Thursday, September 21, 2006

Responsible for 11 deaths: 2 Dutch ministers resign

The Dutch justice and housing ministers resigned after a report highlighted their responsibility concerning a detention center for refugees where 11 people seeking refuge in The Netherlands were jailed and died in a fire last year. It is regretted by many that the bad genius of immigration Rita Verdonk doesn't resign as well.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF-Amsterdam - Sept. 21st 2006 - The Dutch coalition cabinet in an emergency session on Thursday decided that - based on a damning report concerning the guilt of two ministers in a fire which cost the lives of 11 jailed innocent refugees - the two responsible ministers, Donner and Dekker, had to resign. Especially 'justice' minister Piet Hein Donner has shown to be an anachronism, a dinosaur who because of his US instigated 'terrorist law' concoctions, by other judges was described as a 'concrete rot' of the justice system. He broke all dikes of decency. "He writes a new law, while the ink on the other isn't dry yet." his colleagues warned.

The investigation into the horrible deaths of eleven people - and this is very rare, there must be an ulterior motive like the general election on 22 November - clearly proves the guilt of the so called 'authorities', but as usual only to a lesser extent causes difficulties for Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk. It is the by this 'bad genius of Dutch immigration politics' implicated harsh regime, which even dares to keep children in jail for which The Netherlands officially has been reprimanded by Amnesty International first, and than was found guilty by the Council of Europe of crimes against humanity. Verdonk is probably not punished because her anti-refugee spree resulted in poll figures which are kept high and useful for the next election.

'SHAME' NOR 'HUMANITY' SEEMS TO EXIST IN THEIR VOCABULARY

‘WHY? WHY IN THIS WAY?’

Last year, in a speech by Justice Minister Donner, on 8 November 2005 and to remember the victims of the Schiphol fire, he said: "They will all have this one big question: ‘Why? Why in this way?’ - I cannot answer this question. I wish I could, and perhaps their deaths could then have been prevented. Yet no one is able to provide an answer."

Well, he and the other of the by taxes paid misguided and malplaced personal in The Hague knows now that it was their responsibility, but they never ever gave the impression to care one iota about human beings like refugees. Outside of The Netherlands their guilt will be 'very underreported' because all major media in Holland are in foreign hands (APAX etc. in London) and the former Dutch 'news agency' ANP has been transformed into a propaganda sewer by the multinational - Fentener van Vlissingen - which bought it years ago. Journalism was replaced by 'the market', their commerce.

The mainstream Radio Netherlands however, on 27 October last year had to report on it too: ''Eleven people die in blaze at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport" - and there were infernal scenes at the airport detention center, like the prisoners drowning in the jails in New Orleans, when the waters from the Katarina flooding got higher and higher in their cells. "At least 11 people died on Wednesday night when fire broke out in a detention centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. The building, completed in late 2002, had already been the scene of fire shortly after it opened. A number of detainees say that staff initially failed to react to their shouts for help. The authorities have launched an  independent inquiry into the precise cause of the blaze.

[THERE IS NO 'INDEPENDENT INQUIRY' IN HOLLAND POSSIBLE AT THIS TIME, THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON FOR THE OUTCOME. -HR)

"The fire broke out in one wing of the complex shortly after midnight and spread quickly. At the time, the wing housed a total of 43 people, 11 of whom are now known to have died. A large number of vehicles from the fire service were called in to tackle the flames, and it took some three hours before the blaze was under control. In addition to the 11 people who lost their lives, another 15 were injured, including staff who work in the building." [http://tinyurl.com/pes6e]

The upcoming general election on 22 November may be one reason to get rid of creatures which are stumbling blocks, and don't fit the usual election lies spouted by the hypocritical politicians and the compliant 90% of the commercialized media. Donner is number 5 on the CDA list of candidates for the election in November, and the political party CDA is supposed to stand for 'christian' and 'democratic', but they are absolutely NONE of the two. They do what the managers of The Netherlands tell them. And they never give any explanation to the people that pay them, and are forced to pay all the billions to finance illegal wars. The same can be said of so called 'liberal' Party Minister Sybilla Dekker who is paid to do 'Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment' for the electorate.

THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN FEWER OR NO FATALITIES

But their incompetence is shattering, and in reality they must be taken to court for the crimes against humanity they are guilty of too, in taking part and not protesting the US/Israeli war machine and it's cruel 'War of Terror'. Millions of people have died and still die because of their criminal collaboration. Most dutch people wonder whether they really care about what the report today says: "There would have been fewer or no fatalities during the fire at the Schiphol detention centre if government officials had adhered to the rules", according to the Dutch Safety Council. But those creatures make the rules, and make the laws which are not used to protect us but are used against us.

Since honest and independent reporting in nearly all fields - including journalism - is impossible in Holland nowadays, the report was presented by one of the fake royal 'Muppets' - so called 'professor' Pieter van Vollenhoven, He also for decades has been the slavish 'brother-in-law' to an elderly woman in Holland, who denies DNA tests but claims to have 'royal' blood, calling hersel 'Queen' Beatrix. It is very medieval. She - with her family and other parasites - is on the highest dole ever, getting millions upon Euro millions of tax money to appear here and there, and keep the mad myth alive. The propaganda is gruelling and covers the country, local 'Schleimscheisser' in the media brainwashing 90% of the people into further oblivion. But Beatrix and her royal mafia is also known from Bilderberg conferences and other criminal activities. Like Lockheed bribes.

National disaster and refugee exporter Rita Verdonk often claimed the detention centre personnel could perform "adequately" to bring the detainees to safety, but in reality those people were poorly trained and there hardly was any aftercare for the survivors at all. Some even 'disappeared'. "Back to their countries" - it was said.

Why some had 'disappeared' was shown in a well documented attack on Verdonk after investigation by dutch TV 'Netwerk'. The Dutch Immigration's police 'officers' - contrary to the law, and thus forbidden - send along the official papers with the 'guards' of the protesting but home flown refugees. Official documents including very sensitive information from the in Holland held police and immigration interrogations about why they had fled their countries and why they asked for political asylum in The Netherlands.

I've also worked for ten years in Africa and the Mideast, and can imagine what happens to those poor people when they are unwilling but forced to return. When they shout they get their mouths taped over. Some of them may even have preferred a quick fire death, instead of torture and/or jail by some secret service in their homeland. The people which are responsible for all this inhumanity should not only resign: they must be stripped from power and pecunia, and tried in court for their crimes, as soon as laws are valid again in Holland.

As happened to their criminal predecessors, PM Wim Kok, defense minister de Grave etc.

It takes some time, but like Pinochet, Videla and similar ilk: they will pay the price.

Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp


HENK RUYSSENAARS


Story at APFN - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ma3h3

Related:

Dutch ministry of so called 'Justice' - Speech by Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner on 8 November 2005 to remember the victims of the Schiphol fire. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ert98

Google's biased selection of the mainstream sources - 'Two Dutch ministers resign after immigrant deaths probe' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/z39af

Google: some pictures of the Schiphol fire - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/glsly

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Global resistance - From Budapest to Bangkok

While extremely important events are taking place in the United Nations, such as Venezuela’s acquisition of a seat on the Security Council, two explosive international events provide mainstream media with ample distraction: Hungary and Thailand. - CB

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THEY ALL REALLY DESERVE TO PAY A HEFTY PRICE FOR THEIR WAR CRIMES

FPF COMMENT: To save the rest of us in the world from the deadly 'liberation/occupation' by the US/Israeli war machine and it's NATO mercenaries, it shows that resistance is not only necessary but growing everywhere. By treating the troops which return alive, belied veterans wounded in body, soul and mind, the way the warmongers do now, is asking for the tax paid weapons to be turned around in their direction. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ej4rn

In Bolivia for instance, like in many other countries formerly bled by the cabal, the 'US made' president was forced to leave - [http://www.americas.org/item_63] - and the resistance keeps mushrooming all over the globe. Not only in Latin America or the Arab world but also in the West and among up to 1.5 billion muslims: everywhere in all 189 countries surrounding the US where people understand that US/Israeli torture, secret jails and genocidal wars can and will NOT be accepted from anybody on earth. Never!

The tide is turning, the global tsunami of revenge is swelling and the US cabal and it's parroting propagandists that spread the lies via the warmongers media will face the consequences of their misdeeds. They lied and millions died? Now their number is coming up, slowly but surely. And they deserve every bit of the legal punishment. - HR

FROM BUDAPEST TO BANGKOK

by Stan Goff - FTW Military/Veterans Affairs Editor

September 20th - 2006 - When a system goes haywire, it doesn’t do it like a children’s story with a good protagonist and a bad villain.  It is a lot messier than that.  And the symptoms are often far more visible than the causes.

