ODUBER'S COOPERATION IN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION? "OVER MY DEAD BODY!"

Aruba will approach UN if the Netherlands

enforce corruption investigation

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.

“Over my dead body!”

Premier Nelson Oduber (MEP) responds to the news that the Netherlands if necessary will execute the investigation without cooperation.

He insists: Aruba will not cooperate.

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.

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”.

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.

“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.”

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.”

State Council of Ministers

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.

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.

Aruba states that they verbally raised this matter with the Dutch Minister of Justice, Ernst Hirsch Ballin. However, no action was even taken.

Plan of approach

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.”

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.

Villains

The comment of the Dutch PVV-parliamentarian Hero Brinkman –who called Nelson Oduber (MEP) one of the largest criminals on the island – elicited heated reactions on Aruba, especially from the party favored by the press.

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.”

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: “The Oduber cabinet defaced the international image of Aruba.”

Attorney General ‘biased’

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.

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’.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_58633.php

NETHERLAND ANTILLES PLACED ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING WATCHLIST!

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.

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. That number is a 30 percent jump from the 40 countries on the list in 2008.

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.

The report also placed the Netherlands' Antilles, a self-governing Dutch territory in the Caribbean, on the watchlist.

"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.

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.

If a country appears on the list for two consecutive years it can be subject to U.S. sanctions.

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.

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.

Malaysia, another U.S. partner was added to the list of worst offenders as were Zimbabwe, Chad, Eritrea, Mauritania, Niger, and Swaziland.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/16/expanded-human-trafficking-watchlist-puts-dozens-countries-notice/

HUMAN TRAFFICKING "RESEARCH" INVOLVING SEVEN CHILDREN?

WILLEMSTAD — Last weekend, Justice intercepted a group of people in a research that was directed at human trafficking. There were also seven children in this group.

This was confirmed by the public prosecutor Ludmilla Vicento. Details could not be given with regard to the importance of the research, nor if any suspects were detained.

Minister of Justice David Dick (PAR) announced the action of Justice during yesterday’s State meeting. The children, originating from a country in the Caribbean region, were en route elsewhere to perform some kind of slaves’ work. The minister actually talked out of turn as the research is still in progress. According to Vicento, the character of the practices requires more clarity. In any case it has to do with illegality, forgery and human trafficking and/or smuggling.

Prevention policy

A difficult phenomenal to tackle, but a workgroup within the department of Justice is actually in full swing to implement a prevention policy. Momentarily there are advertising spots on the radio and a special telephone number.

Recently, Justice participated with a research by the Surinam authorities regarding human trafficking, whereby Surinamers were recruited and came to Curaçao via Trinidad where they nevertheless were forced to work.

http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_55085.php

HUMAN TRAFFICKING A "CONCERN" IN THE CARIBBEAN--ARUBA INCLUDED

Only a "CONCERN"? I'd say it is a full blown EPIDEMIC!

WILLEMSTAD/THE HAGUE – “The Caribbean is definitely a worrisome area”, said Justice-minister Ernst Hirsch Ballin (CDA) about the human trafficking during a Justice-deliberation of the Lower House-committee. He reacted on questions of PvdA-Member of parliament Khadija Arib about the cooperation with the Neth.Antilles and Aruba. That’s the reason for the cooperation in the aliens’ supervision that we are currently giving shape.”


One of the issues that Arib raised was ‘the human trafficking via islands like Bonaire and the Windward Islands’. “I do understand that per January 1, these islands are comparable with a Dutch municipality. According to a report from Brazil, women from that country are rather often dealt in via Surinam for example to these islands. How is human trafficking going to be suppressed in these new municipalities?”


“We are more in general busy with the reinforcing of the immigration chain in Aruba and in the Neth.Antilles, which also affects countries of origin in the Caribbean and South-America”, was Hirsch Ballin’s answer. The cooperation that the Netherlands has offered is accepted. “This also counts for the Windward Islands and Bonaire that later are going to be part of the Dutch government, if the plans that are currently in preparation for this, are accepted.


The first move in the cooperation was a mini-conference that I participated in; at that time well-coordinated with the deliberation in Aruba on other maintenance of law and order subjects. The discussion was mainly aimed at making assistance and expertise available.”


http://www.amigoe.com/artman/publish/artikel_50865.php

DUTCH OFFICIAL HERO BRINKMAN ON ARUBA: "THEY ARE CORRUPT AS HELL"

VAN SUSTEREN: Sir, let me just start first with the big question. What do you think, as a Dutch member of parliament, about Aruba?

