old Anthony Marsera is the main suspect in the investigation and was apprehended on Bonaire last Tuesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_62446.php</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><div style="text-align: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span><br /></span></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-76996290119015876512009-09-12T13:02:00.004-04:002009-09-12T13:24:24.214-04:00NEW REGULATION SHOULD BE CALLED THE "JORAN VAN DER SLOOT STANDARD"<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SqvZMW2HBKI/AAAAAAAADy8/W0mUe4HTrRY/s1600-h/Reputation.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 260px; height: 260px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SqvZMW2HBKI/AAAAAAAADy8/W0mUe4HTrRY/s400/Reputation.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380632986138379426" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all the political hostility towards the Dutch going on in Aruba, and considering how many Dutch were/are involved in desecrating the island of Aruba because of the Natalee Holloway cover-up, it is about time Aruba takes notice and sets some standards. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">ARUBA KICKS OUT DUTCH WHO HAVE OVERSTAYED WELCOME</span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ORANJESTAD — Since the end of last month, there is considerable unrest among the European Dutch citizens after the immigration refused them entry onto the island. It concerns Dutch citizens who have exceeded the maximum stay of 180 days per calendar year. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This never occurred before. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Since the implementation of the new computer system, the immigration can simply keep track of how long the Dutch citizens stay on the island.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those exceeding the 180 days will therefore be expelled. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Another problem is the lack of clarity on the residence regulation. In the Immigration Policy for Foreigners, it states that European Dutch citizens may stay on the island for 180 consecutive days per calendar year. The regulation that was employed, was that someone was allowed to stay on Aruba for a maximum of 180 days, and subsequently had to leave the island for thirty days, and return afterwards – without any problem at all – to stay another 180 days on Aruba. This has been changed recently, the immigration organization of the government, Dimas, finally admits.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In first instance, a co-worker of Dimas stated that the rule of 180 days on Aruba, and thirty days off, was still in force. The supervisor of the immigration department at the airport is contradicting this message. He argues that a European Dutch citizen is allowed to stay for 180 days per twelve months. “That has always been the case, but nobody ever checked it.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The supervisor continues, “Before the new computer system, we had to count the days with the help of the stamps in the passports. This was not done. Now we have a new system which makes this control easier.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After 1½ week, Dimas is finally capable of providing clarity. According to adjunct director Ayesha Staring-Engelbrecht, it is indeed since recently that the immigration has been counting the number of days that person had been on the island. “No one without a permit may stay on the island longer than 180 days per calendar year”, says Engelbrecht.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Engelbrecht also explains that according to the government, the calendar year starts on the first day that someone arrives on Aruba. “It could therefore also start in August.” This confused among the European Dutch citizens as they think that a calendar year runs from January up to and including December. Engelbrecht said that she currently has contact with ‘a number’ of Dutch citizens who have also encountered this situation. The adjunct director said she had ‘come up with a solution’ for these people so that they could still stay on Aruba longer than the 180 days. However, this group must be in the possession of a so-called ‘renteniersbrief’ (letter confirming this person is living off private means). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“It is true, that the control on the 180 days-rule should have been communicated better”, said Engelbrecht. “It is an uncongenial measure, but I do want everyone to respect the current rules.” According to the immigration department, the Immigration Policy for Foreigners from November 2007 has changed since last month. Upon inquiry with Engelbrecht, it appeared that there was only a document stating the admission requirements for tourist. The document was dated September 8th, the day before yesterday. In this document, the word ‘consecutive’ – which had always led to an interpretation difference between the duped European Dutch citizens and the government – has been deleted. Based on the aforementioned, the Dutch citizens thought that after 180 days on Aruba and thirty days abroad, they could return to Aruba; <b>this was actually tolerated for more than ten years until last month.</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>No sunny Christmas</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The group or European Dutch citizens, has meanwhile started a discussion on the internet. From this and other reactions, which the editorial office received, it appears that the duped are not anxious to sound the alarm with the government, especially for fear of ‘retaliation’. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“We only bring money to the island”, is one of the reactions. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Others also wonder why Aruba is so strict, as they do not make use of the social provisions. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Many have a second home here, and remain registered as well as insured in the Netherlands.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A married couple with a second home says, “Upon arrival on Aruba, the immigration counted the number of days that we’ve been here. The plan was to return around Christmas, but now we don’t know. I really wouldn’t know what to do, if I return at Christmas, and there’s a chance that I’ll be sent back.” Another reaction, “We regularly visit Aruba, but now we do not know what we’re up against; actually we dare not visit the Dimas or phone the Customs, like we say… ‘Let sleeping dogs lie.”</span></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_62271.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br />http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_62271.php</span></a><br /></span></span><div><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><span class="arttext" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p><br /></p></span></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-69524257683039983662009-08-26T09:50:00.010-04:002009-08-29T07:54:27.045-04:00PATRICK VAN DER EEM ARRESTED AGAIN...THIS TIME FOR COCAINE<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SpU_pP6KD5I/AAAAAAAADyk/ZpndUk31CSU/s1600-h/patrick+dumbass.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SpU_pP6KD5I/AAAAAAAADyk/ZpndUk31CSU/s400/patrick+dumbass.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374271708214202258" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">A LEOPARD NEVER CHANGES ITS SPOTS</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:georgia, fantasy;font-size:medium;">ORANJESTAD — Patrick van der Eem – who was the undercover man to whom Joran van der Sloot had made a confession – was apprehended yesterday evening around seven o’clock for possession of drugs and making violent threats. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">(Note: Amigoe does not reveal that Van der Eem was in possession of cocaine...that information came from the Netherlands news </span><a href="http://www.expatica.com/nl/news/dutch-news/Dutch-news-in-brief_-Wednesday-26-August-2009_55741.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>HERE</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;">.)