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'''Jan Peter Balkenende''' was the Dutch Prime-Minister from 2002 to 2010. During this time the Netherlands joined the [[Invasion of Afghanistan|Invasion of Afghanistan]], the [[War in Iraq|War in Iraq]], (at that time Prince) [[Willem-Alexander Ferdinand|Willem-Alexander Ferdinand]], [[Queen Beatrix Armgard|Queen Beatrix Armgard]] and [[Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti|Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti]] survived a terror attack resulting in 9 deaths<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHy4PcIRGk</ref>. During his first presidential run, he was actually trailing in the polls, but won after the expected winner [[Pim Fortuyn|Pim Fortuyn]] got assassinated.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/06/3</ref> He is also known by the public for the fact that all his coalition governments didn't complete their terms.<ref>https://nos.nl/artikel/138250-waarom-haalden-kabinetten-balkenende-het-niet.html</ref>
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'''Jan Peter Balkenende''' was the [[Dutch Prime-Minister|Dutch Prime-Minister]] from 2002 to 2010. During this time the Netherlands joined the [[Invasion of Afghanistan|Invasion of Afghanistan]], the [[War in Iraq|War in Iraq]], (at that time Prince) [[Willem-Alexander Ferdinand|Willem-Alexander Ferdinand]], [[Queen Beatrix Armgard|Queen Beatrix Armgard]] and [[Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti|Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti]] survived a terror attack resulting in 9 deaths<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHy4PcIRGk</ref>. During his first presidential run, he was actually trailing in the polls, but won after the expected winner [[Pim Fortuyn|Pim Fortuyn]] got assassinated.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/06/3</ref> He is also known by the public for the fact that all his coalition governments didn't complete their terms.<ref>https://nos.nl/artikel/138250-waarom-haalden-kabinetten-balkenende-het-niet.html</ref>
  
  
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The CDA-party was a standard part of the Dutch coalition governments from [[World War 1|World War 1]] up until [[1982|1982]].  
 
The CDA-party was a standard part of the Dutch coalition governments from [[World War 1|World War 1]] up until [[1982|1982]].  
 
[[Neocons|Neocons]] and social democrats formed an alliance during 8 years with [[Wim Kok|Wim Kok]] that last until [[2002|2002]] when the Dutch cabinet fell following public outrage on multiple massacres in the invasion of [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] where the [[Dutch army|Dutch army]] failed to intervene or stood down on undisclosed orders.<ref>https://www.parlement.com/id/vh8lnhrp8wsg/kabinetscrisis_2002_srebrenica</ref> During this time the Dutch [[Labour Party|Labour Party]] became increasingly unpopular following several surges of multinationals and privatizations, civil unrest in the inner city targeting [[Muslims|Muslims]] - with which [[9/11|9/11]] didn't help, the internet-bubble and the Dutch becoming the leading Dutch supplier of several soft and hard drugs in Europe.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226227912_Dutch_cocaine_trade_The_perspective_of_Rotterdam_cocaine_retail_dealers</ref> In the last week of march of [[2002
 
[[Neocons|Neocons]] and social democrats formed an alliance during 8 years with [[Wim Kok|Wim Kok]] that last until [[2002|2002]] when the Dutch cabinet fell following public outrage on multiple massacres in the invasion of [[Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] where the [[Dutch army|Dutch army]] failed to intervene or stood down on undisclosed orders.<ref>https://www.parlement.com/id/vh8lnhrp8wsg/kabinetscrisis_2002_srebrenica</ref> During this time the Dutch [[Labour Party|Labour Party]] became increasingly unpopular following several surges of multinationals and privatizations, civil unrest in the inner city targeting [[Muslims|Muslims]] - with which [[9/11|9/11]] didn't help, the internet-bubble and the Dutch becoming the leading Dutch supplier of several soft and hard drugs in Europe.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226227912_Dutch_cocaine_trade_The_perspective_of_Rotterdam_cocaine_retail_dealers</ref> In the last week of march of [[2002
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|]] a new right-wing politician by the name of Pim Fortuyn had completely taken over the polls and was set to win the election. Balkenende was keen to form a coalition but Fortuyn - especially for that time - became increasingly more radical, seemingly promoting the idea of ''removing'' the first amendment of the Dutch constitution prohibiting discrimination, calling the [[Islam|Islam]] a backwards culture, remarking the country was "full".<ref>https://archief.ntr.nl/nova/page/detail/nieus/2604/Pim%20Fortuyn_%20land%20is%20vol%2C%20grenzen%20dicht.html</ref>
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|]] a new right-wing politician by the name of [[Pim Fortuyn|Pim Fortuyn]] had completely taken over the polls and was set to win the election. Balkenende was keen to form a coalition but Fortuyn - especially for that time - became increasingly more radical, seemingly promoting the idea of ''removing'' the first amendment of the Dutch constitution prohibiting discrimination, calling the [[Islam|Islam]] a backwards culture, remarking the country was "full".<ref>https://archief.ntr.nl/nova/page/detail/nieus/2604/Pim%20Fortuyn_%20land%20is%20vol%2C%20grenzen%20dicht.html</ref>
  
