Jurors and others in Judge Donald Thompson's courtroom kept hearing a strange whooshing noise, like a bicycle pump or maybe a blood pressure cuff. During one trial, Thompson seemed so distracted that some jurors thought he was playing a handheld video game or tying fly-fishing lures behind the bench.
The explanation, investigators say, is even stranger than some imagined: The judge had a habit of masturbating with a penis pump under his robe during trials.....
The former president of the Hells Angels in Amsterdam, "Big Willem" van Boxtel, has denied in court he gave the order for the murder of three bikers last year.
"Me? I'm as pure as the driven snow, really!"
Called to testify before the high-security Amsterdam-Osdorp court on Thursday, Van Boxtel, 50, said claims by state witness Angelo D. that he had ordered the murders were pure lies. Fifteen people connected to the Nomads, the Hells Angels chapter in Limburg, are on trial for the murder of former Nomads leader, Paul de Vries, and two other members, Serge Wagner and Cor Peijnenburg. The three were shot multiple times and their bodies dumped in a stream near the town of Echt, where they were found on 13 February 2004. The 15 defendants have died any involvement in the killings.
"It wasn't us, we wuz framed! Besides, da witnesses are all dead."
The court decided to call Big Willem following testimony by the State's star witness Angelo D. last week. Angelo D., 45, is a member of the Caribbean Brothers motorcycle gang in Curacao, a gang which is also affiliated to the Hells Angels. He claimed in court last week that the men were killed after 300kg of cocaine went missing. He said Big Willem — then president of the Amsterdam chapter of the Hells Angels — knew about the murders. D. also said he was told the day after the funerals that the order to kill the three victims came from Amsterdam itself. Van Boxtel refuted D.'s claims, describing them as "not only gross lies, but also insinuations based on nothing".
Earlier, Van Boxtel's lawyer Marcel van Gessel said he feared his client might be arrested once he leaves the witness stand. The trial continues.
Any implication that the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, Inc may be involved in any type of criminal activity are those of the author and do not reflect the views of Rantburg or it's editors. Especially the editors.
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That's a lie, Rantburg is infamous amongst the better class of Outlaw Motorcyle Clubs.
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"The 15 defendants have died any involvement in the killings."
Via Lucianne: Cut them a check and go
Wal-Mart Canada Corp.'s decision to close its first unionized store could spark a protracted legal battle, a possible national boycott, and the retailer could be forced to re-open the store, the high-powered lawyer for the union says. Paul Cavalluzzo declined to confirm what direction the United Food and Commercial Workers were likely to take at a press conference scheduled for today. But he said the union has three options in front of it: legal action, an economic boycott and political pressure. UFCW national director Michael Fraser has already said the union will file an unfair labour practice charge against Wal-Mart with the Quebec Labour Relations Board. And more actions are coming, a source close to the union said yesterday. A labour board challenge, if successful, could force Wal-Mart to re-open the store or expose it to significant fines, "in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions ,"--- the kids could write checks out of their personal accounts and never miss it.)
said Cavalluzzo, who was lead counsel in the Walkerton water inquiry. **SNIP**
Some observers said the Jonquiere store closing was intended to send a chilling message to other Wal-Mart employees. But the battle to unionize the world's largest retailer and Canada's biggest private-sector employer also has wider implications, observers said yesterday. The retail sector is notoriously difficult to organize because workers are part-time and often short-term, said Richard Chaykowski, a labour policy specialist at Queen's University. **SNIP**
dream on. The people I know who all claim Wal-Mart is The Devil are more than willing to shop there if their prices are significantly lower or it is convenient. They write letters of complaint, they shame and blame others, but in the end...they are more than willing to get those discounted miniblinds ..only cause they have so many windows you see...and it's such a savings...oh..and yes, I got a cute candle and a blouse and a their meat was on sale...such a bargain.
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One's union only has as much power as the training and expertise, and exclusivity of the members (and with the Traffic Controllers, who's in the POTUS slot)
Posted by: Frank G ||
02/11/2005 18:49 Comments ||
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thatn explane a lot frank
Posted by: half steward of holding up slow signs ||
02/11/2005 18:57 Comments ||
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Well Wal-Mart could just pull out of Canada completely. WTF could Canada do aboot it, eh?
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I guess I get help from the Devil. I am a member of the only horse mounted search and rescue unit in East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and Western North Carolina. Wal-Mart gives us bottled water, canteens, compasses, first aid supplies, and horse packable foodstuffs. I know several people who work there and they have no complaints. Then again, I don't like most Unions. I've had some bad confrontations with Union members. I'm not saying all Union members are bad, but some of the ones I've dealt with were real Dickweeds.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The former president of the Hells Angels in Amsterdam, "Big Willem" van Boxtel, has denied in court he gave the order for the murder of three bikers last year. 