</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The police arrested Van der Eem in his room in the Radisson hotel. According to the local media, Van der Eem had previously stayed in other hotels, amongst others, the Rui, Westen, and Occidental and had checked-out without paying. According to the Public Prosecutor the drugs, which he was carrying at that moment, were for his own use. Van der Eem is still confined at the police station in Noord and the case will be investigated.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Van der Eem became known through his contribution to a broadcasted television program of crime reporter Peter de Vries on the disappearance of the American teenager Natalee Holloway on Aruba.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SpVBn6Nb83I/AAAAAAAADy0/Wg_4kIVeTvc/s400/voorop_0504vEemfc_141255b.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374273884232872818" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px; " /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">He had already been involved in an earlier drug case. He presumably got the scar on the left hand side of his face during his information role in a drug case. In addition, Van der Eem was confined for a short while last December after a report on battering his girlfriend.</div></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_61537.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_61537.php</span></span></a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">See previous story on Van der Eem's previous arrest </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">for assault on girlfriend with a crowbar</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://arubanboycott.blogspot.com/2009/05/patrick-van-der-eem-beats-wife-with.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://arubanboycott.blogspot.com/2009/05/patrick-van-der-eem-beats-wife-with.html</span></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#232323;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#232323;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SpU_pqQ-3kI/AAAAAAAADys/UKyahkwvjj0/s400/opportunist_poster.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374271715289259586" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 320px; " /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#232323;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Georgia, fantasy;font-size:14px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-42145890941744152142009-08-19T12:37:00.008-04:002009-08-19T14:19:35.062-04:00A STATUTE PERFECTLY SUITED FOR JORAN VAN DER SLUT<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/Sow_0q-sFxI/AAAAAAAADxs/VJYGZiZ9uSg/s1600-h/goawayye4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 188px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/Sow_0q-sFxI/AAAAAAAADxs/VJYGZiZ9uSg/s320/goawayye4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371738629669132050" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Let's refresh our memories...not too long ago, Rudy </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Croes</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> publicly decried after the "hidden video" tapes of </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Joran's</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> confessions to Patrick van </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">der</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Eem</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> aired, </span></span></span><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">that van </span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">der</span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> </span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Sloot</span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> is "persona non </span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">grata</span></span></span></a><a href="http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2008/02/joran-persona-non-grata-amigoe.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">"</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"> on the island of Aruba. He was quoted, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">“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.”</span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:verdana, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Although it is known </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Joran</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> 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.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“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.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“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.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Work</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(We all know what </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Joran's</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> "employment" is...I would say that is not "applicable" or legal employment. These individuals should be absolutely shunned by all </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Arubans</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> in order to redeem themselves and protect their future.)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The prohibition on admission could for that matter also be (temporarily) removed by the minister who had issued such. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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’. </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFCC;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Is Aruba finally getting their act together and no longer in denial in preventing these low-lives that cause </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">irreparable</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> harm to reside on their "one happy island"?)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">‘Wild-west stories’</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(who you be referring to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Joran</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">?). </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">These are truly wild-west stories. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(Again contradicting themselves...continuous denial of admitting the REAL issue.)</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.”</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DUTCH TO THE NETHERLAND ANTILLES: </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">WE CAN COME TO YOUR ISLAND, BUT FORGET ABOUT COMING TO OUR KINGDOM</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">One-way traffic</span></span></div></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">“The Netherlands, PAR, PNP, and FOL want to prevent our people from going to the Netherlands but have our islands overrun with their people”.</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_61198.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_61198.php</span></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sounds like the </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Arubans</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> 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. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Their country has suffered due to a Dutchman (I use the word "man" extremely loosely) like </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Joran</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, 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. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They know Natalee's story and legacy will not go away, and they've finally realized how powerful the "little people" can be.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></span>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-55088305635001625272009-08-17T13:46:00.005-04:002009-08-17T14:20:33.243-04:00MY HERO--BETH HOLLOWAY<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SomeHoRKuPI/AAAAAAAADxU/FsqGyDpTCg4/s1600-h/n1237872929_30156387_7556.