Most of the Dutch people live in the illusion that they are amongst the most well-informed and well-educated people on the planet, and that their tiny little country is mainly really cute and droll and a little weird, and that the only impression we can expect to make on the world's stage is by either soccer, Rembrandt, water management (we do kick ass in that department) and weed. Yes, the Dutch are kind of aware that their country plays a pivotal role when it comes to drugs trafficking, weapons development, child pornography, oil trade and setting up tax evasion schemes, but somehow we fail to draw the conclusion that the deep Dutch involvement in all these shady areas of business implies that, behind our cute and benign facade, the Netherlands is actually a hard-run, fancy banana-monarchy.

And speaking of monarchy, the Dutch Royal family is still held in high regard, despite the many many scandals they have been involved with over the years. This has a lot to with they way they"framed" themselves after WW2. Especially Prince Bernhard managed to sell himself as a great hero of the Dutch resistance, when in fact, he acted as a spy on behalf of the Germans, betrayed the battle at Arnhem (you know, the one in 'A Bridge Too Far'), and it has been rumored for decades that there exists a letter he wrote to Hitler, offering him to arrange a full merger of the Netherlands with Germany, provided he would be allowed to act as governor. Prince Bernhard also founded the Bilderberg group (yes, them!) right after the war, took bribes from the weapon's industry (the Lockheed scandal), tried to seize power of the throne by having his wife committed to an asylum (the Hoffmans scandal), helped Nazi art collectors to get off the hook (the Pieter Menten scandal), hunted elephants, and, apart from littering the country with a slew of illegitimate offspring, couldn't keep his hands of any women or girl. He truly is one of the sleaziest motherf*ckers to ever crawl out of the sewers of European nobility.

So being Dutch myself, I have to shamefully admit that you are probably right. Secret societies regard the Netherlands as their perfect low-profile-but-still-well-connected hide-out. Also, Dutch Freemasonry is very powerful and very well-connected. I'm convinced they arranged the assassination of Pim Fortuyn, who was kind of like a Dutch Donald Trump, rising to power because he addressed the worries of the common man, but was shot weeks before the 2002 election he was bound to win. That Pim Fortuyn sought to address the problem of the failing integration of Muslims was of course not in line with Soros' agenda, and cause for great concern amongst the elite, but what got him killed in the end is that he wanted to cancel the JSF-project (to be built by Lockheed. Coincidence?), thereby jeopardizing billions worth of business' interests.

But the average Dutch civilian literally has no f-ing clue what is going on in his own country, and, even more importantly, how all this relates to world events. For example, there's the case of Joris Demmink, a high-ranking official at the DoJ, who is well connected to pedo-rings and is blackmailed by the Turkish government of some minor-related antics he got involved in, but the Dutch Joe Average is completely unaware of this story. If you talk to people about this, they look at you as if you're insane. They simply cannot comprehend such gross injustice is allowed to continue in our over-regulated and over-legislated little country.

But even though the Dutch are mostly unaware of any of this, should this story break, and should it be revealed how the Dutch elite has set this up, and how they are still playing a major role in all of this, I can assure you there will be hell to pay for those involved.

The thing is, the average Dutchman doesn't like pretentiousness and doesn't like the idea of "an elite", of a group of people pretending to be "elevated" over all else. The average Dutchie considers himself a decent, upstanding, God-fearing citizen, and we only tolerate "the elite" as long as they show themselves to be like us: modest, law-abiding, frugal and socially concerned taxpayers. History has proven that should this trust be violated, the anarchistic side of the Dutch will rise up and burn, without any consideration for status or privilege, anything that offends them.

So if we manage to blow this case wide open, we can leave it to the Dutch to organize some ruthless precision cleansing.