The hunt of the Turks is free for all, Albayrak is politically raped and the Armenien Issue escalates. What did you expect? Go please see "Open Season" a film for 6-year old kids. It has an interesting morale.
Once in the embrace of the AOW one feels things differently. Eyesight falters. In my case the distinction between workday and weekend has become rather blurred. On Friday, when the founder of D66 and my former colleague Hans van Mierlo publicly asked whether it was time to disband the party, I took my grandson and my nephew to Pathe-ArenA. The younger of the two, Christian, is seven. The older, Stephan, is 27. He is a medical doctor. Since they have never met before I tried to explain, as captivatingly as possible, what kind of doctor Stephan was. -Listen here, young man, your cousin here is a very special doctor.
-What sort of a doctor? -He will be taking the kidneys from dead people, from those who die in car accidents and that sort of thing, and will place them into people who have sick, not working kidneys. Like an automechanic: take the bad part and change with a new. Will help a hell of a lot people who drink too much because their kidneys go rotten faster than those of the people who drink milk and cola. -Is that why you bring him with us to the bioscop, to change your kidneys for free? -No, because he is visiting. And my kidneys are perfect. -He is a murderer. -No he is not. He takes the kidneys of people who have already died, smart-ass. -Ok, then he makes Frankensteins, monsters. It was obvious that we hit a stumbling rock. We chose to see the "Open Season", the first Sony Pictures Animation feature. The story, in shorts, goes around the adventures when the animals of the forest at the start of the opening of the hunting season (therefore "Open Season") decide to fight back the hunters who, legally allowed to go for the skins of the animals, venture, heavily armed, into the wilderness and begin shooting. Since this is a 6-year-old kid sort of a film, not even a single rabbit gets hurt while all the hunters are thrown away and the animal population lives happily ever after.
IN REAL LIFE THINGS ARE DIFFERENT On September 29th Het Parool published a full page title "Sinister gedraai rond Armenie-zaak" for a text by Gerard Mulder illustrated with a pic showing Armenian protesters carrying slogans which I understand as aggressive. They read: "Cease Turkish denial of the Armenian Genocide", "Recognise Armenian Genocide", "Silence the Denial", "Teach the Truth" and so forth. There were zillion posts about this issue and there is no point getting back there, in the issue, because we already know that this is a non-issue. There was no genocide. What I want to point out here is the following: Every Action is Met by Reaction. I have warned that this some of the declared positions of the political parties (PvdA, CDA, CU) and their disciplinary measure to impose them on their membership - burns the bridges among the various groups of our society. Upon returning home I picked up the post and there, over the front page of Het Parol was a pic (reproduced here, at the top) titled "Turkse Studenten "monddood"". Probably still under the romantic influence of the "Open Season" film, I was saddened seeing these young people with plastered mouths. Plaster over mouths always reminds me of brutal torture and of the imminent deaths of kidnapped victims, of horrors and the like. (Must switch to children animated films.) Up in the apartment I threw the newspaper over the one, already on the table, but not before I read: ""Armenie-zaak escaleert". But of course it does. The throwing from the election candidate-lists of those three Dutch politicians was wrong. Who the hell is Ed van Thijn to say that he does not doubt that what had happened had "genocidal character"? What is this mumbo, double talk. What is a "genocidal character"? Not a pure genocide but 2/5 genocide and the rest a fable or it "appeared" as genocide but was not, or it smell on a genocide but it was, under the sking, something else. That is why the Dutch-Turks need to go and see the film "Open Season". Will have fun and may draw interesting ideas.

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