Belgian Democracy in Action

Israel National News ^ | 12/28/01 | Liron Meister

[veronica]

FYI.

[veronica]

Ping.

[Catspaw]

Why does Belguim, in its arrogance, think it has jurisdiction over this matter? And Arafat's, bin Laden's, Saddam's--and Belguim's own genocidial crimes--are not even considered?

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

V, THE reason for the woeds "Ex Post Facto" in relation to lawmaking in the U.S. of A. Constitution. After ANY action is taken, laws can be made to prosecute that action without those easy to understand words. And, only government makes laws. The "enemies" of government can be easily eliminated with Ex Post Facto laws. This is evil incarnate. Peace and love, George.

[Justin Raimondo]

Amen! (...from the Corner)

[onyx]

Belgium is a sh!tty little country.

[Zeroisanumber]

Using the standards outlined here I'm suprised that they haven't tried to indict Kissinger.

[dr_who]

Sharon ought to pay them a visit just to see the Belgian waffle.

[knighthawk]

As a Dutchman I am glad Belgium does exists, for otherwise the Netherlands would have been the banana-republic of Europe!

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

Weren't Belgium and the Netherlands great world powers?

[onyx]

As a Dutchman I am glad Belgium does exists, for otherwise the Netherlands would have been the banana-republic of Europe!

LOL! There you go. The one and only upside for Belgium's existence. On to France!

[Jumper]

I'll second that notion from the nation of The Netherlands! Belguim is definitely the poster child for social-welfare gone bad to worse. Highways are so bad you can't talk or listen to the radio, even in a brand new Mercedes-Benz:)!

[Vince Ferrer]

Wasn't it also Belgium that either convicted or threatened to arrest the Pope when he visited a few years ago?

[vrwc54]

Belgium has some skeletons in its closet:

Cover-up claim on child-sex trial delay

By TOBY HELM
BRUSSELS
Saturday 18 August 2001

Five years after the bodies of four murdered Belgian girls were discovered at houses owned by paedophile Marc Dutroux, the father of one of them has accused the police and justice system of a cover-up ensuring that his trial has still not begun.

The claims by Paul Marchal, father of An Marchal, 17 when she disappeared in 1995, echo what many Belgians believe: that Dutroux and his paedophile ring had connections with high-ranking members of the Belgian establishment.

In a country that is becoming inured to corruption in public life, the theory of a cover-up is now increasingly accepted as the real reason why the Dutroux case has yet to come to court.

Mr Marchal, a teacher in a primary school for handicapped children, said that five years after his daughter's body was found, it was difficult to comprehend that the Dutroux trial was still nowhere near beginning.

He strongly suspected that the authorities were blocking progress to protect unknown people in authority who had things to hide.

Mr Marchal said Judge Jacques Langlois, the investigating magistrate, had given Dutroux the time and opportunity to study his case files and repeatedly alter his story, while he (Mr Marchal) had been denied similar treatment.

Five years ago, Belgium entered a national mourning after the bodies of two eight-year-old girls, Melissa Russo and Julie Lejeune, were found buried at one of Dutroux's homes in southern Belgium.

They had been kidnapped the previous summer.

The terrible details of the girls' suffering spilt out day by day. They had been kept in a cage where they were abused and starved to death while Dutroux did a short stint in prison for theft.

Diggers later unearthed two more bodies at another of his houses in a grim suburb of Charleroi, those of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, 19. Dutroux later admitted abducting them. As the country came to terms with the horrifying images, shock turned to anger as the failings of the police and courts became known.

It was recently learnt that forensic tests on 6000 hairs found in the cage began only this year.

[hsszionist]

All this has the smell of rotten waffles, the action of the Belgian court to even consider this reeks of mercinary justice, the pay off Islamic oil. Hipocracy is to mild a accusation, Kangaroo court seems to better fit this Belgian travesty.

[BillaryBeGone]

Ah! But you forget: The "enlightened" folks of Belgium know EVER so much more than us poor colonists about how to run a civilized peoples!

[Jack Black]

This is a very deep story. There were a bunch of articles about it on FR a year or so ago. There was a huge ring of child molesters in Belgium and this creep has avoided a trial for five years because he can name names. Anyone have the links on it? They kidnapped girls and kept them in bondage for years, sometimes forcing them to have children for them. Really incredible and sick stuff.

[vrwc54]

I once read that there were rumors that the King was involved in some way. cachelot might know the story.