Posted on 12/29/2010 7:13:59 AM PST by La Lydia
In her Christmas speech, Queen Beatrix told people to show solidarity with others in society. She said we should try to find a good balance between ‘us’ and ‘them’. Fear and suspicion could be vanquished if people adopted a social perspective....These high-minded thoughts were nullified immediately afterward by the news that 12 Somali suspects of plotting a terror attack had been arrested in Rotterdam and Gilze-Rijen. Apparently, they were planning to shoot down an Apache attack helicopter at Gilze-Rijen airforce base, home to 85 of such aircraft.
In the mean time all but one of the suspects have been released. The expectations are that all will be free (NL) in the immediate future for lack of (admissible) evidence.
But there is something fishy about the group of suspects. This we learn from Somali news site Suna Times, which tells us one of the suspects is Mohamed Kahiye Garmashaqo, the father of Farhan Mohamed Kahiye, the commander of Al-Shabaab, a group of Somali jihasts, recently in the news for demanding from US president Obama 'to embrace Islam before we come to his country' and carry out terrorist attacks on US soil.
And the connections to Al-Shabaab don't end there. Two of the other 11 people being interrogated by the police were confirmed to have been members of Alshabaab who were planning the attacks in Netherlands.
The father of the Alshabaab commander runs a shop in Rotterdam along with an illegal money remittence company called Olympic Money transfer as well call shops. Somali community in Netherlands told Sunatimes that at least Mohamed Kahiye used to send more than $200,000 in disguise family bills by the community as the money directly falling into the hands of Alshabaab in Somalia...
Sources close to the Royal House have stated that the Queen was quite sour (NL) about the news of the Somali plot in Holland coming out immediately after her Christmas speech. She felt her message to indigenous Dutch to show even more understanding and tolerance towards immigrants was completely wiped off the table...
The Queen feels she has made a fool of herself. And she would be right. For years now the Dutch have given all but the shirt of their back to accommodate immigrants. And most immigrants give their best in return, it has to be said. But there is a certain group of immigrants, of a certain faith, who persist in rewarding the opportunities given them with ingratitude, contempt and outright hostility. How much tolerance and understanding do we grant those that would take that and use it to plot against the very people showing that tolerance and understanding? One would hope the Queen is not too proud to draw some wisdom from this little episode.
This is why it’s better to be a citizen than a subject.
I have no idea what you mean. Our government says equally stupid things like this every day. It has nothing to do with the form of government, but their way of thinking: forcing us to eat poop and telling us it is ice cream. (And she is a Constitutional monarch.)
Hopefully there is something still left in the West that will rise up and remind people how we came to rule the world.
But with the panty waists we have leading us now, it’s hard to imagine.
The people are however still subjects, the genius (?) of the oarliamentary system.
Here in theory we are citizens but have allowed our rights to be abrogated.
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