  
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===War on terror and drugs===
 
===War on terror and drugs===
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During the 90s the Dutch controversial drug policy became problematic when many countries [[European|European]] countries raised their sentences as [[drug smuggling|drug smuggling]] became a problematic occurrence<ref>https://veldwerkamsterdam.nl/?page_id=484</ref>. [[Amsterdam|Amsterdam]] - already known as a place where paedophiles got tour-guided and hundres of boys were picked up in local bars in ''and outside'' the red light district<ref>https://www.ad.nl/home/de-hele-pedoprostitutie-werd-in-die-tijd-gewoon-gedoogd~ab679de1/</ref> - had multiple hot spots in the inner city centre where tourists got violently mugged by heroin<ref>https://www.anderetijden.nl/aflevering/44/De-Heroine-epidemie</ref> and XTC-addicts the minute they entered the street<ref>https://www.napnieuws.nl/2011/02/15/high-amsterdam-drugsstad-van-nederland/</ref>. The Dutch drug-policy had a complex system where the limited sale of cannabis was allowed to adults, hard [[drugs|drugs]] were banned and possession was met with high sentences, but the dealing, trading, residential growing of cannabis was forbidden during all these decades, utilizing a 'don't know, don't tell policy' regarding coffeeshops as selling cannabis was in fact, ''never''legalized.<ref>https://dutchreview.com/latest/90s-gedoogbeleid/</ref> The Dutch seemingly were ones of the first to start governmental massive operations on behalf of a [[war on drugs|war on drugs]]  
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During the 90s the Dutch controversial drug policy became problematic when many countries [[European|European]] countries raised their sentences as [[drug smuggling|drug smuggling]] became a problematic occurrence<ref>https://veldwerkamsterdam.nl/?page_id=484</ref>. [[Amsterdam|Amsterdam]] - already known as a place where paedophiles got tour-guided and hundreds of boys were picked up in local bars in ''and outside'' the red light district<ref>https://www.ad.nl/home/de-hele-pedoprostitutie-werd-in-die-tijd-gewoon-gedoogd~ab679de1/</ref> - had multiple hot spots in the inner city centre where tourists got violently mugged by heroin<ref>https://www.anderetijden.nl/aflevering/44/De-Heroine-epidemie</ref> and XTC-addicts the minute they entered the street<ref>https://www.napnieuws.nl/2011/02/15/high-amsterdam-drugsstad-van-nederland/</ref>. The Dutch drug-policy had a complex system where the limited sale of cannabis was allowed to adults, hard [[drugs|drugs]] were banned and possession was met with high sentences, but the dealing, trading, residential growing of cannabis was forbidden during all these decades, utilizing a 'don't know, don't tell policy' regarding coffeeshops as selling cannabis was in fact, ''never''legalized.<ref>https://dutchreview.com/latest/90s-gedoogbeleid/</ref> The Dutch seemingly were ones of the first to start governmental massive operations on behalf of a [[war on drugs|war on drugs]]  
  
