Ayaan Hirsi Ali timeline: the Machiavellian assassination of an MP

Secretary Rita Verdonk has legalized many, many illegal aliens out of the 26,000 that the left in the Netherlands has claimed were prosecuted unduly.

Now, Rita Verdonk has ruled that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is probably no longer Dutch.

I have earlier shocked at least one reader of this blog (hi, BB) by admitting I am not a huge fan of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This has nothing to do with her points of view. I agree with quite a few of them. It's how she seems to overly rely on awakening male protective instincts to make her points. Politicians should try to convince their voters by using arguments, not by appealing to emotions. It may be a personal flaw, but whenever I feel someone tries to push my buttons, I find myself responding by immediately jumping in the opposite direction. (This didn't keep me from voting for AHA during the last parliamentary elections, by the way.)

That being said, the whole affair smells worse than badger juice mixed with garlic.

Just look at the following date line:

• May 11, 2006. Zembla, a tv news show by left wing PBS organization VARA, regurgitates mainly old facts about the lies Ayaan Hirsi Ali told back in 1992 when she was applying for asylum status in the Netherlands. Conservative pundit Leon de Winter has rightly remarked most of the information wasn't new, and nobody made a fuss about it when she confessed to her lies herself, 4 years ago.
• May 12, 2006. After initially having stated Ayaan Hirsi Ali had no need to worry, secretary Rita Verdonk now responds to criticism of being too lenient by announcing an investigation into AHA's legal status. Verdonk, incidentally, is running for the leadership position of the free-market and right-wing VVD party, on a platform of stringent adherence to immigration rules.
• May 13, 2006 and May 14, 2006. Deafening silence over the weekend. Rumors abound about AHA's probable departure to the USA.
•. May 15, 2006, 11 AM. AHA's friend, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes, also a VVD member, tells journalists she didn't know about AHA's lies, thus distancing herself from AHA..
•. May 15, 2006, 2 PM. Left-wing newspaper 'de Volkskrant' reports AHA will start to work for the American Enterprise Institute.
•, May 15, 2006, 8 PM. Several surveys show that about four-fifths of the Dutch will be glad to be rid of AHA. Hans Wiegel, who is to the right-wing VVD what Eisenhower would be to the Republicans were he still alive, only far less competent, is among them.
•, May 15 2006, 10 PM. Secretary Rita Verdonk announces AHA may not have the Dutch nationality after all.

My take? The VVD party knew AHA had to be sacrificed to fend off a left-wing takeover of the country during the 2007 elections. Rita Verdonk added insult to injury because it increases her own chances of winning the party leadership, and the VVD honchos stand by idly because they know the hugely popular Verdonk may be the only thing standing between Labour Party leader Wouter Bos and four years of social-democratic misery.

God, I hate politics.

22:47

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I apologize for being so selfish that at those rare occassions when I have time to fill my blog, I sometimes choose to write about personal affairs, so I can keep in touch with people I don't get to see very often. I hope Saint Peter will have mercy on me when I stand at the pearly gates some day. Perhaps the six Canada and America-based journalists whom I helped pro bono with their stories about Van Gogh and Islam in the Netherlands in the past few years, none of whom ever sent a thank you note, will speak up for me then, though it may be a good thing that being dead I'll be way past holding my breath.

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Finally, I am afraid I am too morally corrupt to be able to adequately respond to charges of anti-Americanism or spiritual retardation. After all, I only drove to an American war cemetery once last year, which still left me three days off I could have used less selfishly. I humly bow to your profound assessment of my mental valor, and can only hope to one day rise to a greatness of the kind that you, my dear unsatisfied reader, have already achieved.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go vomit.

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