Paulus Who?

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To your left you will see blood stained rocks painted with silly putty and to your right you will see Boo-Tee in the bush…

Hot! Hot! Hot!

DIARIO - 04/18/07

This is not a translation of the DIARIO article, but rather a summary.

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This is the latest information we received from reliable sources. It says that Holland is extremely interested in the Holloway case and the Namdar bribery case. They are sending a large team of policemen from Holland to further investigate both cases. The Minister of Justice, Rudy Croes, has offered all cooperation to the Dutch authorities who will be coming soon to reinforce those that are already here.

The severe criticisms we outed with regards to both cases has apparently hit home and we can expect some serious actions soon. Holland cannot afford to sit by idly and let a part of the Kingdom go to pots. And the political infiltration in the Prosecution offices, especially in the case of the Attorney General, has met wilth loud criticism here and abroad.

If the Aruban population cannot rely on a true separation of Trias Politica (Executive, Legislative and Judicial)than we are in for some social upheavals that can very easily get out of hand, considering the presence of more than 18,000 illegals and about the same number of latin-americans that are now in Aruba. They are more accustomed to 'heating' the streets than are the Arubans. And that, Holland cannot and will not tolerate.

I am glad that we are getting that kind of help from Holland because the way both cases have been handled by the local authorities stinks!

"You Can’t Handle the Truth"

A Few Answers

Earlier a rather lengthy comment was posted that attempted to push a few myths and lies to the forefront. That is a typical reaction coming from a certain group of like minded people. None of it is surprising or even titillating at this juncture. It’s merely the same song and the same dance. If any legitimate news breaks the silence, some of these people go back through archives and start pulling up old, senseless posts that degrade the victim’s family. Why they are proud of some of that garbage is beyond my imagination, but I have seen it happen over and over again just like clockwork.

Today a person posting from Utrecht, Netherlands, and portraying himself as an Aruban, again began the attack. No, he did not defend the actions of his beloved MEP party. He dragged up old rumors about the messenger, Jossy Mansur. This is a typical low-browed tactic used by those that have no defense nor the intellectual capacity to put forth a reasonable argument. In their ignorance they think they may accomplish something by throwing dirt in someone’s eyes and then kicking them in the crotch while they are blinded. I’ve been around a little too long to buy into that sort of BS, so I do my own research and ask questions of those in the know.

Jossy Mansur answered a few of the claims made by the anonymous propagandist and the highlights are as follows:

(Commentor; Jossy Response)

You know what is funny, the same Editorial he claims to have given to you in English is different from what he printed today in his News Paper. (It is interesting that he would attack the authors original words by claiming the author's translation differed)

The editorial is an exact translation of the one in Papiamento. Perhaps that man just doesn't understand the language or wants to be cute!

And that story of where he was borned and which year he came to Aruba I don't believe it because last year or two years ago he was on a TV-show called "Un dia den bida"(a day in the life), where he told a completely different story of his past (Now I'm not saying I'm right on this so I'm just saying that according to MY OPINION he said something different). (Now he is telling the man that he is wrong about where he was born and his historical accounting of his family's migration to Aruba)

Just the same thing of the same garbage bin. I was born in Aruba in 1934. I didn't come here during the past few years.

When he was told to start paying his backed-up taxes (which run in the millions)and stop looking for loop holes to not pay taxes and started acusing him of Fraude in the Aruban Bank (Interbank)that went Bankrupt (where he was a partial owner if not THE owner)is when his love for the actual government turned from love to just pure hate.

As for taxes, my lawyers and Fiscal Jurists have presented a claim in Court of 7.2 million the government owes me, not vice-versa! People like him just want to twist things to their convenience and slander campaigns. The Courts have not yet given a sentence in that case, but I am confident I will win because the truth (once more!) is on our side.

I was never involved with the Interbank, and it is the MEP government that purchased that bank from the owners, with an excess paid of close to 90 million guilders, most of which went into some private "pockets"!