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Balkenende was met with strong public opposition as Amsterdam was experiencing a new golden age of drug-tourism, but with support from prominent figures as [[Dries van Agt|Dries van Agt]] and [[Els Borst|Els Borst]]<ref>https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/balkenende-opgeroepen-tot-actie-cannabisbeleid~b1935c52/</ref> he tried to gain support for ''closing'' coffeeshops and the sale of [[cannabis|cannabis]] all together, citing the up to 10.000<ref>https://www.politiekemonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvioaf0kku7zz/vifvfbpkakyr</ref> addicts with up to 1400 being children the Amsterdam Dutch health Service gave. He held this viewpoint until the end of his final presidency. His efforts slowly turned the Dutch in a country where the border-regions and big cities called for invasive laws and operations to reduce or kill the drug policy. Since 2002 the Dutch PM has always been from a party that doesn't support the Dutch drug policy.<ref>https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/het-kabinet-verklaart-drugscriminelen-de-oorlog~b7d78074/</ref>
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Balkenende was met with strong public opposition as Amsterdam was experiencing a new golden age of drug-tourism, but with support from prominent figures as [[Dries van Agt|Dries van Agt]] and [[Els Borst|Els Borst]]<ref>https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/balkenende-opgeroepen-tot-actie-cannabisbeleid~b1935c52/</ref> he tried to gain support for ''closing'' coffeeshops and the sale of [[cannabis|cannabis]] all together, citing up to 10.000<ref>https://www.politiekemonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvioaf0kku7zz/vifvfbpkakyr</ref> addicts with up to 1400 being children the Amsterdam Dutch health Service gave. He held this viewpoint until the end of his final presidency. His efforts slowly turned the Dutch in a country where the border-regions and big cities called for invasive laws and operations to reduce or kill the drug policy. Since 2002 the Dutch PM has always been from a party that doesn't support the Dutch drug policy.<ref>https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/het-kabinet-verklaart-drugscriminelen-de-oorlog~b7d78074/</ref>
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He oversaw the Dutch involvement in the 2001 [[invasion of Afghanistan|invasion of Afghanistan]] in 2003 and the [[Iraq War|Iraq War]] and the starting [[war on terror|war on terror]]. First only giving civilian aid, but soon given responsibly of whole provinces of the invasion.<ref>https://www.korpscommandotroepen.nl/missies/afghanistan/isaf-task-force-uruzgan/</ref>
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He oversaw the Dutch involvement in the 2001 [[invasion of Afghanistan|invasion of Afghanistan]] in 2003 and the [[Iraq War|Iraq War]] and the starting [[war on terror|war on terror]]. First only sending small forces - like in Iraq from 2003 to 2005 -  but soon given responsibly of whole provinces of the invasion.<ref>https://www.korpscommandotroepen.nl/missies/afghanistan/isaf-task-force-uruzgan/</ref>
  
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Balkenende second government fell in [[2006|2006]] over the legal status of a Somali-Dutch Member of the House of representatives, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (the current wife of [[Niall Ferguson|Niall Ferguson]]). Ali lied about her name and Dutch immigration law had multiple loopholes the Minister of Immigration [[Rita Verdonk|Rita Verdonk]] couldn't explain, an investigation and the Dutch Supreme Court concluded Ali was never a Dutch citizen to begin with. Ali was a prolific figure - being the first Muslim MP to switch from Labour to the Neo-liberal VVD - becoming one of the first female Islam critics along with Fortuyn and [[Theo van Gogh|] (both were assassinated, the latter by a member of an Dutch Terrorist group who suspected were aided by the [[AIVD|AIVD]]) and [[Geert Wilders|Geert Wilders]] (who has an permanent security detail now living under ''de facto'' permanent house-arrest). Rita Verdonk seems to have been eliminated as this incident destroyed her - outspoken - political career.
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==Protection==
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Balkenende second government fell in [[2006|2006]] over the legal status of a Somali-Dutch Member of the House of representatives, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (the current wife of [[Niall Ferguson|Niall Ferguson]]). Ali lied about her name and Dutch immigration law had multiple loopholes the Minister of Immigration [[Rita Verdonk|Rita Verdonk]] couldn't explain, an investigation and the Dutch Supreme Court concluded Ali was never a Dutch citizen to begin with. Ali was a prolific figure - being the first Muslim MP to switch from Labour to the Neo-liberal VVD - becoming one of the first female Islam critics along with Fortuyn and [[Theo van Gogh|] (both were assassinated, the latter by a member of a Dutch Terrorist group threatening Wilders and Ali bij name and who suspected received aid from at least on informant of the [[AIVD|AIVD]])<ref>https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf757</ref> and [[Geert Wilders|Geert Wilders]] (who has an permanent security detail now living under ''de facto'' house-arrest). Rita Verdonk got eliminated as this incident destroyed her - outspoken - political career, with Ali going in hiding at several AIVD safe-houses and fleeing out of the country.
 