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SomeHoRKuPI/AAAAAAAADxU/FsqGyDpTCg4/s400/n1237872929_30156387_7556.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370997884521724146" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Beth--</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have learned from you, Dave Holloway, your entire family, and the loving public, that we, as people, should NEVER give up on what is right and fight for what we believe in. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As a woman and a mother, you have shown and proven to NEVER give up on loved ones, friends, families, even our enemies. We all are here in life for a reason, a purpose. Since May, 2005, you have changed so many people's lives...and personally I will never forget the invisible, yet powerful strength you have given me and to so many others to pursue the dream of helping others who are lost, hurt, despaired, in need... </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It has been over four years since Natalee has been gone...but you and Dave have done the greatest thing...spending a lifetime making sure no one forgets. And guess what? You have done your job...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Natalee will NEVER be forgotten. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dave and Beth: You and your family have been a blessing to me. I now know and am completely aware to live life to the fullest, to be thankful, and to fight. Both of you have shown your strength as parents and as true human beings. Your actions have not only affected me, but to so many others. Thank you both for your inspiration, hope and perseverance. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We all look up to you both, and hope to be just like you. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Natalee would be so proud, and I'm sure she is aware, wherever she may be.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Thank you!</div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div>Love always---</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>MICHELLE</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-23181544466674319412009-07-22T09:29:00.009-04:002009-07-22T17:11:42.609-04:00BOYCOTT WATCH REPORT: ARUBA BRIBED AIRLINES & HOTELS TO REPORT FALSE TOURISM<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcVSkiZJ9I/AAAAAAAADwk/IecQ3xYd3hw/s1600-h/bribery.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 345px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcVSkiZJ9I/AAAAAAAADwk/IecQ3xYd3hw/s400/bribery.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361277290197624786" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">July 21, 2009<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">Boycott Watch Exclusive - Special thanks to True Crime reporter Michelle Simonsen for her blog entry which resulted in this report.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, fantasy; font-size: 14px; "><table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></div></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> </span></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:14px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcUaohvTGI/AAAAAAAADwY/cLtsEqJivgE/s1600-h/BWBotRight3.gif"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcUaohvTGI/AAAAAAAADwY/cLtsEqJivgE/s400/BWBotRight3.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361276329195949154" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 95px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">In a February, 2008 appearance on Fox News, </span></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kJVBYV6EKc"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Boycott Watch President Fred Taub discussed how tourism was down in Aruba while Neil Cavuto reported skyrocketing tourism numbers</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;">. While that may have been confusing to some viewers, Fred Taub and his numbers were vindicated today in a report by Natalee Holloway and true-crime blogger </span></span><a href="http://arubanboycott.blogspot.com/2009/07/aruba-crisis-there-is-no-tourism-crisis.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Michelle Simonsen where she quoted an Aruban official</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"> admitting Aruba paid American Airlines a bribe to keep flying to Aruba despite low tourism.</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In Michelle's report, Aruba claims the low tourism numbers were because of terrorism and terrorist threats, but that clearly means boycotts in English. The fact is that Aruba denied the affect of the boycott inspired by the disappearance, and we believe murder of Natalee Holloway. In fact, Aruba first claimed that tourism was up when the numbers were actually down in light of the boycott, a story Boycott Watch broke by exposing a Central Bank of Aruba report showing the Aruba economy shrinking between six and eight percent when Aruba tourism officials claimed tourism was up ten percent.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, when Joran Van Der Sloot was exposed as having a direct link to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, there were several media reports of vandalism at the Van Der Sloot home by people who were hurt economically by the Aruba boycott, all the while Aruba was still reporting record tourism numbers. A few months ago, however, Boycott Watch reported that Aruba finally admitted Aruba lied and that Boycott Watch was right about their tourism reports all along.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today we have the new revelation that Aruba bribed American Airlines, and probably others airlines as well to keep their flight schedules, no doubt because Aruba did not want to admit to actual lower tourism numbers. As a corollary, Boycott Watch believes hotels must have been bribed to block out rooms as well to create the illusion of sold out vacation packages, which explains why hotel rooms were booked when airlines tickets were sold, apparently to ghosts, and this news has caught up with politicians in Aruba who are appear to be running like rats from a sinking ship as the Dutch government investigates the Aruba leadership.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;font-size:14px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcVg97kjxI/AAAAAAAADws/qkixsxGd8X8/s1600-h/aa_logo1.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmcVg97kjxI/AAAAAAAADws/qkixsxGd8X8/s400/aa_logo1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361277537532284690" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 399px; " /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">By bribing airlines to fly empty planes to Aruba, Aruba maintained the appearance of high tourism numbers while the airlines still made money on those flights, probably calling their flights booked. This correlates to the time Aruba claimed to be "investing" in its infrastructure to boost tourism, and Boycott Watch now understands what that those investments were. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"I remember hearing news reporters saying they were unable to get hotel rooms in early 2008 which contradicted my reports of few tourists shopping in Aruba, and the reason is now clear - hotel rooms were made unavailable so potential tourists felt urgency to book hotel rooms, and to fool the reporters - Aruba created an artificial demand - Aruba lied again, and we are busting them again" said Fred Taub of Boycott Watch.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Previously, Boycott Watch also reported how a double murderer escaped from an Aruba jail because Aruba is so incompetent, that they left a large ladder inside the jail so every prisoner could escape. "The incompetence in Aruba is staggering" commented Fred Taub. To erase the stigma of the Natalee Holloway disappearance, Carlos and Charlies, the bar Natelee was last seen in, has had its name changed to "Senior Frog's," but Boycott Watch has seen little evidence of real change in Aruba.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba16.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba16.htm</span></span></a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-21470234530331776002009-07-21T14:56:00.014-04:002009-07-21T16:42:32.915-04:00ARUBA: "CRISIS? THERE IS NO TOURISM CRISIS!"