Dear Readers Recently I sent you chapter one of my ”book” article ”Thomas of Lancaster, rebel cousin of king Edward II, from warlord to Saint”It is a travel to 14th century history of England and narrates the turbulent lifeof Earl Thomas of Lancaster, who was one of the mightiest man of his Time, ,nobleman, warlord and cousin of king Edward II.And the most fascinating question:How does a warlord become a Saint?Read further, then you’ll get the answer….. Because it is extended, I do you the favour of sending my major article to you in chapters Recently chapter one https://www.astridessed.nl/thomas-of-lancaster-rebel-cousin-of-king-edward-ii-from-warlord-to-saint-chapter-one/
Today, chapter twoENJOY and travel with me to 14 century England……
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER TWO BEGINNING OF HIS CAREER/SERVICE UNDER HIS UNCLE KING EDWARD I
In the beginning there seemed to be no trouble in paradise. Grandson of King Henry III, nephew of King Edward I, who probably arranged for him the splendid marriage with Alice de Lacy [70], daughter of Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln [71] [by the death of his father in law, Henry de Lacy, Thomas was to inherit the Earldoms of Lincoln and Salisbury, added to the Earldoms he inherited from his father, Edmund Crouchback [72] namely Lancaster, Leicester and Derby, which made him one of the richest nobles in the land] [73], what stood in the way of a splendid career?
And it all seemed going just fine:
On reaching On reaching full age he became hereditary Sheriff of Lancashire, but spent most of the next ten years fighting for Edward I in Scotland, leaving the shrievalty in the care of deputies.[74] He served his uncle King Edward I, by participating in the battle of Falkirk in 1298. [75]
INTRODUCTION:Readers, This is a fascinating story about Thomas of Lancaster and the persons and events that played an important part in his life in a very turbulent time. But like all fascinating stories, it is not told in two minutes. It is a real longread.
To understand the political situation in the early fourteenth century, especially chapter one, four and five are important. Chapters six describes the outbreak of the war between Thomas and his cousin the King, the chapters seven and eight the dramatic end. Chapters nine and ten, what happened thereafter.
But to make it easily readable for my readers, who enjoy history like me, I’ll send itto you in different chapters, so for you it is more easy to read and newreaders can wonder, how the story goes on SO HERE COMES FIRSTCHAPTER ONEThe next chapters you’ll see in the next days ENJOY! BEFORE CHAPTER ONE ”When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ You_Win_or_You_Die How many warlords were proclaimed ”holy” after their death and were venerated as Saints? Not many, I presume….. Read further and experience the excitement of a turbulent time, with violent, lawless men, thirsty for power.Come with me…..Today I, your travel companion through the Middle Ages, introduce to you an extroardinary man, who was a warlord, England’s de facto ruler for certainly four years, fighting his cousin King Edward II for nearly ten years.His name was Thomas, the second Earl of Lancaster [1]. No, NOT to be confused with his younger brother Henry, third Earl of Lancaster, [2] one of the ancestors of the House of Lancaster [3], that branch of the Plantagenet Royal House, which fought a battle to the death with another Plantagenet branch, the House of York [4] in the Wars of the Roses. [5] This was Thomas, second Earl of Lancaster, lesser known, but in his time, a man of power and absolutely not insignificant. That’s the reason I write about him, because I feel people should know more about him.Besides:He intrigues me Because as I said, not only he was the de facto ruler in England for certainly four years, fighting his cousin, King Edward II for many years and making his own laws.
But again:
How many warlords end up ”holy”, as a Saint?
Follow me, through the chapters of history, containing power,treason, ambition, passion deceit, cruelty, but also….chivalry…. CHAPTER ONE
A
IN GENERAL/ FAMILY TIES/HISTORICAL CONFLICTS BETWEEN KINGS AND BARONS/PERSONAL LIFE/POWER AND WEALTH
FAMILY TIES (1)
Thomas was the first cousin of King Edward II [King from 1307-1327] [6], since Thomas’ father, Edmund Crouchback, the first Earl of Lancaster [7], was the younger brother of King Edward I [8], ,father of Edward II. But he also was the uncle of Queen Isabella of France [9] [wife of Edward II and daughter of the French King, Philip IV, the Fair, the Hammer of the Templars] [10], since he was the half-brother of her mother, Joan I of Navarre [wife of King Philip IV] [11]
Yes my readers, so complicated were the family relations of the English nobility, not only because of internarriage with each other, but also with French nobility [also Spanish, Flemish and other, but often, French]
To give another example to ”tease” you a little and showing the complexity of noble family relations:
Edward II had two halfbrothers, Thomas, Earl of Norfolk [12] and Edmund, Earl of Kent [13], since his father Edward I remarried after the death of his first wife, Edward II’s mother, Eleanor of Castile. [14]
But the wife he remarried, was Margaret of France. [15] the sister of the French King, Philip IV [the Fair] [16], father of Isabella, future wife of Edward II [on the moment Edward I married the lady, Isabella was not yet married to Edward II]
SO: The Earls of Norfolk and Kent [halfbrothers of Edward II] were, of course, the brothers in law of Queen Isabella, but also her first cousins, since their mother, Queen Margaret of France [17], was also the sister of Isabella’s father, King Philip IV, the Fair. [18]
No wonder Papal Dispensation was often needed for noble marriages! [19]
B
CONFLICT SEEN IN A BROADER LIGHT/ABOUT CENTRALIZATION AND DECENTRALIZATION
Let’s go to Thomas’ interesting, but turbulent life, in a turbulent time, which led to the disaster of many, including the King. [20]
As shows the story, Thomas of Lancaster had a major conflict with the King, was four years long the uncrowned King and two times leader of oppositional barons against King’s power, leading two rebellions against the King. [21]
Now some sources called Thomas lawless, violent and powerseeking. [22] He may have been all that [I am not going to deny that, on the contrary], but it is shortsighted to see the conflict only from that personal point of view.
