thommie77

I wonder if any Dutch members could keep their eyes on the press over the near term. Mr Kuijt is bound to publish 'My life in hel_l ......etc ", so I would imagine Dutch investigative journalists will be on the case to check out his story. I hope he fades into obscurity, however, if the Thais were right, he may turn his hand to other things. Time will tell, it should be interesting.

Your in luck, his book was released the day after he arrived in the Netherlands.

Please bear with me and forgive my horrible english. No just kidding I ran it through an online dutch-english translator. The guy is a convicted felon. Commiting multiple robberies, fraude, abuse, drug related activities and even participating in a criminal organisation. What a coincidence. Also you (we) here only the dutch side of the story. Wait example. Its happening in the case of natalee holloway too. Dr. Phil is abusing his power to influence people into believing that its the dutch governments fault on how things goes. Hes twisting things, telling half truths and the people buy it.

Same same goes for our media. What do we hear? Machiel Kuyt is innocent, he didnt have coke, thailand is corrupt, its thailands fault. Do we hear hes a convicted fellon? Do we hear interviews with the thai people working on the case?

The article you quoted of the Dutch crime-fighter Peter R. de Vries is an old article and was discussed just 1 hour ago in a Dutch TV-program about the case of Machiel Kuijt.

The content of that article appear to be NOT TRUE and as a matter of fact the Dutch lawyer of Machiel Kuijt (a top-lawyer) explained that last year, BECAUSE of that particular article by De Vries, the family asked and RECEIVED an OFFICIAL declaration of the Dutch Government (Foreign and Justice department) by means of the Amsterdam Mayor Mr. Cohen, that Machiel Kuijt does NOT HAVE or HAD A CRIMINAL RECORD in The Netherlands AND THEREFORE IS NOT A 'CONVICTED FELON' as you describe it.

Please do not write things you have not researched and which are completely false.

Apart from that the content of said article has NOTHING, but NOTHING to do with the case in Thailand.

LaoPo

If you read the article by De Vries he does not say that Kuijt is a 'convicted felon' or that he had a criminal record. What he does say is that Kuijt is a known person by the police for numerous things since 1984(records before that were probably not kept because he was a minor), but never mentions being convicted. (maybe, just like in Thailand, he always had somebody else to take the fall or have them carry the drugs?)

What his article tried to point out is that he was and is a man of dubious character. The press, his family&lawyer etc. at the time were portraying him as a kind of saint who had never ever done anything wrong or harmed anybody and therefore IS innocent, Thailand was a terrible country for convicting him etc etc.

As he says in his article this does not mean Kuijt is guilty in Thailand, but people should be aware of his dubious past instead of some poor guy who was just over there who was wrongly convicted. His past and his ex-gf with drugs will make most people think a liitle different to the case, and that is exactly what his family and lawyer did not want anybody to do and made him out to be a saint who was just over there visiting his children.

As to the question if he's guilty or not? Only he can tell for sure....as for the rest of us....don't get involved with drugs or people who deal drugs in Thailand

I have heard many Americans condenm the Thais for attacking their government, that is how I have heard some people say it. I can't help but think that the day an American is afraid or reproachful of "attacking" governments is the day we know the Republic is dying.

Kayo, you wonder would would happen if a coup happened in America, so do I and I know it won;t happen, Americans are not the people of fire we once were, we are now sheep and people too stuffed with the fat of the land to know what is good for us. We let our beveolent government think for us.

"What does the billbroad say? Come and play, come and play, forget about the movement." RAGE.

What would happen if a coup happened in America?? The last militay coup d'etat in the US was in '63 wasn't it? Imagine today - you get Bush and up steps Cheney to (even more) power......that would take the 'fire' out of most people....so they just stick with the lesser of the 2 evils

After a two year long study, the National Science Foundation

Announced the following results on corporate America's

Recreation preferences.

1. The sport of choice for unemployed or incarcerated people is:

Basketball.

2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is: Bowling.

3. The sport of choice for front line workers is: Football.

4. The sport of choice for supervisors is: Baseball.

5. The sport of choice for middle management is: Tennis.

6. The sport of choice for corporate officers is: Golf.

Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure,

The smaller your balls become.

Thank god that Cheney's a terrible shot.....

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PROPOSAL FOR A MORE USER-FRIENDLY ENGLISH

Recently I became aware of a proposal to the Council of Ministers of the European Union for the phased introduction of a Pan-European standard for a more user-friendly communication:

‘Having chosen English as the preferred language in the European Union, the European Parliament has commissioned a feasibility study into ways of improving efficiency in communications between Government Departments.

European officials have often pointed out that English spelling is unnecessarily difficult. For example: cough, plough, rough, through en thorough. What is clearly needed is a phased programme of changes to iron out these anomalies. The programme would, of course, be administered by a committee staffed at top level by all participating nations.

In the first year, the committee would suggest using ‘s’ instead of the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, sivil servants in all sities would reseive this news with joy. Then the hard ‘c’ kould be replaced by a ‘k’, sinse both letters are pronounced alike. Not only would this klear up konfusion in the minds of klerikal workers, but keyboards kould be made with fewer letters.

There would be growing enthousiasm when in the second year it was announced that the troublesome ‘ph’ would hensforth be written with ‘f’. This would make words like ‘fotograf’ twenty persent shorter in print.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kould be ekspekted to reash the stage where more komplikated shanges are possible. Governments would enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always been a deterent to akurate speling.

We would al agre that the horible mes of silent ‘e’s in the languag is disgrasful. Therefor, we kould drop thes and kontinu to read and writ as though nothing had hapend. By this tim it would be four years sins the skem began and peopl would be reseptiv to steps sutsh as replasing ‘th’ by ‘z’. Perhaps zen ze funktion of ‘w’ kould be taken on by ze ‘v’, vitsh is, afteral, half a ‘w’.

Shortly after zis, ze unesesary ‘o’ kuld be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’. Similar arguments vud ofkors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

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Q: What's the difference between George Bush and a bucket of shit?

A: The bucket.

A Scotsman goes to the dentist and asks how much it is for an extraction.

85 pounds for an extraction sir" was the dentists reply.

Och! huv ye nay got unythin cheaper", replies the Scotsman getting agitated.

But that's the normal charge for an extraction sir", said the dentist.

What aboot if ye didnae use uny anaesthetic?", asked the Scotsman hopefully.

Well it's highly unusual sir, but if that's what you want, I suppose I can do it for 70 pounds, said the dentist.

Hmmmm, what aboot if ye used one of ye dentist trainees and still wi' oot anaesthetic", said the Scotsman.

Well it's possible but they are only training and I can't guarantee their level of professionalism, and it'll be a lot more painful, but I suppose in that case we can bring the price down to say 40", said the dentist.

Och that's still a bit much, how aboot if ye make it a training session and have yon student do the extraction and the other students watchin and learnin", said the Scotsman hopefully.

Hmmmmm, well OK, it'll be good for the students I suppose, I'll charge you only 5 pounds in that case", said the dentist.

"Wonderful, it's a deal" said the Scotsman ... "Can ye book me wife for next Tuesday?