BRINKMAN: They are corrupt as hell.

VAN SUSTEREN: So...

BRINKMAN: That's what I say about Aruba.

VAN SUSTEREN: What will you do about it, or is there anything you can do about it?

BRINKMAN: I want a full investigation about what happened with Ms. Holloway over there. It is really a disgrace that the minister of justice, Mr. Croes, told everybody, Mr. van der Straaten and the police chief are very good friends, and the investigation over there with the first ten days of the investigation went wrong because of the friendship. So I am very disappointed about that.

VAN SUSTEREN: Sir, prior to becoming a member of the Dutch parliament you had a long history as being a police officer. When you say that Aruba is, quote, "corrupt as hell," those are your words, what is it that tells you that? Why do you say they're corrupt as hell?

BRINKMAN: Because there is a lot of corruption which is going on. It is also investigated over there. Politicians and police officers have been conflicted, but they still are doing their jobs. So that is very strange.

We all know that the Dutch countrymen, the Dutch know that there is a lot of corruption over there, and they don't want to do anything about it.

VAN SUSTEREN: Why doesn't the Dutch government want to do anything about the corruption in Aruba?

BRINKMAN: I think because it is a political matter. We are now in discussions about another way to look at those islands formally.

And all the political parties within the house of parliament has said for years that they want to do it like this. Not our party. We are the only party that does not want to go that way, but the other ones did. And that's why they don't want to talk about corruption.

All the politicians in the Dutch parliament know that there is a lot of corruption. But on Aruba, they don't want to talk about it. And that's why I say it is a political matter.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do you make of the fact that the prosecutor, though, is not from Aruba. The prosecutor is a Dutch person.

BRINKMAN: He is a Dutch person, but he is very long within the Aruban society. And what Aruban politicians do, they drag you within their corrupt society. That's what they do.

And even if there are Dutch politicians, competent guys, it does not matter. If they are there long to stay, they will be dragged into that corrupt system.

VAN SUSTEREN: What did the police have to gain by not investigating this case? We have brought information to them-actually, we haven't brought it to them. We have information and we can't seem to get them to look at it. But what is in for the police not to look at what we have?

BRINKMAN: I don't know. And that's what I want to investigate, and that is why I asked the minister here in Holland to investigate that from out of the Dutch government.

But I think that because the police chief of Aruba may have some involvement in this case. And if that is true, then of course the political persons who are responsible for this do not want to investigate that, because otherwise they get chopped off their head.

VAN SUSTEREN: So what can we do here in America to try to push the investigation? Because all we want is a full and complete investigation. And what can you do from Holland to push for a full and fair investigation?

BRINKMAN: First, I want to thank all of the Americans who e-mailed me and wrote to me all the things they knew and all the encouragement. I thank them very much. I've read everything. I did not answer everything. I will still try to do that, but I didn't.

But, please, if you know anything, e-mail to me, write me. I will try to encourage the Dutch parliament to fully investigate this matter, because the truth has to come out for all of us, for the Americans, for Aruba, and also for the Dutch parliament.

VAN SUSTEREN: You said that Aruba is corrupt as hell. Do you have any particular names of people that should have the bulls eye on their back, people we should look at to try to at least take a look at them?

BRINKMAN: There are a lot of people. I have made a full investigation this year and filed a full reporting in the parliament early this year from hundreds of different cases of corruption. Nobody in the parliament wanted to talk about that. It is a disgrace.

Just one example--Minister Croes says that he knows that the Van der Straaten, the police chief of Aruba, and Paul van der Sloot, the father of Joran, were very, very good friends. And those two investigated the matter in the early days of the case, and they did this in a very slow manner.

If Croes does say this, and this is true, then he already knew that for more than three years. This is truly a disgrace. Why didn't he tell that before? That's why I think it's fully corruption.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,464065,00.html

SO YOU DON'T THINK THERE'S A COVER UP?

By Richard, Aruban Boycott Member


I think that it's juvenile to throw invective at Greta von Susteren ... and positively sickening to see some people (probably the Aruban contingent) doing this to Beth, Dave, and/or Natalee Holloway. We are here to discuss what happened to Natalee, who is responsible, and why Aruba has decided to cover up this case for nearly three and a half years?