It’s more complicated:
Because this was not only a conflict between two powerful men, cousins, one the King and the other close to the throne. No: Moreover this conflict revealed the eternal struggle between centralization and decentralization. Between a King and his feudal lords about who should control the country.
When the King was a ”strong leader”, like Edward I [23], he held the nobles in order, when the authority was weaker, the nobles gained power. The causes of a weak authority may have differed, but fact was, that nobility, of course, took advantage of weak leadership.
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EARLIER CONFLICTS BETWEEN KINGS AND THEIR BARONS [24]
KING JOHN [LACKLAND] AND HIS BARONS
As I wrote, apart from the specific circumstances [see below], the fight between Edward II and his cousin, Thomas of Lancaster has to be viewed in a broader light: The struggle between centralization [the Kings absolute power, ”divine majesty”] [25] and decentralization [increasing inluence of his feudal lords, the nobility].
Edward II was not the first King, who had serious conflicts with his barons
As well as his greatgrandfather John Lackland [John, King of England], [26] as his grandfather, King Henry III [27], clashed with their barons:
Because the times changed:
Were John Lackland’s father, King Henry II [28], as his brother, Richard I of England [The Lion Heart] [29], kings, who ruled on the basis, that the King was ”above the law” [divine majesty”] , in the time of John Lackland, there were contrary opinions expressed about the nature of kingship, and many contemporary writers believed that monarchs should rule in accordance with the custom and the law, and take counsel of the leading members of the realm. [30]
[31] Now John Lackland was, as a person, hard to deal with and increasing troubles were ahead:
He had a serious conflict with Pope Innocentius III [32], which resulted in an interdict of England [33] and John’s excommunication [34] King John was reported nearly to have converted to Islam in order to get support from Caliph Nasir, asking for help…..[35]
He clashed [almost from the beginning of his reign] with his barons, wanting to hold on
his ”rights” and claimed an “almost imperial status” for himself as ruler. [36]
This resulted in a number of wars with the barons, leading to the Magna Charta in 1315, enlarging the power of the barons. [37]
KING HENRY III AND HIS BARONS/SIMON DE MONTFORT
During the reign of King Henry III [38], son of John Lackland and grandfather of Edward II, at first peace seemed to be restored with the barons. [39]
But…..nothing lasts forever!
Henry faced a true crisis with the barons, who rose against him under the leadership of Henry’s brother in law, Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester [40], who had [seen in the light of that time], radical reform ideas. [41] He was the de facto ruler of England for less than a year. [42] and is known to have established a Parliament, with not only the barons and the knights of the shires [43], but also burgesses [44] of the major towns. [45] This parliament is sometimes referred to as the first English parliament and Montfort himself is often termed the founder of the Commons.[46]
At the end, he died in the battle of Evesham in 1265, beaten by the troops of prince Edward [eldest son of Henry III], the latter King Edward I [47]
In sofar there is a similarity with Thomas of Lancaster, who also ruled England [de facto] and seemed to have been influenced by Simon de Montfort’s ideas. [48]
That being said: Yet I think, that Thomas, far more than Simon de Montfort, had a personal power motive to wage war on his cousin Edward II.
Besides I don’t think, that Thomas of Lancaster was interested in more reforms than greater power for the barons.
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THOMAS OF LANCASTER, DESCENT AND FAMILY TIES [EXTENDED] (2)
Thomas of Lancaster [c 1278-1322], who became the great adversary of his cousin King Edward II, was the eldest son of Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster [49], who was the second son of King Henry III [50], and brother of King Edward I. [51] Thomas’ younger brother was Henry, [later the 3rd Earl of Lancaster] [52], ancestor of the House of Lancaster. [53]
SO: He was the cousin of King Edward II, since his father [Edmund Crouchback] was the brother of Edward II’s father, King Edward I.