<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYQfDMJK_I/AAAAAAAADvg/V5nkIMFuOMA/s1600-h/denial.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYQfDMJK_I/AAAAAAAADvg/V5nkIMFuOMA/s400/denial.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360990532049382386" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:Georgia, fantasy;font-size:14px;"></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ORANJESTAD – Last Friday, Minister of Tourism Edison Briesen responded to a news article, which had appeared in a local morning newspaper on July 9th. In that article, Otmar Oduber, one of the AVP-candidates responded to an assumed decrease of the tourism on Aruba.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYXgOVZmiI/AAAAAAAADvw/sCVxxbRxp7A/s1600-h/Briesen+horses+ass.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYXgOVZmiI/AAAAAAAADvw/sCVxxbRxp7A/s400/Briesen+horses+ass.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360998248802261538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 146px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to Oduber, the decline of the tourism was due to the poor governing of MEP. “We are the only ones who have arranged for a more substantial publicity of Aruba within the Caribbean” Briesen commented. “We invested 18 million florins in the market to achieve this.”</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; font-family:Georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to Briesen, the tourism had considerably increased during the first eight months of 2008. “That was a record year”. The article also mentioned that the American tourism was threatened in view of terrorist attacks.</span></span></span></div></span></span><div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the article, Oduber remarked that at the time, there was the threat that several flights to Aruba would be terminated, and that this did not materialize because the former premier Henny Eman negotiated with various airline companies in the United States. “This is entirely incorrect”, says Briesen.</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">BRIBERY?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">According to Briesen, the former premier Eman only approached American Airlines to negotiate an arrangement where AA would receive 50,000 florins per month if the flights continued. “Until now, I have never seen a plan from AVP for tourism-improvement”.</span></b></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On the comment that the tourism has decreased lately, Briesen responds as follows. “The tourism has decreased worldwide due to the economical crisis.” According to Briesen, there is no report of a crisis on Aruba in spite of the recession, as Oduber assumes in his article. “The hotels are not fully booked, but they are certainly not empty.”</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF99;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_59844.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_59844.php</span></span></a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i>Michelle Says So:</i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span></span></span>Let's look BEYOND the fact that the United States is having an economic crisis. Let's look at the facts about how tourism has forever scarred Aruba. For over four years Aruba has been living in a fishbowl with the entire world looking down on them and their every move. Some don't care, but PLENTY DO. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYW5kedM4I/AAAAAAAADvo/ardgtpQXZ14/s1600-h/BWBanner3.gif"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SmYW5kedM4I/AAAAAAAADvo/ardgtpQXZ14/s400/BWBanner3.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360997584730928002" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 64px; " /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Writer and commentator, Fred Taub, of <a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">Boycott Watch.Org</span></a>, wrote 15 articles on Aruba's tourism crisis from 2005 through 2009 due solely to the conspiracy of Aruban law enforcement and government to cover up the murder of Natalee Holloway, and the non-prosecution of Joran van der Sloot. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">MISSING GIRL SPARKS BOYCOTT IN ARUBA</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba1.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba1.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ALABAMA GOVERNOR ENDORSES BOYCOTT</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba2.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba2.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">THE OTHER ARUBA COVER-UP</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba3.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba3.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA TOURISM CONTINUES TO FALL--BOYCOTT STRONGER THAN EVER</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba4.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba4.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA TAKES ACTION TO COUNTER BOYCOTT</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba5.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba5.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA'S FALSE CAMPAIGN TO DISCREDIT BOYCOTT</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba6.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba6.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">IS THE NEW EVIDENCE SOMETHING ARUBA COVERED UP?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba7.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba7.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBAN PROSECUTOR PROVES BOYCOTT WATCH IS RIGHT</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba8.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba8.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA REACTS TO BOYCOTT AND NEW QUESTIONS</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba9.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba9.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBAN BOYCOTT OVER? NOT IF YOU ARE 18!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba10.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba10.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA'S TOURISM CAUSED MILLIONS IN ECONOMIC LOSS</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba11.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba11.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA: CORRUPT OR INCOMPETENT?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba12.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba12.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BOYCOTT WATCH WAS RIGHT!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba13.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba13.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">ARUBA: MORE LIES, LESS SAFETY</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba14.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba14.htm</span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">BOYCOTT WATCH CHALLENGES ARUBA TO ANSWER QUESTIONS</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba15.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;">http://www.boycottwatch.org/misc/aruba15.htm</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With all the negative media attention put on Aruba, it's not just our economics that are failing your island. You know who the people are who are failing you. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It would be so easy to fix to come clean, provide REAL JUSTICE, and punish those responsible for this mess. Then we would all go away. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But no one is planning on going anywhere right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Know that.</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-5771286828120146102009-07-06T16:58:00.004-04:002009-07-06T17:11:35.621-04:00"ONWARD HO"--DUTCH CONFIRMS INVESTIGATION ON ARUBA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SlJoG8e4E_I/AAAAAAAADrg/BApkYqEimWY/s1600-h/ni08big_dontfuck.