I
knew the man who posed for this statue: Dirk van
Nimwegen.
I knew the man who made the statue: Frits Sieger.
I knew some of the men who organized the strike: my father and grandfather.
I know the reasons for organizing the strike:
humanist savage indignation.
Most
people who are not Dutchmen do not know about the
February-strike of 1941, when especially the
population of Amsterdam and environs went on
strike against the fascist razzia's on their
Jewish neighbors.
Yet
this was the only time civilians in a country
occupied by fascism publicly protested against the
maltreatment of their neighbors.
Within
two days the strike was repressed. In July 1941 my
father and grandfather were arrested by the
Gestapo, and sentenced to the concentration-camp,
as "political terrorists".
My
grandfather perished there; my father survived
nearly 4 years of fascist concentration camp.
My
mother at the same time also was in the
anti-fascist resistance, and coordinated the
support of Jewish Dutchmen who were in hiding for
the fascists who were out to destroy them.
One
of those hiding in the environs coordinated by my
mother was the then about 10 year old Ed van
Thijn, the future Mayor of Amsterdam, and the
future Andreotti of the Amsterdam mafia.
As
for me: Since 1979 I have ME/CFS, which is
medically recognized in my case since 1986. Apart
from that, I am a philosopher and psychologist,
and have (brilliant) academic degrees in these
subjects.
This
disease ME/CFS , especially if you got it 10 or
more years ago, when its existence was not even
admitted, is a life-wrecker.
But I
stem from an extra-ordinary family, and while I
fell ill in the first year of my academic studies
I finally finished them.
This
in itself is quite a moral feat, in that I was
twice removed - while ill - from the University of
Amsterdam by its Board of Directors "because of
your outspoken opinions".
I
protested against the then current ruling
post-modernism in that university, where for 25
years students have been educated in the
post-modernist principles that "truth does not
exist" (ergo: neither is it true there was an
Auschwitz), "all morals are relative" (ergo: if 6
million people were gassed in Auschwitz, this
doesn't really matter, except relatively), and
"all people are equal" (ergo: you, dear reader,
are the equal of Eichmann and of Einstein).
Of
course, these Dutch post-modernists will deny this
when it is put thus, logically. When I did so 20
years ago these Dutch post-modernists called me "a
fascist because" .... "you believe in objective
science".
Today
the very same post-modernists are prominent
members in the Amsterdam leftist political parties
("Labour" and "Green Left"): they are the
self-proclaimed equals of the SS and the KGB, and
are capable of anything that requires hypocrisy
and lies to further their own interests or their
parties' interests; they are incapable of honesty,
courage, actively maintained moral principles or
rational thinking. (Probably it is genetic - a
sort of common totalitarian psychopathology
suitable to very average intellects of no native
human conscience. Even so such people are
precisely those that should not get power over
others.)
Then,
in 1989, while I was still ill and had just been
removed for the second time from the UvA (of
course in flat contradiction to my human and civil
rights), my then landlord farmed out the bottom
floor of the house where I lived to the Amsterdam
drugs mafia, in the form of a so-called
"coffee-shop".
The
Amsterdam drugs mafia is since 25 years
Amsterdam's richest, most powerful and most
dangerous institution, and have become so largely
thanks to Ed van Thijn, Mayor of Amsterdam from
the early 1980-ies till the middle 1990-ies.
His
policy to increase the income of his criminal
friends and himself was this:
It
was decided by Mayor and Aldermen of Amsterdam
that the selling of soft drugs will be "tolerated"
("gedoogd" in Dutch) by Mayor and Aldermen, while
remaining forbidden in law.
The
effects were predictable:
The
drugs mafia is de facto legalized in Amsterdam,
while their source of income, the extra-ordinary
high profits on drugs are de facto guaranteed by
their political friends' decision to keep drugs
illegal.
The
correct decision would have been to legalize
drugs, thus undercutting the one motive of the
drugs dealers: their enormous profits.
But
Mayor and Aldermen of Amsterdam, together with a
considerable group of top civil servants, decided
it was far more profitable for them to protect the
drugs mafia rather than undercut it's basis of
existence: the laws that make their trade illegal
and their profits enormous.
The
drugs Mafiosi my landlord gave the bottom floor
coffee shop to caused enormous amounts of noise
till deep in the night, and very credibly
threatened me with murder - literally: "we shall
kill you if you do anything we don't like".
I
went to the Amsterdam municipal police. They
refused to do anything.
Now,
10 years later, they have been shown to be
massively corrupted by the Amsterdam drugs mafia.
At the time they told me "If you don't like it in
Amsterdam, you can fuck off!"
They
didn't deny the existence of the coffee-shop nor
its being protected by mayor & aldermen of
Amsterdam nor that threatening people with murder
is forbidden by law. They simply refused and
refused and refused - some 150 times - to do
anything. When I grew insistent and pointed out
that I was an invalid with a minimum income they
told me "If you don't like it in Amsterdam, you
can fuck off!"
I
went to the Mayor and Aldermen of Amsterdam.
They refused to do anything.
Now,
10 years later, they have been shown to be
massively corrupted by the Amsterdam drugs mafia.
