Almost five years to the day, another dead girl.

Where I live, we have a fairly large number of Dutch, and they operate many of the local businesses. it’s pretty easy to tell which businesses, they’re the only ones invariably closed on sunday.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m all about people following their religious convictions, and I’m glad of those who do. My problem comes with the fact that these Dutch are hardcore profiteers, and always have been, and it smacks of hypocrisy. They are anxious to rip you off six days a week, but have to shut their doors on sunday so they can be holy. This is not a trait of the whole community, but just a few of the businesspeople. I’ve also had an issue with the fact that the Dutch were the ones who worked hardest at bringing the slave trade to the US.
So the idea that a well to do Dutch scumbag is wandering around the planet banging and murdering young girls and getting away with it, for the most part, plays into what I must admit are old prejudices on my part, but I’m damned if it helps me do anything to ameliorate those prejudices, either.

To be completely transparent, I do know many dutch people, and find them to be fine and hardworking, the yardstick by which I measure anyone. My prejudices are reserved for a select few, like the lumberyard owner who used students from the local high school to build most of the houses in this neighborhood; the lumberyard was paid to set up this ‘Apprenticeship” program, which provided them with what amounts to slave labor to build fifty-plus homes, which were then far outside the financial resources of those very students. The final insult is that my street and the neighborhood bear the name of the lumberyard’s owner.

Fuck ’em. I got no use for this kind of scumbag, and i hope the girl’s parents hunt him down, and kill him slowly over the course of three or four years.