Thomas’ mother was Blanche of Artois [54], daughter of Count Robert I of Artois [55], who was the son of the French King Louis VIII [56] and the brother of King Louis IX [also called ”Saint Louis”] [57] Which made Blanche the niece of King Louis [IX] ”Saint Louis”
SO: Thomas of Lancaster descended from both English and French royal Houses, being the grandson of King Henry III and the greatgrandson of the French King Louis VIII.
A good Medieval curriculum vitae!
But there was more to the story:
When his mother, Blanche of Artois, married his father, Edmund Crouchback, she was a Dowager Queen, having been married with King Henry I of Navarre. [58] From that marriage, a daughter was born, Joan I of Navarre. [59]
And this Joan I of Navarre was the mother of Isabella of France, the wife of King Edward II.
Thomas was, therefore, the cousin of King Edward II, and the uncle of Queen Isabella of France!
E THOMAS OF LANCASTER/PERSONAL LIFE
Thomas of Lancaster was married with Alice de Lacy [60], daughter and heiress of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln [61]. Jure uxoris [inheritance by the right of a wife] [62] Thomas had inherited in 1311 the lands of his father in law, for which he paid homage to King Edward II [quite a story! See below] [63], which made him rich and powerful, in combination with the lands he had inherited from his father. [64] The marriage is assumed to be unhappy [65] and they had no children together. Although, Thomas fathered, llegitimately, two sons with another woman. [66]
Alice was abducted in 1317 by Richard de St Martin, a knight in the service of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey. [67] This incident caused a feud between Lancaster and Surrey; Lancaster divorced his wife and seized two of Surrey’s castles in retaliation. King Edward then intervened, and the two Earls came to an uneasy truce.[68]
F
POWER AND WEALTH
Because of his royal position and the inherited lands of his father and father in law, Thomas was one of the richest and most powerful men in England. His annual income was a huge eleven thousand pounds. [69]
Of course it was easy for a that powerful man to raise an army, when the time was ripe…..
One year ago, on 9 February 2020, at 04.09 AM, the Alarm Phone was called by a group of 91 people who were in distress on a deflating black rubber boat off Garabulli, Libya. They were in panic, but they managed to clearly communicate their GPS coordinates, which Alarm Phone immediately relayed to the Italian and Maltese authorities, as well as to the so-called Libyan coastguard.
At 05.35h CET, the people in distress called the Alarm Phone for the last time. Contact with the boat was lost ever since.
The so-called Libyan coastguard, financed and trained by Italian and European authorities in their efforts to delegate border controls and border violence, told Alarm Phone that they had no intention to search and rescue the people in distress “because the detention centers were full”.
That day, another boat was rescued to Malta, and many hoped this was the boat that had alerted Alarm Phone. However, it quickly became clear that this was a second boat in distress: a white rather than a black boat, with 82 instead of 91 people on board.
Due to the silence by authorities on the fate of the black rubber boat, as well as of most boats in distress in the Central Mediterranean Sea, the Alarm Phone as well as relatives and friends of people in distress, often have to rely on fragmented information and try to match crucial – although minimal – details to understand what happened to people in distress.
The days that followed 9 February 2020 clearly revealed that the 91 people were nowhere to be found. There was no trace of them on land, and nothing indicating they were still at sea.
One month later, we wrote an open letter to all authorities asking about what happened on that day and what they have done to search and rescue the people in distress. We did not receive any answer from any of them.
Only ten months later, when we sent another request to all authorities in December 2020, Frontex responded – clearly the result of increased pressures on the EU border agency and investigations into its participation in push-backs which has prompted international attention and condemnation.
The picture shared by Frontex, taken on 9 February 2020, shows a deflated rubber boat in a position near the one reported by the 91 people in distress. However, no human remains are visible in the picture.
Throughout the past year, families and friends of the 91 people who were on board the black rubber boat contacted Alarm Phone as well as European authorities in their search for their loved ones, but nobody could give them answers.
Thanks to these collective efforts and self-organisation by the families, mostly in Darfur, a list of missing people was created, showing 62 names and many pictures, giving a name, a face, a smile to many of those who European authorities made disappear at sea.
Without bodies being found, and without clear answers, it is impossible for their families to know their fate and to have closure.
Reacties uitgeschakeld voor Mediterranean sea boat refugees/Solidarity with the families of the 91 people who disappeared at sea
Wandering through fear and loniless as an astronaut in his furious,frenetic spaceship, I finally stood face to face with emptiness.And it was not true what they said, that Emptiness were a Blank Space,Nihilism: Emptiness was a Power, a Tremendous Power, Which filledeverything that existed.
It was as present as a shield, protecting a Medieval Knight, Itcalmed down Chaos and had shaped first Humanity and still would bepresent, when the last traces of Life would have been vanished intothat Great Mystery, which no one ever had seen, before dead. I was nothing, absolutely nothing, the people around me didn’t exist,they were like air and the comforting emptiness dissolved all grief, fearand stress into friendly Lights, which changed at night into the faireststars, ever shaped by Mystery.