With all right-wing opponents and figure-heads inexplicably easily murdered, silenced, expelled from politics or in deep hiding, Balkenende secured a third term. It fell during the financial crisis of the [[2010s|2010s]].
 
With all right-wing opponents and figure-heads inexplicably easily murdered, silenced, expelled from politics or in deep hiding, Balkenende secured a third term. It fell during the financial crisis of the [[2010s|2010s]].
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==Assassination attempt on Royal Family==
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A home-grown "[[terrorist|terrorist]]" by the name of Karst Tates drove his small Suzuki car through rows of attendants of the royal parade of on Queen's day, killing 8 people live on national-TV. He was reportedly seen with binoculars timing the moment the open bus of the royal family would turn up on the road in the city of Apeldoorn. According tot he investigation, called "a [[lone-wolf|lone-wolf]]", hit the parade watchers with 112 km/h (70 mph) an hour resulting in a barrier hitting his head and knocking him unconscious and his car severely damaged before hitting a monument 10m left of the open bus. The royal family - having a front row seat - saw the event happening in front of them and Queen Beatrix teary-eyed recited the attack on TV. The investigation noted his sole reasoning given to the first police officer that dodged him and arrested him hanging out of his car that "Willem-Alexander was a fascist and a racist", and confessing he wanted to hit the open bus. His only noted problem was his recent abuse of cannabis. Some of Tates last words were spoken in [[German|German]]. Very little remains known about him.<ref>https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-32054-1.html</ref>
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The event permanently changed the character of security events, with the Dutch Counter-Terorrism Agency being advised to now be the deciding organization for secutity of public offfials instead of the munciapality, always minimally requring the national police, with agents now visiting certain known political dissidents "urging them to stay home", profiling and sending individuals home at such events for seemingly random reasons, or telling random individuals to "go home".  <ref>https://www.videoland.com/series/500169/bureau-burgwallen</ref>
  
  
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In a big leak of [[diplomatic|diplomatic]] cables, Balkenende turned out to be quite an achiever during the [[Iraq War|Iraq War]] and [[Afghan War|Afghan War]], gaining Dutch support for joining the intervention in both cases, promising to seemingly back the US as long as they would've been there. The cables called him a "harry potter-lookalike". He was praised for keeping support during his tenure for the JSF-project regarding the multi-role stealth jet-plane from [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed Martin]]. He only gained support after [[Pim Fortuyn|Pim Fortuyn]] was assassinated. He kept supporting the program despite resistance from his coalition partners in parliament.  
 
In a big leak of [[diplomatic|diplomatic]] cables, Balkenende turned out to be quite an achiever during the [[Iraq War|Iraq War]] and [[Afghan War|Afghan War]], gaining Dutch support for joining the intervention in both cases, promising to seemingly back the US as long as they would've been there. The cables called him a "harry potter-lookalike". He was praised for keeping support during his tenure for the JSF-project regarding the multi-role stealth jet-plane from [[Lockheed Martin|Lockheed Martin]]. He only gained support after [[Pim Fortuyn|Pim Fortuyn]] was assassinated. He kept supporting the program despite resistance from his coalition partners in parliament.  
 