I’m not going to inflict anymore of this nonsense upon Jossy Mansur. He deserves better and I think the point has been made. Some will continue to grab onto unfounded rumors and do their best to make them appear real. There is nothing that will change their little minds and the facts will be ignored. In a few weeks or months the same tired rumors will once again be repeated as facts, because these people have no interest in the truth. They just want to propagate their skewed opinions about things for which they know nothing.

DIARIO - April 16, 2007 Editorial

(English Translation Provided by Jossy Mansur)

A TRAITOR AND HIS ANTI-ARUBAN GOVERNMENT (2)

The truth can hurt when it’s exposed without circumlocution! What could have led the mediocrity of the MEP party to lose their heads in such an ugly manner? Could it be the bribery of 1 million guilders? Is that what made them try to look for any distraction from this most shameful anti-Aruban act known in our history? Is it because Nel Oduber is searching for a way out of the atom-bomb that the Namdar offer exploded in his face, and that has converted Neldar into another victim that “can be bought and sold?"

Gentlemen, go ahead with your attempts to distract the attention from the offered bribery of the most shameful 1 million guilders that exists, and the delivery afterwards of our port to the same foreign group that put that money under the table! Is this or isn’t this the greatest demonstration of anti-Arubanism known until now? Must the Aruban continue on the path of the cross to get his rights, while the foreigners with money can just wave a few bills in their faces to at once get the permits or properties they want? Just consider all the cases that the most anti-Aruban government has lost in court so far! Two great doctors, real Arubans, Lacle and Posner, had to take the path of the cross to get their rights, and even so, are being politically persecuted until this day! Is this, or isn’t this one more demonstration of the most pathetic anti-Arubanism that exists?

Then Henny Eman and Otmar Oduber, another two Arubans with a long history of political persecution coming from the same Government and members of the MEP party, hungry for vengeance, moved by hate and rancor. They too had to suffer years of political persecution, to finally obtain in Court for the truth to conquer the lies, the slanders, the ridiculous accusations, thrown at them by a Government that has characterized itself as mediocre and totally anti-Aruban!

And we could go on and on to fill this whole paper with the long list of politically persecuted Arubans, just because they think different and want the good of their people and their island. To expose the truth in a newspaper, on the radio or on television, has become for the anti-Arubans in power the cause for unbelievable hysterics, a drowning in a glass of water, and an attempt to hide the bribery offer of 1 million guilders with shouts coming from the handful of mediocrities at their disposal. Mister Neldar can turn and turn, trying to find any motive that can help him extract himself, but the 1 million guilders hang over his head like the accusation of a judge.

The day I said that Nel Oduber’s government is anti American too, I came with the proofs to demonstrate it, but I left out a couple very painful for Nel, but since he again lost control over his tongue, here are more proofs: Natalee Holloway (American) and the American girl that his son mistreated and then wanted to rape in his own home! The father, a man from Panama, sent me all the proofs, including clinical reports of physical abuse, and I didn’t publish them for discretion’s sake and for consideration of a person that does not deserve it.

What did Nel’s government do in the case of Natalee? Hide their heads in a hole like ostriches so as not to see the truth of what was happening, try to fire Jan and Karin because they did not belong to the group of political yes-men of his government; put the interest for American tourism money above the value of a human life; try to throw the blame on the family of the girl that disappeared, instead of going all-out against the three suspects who are responsible for the bad name Aruba got in other countries, and rightly so because those in power did not lift one finger to defend the victim, but went all out behind the curtain to make the family responsible for the negative image Aruba got, and not against the three suspects in whose company the girl disappeared. She too is an American!

Then his unbelievably stupid anti-American statements; the case of his own son who tried to rape an American girl in his own home! Now there is another American arrested because he pulled a gun against a person that attacked his wife, then committed destruction against her property. A government that has characterized itself as an Anti-American one with unquestionable concrete proofs.