Sometimes I wondered, whether the Mystery existed at all, orwas nothing more than just a fantasy of my youth, frightening magic wordsof people, who tried to calm down the Powers of the Universe. But when I walked through the streets at night, homeward bound,I felt the Power, which is called ”Mystery”. I felt, that It spoke to me in a language I could not understand.It gave me Rest I only could feel then.
This was the Only Moment I truly saw, who I really was.This was the only Moment that was Home to me. Astrid Essed
Dear Public, NOW IT IS TIME FOR LAUGHING!IT IS TIME FOR HUMOUR!Now the Lockdown [for just reasons!] continues, but a curfew isinstalled against my will and the will of many others [1] and there arecurfew riots through the whole country [which I disapprove, but alsothe police violence [2]], you almost should forget, that humor is a mighty weaponagainst despair and rightful Corona fear! Many companies are badly affected by the necessary Coronameasures andsome of them are bankrupt.Yet there is a social category that profits from the Coronacrisis, wether legal or not! Because let’s be honest:Most of us, except for highly spiritualized Yogi’s or Sufi’s [3] and leftist socialactivists like anarchists wants to get rich with the lessest efforts.That’s human nature!For this group I have some TIPSSO LISTEN WELL! BUT BEFORE: Whatever you do with my tips is your business and remains your ownresponsibility!I am NOT responsible for your actions.So don’t come cry to me, when my tips don’t work for you. ANDF ANOTHER THING:My tips are NOT for those, who want to earn money on a violent way!
TIP 1DON’T FLEE TO YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN!When everything goes wrong, don’t flee to your country of origin!That is the first place where justitial authorities go after you, outside the Netherlands.For white Dutch criminals:Leave the Netherlands and don’t flee to the Netherlands Antilles orEU countries.Flee to a country, faraway, with few or no relations with the Netherlands.
TIP 2FLEE TO A COUNTRY, WHICH HAS NO EXTRADITION TREATY WITH THE NETHERLANDSYes, you’ve heard me well:Flee to a country, faraway, so NOT a European country, the USA or Canada, for example and NOT your country of origin.Too often, criminals act like headless chickens, flee to a country they know and neglect the facts, for instance how big the chance is, yet to be extradited!
TIP 3DON’T PUT ANYTHING ON PAPER, DON;T CHAT OR BABBLE WITH YOURTELEPHONE, PUT NOTHING ON INTERNET!If you really want to erase yout traces, don’t put anything on paper,don’t chator babble on the telephone, don’t participate in ”chatgroups”, encrypted or not, no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Tic Toc, Youtube, etc.How you will communicate then?That’s up to you.HAHAHAHAHA!
TIP 4WORK ALONE.I don’t know, what you’re up to, but work alone as much as possible.Then you minimalize the chance on discovery, you can’t be blackmailedand no one can betray you.
TIP 5NO FRIENDS, NO CLOSE FAMILY RELATIONSBe sure that you have no friends and even when you have them, keep it cosy and visit them as less as possible.If someone ”from the past” [former classmate or ”longlost family member]shows up and is irritably insisting, give them a false telephone number oradress.Not visiting people is no problem in Coronatimes.Concerning Family:All of us have family members they love, but unless your parents are stillalive, or brothers and sisters, keep any other familymembers [like uncles, aunts,nephews, nieces, cousins etc] on distance.The lesser people who know what your businesses are, the better.
TIP 6SPEECH IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLDEN[DUTCH PROVERB ”SPREKEN IS ZILVER, ZWIJGEN IS GOUD]An important and major mistake of criminals is to brag and talk too much.Be modest, keep a low profile, talk about anything but yourself.Think:SPEECH IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLDEN
TIP 7KEEP YOURSELF LOW PROFILEAs well as in your activities as in your flee country:Keep yourself low profile!Don’t spend money like a drunken sailor, don’t nuy fancy cars or palaces, etc.Live a quiet life, be polite and friendly towards everyone, invest [not withabnormal sums of money] in the local economy and give some ofyour money to charities [than you do something in return:With other words:Live well, but quietly. TIP 8HAVE NO FAMILY [WIFE AND CHILDREN], CLOSE RELATIONSHIPSThat is deadly to a succesful criminal career.You have ”bagage”, you can be blackmailed, you have responsibilities youcan’t fulfil.Be alone.Operate alone. TIP 9TRUST NO ONEHow nice, or sympathetic, for a succesful criminal is no one tobe trusted.Keep all your activities for yourself.For remember:A secret is only a secret, when NO ONE knows! TIP 10TAKE A LOW PROFILE JOBYou must be able to give accountability for spending your money.Therefore:Be aware, that you have a job to explain your expenses.And live according to your income.DON’T LIVE BEYOND YOUR MEANS!Don’t ride in expensive cars, don’t buy rolex watches, etc
TIP 11MAKE YOUR FINANCIAL MOVE IN ONE STRIKE!Whatever you do, make your financial move in onestrike!Don’t remain an old woman by investing in petty, smallactivities, strike well in one big move and flee, as soonas possible!That reduces the chance of being caught. TIP 12DON’T DO IT! DON’T ENGAGE IN CRIMINALITY!And last, but not least:DON’T ENGAGE IN CRIMINALITY! Statistics show it:In nine of the ten cases, you are being caught early and crimedoesn’t pay!The surest WAY for criminals is to be engaged withjudicial authorities and at last/THE PRISON!DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THAT!When even a big criminal, Redouan Taghi has been caught, toprobably spend the rest of his life in State Hotel, the Prison [4], youas non violent criminal, can wage your chances!In this case is appliable the proverb:HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY BUT:If you, despite of Tip 12, want to follow a non violent criminal Path,then use Tips 1 till 11!It’s your life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE
I wish you aHAPPY, SUCCESFUL AND NON CRIMINAL LIFE!