What? You don't think there's a cover-up? In that case, you must look at the Aruban government and law enforcement as less competent and intelligent than the average cockroach ... which is not hard to believe. But most of us are convinced that forces are at work to protect certain individuals.

Some of us have, for the last year and more, been writing to officials and appearing at tourism events to urge people not to go to Aruba. We don't do this just when a story breaks; we have been doing this regularly. I hope that anyone sincerely concerned at the prospect of this American family having to fight a foreign government for basic justice, in the face of inconceivable indifference from our own government (which some of us think exists basically to help Americans) will share our beliefs.

If so, please contact our e-mail at JusticeforNatalee@gmail.com.

You say a boycott effort cannot work? In February, Nelson Oduber said on Nova TV of the Netherlands that Aruba had "already" lost tens of millions of dollars in tourist revenue because of the Natalee Holloway case and the ensuing boycott. We know that Aruba was concerned enough about the boycott threat that it, in turn, threatened Beth and Dave that it would close off the investigation unless they kept quiet about a boycott.

(Later, of course, Aruba said it didn't even control the investigation ... but we know what to expect from them, the same that we have seen since May 30, 2005.)

You say a boycott might hurt innocent Arubans? Both PvdScum and JvdScum have said that they don't care if Aruba is boycotted or not ... but we, the American people, should, in the face of blatant injustice? Not in my book.

The simplest thing you can do: don't go to Aruba. Even better: don't go there, and let them know why not. Best of all: don't go there, let them know why not, and help spread the word.

We are determined that we will continue to seek answers in Natalee's case, and not only when the media spotlight is switched on for a time.

"No justice for Natalee ... no tourists for Aruba."

We look forward to hearing from you.

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

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

The real truth?

How many "truths" are there?

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

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

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

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

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

SEE VIDEOS HERE

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

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

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

JORAN VAN DER SLOOT'S NEW CAREER--OR IS IT?

Was Joran's new sex trafficking career just on a whim, or had he been cultivating it for some time? Did Joran perhaps "intern" while he was still in his teens living on Aruba with his gang, "The Pimps" where Aruba is known as a "stop off/drop off/pick up" port for human trafficking? Maybe he's been doing this for years?

Would it be out of the question that Paulus van der Sloot was his mentor?

He knew right away to call daddy.

"He's done this like 20 times before and nothing ever bad happened."

Suppose Joran hadn't intended to kill Natalee. Suppose he was "pimping" her out. Look at Amy Bradley's case.

Then there lies that controversial picture where Natalee, Joran and Paulus are seen at the same table in the casino. Could Paulus have been the one to tell Joran Natalee is one he wants? Remember when Joran mentioned that he didn't like Natalee, and that he liked her friend instead? Was Natalee hand picked because of her white skin and blonde hair? Those features are big bucks. Is that why they stopped off at Joran's apartment with Freddy waiting? To take pictures for potential clients?




Something bad happened.

His plan didn't work because she was overdosing from the date rape drug she was given.

Could Paulus van der Sloot be involved somehow in the sex trafficking ring? How else would Joran have learned his craft? One doesn't go to Bangkok and just "set up shop" as a sex trafficker. It's like any organized criminal group. Joran has been groomed for this job for a long time.

Who taught him?

Just a thought...

OPEN LETTER TO BETH FROM CARLOS TROMP

I would personally like to thank Mr. Tromp for putting this video together. It is a MUST SEE. The "gist" of the video goes something like this:

"...Duped by the white collar criminals of the Dutch Kingdom in Aruba...and I want to apologize to you through this letter to you for the injustice for the Ministry of Justice of Aruba..."

He names names, compares government officials to Nazis through various photos and is fearless in speaking his mind. A MUST SEE!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDX0GSWDqwo

PAULUS & THE WEB OF HIS PEDOPHILE NETWORK

Justice-orgies and blackmail on Antilles

Published by

Micha Kat Micha Kat

27 juni, 2008 in Algemeen . June 27, 2008


With public disclosure of the paedophile network leaders from around the world of justice and politics is a world in images of sex, corruption, fraud and blackmail which we VERY FAR BACK in history to have something comparable to be found.



Hans Holthuis, Joost Tonino, Joris Demmink and Paulus van der Sloot: they all belong to the same club of judicial pervert who at the expense of the taxpayer to kill our rule of law have helped.