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 189px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SlJoG8e4E_I/AAAAAAAADrg/BApkYqEimWY/s320/ni08big_dontfuck.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355457375421076466" /></a><br /><div></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:16px;"><b><span><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia, -webkit-fantasy; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; ">Ank Bijleveld-Schouten shouts to Oduber, et al.</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-size:16px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Bijleveld confirms investigation on Aruba--"No Matter What"</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">WILLEMSTAD/THE HAGUE — No matter what, an independent investigation will be carried out in order to get a more systematic view on the status of the government on Aruba. </div></span></span></span></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, fantasy;font-size:medium;">State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten of Kingdom Relations (CDA) confirmed this once again today in a letter to the Lower Chamber on the eve of a general consultation on July 1st. She is assuming that based on last week’s conversations with amongst others, the Aruban Minister President Nelson Oduber (MEP), a communal investigation order as yet could be arranged. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, fantasy;font-size:medium;">“This and that should appear within short. If it turns out that this cannot be done together with Aruba, then the National Council of Ministers will be the commissioner for such an investigation”, Bijleveld wrote. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, fantasy;font-size:medium;">In her letter -where she looks back on her business trip to Aruba and Curaçao from June 22nd, up to and including June 25th- Bijleveld emphasizes that she is worried about the judicial upholding and good governance on Aruba. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">“I consider it important to carry out an independent investigation in order to obtain a more systematic view of the situation on Aruba”. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, fantasy;font-size:medium;">She said she made agreements with Oduber on the drawing up of a plan of approach as how to crystallize this factual investigation. “From this factual investigation it must become obvious which measures are required by Aruba, or if the worst comes to the worst, by the Kingdom to improve the public administration and the constitutional state.”</span></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Read Entire Article Here:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_58939.php">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_58939.php</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p></span></div></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-9874986241846837012009-06-26T09:50:00.014-04:002009-06-26T10:31:25.256-04:00ODUBER'S COOPERATION IN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION? "OVER MY DEAD BODY!"<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXexsagWI/AAAAAAAADnY/AGLbOD-_UOk/s1600-h/5249dc1240b2e2ed.jpg"><br /></a><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 344px; height: 353px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXDtZcp6I/AAAAAAAADmw/q1n_05hD7go/s400/OMDBtitle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351638715948902306" /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXUu49O3I/AAAAAAAADnI/771jRBvT9eU/s1600-h/11527251-redirected.gif" style="text-decoration: none;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></a><span><span><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Aruba will approach UN if the Netherlands </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">enforce corruption investigation</span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">ORANJESTAD — Aruba is contemplating an official compliant with the committee for decolonization of the United Nations, if the Netherlands enforce the investigation on corruption and misgovernment without the cooperation of the island. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTadbzmJZI/AAAAAAAADnw/OpYONMvrdjs/s1600-h/Oduber+on+roller+coaster2.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTadbzmJZI/AAAAAAAADnw/OpYONMvrdjs/s320/Oduber+on+roller+coaster2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351642456438220178" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 320px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><b>“Over my dead body!” </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Premier Nelson Oduber (MEP) responds to the news that the Netherlands if necessary will execute the investigation without cooperation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">He insists: Aruba will not cooperate.</span></b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Premier emphasizes once again, that the Netherlands cannot carry out an investigation on the functioning of the democracy and the constitutional state, without the cooperation of Aruba. The Kingdom government can intervene if there is a question of a serious threat of these two points based on the Statute, but there is no question of that according to Oduber.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTYKGL1YaI/AAAAAAAADng/ArHLPDYKGt8/s200/guusje.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351639925193531810" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px; " /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He also had a message for Guusje (the Dutch minister of Internal Affairs, PvdA): “read the Statue and explain to me how you are going to carry out this investigation, as the cooperation of the Public Prosecutor and the police is required, and these resort under Aruba”.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The enforcing of an investigation is considered by Aruba as tarnishing of the self-government and this is in defiance of the international treaties according to the Premier. Moreover, he seriously wonders whether Aruba should remain in the Kingdom.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“They call us villains, for everything; whilst not so long ago, we were quoted as an example in the Kingdom for the success of the separate status, by the same parliamentarians. If they continue to kick us around, there will come a time that we must confer with the population whether we should step out.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oduber stated that it would be wise if Minister of Justice Rudy Croes (MEP) would meanwhile take up the matter with the United Nations committee in London. In any case, he is not frightened. “I will calmly wait how they will go about this, as we will not cooperate. If the Netherlands subsequently takes measures against Aruba, then we will cross that bridge when we get there.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">State Council of Ministers</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Minister Plenipotentiary of Aruba in the Netherlands, Frido Croes, will disclose Aruba’s official reaction today, in which amongst others, the matter of the salary increases of the members of the Communal Court of Justice (and the Public Prosecutor) is mentioned. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aruba is of the opinion that in an investigation on corruption, the role of the State Council of Ministers must be considered, as they namely neglected giving their approval upon the assessment thereof. The assessment of the new salary structure/legal position was established against the legal rules, says Aruba. After all, the Antillean government should have first consulted with Aruba on this matter. Furthermore, the judges personally drew up the Land Resolutions without the official personnel procedure and then submitted these directly to the Antillean Minister of Justice, according to Aruba. The Antillean Minister of Justice then had the Governor ratify the resolutions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXexsagWI/AAAAAAAADnY/AGLbOD-_UOk/s1600-h/5249dc1240b2e2ed.jpg"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aruba states that they verbally raised this matter with the Dutch Minister of Justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin. However, no action was even taken.