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From: Klasber-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 17:13:16 -0500
Subject: M-I: THE DUTROUX-AFFAIR IN BELGIUM


Translation from the German original  "Die Dutroux-Affaere in
Belgien verlangt nach weiterer Aufdeckung" ,
first published 20th, Dez. 1996.


THE DUTROUX-AFFAIR IN BELGIUM 
CALLS FOR FURTHER UNCOVERING

In Belgium the Dutroux affair during all the months from August
to October has given rise to a wave of indignation which until
now, fortunately, has not subsided, although some want to sweep
it under the carpet. The large  number of crimes against
children, covered by the highest positions, has also made clear
what is possible in a country in the middle of the EC, in fact in
the headquarters of the EC and the NATO. It has demonstrated once
again that high and highest strata are in a certain way connected
with the meanest and most wretched crimes. Particularly, many of
the saturated citizens want to suppress all memory of these
things. But reality remains reality.  For nine months the
disappearance of two of the children, Julie and Melissa, had been
a matter of strong public concern in Belgium. About this one
could not learn much in the FRG, although usually our media crave
any sensation. Only when the situation came to a head in August,
this was broken.

The Dutroux affair in Belgium which has shown highest circles of
the so-called "high society" entangled in matters like trade of
children, child prostitution, child murder and more laid open
conditions in a Western country unexpected even by the greatest
pessimists. Even people who are used to x-raying this society in
a critical way and see its faults, its monstrosities, did not
fully sense that in those certain circles of the so-called high
society, of the "leading personages" things are quite usual which
mark their true cultural level, their true condition also in the
moral realm. And these are a widespread pedophilia! And what is
more, collaboration with criminals which did not stop at numerous
violations and murders of children. The whole is acted out
against the background of the saturated philistinism which has
lost any moral orientation and works itself up into such things.
The Dutroux crimes, the kidnapping, selling and burying into the
earth of children give cause to further conjectures and detailed
investigations.

In this uncovering, from the beginning a combination of the
criminals with the state had become visible, the question being
only how high this entanglement was extending actually. One could
expect single policemen or some detective to be presented
publically together with a statement: this or that person has
also been covering all the crimes. And that was supposed to be
the end of the matter. But because of the deepgoing entanglement
of the most various forces - one must say: fortunately, even if
it sounds macabre - this proved after all impossible. In this
affair a criminal and sex criminal, who already had been exposed
and released afterwards, was able to construct subterranean
dungeons for children upon his estate, to carry through big
construction work, about which neighbours had lodged a complaint
but which was covered by the police, and was able to conduct an
intense traffic in children through Europe - all of that before
the very eyes of the officials who knew the character of this man
for a long time.

Right from the beginning spokespersons of the judiciary of the
Federal Republic of Germany declared: what has happened in
Belgium could have happened in the FRG as well. Perhaps it really
happens, and therefore these things should be given due
attention.

Here in Germany thesee things immediately give rise to memories
of the hundreds and hundreds of cases when one could hear that a
sex criminal was released, was literally given favorable
treatment by the judiciary, in order to brazenly commit new
crimes, perhaps in order to experience lenient treatment again.
The things in Belgium have revealed on whose shoulders the burden
of these things is being loaded. One does not care very much for
the victims of these criminals who are being dealt with, on a
governmental level, in a quite lenient, if not favouring, manner.
The victims occupy only a very low rank in the scale of those who
enjoy esteem here.  The reaction of the German media to this
affair as early as in August was quite remarkable. After the
extent of the matter had come to light, one felt compelled (the
ARD, for example) [program Nr. 1 of public TV - translators'
note] to publish at least some facts in the main news. But then
sentences could be heard like: the personal rights of the
culprits  conflict with the safety interest of the public!

As if it were the personal rights which stand in the way of
prosecuting such deformities. This again is an immediate attempt
at covering what has happened. The personal rights to which
everybody can refer in case of legal proceedings, like the right
to defend oneself,  do not constitute a contradiction to the
"safety interest". In this way things are being described as if
the inability to fight these things was due to objective reality,
so to say. This covers all the machinations, which are the root
causes of such crimes, a fact that has become clear particularly
in this case.

The media have always tried to push all those who were demanding
a clearcut position from the state against such criminals into a
certain corner: that they were rightists, conservatives and the
like, whereas the media in reality protect exactly the interests
of that conservative upper class which to a part "benefits" from
these squalid activities.  A wave of hypocrisy flooded the FRG,
many politicians voiced proposals like stricter punishment for
child pornography, child abuse, like creating laws to inhibit the
excesses.

But one should not fail to notice that child pornography is only
the top, the superstructure of prostitution which is being pushed
up generally, which is being favoured by this state and cannot be
separated from it. We have to deal not only with child
pornography but with the entire basis upon which it thrives. A
state, for example, which furthers the talk that prostitution is
"a normal profession" is furthering also the excesses deriving
>from it. Such a statement is nonsense because such a person sells
herself, also psychologically, and ruins herself in the long run.
Belgian pamphlets were right to point to the fact that every year
50.000 prostitutes from Eastern Europe, among them very many
young women, are being lured and  abducted into the FRG alone.
Recently cases have become known in which out of German embassies
and consulates such crimes had been supported. This is a subject
which should be described in every detail. 