After 8 years Balkenende was called the "champion of the Dutch-American cooperation".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/226083</ref>
 
After 8 years Balkenende was called the "champion of the Dutch-American cooperation".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/226083</ref>
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In an debate following the national inquiry<ref>https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/h-tk-20092010-41-4027.html</ref> about joining the invasion of [[Iraq|Iraq]], Balkenende told the House of Representatives that he would've done things differently in hindsight, another leaked classified memo revealed had a conversation with [[Tony Blair|Tony Blair]], warning of "[[civil war|civil war]]", the possibility that certain neighbours were gonna get involved in resulting power-vacuums. The inquiry stated that the Dutch government didn't have a legal basis to join in the invasion noting the [[AIVD|AIVD]] and [[MIVD|MIVD]] were significantly unsure about [[WMD|WMD]]s, but the Dutch Department of Defence and Balkenende, Foreign Affairs Minister [[Jaap de Hoop Scheffer|Jaap de Hoop Scheffer]] and Minister of Defence [[Henk Kamp|Henk Kamp]]. Balkenende refused to comment on the memo.<ref>https://www.nu.nl/politiek/4181989/balkenende-waarschuwde-blair-inval-irak.html</ref><ref>https://nos.nl/artikel/128556-conclusies-commissie-davids-op-een-rijtje.html</ref> The inquiry claimed full independence but couldn't find some facts regarding Dutch military usage in Iraq or the coincidence that the Secretary General of NATO became the same De Hoop Schepper who secretly received the US request for military aid 1 year before the other MPs knew.
  
  
 
==Extraordinary Rendition==
 
==Extraordinary Rendition==
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According to an international weekly journal of science called [[Nature Research|Nature Research]] Balkenende's government oversaw at least 27 instances of the [[CIA|CIA]] planes using Dutch airports near [[Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], [[Rotterdam|Rotterdam]] and [[The Hague|The Hague]] for [[extraordinary rendition|extraordinary rendition]] in his first 4 years. The leaked reports and their findings were not reported in Dutch commercially-controlled media.<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201784</ref>
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According to an international weekly journal of science called [[Nature Research|Nature Research]] Balkenende's government oversaw at least 27 instances of the [[CIA|CIA]] planes using Dutch airports near [[Amsterdam|Amsterdam]], [[Rotterdam|Rotterdam]] and [[The Hague|The Hague]] for [[extraordinary rendition|extraordinary rendition]] in his first 4 years. The leaked reports and their findings were not reported in Dutch [[commercially-controlled media|commercially-controlled media]].<ref>https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201784</ref>
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Revision as of 08:58, 4 May 2020

Person.png Jan Peter Balkenende   C-SPAN IMDB TwitterRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician, puppet leader)
Jan Peter Balkenende.jpg
Born1956-05-07
Biezelinge, Zeeland, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
Alma materVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ReligionReformed
ChildrenAmelie
SpouseBianca Hoogendijk
Member ofDutch Round Table, Netherlands/Deep state, US/Department/State/International Visitor Leadership Program
PartyChristian Democratic Appeal
Dutch PM for 8 years in 2000s, became PM after his opponent - who was leading in the polls - got assassinated. Single Bilderberger, joined the war on terror, oversaw the decade with the most deaths from terror-attacks on Dutch soil.

Employment.png Prime Minister of the Netherlands

In office
22 July 2002 - 14 October 2010
DeputyLaurens Jan Brinkhorst, Gerrit Zalm
Preceded byWim Kok
Succeeded byMark Rutte

Employment.png Leader of the Christian Democratic Appeal

In office
1 October 2001 - 9 June 2010
Succeeded byMaxime Verhagen

Employment.png Member of the House of Representatives

In office
30 November 2006 - 22 February 2007

Employment.png Member of the House of Representatives

In office
30 January 2003 - 27 May 2003

Employment.png Member of the House of Representatives

In office
19 May 1998 - 22 July 2002

Jan Peter Balkenende was the Dutch Prime-Minister from 2002 to 2010. During this time the Netherlands joined the Invasion of Afghanistan, the War in Iraq, (at that time Prince) Willem-Alexander Ferdinand, Queen Beatrix Armgard and Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti survived a terror attack resulting in 9 deaths[1]. During his first presidential run, he was actually trailing in the polls, but won after the expected winner Pim Fortuyn got assassinated.[2] He is also known by the public for the fact that all his coalition governments didn't complete their terms.[3]