The
spokesperson ("publieksvoorlieger", in Dutch) of
the then mayor Van Thjn, one Noortje van Oostveen,
then also sharing his bed I have been credibly
told by persons who ought to know, let me know
when she heard about my family-background that
"you want to blackmail Van Thijn, and so we won't
do anything for you".
Over
the next three years I protested at least 250
times to prominent Amsterdam civil servants.
They refused to do anything.
Now,
10 years later, they have been shown to be
massively corrupted by the Amsterdam drugs mafia.
In
1996 and 1997 I filed a suit for damages with the
University of Amsterdam and the Mayor of
Amsterdam.
In
both cases, the leaders of these institutions -
which in Amsterdam always are members of the Dutch
Labour Party - refused to even answer my suit,
with the sick sadistic joke "we find your style of
expression insulting, so we shall not answer you".
These
persons apparently believe that they are above the
law and above the private initiative of
individuals.
The
first is true in real life in Amsterdam, the
second false, and there is a considerable number
of Amsterdam burocrats who must expect a call at
their home by myself or my representatives in the
future: I shall not be the victim of the
drugs-mafia "in the name of the ideals of the
February-strike" (for these quoted words are the
ever repeated justification of former mafia-mayor
Ed van Thijn) - as I have told them 10 years ago,
which my life was threatened by their
mafia-friends.
Since
1997 both the City of Amsterdam and the University
of Amsterdam, both led by prominent members of the
Dutch Labour Party, and friends of the Mafia Mayor
of Amsterdam Ed van Thijn, have known the contents
of the present site in so far as these are in "ME in
Amsterdam" (around 3 MB if all is uploaded).
So I
have set up this site, with the intention to cash
in my damages or punish the criminals whose
protection of the Amsterdam drugs mafia cost me
nearly my life and 10 years of continuous pain,
and sent my mother into "a caring-home", that in
the best Dutch tradition requested all her money
for some basic care.
The
reader should know I am risking my life:
In Amsterdam where drugs are
involved there is no law, no decency, and no
principle except the law of the jungle. (Thanks to Ed van Thijn, "in the
name of the ideals of the February-strike"!).
And
while it is true that the drugs dealers who
threatened to kill me have been arrested in 1991
with kilo's of cocaine and heroine, it is also
true they very probably were hardly punished and
are at present at large, and free to do as they
please, and will be protected by the Mayor and
Aldermen of Amsterdam, to whom it would be highly
convenient and pleasing if I were to be killed or
would disappear mysteriously.
Finally,
it is also true that the same coffee-shop of which
the previous owners threatened to kill me is still
flourishing, as is my former land-lord, now very
probably a drugs-millionaire (on a secret Swiss
bank-account).
And
it is also true that drs. Ed van Thijn is - still
- flourishing, and can be seen on Dutch TV daily,
where he speaks at length, in his own words, about
his own "responsibility" ("verantweurdelijkheid"),
his own "accountability" (aenspraekelijkheid), his
own "Jewish identity" and his own "integrity".
I
think he is a morally sick man and a political
psychopath, and I have a claim of damages of 6
million guilders on him personally, on his family,
and on the City of Amsterdam - where my
university-education was in Post-Modern leftist
fascism; where the Mayor & Aldermen work for
the drugs mafia; where the municipal housing
department is completely in the hands of the drugs
mafia; and where an invalid like me can for three
years be terrorized by drugs criminals while
mayor, aldermen and municipal police approve and
support that terror knowingly, and with sadistic
glee: "it is only one indivual and he is ill - so
we can do as we please with him".
Maarten Maartensz
Amsterdam, February 25 2000.
P.S. Almost simultaneously with the
appearance of "ME in Amsterdam" on my site
appeared a book by a local investigative
journalist called Jos Verlaan on the decline of
law and civilization in Amsterdam, who
investigated this topic for 8 years.
His book is called "Chaos
aan de Amstel" (the river Amstel is to
Amsterdam what the river Thames is to London) and
the publisher is SUN Uitgeverij.
It documents in over 200 pages in
hairraising detail that all-but-one of the
Amsterdam burocratic institutions is totally
corrupt and malfunctioning since many years ago
the corruption started at a great scale with the
mayorship of the drugs-criminal drs. Ed van Thijn
(who liked and liks to tell his minions and
electorate that "all human beings are of equal
value" - from Einstein and Mandela to Eichmann and
Van Thijn).
Hence Dutch readers can verify my claims
independently - and should also know that I have
repeatedly made my claims and handed over my
extensive documentary proofs to the Amsterdam
District Attorney Vrakking and the Netherlands
District Attorneys.
The former let me know in writing that he
did not see any reason to do any thing; the latter
probably maintain privately that I am a kind of
Untermensch: anwers there came none.
In the Dutch papers the last month the
latest drugs scandal - there is a new one every
month or so: few Dutchmen care, for no one has any
hold on the officials in charge, and hardly any
Dutchman is willing to risk his life for a matter
of legal or moral principle - was that the
district attorneys and police undercover agents in
fact worked for the drugs mafia and are
multi-millionaires on Swiss banks.