Astrid Essed NOTES
[1]
THE INSTALLATION OF A CURFEW [AN EVENING CLOCK] IN
The Netherlands introduced its first enforced curfew since World War Two on Saturday night. The restriction took effect at 9 p.m., and was to continue through 4:30 a.m. as a way to slow the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The curfew will continue every night through 4:30 a.m. on February 10. All members of the public must remain indoors during the curfew hours, except for certain work-related reasons and emergency situations where an exemption is permitted. Even then, the person on the street must carry with them an official government form that has been properly filled out.
Violators risk a fine of 95 euros, but will not receive a mark against them on their criminal record. Those caught with falsified document or who lied on their form to evade the restriction may be punished more severely, and could see their records affected in a way which can jeopardize their ability to get certain jobs or qualify for residence permits and visas.
It was proposed by the outgoing prime minister, Mark Rutte, and his health minister, Hugo de Jonge, earlier in the week. As the issue was considered too controversial for the caretaker Cabinet, it had to be approved by a majority in Parliament on Thursday.
“The idea behind the night-time curfew is that people will visit or meet up with each other less often,” the Cabinet said in a statement. “This is important because the government is gravely concerned about the spread of coronavirus variants that are even more infectious than the virus we are already familiar with in the Netherlands. We need to delay these new variants from gaining the upper hand for as long as possible.”
The last time the Netherlands had a curfew was in 1945, the year World War II ended in Europe
Riot police were called out to cities across the Netherlands on Monday evening in a third night of rioting following the introduction of a curfew to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. By 10pm at least 70 people had been arrested, police chief Willem Woelders told current affairs programme Nieuwsuur. ‘Things were relatively quiet until 7.30pm, but then all hell broke lose.’ In Haarlem and Rotterdam police used tear gas to break up the crowds, and extra riot police were drafted in, Woelders said. In Amersfoort, fireworks were thrown at police and there were also problems in Den Bosch, where a group of up to 150 youngsters had gathered in defiance of the 9pm curfew, and a Jumbo supermarket was plundered.
n Rotterdam, mayor Achmed Aboutaleb evoked his emergency powers and called in riot police with water cannon after trouble broke out in the south of the city. RTV Oost reported that gangs of youngsters were running through the centre of Zwolle and there were clashes with police in the north of Helmond. In Zeeland province, six people were arrested in Goes and Kattendijke after calling on people to riot via social media.
Police in Noord-Holland province said they had arrested five people who had called online for riots in Purmerend, Hoorn and Alkmaar. In Amsterdam, there were at least nine arrests after trouble erupted in the east of the city. In Gouda, the mayor also evoked his emergency powers after several cars were set on fire. There were also arrests in Geelen, in Limburg, including several minors, police said. Weekend Monday evening’s trouble follows disturbances on Sunday as protestors staged demonstrations against the coronavirus rules in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. Up to 300 people were arrested as riot police were drafted in to break up the crowds. In Eindhoven, station shops were looted and police used tear gas in an effort to disperse the demonstrators. On Saturday night, the first day of the 9pm curfew, there were disturbances on the former island of Urk, where protesters set fire the the coronavirus testing centre, and in Stein in Limburg. Condemnation Prime minister Mark Rutte described the violence that accompanied anti-lockdown protests in some Dutch towns and cities on Sunday as ‘unacceptable’. Rutte said 99% of people were complying with the stricter new rules, including the 9pm curfew that came into force on Saturday. He singled out the vandalism in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, as well as Enschede where a hospital building came under attack, for special condemnation. ‘Any normal person will look at this with disgust and ask themselves what possessed these people,’ Rutte said. ‘This has nothing to do with protesting: it is criminal violence and that is how we will treat it.