Hans Holthuis

Joris Demmink


Joost Tonino

This episode takes us back to the flat of "pedo-professor Ger van Roon in Amsterdam-North, but to the garden of the family of Van Der Sloot in Aruba ...

SABOTAGE KLOKKENLUIDERONLINE??

This piece is placed on HVV because the website klokkenluideronline which it was intended is probably sabotaged. To the causes of the series of failures is now investigated.


The Dutch judiciary is on a colossal scale extortion with pornographic material on prosecutors and judges. That conclusion is no longer escape. People like Eddy Kroes-the three times he was sentenced to a lengthy prison-knew from the cell to abide by leaders of Justice to confront with imagery in which they highly compromising stands to be seen. In the case of the Kroes was the blackmail Hans Holthuis that the PPS with the tail between his legs had to leave. Holthuis belonged to the 'Demmink network' of paedophile 'senior'.


But officers as Jan Wolter Wabeke (by Bram Peper) and Joost Tonino (from business leaders come into view as Cor Boonstra) seem to have become the victim of blackmail such practices. An important indication is that 'big business' of these officers uitdraaiden (very expensive) failures while for everyone while also clearly visible was that the defendants were guilty as hell. But that blackmail may also work on the other side and want to ensure that innocent people are convicted, as was the case with the Kurdish Baybasin businessman who had to swallow because lifelong Justice chief executive Joris Demmink was blackmailed with disclosure of his pedo-files as Baybasin not behind bars would disappear.

Jan Wolter Wabeke

The entire Dutch law has been disrupted by all those magistrates that their penis-envy but do not know to be limited to the marital sponde or pinch of standing up to a brothel. No, it needs much smeriger, in gardens, front and back of official cars, with sinister and illegal orgies with imported minderarigen. Otherwise, we get 'm really no longer prevails among our toga.


Having said all that, dare we are also the best argument that Joran van der Sloot remains at liberty is because his father Paul so much dirty shit in file about the Dutch Antilles to magistrates that they at least three parliamentary inquiries could be filled.


From publicly available sources is already so much filth to top that we can easily say that the West Indies on a continuous orgy of copulerende and ejaculerende magistrates from boredom and depravity not know where they leuter now must instoppen. What about the lower shore to hit criminal Cor Merx, until 2005 the CEO of the PPS in the Antilles, which went under in a tsunami of corruption, fraud and sex? Read the (nearly) complete Merx files which the reader must realize that the OM yes, we are good for our people! - This Merx after they entered the West Indies was off geejaculeerd even has appointed Advocate General Den Haag.

Cor Merx

Is it not a truism that subordinates the behavior of their boss copy? Well, we know immediately what the average Antillean OM'mer as the first act of the day was done after the opening of the already tired eyes and act berof not again go through the files of current affairs. Then there are the not-yet-issued detailed descriptions of the whores and sloeren by the Public Prosecutor Ernst Wesselius acting in the name of the queen is stationed on Bonaire and long time even reported on his interesting experiences "on the islands the door of the PPS.


Also extortion, which has been initiated for the reader of the direct link already clear. It also deserves to be called the biggest criminal in the history of the Dutch OM, French Pommer, billenmaat of Merx at the public prosecutor in Maastricht until 2000 when both the West Indies under the palm trees went lie relax.

Ernst Wesselius

The ground was Pommer Netherlands in a little hot under the feet become after it was revealed that he as an officer in a major drug issues no less than eight observation orders had falsified. For an ordinary citizen opgeknoopt the reason, but within the OM, such forms of corruption are rewarded with a ticktet to Willemstad. On the islands became Pommer almost entirely from the media has managed to remain so entangled in the web of known fraud, blackmail, sex and corruption that for nothing else than him but left again to get back to the Netherlands where he is currently connected to the Prosecutor in Roermond.


Well, in this cosy atmosphere of give and take was one Paulus van der Sloot, proud father of the ambitious Joran, judge-in-training. Need we say more? Paul is still a suspect in the Holloway case but worse still is that there never really been done to research the life and work of Paul on the islands. We suspect that by Justice Paul was stationed in Aruba as a sort of maitre de plaisir as we know from the times of the Roman Empire and Louis XIV at Versailles with the task of organising lectures and interesting legal jurisprudence evenings.