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Plan of approach</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This morning, Premier Oduber said that in spite of the current escalation, he stills considers the conversation with the Dutch State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (Kingdom Relations, CDA) of last Monday as positive. “We made good agreements. The problem is that in this case, her boss is answerable to the Upper Chamber, and that’s when they will drop us.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oduber is now strongly considering whether to broadcast this sort of consultations. “As each time we consult, it seems they hear different things and then something different appears in writing.” According to him, Bijleveld did promise on Monday, that the agreed upon ‘plan of approach’ to improve the functioning of the democracy and the constitutional state will be available only after the elections in September.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Villains</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXD_iOiOI/AAAAAAAADm4/lm78kwPMBPo/s1600-h/villian.gif"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXD_iOiOI/AAAAAAAADm4/lm78kwPMBPo/s400/villian.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351638720817563874" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 246px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The comment of the Dutch PVV-parliamentarian Hero Brinkman –who called Nelson Oduber (MEP) one of the largest criminals on the island</b> – elicited heated reactions on Aruba, especially from the party favored by the press. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTXZq_XoZI/AAAAAAAADnQ/GpwW-uV8cvQ/s1600-h/brinkman_122585e.jpg"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The headline of the newspaper Solo di Pueblo on the front page read: “Brinkman’s mother is a villain!” Oduber stated that Brinkman himself should be investigated. “Ask him why he left the police corps. If we on Aruba are villains, then he is the villain of the police.” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTYfYZa3gI/AAAAAAAADno/WC8HdgquY_g/s1600-h/brinkman_122585e.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkTYfYZa3gI/AAAAAAAADno/WC8HdgquY_g/s200/brinkman_122585e.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351640290859605506" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 136px; " /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Politicians of the opposition responded positively to the announced investigation by the Netherlands. “Nel is now being taken by his own horns”, says parliamentarian Otmar Oduber (AVP) referring to Oduber’s nickname: the Premier is called ‘old bull’. RED states to support the Dutch Minister Guusje ter Horst: <b>“The Oduber cabinet defaced the international image of Aruba.” </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Attorney General ‘biased’</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to Premier Nelson Oduber (MEP), the Netherlands does not want to include the Aruban Attorney General Rob Pietersz in the study group with which Aruba initially wanted to carry out the investigation on corruption with the Netherlands. Oduber stated this earlier in a letter to his Dutch colleague Jan Peter Balkenende. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An Aruban-Dutch study group consisting of amongst others members of the Advisory Council, the Council of State, and therefore also the Attorney General, would investigate what the true facts were on misgovernment and corruption – which State Secretary Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (CDA) of Kingdom Relations reported to the Dutch parliament. However, Bijleveld told Oduber that the Attorney General could not be included in the study group, as he was ‘biased’.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_58633.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_58633.php</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 224); "></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-2999867117270171562009-06-23T13:22:00.005-04:002009-06-23T13:36:25.009-04:00THE KRISTIN FOUNDATION TO REMEMBER NATALEE HOLLOWAY, OTHERS<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQ99vL2jI/AAAAAAAADlw/2KDDWcGJiJI/s1600-h/20080421-rb9g429cb4b319dcyky1bmt7xi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 370px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQ99vL2jI/AAAAAAAADlw/2KDDWcGJiJI/s400/20080421-rb9g429cb4b319dcyky1bmt7xi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350576489023396402" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, fantasy;font-size:medium;"><p><b></b></p><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">The Kristen Foundation for missing adults is hosting a remembrance ceremony at Frazier Park tonight for people who have disappeared.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">The foundation will lay memorial bricks for missing people who've made national headlines in recent months – Natalee Holloway, a teenager who disappeared in Aruba in May 2005 while on a graduation trip; </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, fantasy; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkESHqzmjAI/AAAAAAAADl4/uN2bjICASpg/s1600-h/484nataleeholloway.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkESHqzmjAI/AAAAAAAADl4/uN2bjICASpg/s400/484nataleeholloway.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350577755251969026" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 386px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">Jamie Fraley, a 22-year-old from Gaston County missing since April 2008, and Carla Vicentini, a 26-year-old missing from New Jersey since 2006, according to Joan Petruski, who started the foundation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQMhYPINI/AAAAAAAADlQ/EMJVRYlE6A0/s1600-h/Fraley_enlarge.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQMhYPINI/AAAAAAAADlQ/EMJVRYlE6A0/s400/Fraley_enlarge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350575639597359314" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 245px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><a href="http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=60357">Jamie Fraley</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQM8jS-jI/AAAAAAAADlY/uuZ8sR3Pap8/s1600-h/vicentini_c1.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQM8jS-jI/AAAAAAAADlY/uuZ8sR3Pap8/s400/vicentini_c1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350575646891506226" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/vicentini_c.htm">Carla Vicentini</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">The candlelight ceremony will also include a tribute to Nikki McPhatter, who was missing for weeks before her burned body was located in South Carolina. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQNfyrxpI/AAAAAAAADlo/3Xi-4pBmuwo/s1600-h/Nikki+McPhatter+photo+for+flyer.jpg"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQNfyrxpI/AAAAAAAADlo/3Xi-4pBmuwo/s400/Nikki+McPhatter+photo+for+flyer.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350575656351286930" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 208px; height: 220px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><a href="http://www.amw.com/missing_persons/case.cfm?id=65788">Nikki McPhatter</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">The Kristen Foundation offered a reward for information about McPhatter's disappearance shortly before her body was found.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;">Petruski started The Kristen Foundation in 1999 after Kristen Modafferi, a Charlotte woman who disappeared a decade ago while working and studying in San Francisco. The organization raises money to help families pay for the costs of searching for missing adults.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia, fantasy;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQNMr-rKI/AAAAAAAADlg/Yxnua1PEEO4/s1600-h/modafferi_k1.