Dear Public, NOW IT IS TIME FOR LAUGHING!IT IS TIME FOR HUMOUR!Now the Lockdown [with just reasons!] continues, but a curfew isinstalled against my will and the will of many others [1] and there arecurfew riots through the whole country [which I disapprove, but alsothe police violence [2]], you almost should forget, that humor is a mighty weaponagainst despair and rightful Corona fear! Many companies are badly affected by the necessary Coronameasures andsome of them are bankrupt.Yet there is a social category that profits from the Coronacrisis, wether legal or not! Because let’s be honest:Most of us, except for highly spiritualized Yogi’s or Sufi’s [3] and leftist socialactivists like anarchists wants to get rich with the lessest efforts.That’s human nature!For this group I have some TIPSSO LISTEN WELL! BUT BEFORE: Whatever you do with my tips is your business and remains your ownresponsibility!I am NOT responsible for your actions.So don’t come cry to me, when my tips don’t work for you. ANDF ANOTHER THING:My tips are NOT for those, who want to earn money on a violent way!
TIP 1DON’T FLEE TO YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN!When everything goes wrong, don’t flee to your country of origin!That is the first place where justitial authorities go after you, outside the Netherlands.For white Dutch criminals:Leave the Netherlands and don’t flee to the Netherlands Antilles orEU countries.Flee to a country, faraway, with few or no relations with the Netherlands.
TIP 2FLEE TO A COUNTRY, WHICH HAS NO EXTRADITION TREATY WITH THE NETHERLANDSYes, you’ve heard me well:Flee to a country, faraway, so NOT a European country, the USA or Canada, for example and NOT your country of origin.Too often, criminals act like headless chickens, flee to a country they know and neglect the facts, for instance how big the chance is, yet to be extradited!
TIP 3DON’T PUT ANYTHING ON PAPER, DON;T CHAT OR BABBLE WITH YOURTELEPHONE, PUT NOTHING ON INTERNET!If you really want to erase yout traces, don’t put anything on paper,don’t chator babble on the telephone, don’t participate in ”chatgroups”, encrypted or not, no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Tic Toc, Youtube, etc.How you will communicate then?That’s up to you.HAHAHAHAHA!
TIP 4WORK ALONE.I don’t know, what you’re up to, but work alone as much as possible.Then you minimalize the chance on discovery, you can’t be blackmailedand no one can betray you.
TIP 5NO FRIENDS, NO CLOSE FAMILY RELATIONSBe sure that you have no friends and even when you have them, keep it cosy and visit them as less as possible.If someone ”from the past” [former classmate or ”longlost family memner]shows up and is irritably insisting, give them a false telephone number oradress.Not visiting people is no problem in Coronatimes.Concerning Family:All of us have family members they love, but unless your parents are stillalive, or brothers and sisters, keep any other familymembers [like uncles, aunts,nephews, nices, cousins etc] on distance.The lesser people who know what your businesses are, the better.
TIP 6SPEECH IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLDEN[DUTCH PROVERB ”SPREKEN IS ZILVER, ZWIJGEN IS GOUD]An important and major mistake of criminals is to brag and talk too much.Be modest, keep a low profile, talk about anything but yourself.Think:SPEECH IS SILVER, SILENCE IS GOLDEN
TIP 7KEEP YOURSELF LOW PROFILEAs well as in your activities as in your flee country:Keep yourself low profile!Don’t spend money like a drunken sailor, don’t nuy fancy cars or palaces, etc.Live a quiet life, be polite and friendly towards everyone, invest [not withabnormal sums of money] in the local economy and give some ofyour money to charities [than you do something in return:With other words:Live well, but quietly. TIP 8HAVE NO FAMILY [WIFE AND CHILDREN], CLOSE RELATIONSHIPSThat is deadly to a succesful criminal career.You have ”bagage”, you can be blackmailed, you have responsibilities youcan’t fulfil.Be alone.Operate alone. TIP 9TRUST NO ONEHow nice, or sympathetic, for a succesful criminal is no one tobe trusted.Keep all your activities for yourself.For remember:A secret is only a secret, when NO ONE knows! TIP 10TAKE A LOW PROFILE JOBYou must be able to give accountability for spending your money.Therefore:Be aware, that you have a job to explain your expenses.And live according to your income.DON’T LIVE BEYOND YOUR MEANS!Don’t ride in expensive cars, don’t buy rolex watches, etc
TIP 11MAKE YOUR FINANCIAL MOVE IN ONE STRIKE!Whatever you do, make your financial move in onestrike!Don’t remain an old woman by investing in petty, smallactivities, strike well in one big move and flee, as soonas possible!That reduces the chance of being caught. TIP 12DON’T DO IT! DON’T ENGAGE IN CRIMINALITY!And last, but not least:DON’T ENGAGE IN CRIMINALITY! Statistics show it:In nine of the ten cases, you are being caught early and crimedoesn’t pay!The surest WAY for criminals is to be engaged withjudicial authorities and at last/THE PRISON!DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THAT!When even a big criminal, Redouan Taghi has been caught, toprobably spend the rest of his life in State Hotel, the Prison [4], youas non violent criminal, can wage your chances!In this case is appliable the proverb:HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY BUT:If you, despite of Tip 12, want to follow a non violent criminal Path,then use Tips 1 till 11!It’s your life! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2u5uUu3DE
I wish you aHAPPY, SUCCESFUL AND NON CRIMINAL LIFE!