But, the worst is that this government is principally an Anti-Aruban one that obliges the sons of this island that do not belong to the privileged few of the MEP, to go through a truly torturous process to find their rights! For the foreigner with money? Everything! All they have to do is…let everyone complete the sentence for himself or herself, considering the bribery offer. And for the poor foreigners who come to Aruba with his or her work specialization, another road of the cross! A merciless persecution; an extraction of the little money that they have or can borrow, to obtain the papers for a permit that often never comes! Another inhuman persecution of those that did not come to commit acts against the law (like those that many of the delinquents around Nel did commit, some with judge’s sentences hanging over their heads!), but who came to Aruba to look for a better life and to contribute to our labor market with their talents and know-hows!

Nel Oduber has become a synonym for political persecution, for implacable hatred, for “can be bought and sold”, of 1 million guilders offered to a traitor willing to deliver our port in the hands of foreigners! This is a handing-over of the worst kind, of a dictatorial attitude never before seen on an island that always held its impeccable democracy in front of the eyes of the world for it to understand that in Aruba the empire of the Law is in command. We can no longer say that! Now our island has become, in the hands of Nel Oduber and his anti Aruban and anti-American government, an island of the abuse of power, of nepotism, of favors to the small group of privileged MEP fanatics, and political persecution against the rest of the population that do not subject themselves to his amens!

Dutch Arrive in Aruba

It is always interesting to watch as things become twisted across the internet to serve personal interests. There is nothing secretive about the source of the following information and it has been said several times that their purpose may have a dual intent.

"They came for both reasons! True, the Awe Mainta editor came with the news and we picked it up. We publish his paper (Awe Mainta) for him at the DIARIO presses."

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Ten Dutch experts will arrive in Aruba today (April 12,2007) to put the finishing touches on the Natalee Holloway case, before the Ministry of Justice of Aruba considers the case closed, or cold!
It is assumed that this will be the last effort to try to find out what happened to Natalee Holloway before declaring the case cold.

“In Aruba, when a case is considered "cold", it doesn't mean that it is permanently closed, but that it can be reopened if and when new evidence appears or is found. The Dutch team of 10 experts that is arriving today has conditioned their work so that they will only work with the police team in charge of combating drugs on the island, because they consider them the more reserved section of the police force.

The Ministry of Justice definitely wants to put an end to the investigation of the case. I think it's wrong, because there are so many declarations by the three main suspects that have to be investigated further, that you cannot close the case until that is properly ant thoroughly done. I fear that this is the last attempt by the Dutch and Aruban authorities to show that they are interested in the case to the degree they will make one last effort, and then close it.

Will keep you posted on their presence and work in Aruba.”

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Postscript:

Not to take away from the source of this news, because he does know much more than I as it pertains to the legal workings of Aruba and the Netherlands. But, some assumptions are being made and that leaves the possibility that things might go in a different direction. All we know for certain is that a group of ten (10) Dutch experts are on their way to Aruba to finalize their investigation into the Natalee Holloway case. Maybe, just maybe, they will be able to do more than just haze over this case and declare it cold.

Wishful thinking on my part, but wouldn’t it be extremely nice if the Holloway/Twitty families finally got a break in all of this?

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Update: I now have a few more details and an anticipated arrival time for the Dutch experts. There should be a better understanding of their intentions by tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned!

Update II: Nothing to report about the Dutch team of investigators coming out of Aruba at this time and nothing expected over the weekend. Some believe their purpose in Aruba is a mixed one and involves the recent issues of bribery and corruption on the island. More should be learned in the following days and weeks.

Jossy Mansur has been taking a lot of heat from a politically controlled radio station and newspaper in Aruba. The latest attack upon his character is due to an interview he gave to satellite radio host Dana Pretzer.

“I always stand behind everything I say, on the radio, on tv or in the paper. When I'm wrong, I apologize, but when I am right, like in this case, no apologies are necessary. But, it's a two-way street, because I am giving all of them the hell of a rough time in the DIARIO. They, contrary to me, cannot stand the heat, that's why they counter with a lot of inventions and just plain slander. Mike, I couldn't care less about all their attacks… Don't worry for me: I can handle myself pretty well in these kinds of situations. I've been at it for the past 33 years!”

