According to Joe Mammana
An American life is worth more than any quantity of foreigners’ lives
While attorney Schipper explains how the Deepak conversation was manipulated
DIARIO Aruba
12/03/2005

ORANJESTAD(AAN): Recently, in MSNBC’s Rita Cosby program, they dealt with the case of Natalee Holloway, where they focused among other things on the matter of the recorded conversation with Deepak Kalpoe.

They also spoke about the boycott against Aruba, where they spoke with representatives of Aruba, as well as with different radio broadcasters from other channels.

One of the broadcasters was for the boycott against Aruba, and the other, Steve Yuhas was of the opinion that a boycott was very ridiculous.

There was also a psychic on the program, who said that she supports the boycott.

She also said that regrettably Natalee is dead and that Deepak, Joran and Satish are guilty, while Joran’s father also knows what happened.

Joe Mammana, who is the millionaire who helped Beth Twitty come to Aruba with his private jet at the beginning of the case, and who supposedly is cooperating with the mother in her search for Natalee, spoke very badly about Aruba.

Mammana, who was a criminal and was incarcerated in the US for a long time some years back, has been making donations to charitable organizations for a number of years to try to redeem himself.

Now he has decided to participate in the boycott against Aruba, where on American TV he reacted in an aggressive manner against Aruba.

He brought a big quantity of posters and flyers, saying that if one goes to Aruba, one has a big chance of being raped and disappeared. His intention is to distribute the posters around America.

He also said that one American is worth more than any quantity of foreigners around the world.

Attorney Arlene Ellis Schipper, who was on the program to defend Aruba, explained that Aruba cannot go and fabricate evidence to make people guilty in order to please the US. In Aruba you also have to have sufficient proof to punish someone.

Mrs. Schipper told DIARIO Friday that after the program, she received many positive emails from people in the US, who after the discriminatory declarations of Mammana, realized how unjust the matter of the boycott against Aruba is.

In the emails, there were people who said that Mammana must remember that people of many different nationalities live in America and that if he says that one American is worth more than any quantity of foreigners, this is a declaration against other American citizens who have established themselves in America recently.

Friday, Mrs. Schipper gave DIARIO a more elaborate explanation about the matter of the recording that Jamie Skeeters made of Deepak Kalpoe.

It is after Dr. Phil aired the recording of the conversation on his program, local authorities requested a copy of the tape to investigate.

It was after 6 weeks that Aruban authorities procured the CD Rom and VHS tape, but not voluntarily.

The copies of Skeeter’s hard disk, as well as the tape that aired on the Dr. Phil show was then sent to the Nederlandse Forensische Instituut (NFI) and the results showed that the copy of Skeeter’s hard disk did not show evidence of manipulation.

There was a strange ‘skip’, but no manipulation. As for the copy of the Dr. Phil show, NFI clearly said that there was manipulation.

Not only did they edit the conversation, but they cut certain words. According to NFI, they cut just before ‘she’ and just in the word ‘didn’t’.

On the copy of Skeeter’s tape, the sentence that Deepak said after Skeeters asked if Natalee had sex with all three of them was: “no she didn’t”

According to NFI, on the tape of the Dr. Phil program, they removed the “no” and they removed the “n’t” on the word “didn’t”, to make it seem as if Deepak said “she did”.

This, according to NFI, is not ‘edit’, but manipulation. Holland and Aruba via their so-called “Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty” (MLAT) with the US requested that the US confirm this result.
This was asked two weeks ago and still the US has not sent any result.

According to attorney Schipper, who is part of the Strategic Communications Task Force, experts from MSNBC made a test on the tapes also, and confirmed what the NFI observed.

Now apparently the Dr. Phil show has taken a negative posture against MSNBC, because they also observed that it is probable that the Dr. Phil show manipulated the tape in their favour, to sensationalize in order to raise the show’s ratings.

Attorney Schipper explained to DIARIO that she is not defending Deepak Kalpoe, but it cannot be that the American program has done everything to show as if the police and the investigation in Aruba are good for nothing, in order to start a boycott against our island.