Astrid Essed NOTES
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THE INSTALLATION OF A CURFEW [AN EVENING CLOCK] IN
The Netherlands introduced its first enforced curfew since World War Two on Saturday night. The restriction took effect at 9 p.m., and was to continue through 4:30 a.m. as a way to slow the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The curfew will continue every night through 4:30 a.m. on February 10. All members of the public must remain indoors during the curfew hours, except for certain work-related reasons and emergency situations where an exemption is permitted. Even then, the person on the street must carry with them an official government form that has been properly filled out.
Violators risk a fine of 95 euros, but will not receive a mark against them on their criminal record. Those caught with falsified document or who lied on their form to evade the restriction may be punished more severely, and could see their records affected in a way which can jeopardize their ability to get certain jobs or qualify for residence permits and visas.
It was proposed by the outgoing prime minister, Mark Rutte, and his health minister, Hugo de Jonge, earlier in the week. As the issue was considered too controversial for the caretaker Cabinet, it had to be approved by a majority in Parliament on Thursday.
“The idea behind the night-time curfew is that people will visit or meet up with each other less often,” the Cabinet said in a statement. “This is important because the government is gravely concerned about the spread of coronavirus variants that are even more infectious than the virus we are already familiar with in the Netherlands. We need to delay these new variants from gaining the upper hand for as long as possible.”
The last time the Netherlands had a curfew was in 1945, the year World War II ended in Europe
Riot police were called out to cities across the Netherlands on Monday evening in a third night of rioting following the introduction of a curfew to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. By 10pm at least 70 people had been arrested, police chief Willem Woelders told current affairs programme Nieuwsuur. ‘Things were relatively quiet until 7.30pm, but then all hell broke lose.’ In Haarlem and Rotterdam police used tear gas to break up the crowds, and extra riot police were drafted in, Woelders said. In Amersfoort, fireworks were thrown at police and there were also problems in Den Bosch, where a group of up to 150 youngsters had gathered in defiance of the 9pm curfew, and a Jumbo supermarket was plundered.
n Rotterdam, mayor Achmed Aboutaleb evoked his emergency powers and called in riot police with water cannon after trouble broke out in the south of the city. RTV Oost reported that gangs of youngsters were running through the centre of Zwolle and there were clashes with police in the north of Helmond. In Zeeland province, six people were arrested in Goes and Kattendijke after calling on people to riot via social media.
Police in Noord-Holland province said they had arrested five people who had called online for riots in Purmerend, Hoorn and Alkmaar. In Amsterdam, there were at least nine arrests after trouble erupted in the east of the city. In Gouda, the mayor also evoked his emergency powers after several cars were set on fire. There were also arrests in Geelen, in Limburg, including several minors, police said. Weekend Monday evening’s trouble follows disturbances on Sunday as protestors staged demonstrations against the coronavirus rules in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. Up to 300 people were arrested as riot police were drafted in to break up the crowds. In Eindhoven, station shops were looted and police used tear gas in an effort to disperse the demonstrators. On Saturday night, the first day of the 9pm curfew, there were disturbances on the former island of Urk, where protesters set fire the the coronavirus testing centre, and in Stein in Limburg. Condemnation Prime minister Mark Rutte described the violence that accompanied anti-lockdown protests in some Dutch towns and cities on Sunday as ‘unacceptable’. Rutte said 99% of people were complying with the stricter new rules, including the 9pm curfew that came into force on Saturday. He singled out the vandalism in Amsterdam and Eindhoven, as well as Enschede where a hospital building came under attack, for special condemnation. ‘Any normal person will look at this with disgust and ask themselves what possessed these people,’ Rutte said. ‘This has nothing to do with protesting: it is criminal violence and that is how we will treat it.