In other words, Paul knows like no other magistrate which are leuter on what day and what a beach chair in which minor schandknaapje and he has put deinst there is not as good father to back this knowledge to be deployed to protect zoonlief. It seems the ultimate depravity of macabre circle around: the OM is even blackmailed by their own judiciary! Let us soon agree what further look at those other mysterious justice-figure about whom very little is known fact: Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Minister of Justice.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin

Check these related stories:

PAULUS AND HIS BUDDY SYSTEM

RICK SMID-DIRTIEST JUDGE

CRIMES AGAINST NATALEE--PART I

CRIMES AGAINST NATALEE--PART II

Original untranslated story: http://www.klokkenluideronline.nl/artikel/811/justitie-orgieen-en-chantage-op-antillen.html

ARUBA'S FRIENDLY AIRSPACE CATERS TO DRUG TRAFFICKERS

Doesn't Aruba have "WORKING" radars for air and water security? According to former Aruban Police Chief Gerald Dompig, they do. (See his remarks from his interview on 48 Hours.)

It is well known that the area between Venezuela and Aruba is the stairway to drug trafficking heaven. I'm sure Aruba is being paid well for their drug trafficking conspiracy to aid and/or abet.

Jacksonville surveillance planes bust huge shipments of cocaine

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Two U.S. Custom and Border Protection surveillance planes based in Jacksonville helped authorities seize two different shipments of cocaine totaling about $80 million. The first plane was alerted to a suspicious aircraft from Venezuela flying over Aruba May 11, according to a Custom and Border Protection news release.


The surveillance plane tracked the aircraft to a remote airfield in Mexico. Local authorities seized the aircraft along with 2,640 pounds of cocaine worth about $24 million. Another plane was patrolling the Caribbean Ocean near Nicaragua May 18 when it spotted a boat loaded with barrels. The occupants of the boat fled to the Nicaragua/Honduras coast before they ran aground and ditched the drugs. The plane directed the U.S. Coast Guard to the abandoned boat, which was filled with 6,215 pounds of cocaine valued at about $56 million, the news release said.


http://news.jacksonville.com/justin/2008/05/30/jacksonville-surveillance-planes-bust-huge-shipments-of-cocaine/

PORN & LAWSUITS--YOU COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP...

Here's a letter to Greta from a loyal Aruban Boycott member:

Greta,

We have been discussing the absurdity of the lawsuit the ATA has planned to file against you. If the goal is to elevate the island in the minds of tourists then reminding them of the travesty of Natalee Holloway for the next several years is probably not the way to go.


There must be another reason, and here is my take.

Aruba and all the Caribbean islands are overrun by organized crime. The meager budgets of these mini-nations are no match for the immense power of the Mafias of Russia, China, Italy, Israel, and Japan to name a few.

Could it be that by keeping attention on the island they are calling out to the US and to the US media to clean up something they have no hope of cleaning up themselves?

--Bill, United States.



(Michelle's note: Aruba's media guru for their Prosecutor's Office is John Pauly, a former media consultant [gee, that leaves the imagination open for interpretation!] in Philadelphia. He is good buddies with Steve Cohen, and owns property in Aruba. He's is a "frequent flyer", so to speak, and is allegedly involved in Aruba's sexual deviancy underworld.

See a previous post on this dirty old man:

JOHN PAULY--MEDIA/SEX CONSULTANT?

A PUBLIC OUTCRY! BOYCOTT ARUBA! JAIL JORAN!

Comments from readers who want to dig Aruba into the DIRT

My brother and sister-in-law were tragically proven "missing" in Aruba while supposed touring the island on a rented boat. To this day their whereabouts have been overlooked by few and missed by many. Unfortunately our family did not get the media and attention that Natalie so well deserved! Had it been, maybe that young women would still be laughing and smiling that exuberant smile as we speak. Much more should have been said about two beautiful young individuals who just went on a vacation "to get pregnant" after many months of doctor's treatment.

I, as his sister, and a firm believer of their belief in one another would not have even breathed any of the sick notions that were talked about in their disappearance. I could go on forever to speak about my pure despite and sheer anger at what can happen behind closed doors. There is so much more to stories than meets the everyday persons life. I wish every individual knew. All my blessings, all my faith in the above, but mostly my sincere sympathy for the Holloway family, as it has been more than 20 years since we have tried to bury this tragedy. I would be a liar if I said it got easier as time goes by, for every day without someone you hold so deeply, is the worst day of your life!

Aruba may appear safer than many places, but the complete impotence of the justice system there makes it clear that almost everywhere else will be a preference in my judgment.

