AAN HET LAND VAN TULPEN

It goes from Aruba to Holland, back to Aruba, back to Holland, and back to Aruba.

The final stages of the one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups is almost complete. Thank God the Dutch never tried to over-throw the Queen. The conspirators would be discovered in less than 24 hours not by the Dutch themselves, who wouldn't recognize a conspiracy unless it was sitting under a stack of unmarked Guilders, but by the FINGER POLICE.

The Natalee Holloway case is SOLVED. It's not a secret what happened to Natalee. In fact it's not a secret who did what afterward. The only people still undecided are the Dutch Investigators, Joran Van Der Sloot, and a dwindling handful of internet trolls.

Joran Van Der Sloot has revealed he is still not ready to tell the truth. So, we will have to wait until that 'someday' arrives.

You would think an innocent man, as Joran Van Der Sloot claims to be, would volunteer to sit down and CLEAR HIS NAME before the two year limit arrives on 6-9-2007. His name is anything but clear.

The Dutch investigators are not investigating anything at all. They are tying up the remaining loose ends on the Natalee Holloway case. If they were serious about getting results, they would have re-interviewed Joran Van Der Sloot at least once over the 18 months seeing as how he has been residing in Arnheim Holland. He is relatively easy to find.

The Dutch Investigators could argue that interviewing Joran Van Der Sloot is not worth the effort. He is the World's Worst Liar, and what would be accomplished by interviewing him? He is an adult now. Interviewing him without his father sitting there holding his hand might actually get somewhere and he may have forgotten some of his initial lies and he may be caught in a flurry of lies that he is not smart enough to spin. That is all predicated on the fact that the Dutch would actually ask the correct follow up questions this time. He might also decide it's time to come clean and tell what happened and the roles played by others. We will not ever know the answer to that one because the Dutch Investigators have not and do not intend to interview the last person seen with Natalee Holloway. Nothing is assured here.

How could they ever get a conviction in the muscularly challenged Dutch Judicial System?

A conviction in this case would come from cell phone, internet and text message traffic. It would also come from video footage of the Excelsior Casino and Holiday Inn, wiretaps, from Paulus Van Der Sloot's banking records, and from the statements of those witnesses and NOT suspects. It should be a slam dunk, and it should have been a slam dunk a year and a half ago. It's really not that complicated, unless you ignore everything that has been discovered (accidentally released) to date.

Will there ever be a trial? In all likelihood, no. The reason is simple. Joran Van Der Sloot might actually get convicted. I know that sounds crazy, but in the Dutch Judicial System anything is possible. He could get convicted by accident. However, in the closed door Dutch Judicial System that operates in the cloak of darkness, it would be hard to imagine. Declarations and summary evidence would be thrown out and no one would ever be the wiser.

Few Judicial Systems in the twenty-first century operate in a closed door fashion. Only Totalitarian Systems still screw VICTIMS. That is what we are really dealing with here. A Society that portends to be open and elects officials, but in reality is still a Monarchy. This is the clash of cultures you often wonder about. There are many that miss communism in the old USSR. And there are many that miss the good old days of nepotism, cronyism, and outright corruption in Holland. Monarchies are legalized corruption.

You can be assured that the Dutch have a new respect for the Americans. They now realize we are not easily fooled. They thought this was going to be over in 3 weeks, they learned the hard way that things have changed. They never ever imagined we would kick the snot out of their System, their cronies, their repulsive way of life, their outright lying, and their outright protection of a murdering, raping psychopath and his father.

Will Joran ever go to jail? Yes, he will. There will be another VICTIM down the road. A VICTIM that never needed to become a VICTIM. If the Dutch would have done the right thing in this case, there would not have been a 'future VICTIM' for at least 15 years.

And we'll all be back to do it all again.

Lastly, remember when the Dutch sent their Investigators to Aruba in months past? Remember they never interviewed any of the suspects or witnesses. What makes anyone think at this late date they all of a sudden decided to do the right thing?