For The Record:

Mike: Jossy, I received an email this morning asking me about something they thought they heard in a television interview. It has to do with you having Joran Van Der Sloot followed, before the Holloway incident. Do you have any memory of such a thing?

Jossy: That question is way off base since I never had Joran followed by anyone! I never mentioned anything of the sort in any interview. People many times give reign to their imaginations and come up with unbelievable theories and ideas that do not conform to the reality. My loyalties to Aruba are unquestionable, but my loyalty with the truth has priority over everything else. I do not have any agendas, hidden or public; I just do my job as Director of the DIARIO.

Mike: There has been misinformation floating around on the internet for a long time about your background. Would you mind giving us a brief biographical sketch?

Jossy: I was born in Aruba in 1934. My father came from Venezuela in the year 1901, together with my grandfather, who emigrated from Lebanon to Venezuela in or around 1894. The exact date has not been established. They came to Aruba hidden in a fruit boat, to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the political persecutions that were going on at that time. (I believe Cipriano Castro was then in power).

I was born in Aruba and attended school at St. Dominicus College, where I finished the sixth grade. I then went to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, when I was 14, to attend high school at St. Stanislaus, of the Sacred Heart Brothers, where I graduated in 1951. I then went on to Mobile Alabama, to attend college at Spring Hill College, of the Jesuit order. I graduated in 1954. I came back to Aruba and then traveled to Venezuela to find employment. I was hired by the Mobile Oil Company and stayed with them for 9 years as Safety Supervisor. I worked for the company in Barinas, Anaco and Puerto Cabello. In 1967 I came back to Aruba and remained here until now.

When in Venezuela I used to contribute many articles (of a literary nature) to El Universal, and published quite a lot of material (short stories, essays, etc.) in the best magazines of the country (Bohemia, Elite, etc.)

I started to write for a paper called Nobo, published in Curacao, then started my own section of a paper (EXTRA) with a friend from Curacao. Then I decided to start DIARIO more than 25 years ago, and was able to make it the largest (by far!) of the papers circulating in Aruba. Today it has over 89% of the market exclusively.

I started to publish books in Papiamento, English and Spanish, and have so far published 56 of them, including 4 dictionaries, 4 novels published in Cali, Colombia, the History of Aruba, and other fiction and non-fiction books. I am considered to be the most prolific writer in the history of the Netherlands Antilles, not only because of the quantities published, but also because of the quality.

That, my friend, is a brief summary of my schooling and literary activities.

Mike: Thank You Jossy!

Paradoxical Paradise

The Lois McMillan Story

January 2000, the battered body of a trust fund girl was found washed ashore a beach on the Island of Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The abrasions on her face rendered her almost unrecognizable, her hands were cut from apparent defensive wounds and her torso was badly bruised. An autopsy later revealed that her lungs were filled with sand, which was a strong indication that she was alive when she entered the water and drowned

The focus of the investigation quickly shifted toward four American men vacationing in Tortola. At least two of these men were acquaintances of Lois McMillan and all four of them had spent time with her earlier that week.

Evidence was collected from their residence and sent to a forensic lab in Barbados. Unbeknownst to the authorities in Tortola, portions of that evidence was then sent to Jamaica . It became a slow, arduous process to get the results from the testing of the physical evidence, while all along the four suspects sat in the only prison on the island.

An outcry began to simmer in the United States led by the parents and attorneys of those four very privileged individuals. The uproar reached a crescendo with the call for a boycott of Tortola.

Over four months after the four men were first arrested the scientific reports and physical evidence made its way back to Tortola. It was not conclusive and five key pieces of evidence were missing. The lead investigator on the island then decided it was time to call in the Scotland Yard.

The team of specialist from London began to examine the case file and came to the conclusion that the strongest piece of evidence that had been confiscated was a pair of blood spattered K-Swiss tennis shoes.

Does this start to sound familiar?

There is something eerily familiar about Lois McMillan’s story, or perhaps it is just a reminder of how tragic life can be when we trust the wrong people.