…Could this have happened in any tourist destination? Absolutely. But would other tourist destinations have shown the complete lack of give a damn that Aruba has shown? I doubt it. They didn't want any help from US investigators because they didn't want it blasted all over the news that they couldn't find their backsides with both hands.

It isn't so much THAT this happened that is so disturbing. It is that this happened and the Aruban officials acted as though it was NO BIG DEAL.

Just some drunken American teenager, probably out somewhere still partying, seemed to be their initial theory. Had they acted as though this was the important issue that it was, perhaps this girl's family would have at least been able to give her a proper burial by now.

Sorry, but I'd rather head someplace where they'll at LEAST start looking for me right away, if I should go missing. I'd rather head someplace where they welcome help from ANY law enforcement agency in finding me, should I go missing. And I'd DEFINITELY rather head someplace where they don't look around now and then for a couple of years, and then shut the book on my case. I want someone who will keep looking until they FIND ME, not put forth a lackluster effort until they are able to sweep my case under the rug, and forget about me.

Crime occurs everywhere. The problem in Aruba is the cover up! From day 1 they have not only covered up Natalee's murder, but they have pointed fingers back at Beth, Dave, Jug and other loved ones.

(In response to another poster:) “…You may disagree with their justice system, but it is theirs and when you go to another country it is their laws and system you must abide by". Hmmm.. Exactly. Which is why it is a good idea to stay OUT of Aruba. They don't give a darn if you or your loved one goes missing. Why should I spend my hard earned American dollars in Aruba when I can spend them in countless other places where human lives are valued?

…Half of Holland and over 20 million people tuned in to hear how Joran manipulated the Aruban police department and the media, actually hoping to make money off it all. I would never go back to Aruba. It's windy, dirty, unsafe and corrupt.

…When we were there, our rental car was broken into and damaged and the police would not even respond prior to our departure from the island. The police knew we were leaving and failed to even take a statement about the crime. If you go to Aruba - don't rent a car - they are targets for the local punks and thieves. The hotel management can't or won't help either. I would never go back and I would never recommend this dump of a place for a vacation.

Crime does happen everywhere. The reason Americans choose to boycott Aruba is not because a crime happened, but rather because not only was the crime covered up and the perps allowed to walk around cleaning up their mess, but Aruba officials and investigators attacked the victim, Natalee Holloway, and her mother, Beth Holloway.

Those who followed the case know that Aruba knew what happened to Natalee by June 9, 2005 and they knew who did it. Joran confessed to them but they suppressed his confession. When they couldn't come up with the evidence, they pretended the confession didn't exist.

Well Joran has confessed AGAIN. What will Aruba do now?

Amy Bradley, Willard "Buddy" Larson, Natalee Holloway-just a few that went missing from Aruba.

I am Canadian and I would never go to Aruba for a holiday, nor would anyone else in my family! What happened to Natalee Holloway has disgusted me beyond words! You need to clean up your legal system from the top down and hold the culprit Joran V responsible for her death and disposal! The whole world is watching Aruba!!!

Yeah sure Americans are just flocking into Aruba! NOT. Now just why would you take your loved ones to a place that guarantees if something bad happens - no one will ever find out what or by whom, but you and your family can count on numerous stories defaming both the victim and the family?

There are just way too many inexpensive, beautiful and friendly to American places to go than to head out for One Crappy Island!

… Did you not see the Joran Sloot confession? I am telling you that he (Joran) is not the only one on that island doing such things. It became a sport to them. His gang was known as the pimps…..I’m not sorry for telling the truth, people can get hurt in a place called ARUBA.

Comment by Steve Holloway — February 7, 2008 @ 10:23 am

…The Aruban authorities knew of Joran's participation in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway from very early in their investigation by the questions asked of her mother and father. That was substantiated by Joran's confession recently aired on TV. The family has known all along that a cover-up from the polis up to the Prime Minister was done to solely protect their tourism and not get justice for the victim — An American girl. American girls have been targeted, drugged, raped all under the nose of the Arubans. They knew it was going on; they even warned the family about Carlos 'n Charlies - where it was well known that girls drinks were spiked on their last day on the island.

This is probably still going on.

Joran was underaged. Yet, he was allowed to drink at Carlos 'n Charlies, he was allowed to gamble (even with his father taking him to casinos), he was allowed to have an apartment of his own to exploit girls, drink, do drugs. All because he was protected by the authorities and continues to be protected by them even though he has admitted to being involved in various horrendous crimes.