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SkEQNMr-rKI/AAAAAAAADlg/Yxnua1PEEO4/s400/modafferi_k1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350575651222891682" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px; " /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/modafferi_k.htm">Kristen Modafferi</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><a href="http://www.kristenfoundation.org/cgi-bin/datacgi/database.cgi?file=hw&report=sp&ID=000">CLICK HERE FOR THE KRISTIN FOUNDATION WEBSITE</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"></span></span></span></div><span><div style="text-align: center;">The Kristen Foundation</div><div style="text-align: center;">2330 Bonnie Butler Way</div><div style="text-align: center;">Charlotte, NC 28270-4415</div><div style="text-align: center;">(704) 996-5066 </div><div style="text-align: center;"> Help@KristenFoundation.org</div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, 'new york', times, -webkit-fantasy;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family:Arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000066;"></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, verdana, sans-serif;color:#000066;"><br /></span></div><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/795005.html<br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, verdana, sans-serif;color:#000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><a href="mailto:Help@KristenFoundation.org" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; "></a></span></span></div></span><p></p></span>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-30352289301948906322009-06-16T12:24:00.004-04:002009-06-16T14:38:04.253-04:00NETHERLAND ANTILLES PLACED ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING WATCHLIST!<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmViP3w7I/AAAAAAAADlA/wmCNhk7qL2U/s1600-h/State_Department_Seal-260x260.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmViP3w7I/AAAAAAAADlA/wmCNhk7qL2U/s200/State_Department_Seal-260x260.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347996340170769330" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmVe2biKI/AAAAAAAADk4/dGQTrUUSeRk/s1600-h/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 160px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmVe2biKI/AAAAAAAADk4/dGQTrUUSeRk/s200/hillary-clinton-secretary-of-state.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347996339258755234" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Tuesday expanded the U.S. watchlist of countries suspected of not doing enough to combat human trafficking, putting more than four dozen nations on notice that they may face sanctions unless their records improve. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The State Department's annual "Trafficking in Persons Report," the first released since President Barack Obama took office, placed 52 countries and territories -- mainly in Africa, Asia and the Middle East -- on the watchlist. <b>That number is a 30 percent jump from the 40 countries on the list in 2008. </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Several previously-cited nations were removed from the list, but new countries cited for human trafficking problems include Angola, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Iraq, Lebanon, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, Senegal and the United Arab Emirates, according to the report. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The report also placed the Netherlands' Antilles, a self-governing Dutch territory in the Caribbean, on the watchlist. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 22px;font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 22px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, fantasy; line-height: normal; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmVx30vGI/AAAAAAAADlI/jmyp1hRPpf4/s1600-h/netherlands_antilles_flag.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SjfmVx30vGI/AAAAAAAADlI/jmyp1hRPpf4/s200/netherlands_antilles_flag.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347996344364874850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px; " /></a></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"With this report, we hope to shine the light brightly on the scope and scale of modern slavery so all governments can see where progress has been made and where more is needed," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said as she released the 320-page document. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Inclusion on the watchlist means those countries' governments are not fully complying with minimum standards set by U.S. law for cooperating in efforts to reduce the rise of human trafficking -- a common denominator in the sex trade, coerced labor and recruitment of child soldiers. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If a country appears on the list for two consecutive years it can be subject to U.S. sanctions. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Seventeen nations, up from 14 in 2008, are now subject to the trafficking sanctions, which can include a ban on non-humanitarian and trade-related aid and U.S. opposition to loans and credits from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The penalties can be waived if the president determines it is in U.S. national interest to do so. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Those 17 countries include traditional U.S. foes like Cuba, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, but also American allies and friends such as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Malaysia, another U.S. partner was added to the list of worst offenders as were Zimbabwe, Chad, Eritrea, Mauritania, Niger, and Swaziland.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/expanded-human-trafficking-watchlist-puts-dozens-countries-notice/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/expanded-human-trafficking-watchlist-puts-dozens-countries-notice/</span></a></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.3; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p></span>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-22879211768250866032009-05-30T17:21:00.004-04:002009-05-30T17:33:59.453-04:00WHAT DOES FOUR YEARS OF DAMAGE LOOK LIKE?<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Has the injustice of Natalee Holloway wrecked a permanent havoc on Aruba’s tourism, economy and reputation for the last four years?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Let’s see…</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EXHIBIT A:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Google “Aruba Boycott” and get 1,400 hits.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Google, “Boycott and Natalee Holloway” and get 22,700 hits.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Google, “Boycott Aruba” and get 26,000 hits.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Do I need to try other search engines to make my point?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EXHIBIT B:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In 2008 alone:</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This was above Jimmy Hoffa. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Above the Zodiac Killer. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Above Jon Benet Ramsey. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Amazing!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">…AND DON’T FORGET! The Peter de Vries Special that changed EVERYTHING.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A “Sex, Lies and Videotape” of the new millennium? Could be…</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hours after the taped “confession”, Joran contacted Greta via email and recanted his entire story.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EXHIBIT C:</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Only half way through 2009…</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ENOUGH SAID</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When in history has a “missing person-turned-corruption-case” garnered so much worldwide attention, especially after four years?</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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”. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ah ha! It works every time.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">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. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Perhaps that particular conversation knowingly or not, will be the cause of one less person visiting Aruba.