Early career

Being born near the Belgian Border, he departed for Amstelveen at 18 for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam gaining a masters degree in history and Dutch law. With the VU-University being noted for a more Christian approach to science he became a guest professor for the university in Christian social and civic thinking and economics.[4] After receiving funding from the CDA during his time there, he became city councillor in Amstelveen.[5]


Political Shift

The CDA-party was a standard part of the Dutch coalition governments from World War 1 up until 1982. Neocons and social democrats formed an alliance during 8 years with Wim Kok that last until 2002 when the Dutch cabinet fell following public outrage on multiple massacres in the invasion of Yugoslavia where the Dutch army failed to intervene or stood down on undisclosed orders.[6] During this time the Dutch Labour Party became increasingly unpopular following several surges of multinationals and privatizations, civil unrest in the inner city targeting Muslims - with which 9/11 didn't help, the internet-bubble and the Dutch becoming the leading Dutch supplier of several soft and hard drugs in Europe.[7] In the last week of march of [[2002 |]] a new right-wing politician by the name of Pim Fortuyn had completely taken over the polls and was set to win the election. Balkenende was keen to form a coalition but Fortuyn - especially for that time - became increasingly more radical, seemingly promoting the idea of removing the first amendment of the Dutch constitution prohibiting discrimination, calling the Islam a backwards culture, remarking the country was "full".[8]


Fortuyn got assassinated by an activist with shady backgrounds. Balkenende won the election and the remaining Fortuyn party members joined Balkenende and the VVD for the most right-wing coalition in the history of the country, only lasting 87 days. Balkenende faced severe criticism for his "loose" style of leading; most Dutch preceding PMs were known to be absolute leaders demanding little public arguing. Piet Hein Donner was a important spokesperson and became an informal head figure during this time.[9]


War on terror and drugs

During the 90s the Dutch controversial drug policy became problematic when many countries European countries raised their sentences as drug smuggling became a problematic occurrence[10]. Amsterdam - already known as a place where paedophiles got tour-guided and hundreds of boys were picked up in local bars in and outside the red light district[11] - had multiple hot spots in the inner city centre where tourists got violently mugged by heroin[12] and XTC-addicts the minute they entered the street[13]. The Dutch drug-policy had a complex system where the limited sale of cannabis was allowed to adults, hard drugs were banned and possession was met with high sentences, but the dealing, trading, residential growing of cannabis was forbidden during all these decades, utilizing a 'don't know, don't tell policy' regarding coffeeshops as selling cannabis was in fact, neverlegalized.[14] The Dutch seemingly were ones of the first to start governmental massive operations on behalf of a war on drugs

Balkenende was met with strong public opposition as Amsterdam was experiencing a new golden age of drug-tourism, but with support from prominent figures as Dries van Agt and Els Borst[15] he tried to gain support for closing coffeeshops and the sale of cannabis all together, citing up to 10.000[16] addicts with up to 1400 being children the Amsterdam Dutch health Service gave. He held this viewpoint until the end of his final presidency. His efforts slowly turned the Dutch in a country where the border-regions and big cities called for invasive laws and operations to reduce or kill the drug policy. Since 2002 the Dutch PM has always been from a party that doesn't support the Dutch drug policy.[17] He oversaw the Dutch involvement in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan in 2003 and the Iraq War and the starting war on terror. First only sending small forces - like in Iraq from 2003 to 2005 - but soon given responsibly of whole provinces of the invasion.[18]


Protection

Balkenende second government fell in 2006 over the legal status of a Somali-Dutch Member of the House of representatives, Ayaan Hirsi Ali (the current wife of Niall Ferguson). Ali lied about her name and Dutch immigration law had multiple loopholes the Minister of Immigration Rita Verdonk couldn't explain, an investigation and the Dutch Supreme Court concluded Ali was never a Dutch citizen to begin with. Ali was a prolific figure - being the first Muslim MP to switch from Labour to the Neo-liberal VVD - becoming one of the first female Islam critics along with Fortuyn and [[Theo van Gogh|] (both were assassinated, the latter by a member of a Dutch Terrorist group threatening Wilders and Ali bij name and who suspected received aid from at least on informant of the AIVD)[19] and Geert Wilders (who has an permanent security detail now living under de facto house-arrest). Rita Verdonk got eliminated as this incident destroyed her - outspoken - political career, with Ali going in hiding at several AIVD safe-houses and fleeing out of the country. With all right-wing opponents and figure-heads inexplicably easily murdered, silenced, expelled from politics or in deep hiding, Balkenende secured a third term. It fell during the financial crisis of the 2010s.