Until he and his group of pimps is put out of business - An Aruba Boycott by all Americans is the only wise and safe thing to do.

Boycott Aruba. Not because of one bad apple but because of the corrupt authorities right up to the Prime Minister thought they could get away with covering it up to protect the tourism. If everything had just been admitted up front, the case solved, the bad apples punished, this whole nightmare for Aruba would have been buried in every other unfortunate accident file.

All Joran had to do was call 911 or even leave her on a beach somewhere. But he and they didn't do that, they tried to cover it up over and over again. I have been there over 10 times, too. I had a timeshare there. I sold it because I didn't want the same fate for my daughters and because the Police are unresponsive to complaints by tourists. You have been lucky - hope nothing happens to you in the future. You just keep going back there and hope they don't cover up any crimes against you.

http://gocaribbean.about.com/b/2007/02/05/aruba-tourism-the-holloway-effect.htm

ARUBA MAKES SECRET BID FOR 2008 TERRORIST TRAINING CAMP

The terrorists are coming and Aruba has been the first to jump on the idea of hosting their stay. Not only because Aruba is "One Happy Island", but "everyone knows everyone", if you know what I mean (wink, wink..)

One ATA spokesperson was heard saying, "We will gladly accept their money..we don't care where it comes from." Insiders believe that Aruba's sudden friendliness with terrorists is due to the boycott of Aruba.

An unnamed inside source stated, "We are sinking fast, and I'm not going to jump ship...we are all coming together with buckets to bail us out. And if those buckets happen to be terrorists...so what?"


Note: The above is a joke...the below is true. I have to clear some confusion, because some didn't "get" my humor and took it as a true story. Wake up McFly! :) Just kidding...don't be mad.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Islamic terrorist groups have networks in Latin America and the Caribbean and could use the region as a base to launch attacks on the United States, the senior U.S. military commander for the region says.


"For sure, members, facilitators, and sympathizers of Islamic terrorist organizations are present in our hemisphere," Adm. Jim Stavridis, head of the U.S. Southern Command. "We consider Latin America and the Caribbean as being highly likely bases for future terrorist threats to the U.S. and others."


U.S. officials have warned of a militant presence in Latin America since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. They have provided little concrete evidence and Brazil, which has a large Arab population, and some other regional governments have played down the threat.


But Stavridis was reiterating U.S. concerns after police said in June they had foiled a plot to sabotage New York's John F. Kennedy airport by suspects linked to the Caribbean. The Lebanon-based Hezbollah was the most prominent group in Latin America, Stavridis said. Most of its activity appeared to be fund-raising but "there are indications of an operational presence and the potential for attacks."

Click here for ENTIRE article

LET'S FOCUS ON ANOTHER "UNOFFICAL" SUSPECT, MICHAEL POSNER

An old article to revisit...we can't forget about this scumbag!
The dutch need to look into him as well.

Monday, November 21, 2005
[translated by Getagrip]

Aruban casino owner with criminal past goes to America
Joe Mammana is not permitted to enter Aruba due to his past
but how did we end up with Mike Posner?

We all know that Joe Mammana won't be visting Aruba or anywhere else for that matter...he's sitting in jail awaiting his sentence and is facing up to 7 years in prison for tax evasion (isn't that ironic?) However, when I used to talk to Joe, he told me that he DID go to Aruba after he was "banned". Since he has a criminal background, I'm sure he found a way to get into the country without the correct identification or slipped through the cracks. He laughed when he said he was walking all around the island and NO ONE noticed him. Shows how much their "security" works!

DIARIO Aruba
11/21/2005


ORANJESTAD (AAN) The case of Natalee is taking other unexpected twists and very negative ones that are going to tarnish Aruba’s image as a safe destination for tourists and investors.


Joe Mammana has a very impressive criminal past in the U.S. but for one reason or another he has found publicity with different cases which have set his image straight and in the case of Natalee, he is trying to find national attention in the US by using sensationalism via the American media. The government of Aruba recently declared that they will not permit Joe Mammana to enter Aruba.


Related to his past and criminal record, the government took the decision via the Minister of Justice that they cannot let such a person enter Aruba and about this there was information circulating that this Joe person sent a threatening letter to those who were detained in Aruba related to the case of Natalee.


