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.