Assassination attempt on Royal Family

A home-grown "terrorist" by the name of Karst Tates drove his small Suzuki car through rows of attendants of the royal parade of on Queen's day, killing 8 people live on national-TV. He was reportedly seen with binoculars timing the moment the open bus of the royal family would turn up on the road in the city of Apeldoorn. According tot he investigation, called "a lone-wolf", hit the parade watchers with 112 km/h (70 mph) an hour resulting in a barrier hitting his head and knocking him unconscious and his car severely damaged before hitting a monument 10m left of the open bus. The royal family - having a front row seat - saw the event happening in front of them and Queen Beatrix teary-eyed recited the attack on TV. The investigation noted his sole reasoning given to the first police officer that dodged him and arrested him hanging out of his car that "Willem-Alexander was a fascist and a racist", and confessing he wanted to hit the open bus. His only noted problem was his recent abuse of cannabis. Some of Tates last words were spoken in German. Very little remains known about him.[20]

The event permanently changed the character of security events, with the Dutch Counter-Terorrism Agency being advised to now be the deciding organization for secutity of public offfials instead of the munciapality, always minimally requring the national police, with agents now visiting certain known political dissidents "urging them to stay home", profiling and sending individuals home at such events for seemingly random reasons, or telling random individuals to "go home". [21]


Wikileaks

In a big leak of diplomatic cables, Balkenende turned out to be quite an achiever during the Iraq War and Afghan War, gaining Dutch support for joining the intervention in both cases, promising to seemingly back the US as long as they would've been there. The cables called him a "harry potter-lookalike". He was praised for keeping support during his tenure for the JSF-project regarding the multi-role stealth jet-plane from Lockheed Martin. He only gained support after Pim Fortuyn was assassinated. He kept supporting the program despite resistance from his coalition partners in parliament. After 8 years Balkenende was called the "champion of the Dutch-American cooperation".[22]


In an debate following the national inquiry[23] about joining the invasion of Iraq, Balkenende told the House of Representatives that he would've done things differently in hindsight, another leaked classified memo revealed had a conversation with Tony Blair, warning of "civil war", the possibility that certain neighbours were gonna get involved in resulting power-vacuums. The inquiry stated that the Dutch government didn't have a legal basis to join in the invasion noting the AIVD and MIVD were significantly unsure about WMDs, but the Dutch Department of Defence and Balkenende, Foreign Affairs Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Minister of Defence Henk Kamp. Balkenende refused to comment on the memo.[24][25] The inquiry claimed full independence but couldn't find some facts regarding Dutch military usage in Iraq or the coincidence that the Secretary General of NATO became the same De Hoop Schepper who secretly received the US request for military aid 1 year before the other MPs knew.


Extraordinary Rendition

According to an international weekly journal of science called Nature Research Balkenende's government oversaw at least 27 instances of the CIA planes using Dutch airports near Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague for extraordinary rendition in his first 4 years. The leaked reports and their findings were not reported in Dutch commercially-controlled media.[26]


I don't get why you are so annoying and negative about this. Let be happy together! Let's say: The Dutch are finally able to do this again, that VOC-mentality, looking beyond borders, dynamic! Right?!.

[[Jan Peter Balkenende to Femke Halsema (the comment was deemed extremely controversial as the Dutch East India Company (known as the VOC in Dutch) was one of the megacorporations in the 1700s known for their extremely violent methods of achieving a Dutch Golden age.]], Algemene Beschouwingen 2006.[27]



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A Document by Jan Peter Balkenende

TitleDocument typePublication dateSubject(s)Description
Document:Uniting Behind A People’s Vaccine Against COVID-19open letter14 May 2020"COVID-19/Vaccine"A number of deep state operatives, including 14 Bilderbergers, calling for the creation of infrastructure to rapidly jab everyone in the world.

