It must be said that Emile Ratelband has made an enormous achievement on his election participation. Within a few days he has been handed a well-stocked candidates in all circles. Here, more than 600 people involved in. The other small parties had much more trouble to get this job done and let stabbing attack sorts. This success can be written partly accounted for by the people of Liveable Netherlands who got off the party with Ratelband. Also from former LPF'ers came the necessary support. The familiarity of Ratelband itself will also have played a major role. People who were recruited on the street for autographs after all figured out immediately who they were asked.
Party
Initially, there is no question of a party or clear positions. There is not even a real party registered with the Chamber of Commerce and the State Electoral Council. Therefore, the list must Ratelband nameless participate in the elections. Should Ratelband elected, what can not be ruled out, then he will have to change something for its subsidies to these unofficial status.
Meanwhile, there appeared a party which advocates, among other things for stricter immigration laws. So they launched a remarkable point where immigrants first eight years get a temporary passport that can be withdrawn in criminal behavior, but also in “the absence of an income”. So when job loss following expansion? Furthemore Ratelband and co are hard for harsher penalties and they inspect the 'idiocy’ from erecting monuments slaves. Also one is against "the rain of subsidies that descends over our country '. They want lower taxes instead. On the other hand the list Ratelband improve public transport to reduce congestion. Generally, it is a bit woolly written program with a number of right-wing outliers.
Candidates
The candidates adorn 28 names while 30 on had expected to. Two candidates are deleted because they are absent from the first meeting of the List Ratelband. Including Emile Ratelband certainly come 17 candidates Liveable Netherlands. The two candidates are deleted from this party. There are no known right-wing extremists on the candidate list, but quite a few people that have something more to say is:
Sixth state Nel Overhand (1943) uit Rotterdam. She was active in recent years in the elderly Elderly parties Union 55+ and disability insurance. In augustus 2000 a right old party was founded JOOP (Younger Elderly Independent Party) Founded. These included the subsequent LPF MP Willem van der Velden and the controversial astrologer Ed Northman active. One of the points of JOOP was a much tighter asylum. Nel Overhand was vice president of JOOP and pulled in March 2002 the list in Rotterdam.
Op 17 is a former regional coordinator of the Young Fortuynisten from Friesland who was also active in the LPF.
By location 21 Rob state Brockhus (1943) from Houses. Brockhus is best known as the driving force behind the Social Database Netherlands, a huge website that will serve as a guide in the Dutch society. This website Brockhus also placed an anti-Kafka article fascist organization COLUMN (Critical Research Left Undermining). This article appeared in the magazine Revolt of the fascist pressure group Outpost. Out of frustration about the demise of the extreme right in the Netherlands were going to do some research into their fascist anti-fascist opponents they considered partly responsible. This resulted in particular in a number of articles. Brockhus puts one of them here on his site because he himself did not have as anti-fascist researchers. He pointed to the radical nature of COLUMN and Outpost, but refuses to remove the article. His aversion to anti-fascists may have been caused by some incidents from the past. In 1988 Brockhus invited the fascist Hague Wim Kock to a meeting of the Union for Beneficiaries (UvU) in Amsterdam. This was prevented by an anti-fascist activist group and UvU broke ties with Brockhus. In the mid nineties he was adviser to the dissident parliamentarian of the AOV, According to Hendriks, of far-right contacts is accused. Brockhus doing battle to disprove these allegations. Brockhus is confident no right-wing extremist, but winds itself very much as he is reprimanded because of contacts with them. In an interview with the Catholic Newspaper in March 2001 However, he says: “Right, you can exchange thoughts excellent, but how leftist, how anti-social reaction pattern.” This Brockhus says so true political passion lies.
And then of course there is Emile Ratelband (1949) by myself. He is best known in the nineties as a promoter of Neuro Linguistic Programming. This is a psychological technique to steer your life in the right direction, especially through positive thinking. Ratelband however develops an exaggerated here and show engined variant of which he earns a lot of money through courses and books. He had last year actually already under the wings of Pim Fortuyn in the Chamber wanted, but that did not sit so. An attempt to become the leader of Liveable Netherlands ended in a tragedy in which the party was torn in two, partly. Last year was Ratelband involved in a fundraiser to buy the house of Pim Fortuyn. For this, he will give a lecture about the amenities at one point for foreigners in Netherlands. He goes quite beyond the pale and raises all sorts of nonsense about signage in hospitals in minority languages, while Dutch would have disappeared.
Ondersteuners
The supporters of the list of Ratelband come from all corners of the political spectrum. There is a distinct contingent from the Transcendental Meditation corner, probably mobilized by Ratel Bands NLP background. They come from Vlodrop and Lelystad where the TM movement has centers. It involves a total of twenty people. Furthermore, there is logically derived from a group handtekeningzetters Liveable Netherlands. Yet that little smaller than you'd expect, we count 18 people known to have come from Liveable Netherlands. However, relatively large proportion of ex-LPF'ers, not only numerically because that is 27, but also in person. As signs the current LPF MP Willem van der Velden and LPF prominently Hans Smolders for Ratelband.
Willem van der Velden (1942) Rotterdam was previously the chairman of the car lot Mobile Netherlands and candidate for the elderly party JOOP Rotterdam. As an MP, he makes little impression to date, or he takes it in August 2002 yet for his advisor Rien Boiten who was discredited by the LPF because of its far-right background and ideas.
Hans Smolders (1960) is best known as the man who Volkert van der G. was arrested after had shot this Pim Fortuyn. He would go out of the political steps, but apparently has enough confidence in Emile Ratelband.
Further prove a few circle coordinators of the LPF now working at the Table Ratelband. Harry Zoelman (1967) from Drenthe in December 2002 thrown out because of the LPF “adverse remarks on TV”, he does at Ratelband again the region coordination. His northern colleague Jan van Aartsen (1950) Groningen made the same switch. Van Aartsen had known in the press as a LPF'er who fiercely pulls against immigration, asylum seekers and Development.
Extreme right-wing Supporters
There were a few people formerly active in far-right corner. This is Charles William Wassink (1951) Haarlem and Dick Anthony Meijer (1954) uit Rotterdam.
Wassink in the period 1986-1994 active in the Centre Party and Centre Democrats. He stood candidate three times for the CD at election. In 1992 he was the secretary of the shooting club dominated by CD'ers “Smooth” in Amsterdam. After a conflict he had to leave there.
Daan Meijer (now calls himself Niek Meijer) His career started with the CD later. In 1994 He has also been spotted in the same shooting club and the same year began his board membership for the CD in Leiden. He likes it much longer and is in 1999 still candidates for the last election where the CD has participated in, die voor het Europese Parlement. Noteworthy are the contacts he has with the CP'86 in the nineties, especially with headpiece Martijn Freling.