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WIKIPEDIA
YOGI’S
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi
WIKIPEDIA
SUFISM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufism
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WIKIPEDIA
REDOUAN TAGHI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridouan_Taghi
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BEFORE: This Letter to the Editor I sent to a number of Dutch and Belgian newspapersand is translated from Dutch. [1]Now, on this moment of writing, alas the Netherlands have introduced a curfew. [2]See my Letter to the Editor
Astrid Essed LETTER TO THE EDITOR TITLE: THE INSTALLATION OF A CURFEW [AN EVENING CLOCK] IN THE NETHERLANDS IS A DANGER TODEMOCRATIC RIGHTS AND VALUES Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, The setting of the curfew in order to fight the Coronavirus is a dangerousdevelopment, a danger to democratic values.Why?First because of cutting off and controlling the freedom of movement of free citizens.Second:Because of the oppressive character of the curfew measure, it is mostlyused by dictatorships, authoritarian regimes or countries where a military couphas taken place, like the Bouterse military coup in Surinam in 1980, leadingto the Decembermurders in 1982, when 15 political opponents of theBouterse military dictatorship were executed without a trial.Also in the Second World War, the German occupier set a curfew in the Netherlands [called ”Spertijd”, ”Spertime” in English]For that dark page in the WO II past already is the thought of a curfew a bitterthing.So citizens have just reasons to object the idea of a curfew,Besides there is no proof whatsoever, that a curfew really helpsin the fight against Corona, because gatherings of young people, thattake place in the evening hours, are easily replaced to earlier hours, inthe afternoon for example.But the most dangerous thing is, that the extraordinary measure ofthe curfew will be normalized at a certain moment.That the public is getting used to it and that the oppositionagainst the curfew is reduced. A curfew can be used only as an extraordinary measures in stateof emergency or war situations.Use it for that and for nothing else. Astrid EssedAmsterdamThe Netherlands
The Netherlands introduced its first enforced curfew since World War Two on Saturday night. The restriction took effect at 9 p.m., and was to continue through 4:30 a.m. as a way to slow the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The curfew will continue every night through 4:30 a.m. on February 10. All members of the public must remain indoors during the curfew hours, except for certain work-related reasons and emergency situations where an exemption is permitted. Even then, the person on the street must carry with them an official government form that has been properly filled out.
Violators risk a fine of 95 euros, but will not receive a mark against them on their criminal record. Those caught with falsified document or who lied on their form to evade the restriction may be punished more severely, and could see their records affected in a way which can jeopardize their ability to get certain jobs or qualify for residence permits and visas.
It was proposed by the outgoing prime minister, Mark Rutte, and his health minister, Hugo de Jonge, earlier in the week. As the issue was considered too controversial for the caretaker Cabinet, it had to be approved by a majority in Parliament on Thursday.
“The idea behind the night-time curfew is that people will visit or meet up with each other less often,” the Cabinet said in a statement. “This is important because the government is gravely concerned about the spread of coronavirus variants that are even more infectious than the virus we are already familiar with in the Netherlands. We need to delay these new variants from gaining the upper hand for as long as possible.”
The last time the Netherlands had a curfew was in 1945, the year World War II ended in Europe
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And again a Family finds is way, on the flight for hunger, war,hunger, persecution?Who will tell?And then THEY are the happy ones! How often does it occur, that families are torn apart, the man goes alone, parents lose their children during the flight.A woman loses her husband.Loosing everything they hold dear. They have to leave their dwelling residence to be registeredsomewhere on the orders of a dictator, a foreign occupier, whodon’t give a f….ck abolut their conditions. Whether they are rich or poor, healthy or sick.If the wife is pregnant or not. You have to leaveOr else…… Rich people can find a shelter, but poor peoplemust try to survive. And what if you are pregnant and poor?What if you are a Palestinian woman, standingby a checkpoint, in occupied territory, in needof delivery, at the mercy of the grace of occupyingsoldiers, of oppressors? NOWHERE WELCOMENOWHERE ALLOWED Untill someone pities you and givesyou permission to deliver your Baby in hisbasement.In his stable. Does that sound familiar? Christmas Tale is not about cosiness, Family Togethering, buying largeand expensive presents, although that is nice. It,s about exclusion, It’s about people, who are welcomed nowhere, who are oppressed Because of their:POVERTYRELIGIONDESCENTRACE DO I KNOW? Do I know, what nasty things people think of in theirblindness, xenophobia, hatred, obsession for money, greed, racism and antisemitism, to humiliate others. I don”\t know, what ugly things occupiers invent, whether they areIsraeli [Palestine], Chinese [Tibet], Moroccon [Western Sahara], or else,to humiliate the occupied people? What a US president invents to hold back desperate migrants.Children in cages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_family_separation_policy
CHILDREN IN CAGESA CHILD BORN IN A STABLE BOTH, NON WANTEDBOTH, NOT WELCOME What atrocities are inventing by any dictator on this Planet?And don’t you forget their invisble Western and Chinese [and other]comrades in Evil, who want to flourish their multinationals indictatorial countries! Christmas is all about exclusionBlocking people, who don’t have hope AMSTERDAM But let’s stay closer at home Because it is the mayor of Amsterdam, and her predecessors,who left out in the cold those refugees, who couldn’t be deported,but yet had no rights, no shelter, no food.Refugees, who dwell in Amsterdam since 2012, year after year, withoutrights https://wijzijnhier.org/who-we-are/
NOT WELCOMELIKE THE CHILD IN THE STABLE
CHRISTMAS/HOPE AND DESPAIR Christmas is exclusion But also the Unborn Child, on His Way with HisParents to Safety. The Parents and the Unborn Child, they know aboutexclusion, being not welcome.Therefore they are in Solidarity with all opressed, discriminated, occupied, humiliated and torturedpeople of the Earth The Child has come to this World to give them Hope What are You doing, Reader? GOOD CHRISTMAS DAYSWARM CHRISTMAS DAYS Astrid Essed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBvkKGQ2ptU
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