>From the same forces comes the demand, being on the same level,
for so-called "equal rights" for the homosexuals, which is being
suggested by the media in various ways. States which are
furthering things like that are at the same time furtherers, on
the ground of this disgusting deformity, of pederasty. Finally
one should mention that it is a detraction to assert that the
Internet is the specific medium to further all these things. This
assertion, repeated time and again in the public media, detracts
>from the fact that it is the social developments of the last two
decades during which production in this country, like also in
Belgium for example, continued to be restricted, during which
speculation and plain ripping off on the part of a certain
segment of the population, and a basic mental state of  contempt
for society have been providing the breeding-ground for this
development, whereas the remaining part of the population is
being drained dry all the more.

Let us take another liberal example. It was the Netherlands to
allow an official position to the pedophiles, to lower the
protected age of children to twelve years and in this way to
comply directly with these activities. A state which favours
pornography, downright decay, also favours child prostitution,
child trade and child murder. This has to be said with regard to
those who now take on a hypocritical position and pretend to be
able to fight certain  excesses by a special law. For the
perfidity, which also in the FRG has come out at the most various
spots and has to be seen as a parallel to the incidents in
Belgium those have to answer fully who assert that any kind of
minority, consequently also homosexuals or even pederasts must be
declared to possess equal rights. What a boundless nonsense! What
a cynicism, what a fight even, actually, against the most
elementary demands for equal social rights! They are not only
insulted, they are even being fought against, because successful
social structures do not exist without the necessary moral
ground.

All this stands in one and the same line: furthering of drugs
consumption, complete decay and lack of perspective of the
society, a society which literally defames the social framework,
technology and knowledge of nature, even literally declares the
mere existence of man a sin (compare the litanies of the
"ecologists"). Who conducts all this also basically denies the
child's right to existence, walls off the future. It is the lack
of future, the ideology of  dead end permanently roaring through
the media which also creates the basis for the contempt of the
child in this society.

There are many details connected to the Dutroux case in Belgium
which need special dealing. If one looks at the connections of
the criminals, the ranks of which extend into the highest circles
of the government, of the socialist party and of other parties
in Belgium it becomes obvious that there exists a tight
connection between the Belgian and the Italian mafia. Apparently
similar structures are effective in Belgium like those which came
to the surface in Italy in connection with the free masons' lodge
"P2". The "P2" was a lodge of finance people, mafiosi, secret
service people and of rightist and "leftist" terrorism, by which
in a bloody way the public was horrified. To investigate here
will pay.  As for the FRG, which assumes such an indisturbed
position itself but tries hard to calm down the public about the
affairs in Belgium, it has become, according to many specialists,
a hinterland, a resting zone for the mafia in Europe.  Belgium -
this is also the seat of the EC's and the NATO's centres. The
economic as well as the military bureaucracy are concentrated in
this country, therefore there exists a corresponding extent of
security services engaged in the protection of these
institutions. And it is exaxtly in this country where such
structures emerge? This must lead to reflections. This allows
conclusions of some importance.  Also in Belgium it has become
clear that leading circles of the judiciary which apparently
cover the criminals - what has led to the present special unrest
- are connected to dark circles similar to the free mason's lodge
"P2". It is these circles which obviously, behind the screen of
the parliamentary institutions, in reality pull the wires and
also in society have the nerve to do what they like.

The intensity with which the population in Belgium is fighting in
this affair is remarkable. Tens of thousands of students
demonstrated once again on Oct. 16th 1996, and threw things at
the building of the judiciary which had had the nerve to simply
dismiss the examining magistrate (public prosecutor) active upon
this field under the most ridiculous pretexts, in order to
prevent that more was stirred up and more light was thrown upon
its own role.

It may well be for the first time in a Western country that big
masses, tens of thousands of people rally against the organs of
the state and the judiciary in particular and demand the reversal
of the decision. Against the judiciary which in almost all of the
countries which call themselves parliamentary democracies
arrogantly puts itself above any law. The fact, though, has to be
reckoned with that the judiciary will defend itself to the utmost
as its principal position is in question. And it still can be
doubted whether the struggle can be decided in Belgium alone. In
any case this is a daring advance which will have further
consequences as the entire reality of the system which is not
confined to Belgium, inevitably will continue to reveal itself. 

Among those who are especially tightly related to pederasty,
rightist organizations are to be mentioned in particular, in
which many immoral criminals occupy leading positions. The
"Greens" are to be mentioned, who for several years have been
demanding the so-called "right to sexual self-determination" for
children, and connected to this even the abolition of legal
protection of children below twelve years. Doing so they properly
underlined whereto they are going. 

On the 20th of Oct., 1996, Brussels saw a demonstration of up to
300.000 people comdemning what had happened and demanding more
uncovering. This demonstration, the largest ever in Belgium, had
some official protection, too, because the representatives of the
magistrates hoped it might have some calming effect and might
create the feeling that in the face of the dozens of disappeared
and murdered children one had done at least something important.

But above all on should see that more than ever it is decisive
not to let things rest, to utilize the host of videotapes with
persons entangled, to investigate the culprits without respect of
person, to take the means of covering-up from the hands of the
judiciary by means of special independent investigating
committees. Otherwise those responsible and those in the
background will try to let the dust settle on the things, to take
the things out of the limelight, in order to carry on worse than
ever but covered better after some time. 

Editorial staff of NEUE EINHEIT, autumn 1996




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