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Wednesday Mar 1 2006

Upholding the holy motto 'rules are rules' our minister of immigration has decided that the Kosovo girl Ta�da I mentioned earlier is going to be kicked out of the Netherlands. She will not be allowed to stay for 4 more lousy months and finish her education. What a sad country I live in...

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At 01 March '06 - 05:20 Erwin wrote:
I know she didn’t do everything the correct way, just to finish her study in The Netherlands, but I agree that this is a sad thing.
After her graduation she would probably leave the country without having any problems with that, but with a graduation on the level she is currently studying, she would have a great advantage getting a good job in her own country. At this moment she can throw anything away she sudied for in the last 4 or 5 years.
Only got one thing to say: ‘It’s sad!’
At 01 March '06 - 06:10 stefan wrote:
It’s indeed sad. It is good though that the school she is attending is actually looking into ways for her to finish her education from her home country anyway. I hope that will work.
At 01 March '06 - 09:09 Max Roeleveld wrote:
Why are the years she spent learning things suddenly thrown away? Maybe she doesn’t get that diploma, but does that mean that everything is suddenly un-learned?

I must say that I have mixed feelings about Taïda’s case, but the education she’s had, even if it were only one day, is never thrown away.
At 02 March '06 - 05:54 Leo Kennis wrote:
I agree, Marco. This is the opportunity for Verdonk and the VVD to improve their image. Verdonk is way too dogmatic in this case. But, luckily, almost all the other parties are in favour of Taïda staying. While “iron Rita” will kick her out no matter what, it at least shows that it is Verdonk who is the heartless b*tch, and not the rest of the government.

Also, I think this will cost the VVD votes in the city council elections and make the VVD less popular in general, decreasing the chance this heartless creature will be in government ever again… I’m not left-wing at all but I can’t stand people that can only let the rules think for them, and have no common sense or feelings whatsoever.
At 02 March '06 - 05:58 Leo Kennis wrote:
Oh yeah, and @ Max Roeleveld:

Of course her education isn’t thrown away. But it’s like taking 50 driving lessons but not taking the exam: you can drive just as well as everybody else, but officially you may not…try getting a job without a diploma these days.
At 02 March '06 - 06:59 Marco wrote:
Well I have the scary feeling this will make her MORE popular. This kind of thing is exactly what your average ‘fortuynist’ right-wing voter wants to see. I have no doubts that minister Verdonk will receive many, MANY right-wing ‘preference votes’ at the next elections. Those people just love this shit.
At 04 March '06 - 00:52 Simon wrote:
Well that may be so, Marco. But on the other hand, she has a lot of people who don’t like her that much as well… :) They actually gave her a nice Google bomb:

http://www.google.nl/search?hl=nl
At 04 March '06 - 00:53 Simon wrote:
Greaaat, my URL got broken… Well, search for ‘vreemdelingenhaat’ and check the first result.
At 11 March '06 - 15:46 Alex wrote:
Everybody seems to forget that the Dutch government actually paid her (and her family) thousands of euro’s to help her move to her own country. They even paid for the airline tickets. She has the possibility to take her final exam at the Dutch embassy.
So now just because she has gotten a lot of coverage in the media, the law doesn’t apply anymore?
At 11 March '06 - 15:49 Marco wrote:
@Alex: valid point, definitely. However one may wonder how much say she had in that whole arrangement which was probably made with her parents and not herself…

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