New Protests Coming Up This Month

This time the protesters have anti-Aruba freebies to hand out: I'm told that totes, pens, and magnets will be available...and I do believe that the organizers will be handing out Boycott Aruba on Spring Break fliers, too.

The first protest will be at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center in Boston (200 Seaport Blvd) on February 22-24, 2008. The second will be in New York City at the Jacob. K. Javits Convention Center (655 W. 34th Street) the following weekend.

Please note that the ATA is a presenting sponsor of the Boston show. It is very important that we embarrass them in Boston!

Let me remind people of a few things, both in the U.S. and Aruba:

~ Nobody can stop us from protesting, not today, not ten years from now. Unlike Aruba, where polis dispersed a labor protest just last year, the U.S. is a free country where peaceful demonstrations are commonplace and a protected right;

~ Nobody can make Americans come to Aruba as opposed to the many other Caribbean islands that are exactly the same as Aruba (except those other places are cheaper and less desolate);

~ Joran may be persona non grata in Aruba now, and his father may possibly lose a lot of his
"Dutch privilege" committee positions in Aruba, but that doesn't help Natalee's family;

~ the Aruban people have still fail to hold their government responsible for the fact that corrupt, privileged Dutch scumbags still run the country and are still doing their part to protect their equally corrupt Dutch friends;

~ In fact, nothing has changed in Aruba. The same corrupt Dutch and the same corrupt MEP
are in charge, and the short-sighted and failed 'status aparte' treaty with Mother
Netherlands still allows for this corruption to continue unchallenged;

~ Aruba is still a hub for drug trafficking, offshore money laundering, and human trafficking;

~ Aruba's ruling party, the MEP, is still politically close to Venzuelan 'President' Hugo Chavez, the most outspoken anti-American Communist dictator in South America;

~ Key people who were aware of Natalee's disappearance in the first 48 hours, namely Gerold
Dompig, Dennis Jacobs, and Jan van der Straaten, have never been questioned by Dutch
authorities or investigated for any wrongdoing;

~ All of this has harmed the average Aruban far more than the fatcat hotel and casino owners,
the politicians, and the Netherlands. And yet the people who have the most to lose are still too blind to realize how crappy their elected officials are, and unwilling to do anything but cry, cry, cry;

~ We still don't know what happened to Natalee, by whose hand, or if it is even possible
to find this out and provide meaningful justice.


Finally, I have a message for poor, suicidal little innocent as a newborn weasel Joran: if you're not man enough to own up for what you did, at least to Natalee's family for their sake, then maybe it would be best for everyone if you weren't here....