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthor
Mabel van Oranje“Mabel had attempted persistently to pocket the chairman of the JOVD, Jan Peter Balkenende's state secretary for social affairs Mark Rutte. Rutte's administrative colleagues at his party were so shocked by her stalk-ish behaviour that they protected their friend and chairman. Mabel appeared with the chauffeur of Klaas Bruinsma completely unannounced and ordered us to bring her to Mark's room. We staunchly denied because she was stoned as a shrimp and a complete mess.”Mabel van Oranje
PG Kroeger

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/20085 June 20088 June 2008US
Virginia
Chantilly		The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests
WEF/Annual Meeting/200421 January 200425 January 2004World Economic Forum
Switzerland		2068 billionaires, CEOs and their politicians and "civil society" leaders met under the slogan Partnering for Prosperity and Security. "We have the people who matter," said World Economic Forum Co-Chief Executive Officer José María Figueres.
WEF/Annual Meeting/200823 January 200827 January 2008World Economic Forum
Switzerland		At the 2008 summit, Klaus Schwab called for a coordinated approach, where different 'stakeholders' collaborate across geographical, industrial, political and cultural boundaries."
WEF/Annual Meeting/200923 January 200927 January 2009World Economic Forum
Switzerland		Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
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References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvHy4PcIRGk
  2. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/06/3
  3. ↑ https://nos.nl/artikel/138250-waarom-haalden-kabinetten-balkenende-het-niet.html
  4. ↑ https://www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/jan-peter-balkenende-werd-gevormd-aan-de-vrije-universiteit/
  5. ↑ https://www.vn.nl/profiel-j-p-balkenende-deel-2-de-amstelveense-jaren/
  6. ↑ https://www.parlement.com/id/vh8lnhrp8wsg/kabinetscrisis_2002_srebrenica
  7. ↑ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226227912_Dutch_cocaine_trade_The_perspective_of_Rotterdam_cocaine_retail_dealers
  8. ↑ https://archief.ntr.nl/nova/page/detail/nieus/2604/Pim%20Fortuyn_%20land%20is%20vol%2C%20grenzen%20dicht.html
  9. ↑ https://www.parlement.com/id/vh8lnhrpfxup/kabinet_balkenende_i_2002_2003
  10. ↑ https://veldwerkamsterdam.nl/?page_id=484
  11. ↑ https://www.ad.nl/home/de-hele-pedoprostitutie-werd-in-die-tijd-gewoon-gedoogd~ab679de1/
  12. ↑ https://www.anderetijden.nl/aflevering/44/De-Heroine-epidemie
  13. ↑ https://www.napnieuws.nl/2011/02/15/high-amsterdam-drugsstad-van-nederland/
  14. ↑ https://dutchreview.com/latest/90s-gedoogbeleid/
  15. ↑ https://www.trouw.nl/nieuws/balkenende-opgeroepen-tot-actie-cannabisbeleid~b1935c52/
  16. ↑ https://www.politiekemonitor.nl/9353000/1/j9vvioaf0kku7zz/vifvfbpkakyr
  17. ↑ https://www.trouw.nl/politiek/het-kabinet-verklaart-drugscriminelen-de-oorlog~b7d78074/
  18. ↑ https://www.korpscommandotroepen.nl/missies/afghanistan/isaf-task-force-uruzgan/
  19. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5rf757
  20. ↑ https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/kst-32054-1.html
  21. ↑ https://www.videoland.com/series/500169/bureau-burgwallen
  22. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/226083
  23. ↑ https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/h-tk-20092010-41-4027.html
  24. ↑ https://www.nu.nl/politiek/4181989/balkenende-waarschuwde-blair-inval-irak.html
  25. ↑ https://nos.nl/artikel/128556-conclusies-commissie-davids-op-een-rijtje.html
  26. ↑ https://www.nature.com/articles/palcomms201784
  27. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBN8xJby2b8
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