The government’s actions in this case were correct because they cannot let this type of person come to Aruba and believe that they can come do what they see fit on our island, and to boot, Mammana is one of those who is trying, body and soul, to organize an unjust and unjustifiable boycott against Aruba. (Joe didn't organize ANYTHING...he was just a "talking head"...all talk, no action. It is WE, the grassroots movement that are making a difference in the boycott, not Joe.)


What is strange is that the government refuses to let this ex-criminal enter Aruba, but on the other hand, permits another ex-criminal, Mike Posner who is going soon to the U.S. for cases of law violations, to be able to have a business in Aruba, and enter and leave Aruba whenever he wants.


To make matters worse, the person in question, Mike Posner, has been able to obtain a permit to operate a casino, where anyone who wants to have a casino in Aruba and the majority of other countries in the world have to have a clean criminal record.


Recently, this information has started to circulate in the U.S. as well, and seeing that it hasn’t been many days since via the American media false information was given that Aruba is a sort of den for criminals and even terrorists, the matter of the Aruba casino owner with a criminal past in the US, is going to help those who want to implement a total boycott against Aruba.


Wasn’t it in Mike Posner’s casino that the principal suspect in Natalee’s case, Joran van der Sloot, was sitting gambling, despite the fact that he was underage and that never should he have been permitted to enter the casino?


Some weeks back, other media in Aruba came out in vanguard of the ex-criminal Mike Posner and wrote and article that praised Mike Posner for his supposed achievements in Aruba and what interest they had with him, nobody knows. (To me, that is really sad...awhile back I wrote a post about Posner and his Chicago days burying himself in various criminal activities such as pimping, owning strip clubs and involvement with the mob. He spent time in Joliet prison with the likes of John Wayne Gacy. Read all about Michael Posner by clicking HERE.)


Now that the government refuses an American ex-criminal entry to Aruba, the government has to justify the reason why until today they continue to permit a person with such a police record such as Mike Posner, can come to set up a business in Aruba, continue to operate his business in Aruba and come and go whenever he wants.


What sort of handling of Justice is there in Aruba and what impact will this case have in the US when the American media start to question the government of Aruba about this matter? This matter is pending because there are more questionable things here and also the role that certain politicians in Aruba play and continue to play in this matter.



http://getagripmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/11/aruban-casino-owner-with-criminal-past.html

STOP THE TAX HAVENS! STOP THE CORRUPTION AND GREED!

Antilles oppose place on list of tax haven

WILLEMSTAD/WASHINGTON – Together with 33 other islands/countries, the Neth. Antilles appears on a recent proposed bill by three American senators that want to engage the tax haven abuse (abuse of tax paradises) (Aruba and the Netherland Antilles are on this list.) Via diplomatic channels in Willemstad, The Hague, and Washington; the Antillean government is vigorously protesting against that. (Why? Bad for tourism? Bad for organized crime?)


This is the so-called Levin-Coleman-Obama Stop Tax Haven Abuses Act. The democratic American presidential candidate Barack Obama is among the three senators that introduced the bill. Being mentioned on the list of 34 ‘offshore secrecy jurisdictions’, as the countries in the document are being describes, can have an adverse effect on the financial sector.




As a matter of fact, the Antilles have done everything possible lately, not to be reputed as tax haven. For example, with the New Fiscal Outline (NFR) the entire tax system – especially with regard to the international financial service - is turned. Meanwhile, the Antilles received the hallmark of the European Union (EU) and of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), acknowledged the former Dutch minister of Finance, Gerrit Zalm (VVD) during a lecture for the Antillean Central Bank.




Secretary of state Alex Rosaria (PNP) of Fiscal Affairs says that the government in Willemstad is doing everything possible via diplomatic channels to get the name of the Antilles removed from this list. “The law is not enacted yet, but we also do not want this to assume a life of its own.” He points out that the United States has recently ratified the treaty in connection with exchanging tax information. Meanwhile, Rosaria has contact with the American consulate-general in Curacao, Robert Sorenson, about this and says that Finance and Foreign Affairs in The Hague are aware of this and that minister Plenipotentiary Norberto Ribeiro at the Dutch embassy in Washington is brought in.


Also Aruba appears on the challenged list. It’s not clear yet what this island is going to do against this. The US-senators write in an elucidation that the 34 jurisdictions were taken from the American tax service, IRS that identifies these countries as possible locations for evasion of American taxes.


http://www.amigoe.com/english/