Tortola is a Caribbean island with little violent crime and little ability to properly investigate such and then preserve evidence. The island depends upon tourism, yet it doesn’t like the tourist. Oh, they are happy to take the tourist’s dollars, but the locals are equally happy to see them leave.

The difference in this story, as opposed to the Natalee Holloway case, is that Lois was a 34-year-old experienced woman that left a bar with friends. Men she had known for several years. However, she never made it to her destination and the surrounding area where her body lay lifeless revealed that she fought for her life. Then struggled to escape, leaving torn away jewelry in one location, a lone sandal in another and yards away her other sandal.

This same scene, minus the physical remains, has played out in my mind’s eye many times. The parallels are probably purely coincidental and reflective of a lifestyle, but the tragedy is also hauntingly real.

For further reading about this unsolved crime follow these links:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/05/24/48hours/main293104.shtml

http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0312984448

Jossy Mansur Responds!

“To answer the stupid allegations in that MEP inspired and promoted piece of garbage: ...”

"The MEP party is a party of delinquents and promotes delinquency (a Minister (Ramon Lee) who raped a woman, was accused by her to the Police, and was never even questioned! Another Minister (Rudy Croes)who brought in young girls from Santo Domingo and wanted to force them into prostitution with him and his friends; another Minister (Nilo Swaen) who was accused by his own department head of manipulating figures to make the government look good; another Minister (Rudy Croes again) whose departments sold permits to foreigners, and under whom driver's licenses were also being sold; another Minister (the Prime Minister Nelson Oduber) who is a habitual liar and will stop at nothing to carry out his Chavez-inclined plans for Aruba; members of Parliament of the MEP party who were caught by the police in drunken driving (Junior Arends) and hit and run (Robert Maduro); and so much more delinquency and violations of our laws it would take an encyclopedia to hold them! THESE ARE ALL PROVEN FACTS! not lies or inventions made up to slander them. They are a group of the most corrupt public figures ever to participate in Aruban politics. Just go over the Holloway case, and now the Michael Saladin case, and you immediately know the anti-American sentiments of those now in power in Aruba.

To answer the stupid allegations in that MEP inspired and promoted piece of garbage:

1. I never funded any party in Aruba, much less the one Glenbert Croes started because Nelson Oduber, the actual Prime Minister, forbade him to participate in the party his father (Betico) founded. He was so disgusted with that prohibition that he decided, with a few friends his age, to start his own party called the OLA. This is another FACT! When you make this kind of allegation, you better have the necessary proofs (documents, transfer of money, etc.) to back up your allegation. In this case it is non-existent! Just another lie propagated by the corrupt officials who have now been discovered in the biggest of their foul deeds!

Do you remember the Holloway case and the flagrant cover-up that is going on? Well, this party will stop at nothing to slander and invent things that do not exist, or to harm Americans or American interests on the island).

2. The manifestations in front of the Government building in the past were about to get seriously out of hand by the violence inspired by the MEP party fanatics (car burning, invasion and destruction of government property, etc.) that I did meet with one labor leader to put sense into his head. That is another FACT impossible to deny!

3. I never met and have nothing to do with the Namdar group. Ask the FBI to interrogate Richad Lacle, who will soon be serving a prison sentence in Florida, to find out who is behind this group that offered a big bribe to Nelson Odbuer's party and was never denounced to the police or the prosecutors in Aruba. My attention was brought to this case by the revelation of a letter containing a bribery of 1 million guilders to Nelson Oduber and his party. The man to whom the letter was addressed is Michael Williams, ex-campaigner for the MEP party, and who is now in Holland in contact with the Dutch authorities. Williams stated unequivocally that he gave the original to Marisol Tromp (another MEP Minister), to Frerdis Refunjol, actual Governor in Aruba, and to Nelson Oduber (Prime Minister) and Edison Briezen (Minister of Tourism). None of these ever denounced the offered bribery to the authorities! This case is far from having reached the end. It is now beginning on an international level. I wouldn't be surprised if in the U.S., Effy Namdar will be arrested and interrogated with regards to this offered bribe. It's his signature that appears in the bribery letter! U.S. Laws strictly forbid this kind of commercial outright purchase of local and foreign officials in Government, regardless of how easy it is to buy the officials now in power!