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">OH, and by the way, Carlos-n-Charlies in Aruba closed (due to the poor economy..yuk, yuk...)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;font-size:42px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 42px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SiGl168gFyI/AAAAAAAADfk/5MKMfs1srqo/s1600-h/index.jpg"><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SiGl168gFyI/AAAAAAAADfk/5MKMfs1srqo/s400/index.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341732978812786466" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:ArialMT;font-size:42px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Georgia;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 42px;"><br /></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com77tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-34490344184583166892009-05-27T16:41:00.004-04:002009-05-27T16:49:14.646-04:00DUTCH INVESTIGATION INTO ARUBAN GOVERNMENT, NAMELY PROSECUTION<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">By our correspondent Christel van Bebber</span></span></span></span><span><span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">ORANJESTAD/ THE HAGUE — In her letter to the Lower Chamber today, the State secretary of the Kingdom Relations, Ank Bijleveld-Schouten (CDA) stated that there would be an investigation into the government of Aruba. <br /></div><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 290px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/Sh2mwZwyaPI/AAAAAAAADfM/Xn7nR01cHto/s320/bijleveld.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340608083610724594" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">In her letter, she gave a number of her own observations on the judicial process on the island and is of the opinion that a ‘combination of signals are so alarming that there is reason to investigate in order to get a complete picture of the status of the government</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> of Aruba’. </span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the base of the results of that investigation, the State secretary will view if further measures must be taken and on which level this should take place.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During a debate in the Upper Chamber last week, Bijleveld said she worries about the status of the government on Aruba. In the letter she forwarded to the Lower Chamber today, she gives a few observations from which she concluded to open an investigation. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">For example, the Public Prosecutor cannot sufficiently focus on the prosecution of offences. This is the actual task of the Public Prosecutor, but this comes off badly due to amongst others, understaffing. The National Criminal Investigation Bureau appears so overloaded by corruption investigations, that other cases are shelved, says the State secretary.</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Public Prosecutor in Oranjestad should have six public prosecutors, and there are only four. “Not because there are insufficient qualified candidates, but on account of a salary discussion”, according to Bijleveld’s letter to the Chamber. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Furthermore, the boss of the Public Prosecutor, the Attorney General, is losing so much time on troublesome files and solving discussing with the Netherlands, that he barely has time to prosecute. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“This fact, in combination with the in comparison large amount of corruption reports in the politics and the bureaucracy, worries me”, Bijleveld writes. “”After all, the adequate functioning of the Public Prosecutor is one of the pillars of the constitutional state”.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Communal Court</span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another pillar, which worries the State secretary, is the legal authority, which she meanwhile told the minister-president Oduber. Bijleveld reminds the Chamber, that Aruba barely cooperated with the realization of the Communal Court of Justice. Eventually Aruba agreed with the majority of the enactment, which resulted in the realization of the Communal Court.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is also understaffing in the prison. Bijleveld points out that the situation in the police cells and the prison has improved after the visitation of the European Committee regarding the prevention of torturing, and inhuman and degrading treatments of punishments (CPT). <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The physical circumstances have been dealt with, but she also observed that there are still insufficient qualified personnel and that the treatment of prisons leaves much to be desired. Her main point of concern in this area however remains the aliens’ detention, where not one point of improvement has been implemented since the CPT-visit.<br /></div></span></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><a href="http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_57146.php">http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_57146.php</a></span><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:Arial;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-24786927309801702552009-05-13T08:09:00.003-04:002009-05-13T08:13:35.948-04:00BETH HOLLOWAY DISCUSSES NATALEE AT UNSOLVED CRIMES EXHIBIT<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/idGZl62jf-0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/idGZl62jf-0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><br />http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2009/05/john_walsh_left_and_beth.htmlMichelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19199597.post-10510996446946406042009-05-09T14:37:00.006-04:002009-05-09T14:55:46.249-04:00HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY BETH HOLLOWAY<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 146px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SgXRNglDLCI/AAAAAAAADcE/2dtQV__jLqU/s400/SSNL_bholloway1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333899363704056866" /></div><div><br /></div><div>On this special day JUST for mothers, I and everyone who is a supporter of you, Natalee and justice want to say not only HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, but thank you for being such an inspiration to so many of us.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(50, 29, 2); font-family:georgia;"></span></div><span><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; ">being to do the impossible. ~Marion C. Garretty</span><br /></div></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What should a perfect mother be?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">An inspiration.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That is what a perfect mother should be.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A true mother will fight and die for their children.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Beth, you have fought for four years, yet have not died.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A true mother is a martyr.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Beth, you have been on a stake, crucified by many; </div><div style="text-align: center;">yet you were strong and continued your mission bruised and bleeding.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This is what a perfect mother should be.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">An inspiration.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A martyr.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Beth, you are all of that and more. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Happy Mother's Day</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SgXRTkQAQdI/AAAAAAAADcM/naR6wsSFZLc/s1600-h/loving.jpg"><img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_kNWmfKARQ_I/SgXRTkQAQdI/AAAAAAAADcM/naR6wsSFZLc/s320/loving.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333899467768742354" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px; " /></a></div></div>Michelle Says So 2.0http://www.blogger.com/profile/14471724126668056060noreply@blogger.com13