I am writing this on September 20, 2006.  As I write, there are riots in Hungary, and an apparent coup d’etat in Thailand.*  What could possibly tie together these two social crises, on opposite sides of the geographic and cultural world, one in a former Soviet satellite and the other in a long standing US satellite?

In Budapest, Hungarian economist Laszlo Andor said in 2005, that while Hungary’s rich have become considerably richer over the last 15 years, for the average Hungarian the situation “can only be compared to the Great Depression of the 1930’s.”

DEVASTATING

In 1997, when the Clinton administration unleashed currency speculators organized as hedge funds on Asia to force conformity with the neoliberal Washington Consensus, Thailand was the first on the target list.  The Thai currency (the baht) was devalued by 20% almost overnight, and the effects on the most vulnerable in Thailand were devastating.

The ostensible “socialist” Hungarian leader, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, who models himself after Tony Blair, has been an avid supporter of neolibertism in Hungary. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was elected as “the billionaire populist” (he is a cellular telephone tycoon), is reputed to have calmed a restive population down through savvy PR and a few policy bones to ameliorate the misery of Thailand’s poorest.  He is also sometimes compared to Blair.

GIVEN BLAIR’S FORTUNES OF LATE, THIS HAS PROVEN DECIDEDLY INAUSPICIOUS.

The politics of both Hungary and Thailand are both especially Byzantine, and in today’s world that is surely saying something.  What catalyzed these simultaneous events was Gyurcsany getting caught on tape stating that he has lied his ass off about the nation’s economic figures to get elected, and Shinawatra trying to purge the Army of unreliable officers and replace them with his own.  Surely these are not alike, except that in both cases, the countries are deeply insecure and polarized, thrashing from one political demagogue to the next.

The rest of this story is two-fold.  One, each of these countries is geographically situated adjacent to strategic hotspots:  Hungary next to Ukraine, and Thailand smack-dab in the middle of the Indo-Chinese archipelago.  Two, each of these societies is now deeply criminalized, with foreign Mafias (Ukrainian in Hungary, and Chinese in Thailand), a conduit for foreign drugs and a production site for others (both are suffering domestic crises of methamphetamine production and consumption), underpaid and corrupt police forces, and rampant sex trafficking and prostitution.

The beneficiaries of the current crises in Budapest and Bangkok are likely to be reactionaries.  Certainly, the military coup in Bangkok is made by conservatives.  In Hungary, the rightist Fidesz opposition will not only try to capitalize on the incriminating broadcast, but many suspect that Fidesz operatives may have acquired and leaked the tape that exposed Gyurcsany.

In either case, the masses of these crisis-wracked nations are trapped like bees in a bottle, that bottle being today’s Washington Consensus -- to which both sides in both countries are slavishly attached. 

Perhaps we can give this a new name for future political sociologists. 

The Blair Syndrome.

Stan Goff

[andend] - FTW story at - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/l7z8y

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FPF - RELATED:

Hungary an eyewitness account - Url.: http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2006/09/38948.shtml

Demonstrators arrested in Hungary - US info agency AP (Assorted Propaganda) - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/n5chu

FPF - Ukraine: ''The US lost an important country today" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ekko9

UN speech: Hugo Chavez - President of Venezuela - says what 99% of the world knows it too: ''Bush is a devil'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hfe8y

Google's biased mainstream web selection concerning Hungary - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/oamal

Google's biased mainstream web selection concerning Thailand - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/sxdb3

* CONCERNING A CHANGE OF REGIME - "Brothers and sisters, if you and I would just realize, that once we learn to talk the language that they understand, they will then get the point. You can't ever reach a man if you don't speak his language. If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can't come to him with peace. Why goodnight! He'll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can't speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can't communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out, what does this man speak? Once you know his language, learn how to speak his language. He'll get the point." - Malcom X - on defending human rights. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/zoora

* CHANGING A REGIME: Throw out war propagandists like the BBC, FOX, CNN etc.! - Url.:  http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/07/1632.php

* The Dutch author this far has worked abroad for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb - including cluster bombs! - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gzsz7 - breeds more terrorism!

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