4. When the previous government (AVP) was way off track, it was I and the DIARIO who confronted it and brought its government down. Not the MEP party, because they didn't have the credibility to convince anyone that they could do better. They lied their way through the campaign and were able to win with the DIARIO's help. I do not cater to any party in government or to any government! That too is a proven FACT.

5. There is no set up in this case, only the TRUTH! And it came out with a signed letter by Effy Namdar with a one million guilder bribery offer to the MEP party for the purchase of 100 acres of prime land at the port. Can you imagine the corruption involved here? And whether Nel Oduber, the habitual liar and head of the most corrupt government ever in Aruba, likes it or not, the DIARIO will do whatever it takes to stop the sale of public property against the offered 1 million guilders in the form BRIBERY!"

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Ulterior Motives?

Frenzy of the Bottom-feeders

Recently some questionable documents were posted on a discussion forum that put prime suspect Joran Van Der Sloot in a bad light. Whereas the ramblings did not reveal anything alarming, those words did confirm many of the inconsistencies in his many stories about the night he lured Natalee Holloway away from a tourist trap on the island of Aruba. This would probably have been a non-issue, if it were not for the stir it caused across several message boards.

Questions poured in about the origin of the files, the person that posted them and the motives behind doing so, but little was said about the actual content. The owner of that board, a Dutch born Van Der Sloot sympathizer that benefits from all things American, was even queried about why he would allow the post to stand for as long as it did. The answers to those questions were nebulous at best and evasive on average.

What I found to be most interesting about the whole incident was the ensuing “damage control” that was lamely attempted by the board’s owner. A very amateurish campaign of propaganda was instigated by the usual reprobates and applauded by this so-called attorney from the land of windmills.

The script could have been written by Deepak Kalpoe. Every effort was made to cast a disparaging light upon the victim, the victim’s family, the United States and the state of Alabama. The archives of some rather notorious internet mental wards were scoured for old posts that would conjure an inappropriate picture of a missing (presumed dead) girl that tragically disappeared after a short trip to One Happy Island.

Thread after thread was started and old messages were cut and pasted one after another. These unfounded slanders came from some of the most twisted personalities lurking about the internet, hiding behind anonymity. These people hate for the sake of hatred and they scrape the bottom of the barrel when expressing their hatred for anything and everything to do with Natalee Holloway’s life.

One must ask just who orchestrated this ludicrous attempt to once again shift attention away from the primary suspects in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Junior claims to be in constant contact with the Van Der Sloots. So, was this another lesson on criminal law (Dutch style) given by Paulus Van Der Sloot, or was the Dutch notary left to his own devices to dream this hypocrisy up all by his little lonesome?

If the Van Der Sloots were not encased in a thick coat of Teflon, their associations with the likes of these people would have been enough to land them in jail.

The Rosie School of Moderation

WTH?

In the dark of night with only a forty watt bulb to light the way I find my keyboard covered with dust except for a few of my favorite letters. My thoughts have been inward and distracted from the everyday nuances of life. Then I hear a screeching sound coming from a distant television. The screech turns into a squawk. My head turns toward the glimmering light and through the shadows I see a CRAZY woman telling the rest of us how to think and react. The words sounded as bitter as the face looked. And, the tirade extenuated the complete, irrefutable ignorance openly displayed by the glare upon her face.

Nestled in a little corner of my brain a thought found safe harbor and began to grow. This imbecile is probably teaching small butt holes how to become BIG assholes and get no-paying jobs as forum moderators (no offense toward good moderators). A mental picture begins to develop.

In a bar off the beaten path sits a woman with a proclivity for faux leather, tattoos and stainless steel. She takes a book of matches from the oddly shaped bowl resting on the polished bake-o-lite bar. On the inside cover her eyes find the words “You To Can Moderate” followed by the number 1-big-ass-hole. Her eyes roll back in her head as she feels a moment of ecstasy. How can she resist?

She dials the number…

(This is satirical) lol