Rainbow Warriors International proposes campaing
Stop the boycott against Aruba with lawsuits in the U.S.
DIARIO Aruba
11/23/2005

ORANJESTAD (AAN): Recently, a possibly boycott by the environmental organization was cancelled by a contract signed by Bouldin and Lawson.

Contrary to what Minister Wever insinuated, Rainbow Warriors International is working in the general interest of Aruba and the rest of the world. This is what Milton Ponson declared last Tuesday night to DIARIO.

The word was that organizations from abroad with the contract of Bouldin an Lawson will be dealt with in House of Commons in Holland and that they will use country regulation publicity of governing board in Aruba and Law publicity of governing board in Holland to bring out ALL documents to the public.

Contrary to what Minister President Nel Oduber wants, giving only ‘for inspection’ document, our organization is of the opinion that the members of parliament of Aruba have every right to demand and obtain copies of ALL documents so that they can control the executive power.

Otherwise, it is then MEP and Minister President Nel Oduber and his cabinet that are rightly managing a banana republic and are giving all the American media who are supporting the boycott called by Governor Riley and Beth Twitty, good reason to call our country corrupt.

According to Ponson, their organization supports a conversation with Mr. Jaap Baujon, member of the Strategic Communication Task Force and offers their services free of charge to help disarm the boycott called against Aruba.

Rainbow Warriors International has ample experience on the topic of boycotts and contrary to what the human rights expert Mrs. Henriquez, the lawyer incorrectly said that any person, group or organization can call a boycott, which in essence is a call for consumers to NOT purchase certain products or services, in the case of Aruba the product is the trip and stay in Aruba.

An economic sanction IS what the United Nations General Assembly can enact against a country. Because of this, any attempt on the part of the Aruban community to let the United Nations intervene is useless, given that we are dealing with a ‘consumer boycott’.

We are in agreement with Mr. Bob DiLella, political consultant of the MEP party, who declared in an article published on November 21, 2005 in Amigoe, that we have to become more aggressive.

To take away Beth Twitty’s strength, her defamation campaign has to be attacked as much as the media who support it as with elected officials, for example governor Bob Riley of Alabama.

Litigation is underway now, where a lawsuit has been initiated, given that among others, Dr. Phil indicated that he is NOT interested in giving the opportunity for ‘rebuttal’, and he isn’t either interested in ‘fair and accurate news coverage’.

It would be good for everyone to realize who Phillip McGraw, better known as Dr. Phil, is.

He is co-founder of Courtroom Sciences Inc., a company of litigation consultants which helps big companies that appear on the famous Fortune 500 list, to win cases in court.

It is Dr. Phil’s company who saved Exxon Mobil from paying an insurance claim of more than USD$600 million for the biggest petroleum leak in Alaska’s history with its Exxon Valdez.

It was Dr. Phil who saved Oprah Winfrey’s skin, when she had a multi-million dollar lawsuit against her, after Oprah Winfrey proposed to stop eating beef, due to the risk of mad cow disease.

Undoubtedly, Dr. Phil’s company is assisting Mrs. Twitty in the background. The time has come to grab the bull by the horns and stop pretending that this issue will disappear.

Our opinion as an organization with experience in the boycott arena is to declare that all signs point to this being simply the ‘warm-up phase’. If the MEP government and others want to be political ostriches (with their heads in the sand) ALL in Aruba end up harmed.

Enough with pretty letters to Minister Bot, protests at the Plaza Betico Croes and Open Letters in the press. It is time to act!!! Ponson proposes lawsuits against the media who do not want to provide us with rebuttals and/or fair and accurate news coverage.

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