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People should be punished just for being that dumb.
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Jesus.
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Although actually, I think tossing him in jail would do more good.
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I hope the Thai get to him first. Their prisons are much less pleasant and their sentences much tougher.
Also, echo! Echo! But no matter.
Oh hey, the fact that De Vries' involvement means that technically there was never any intent to actually traffick might cause trouble in the legal process.
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Some guys from De Vries' undercover team went to Thailand posing as sex club owners. Joran promises them some girls. Shit goes wrong (because the girls aren't interested), but he still promises them that things will go ahead as planned, and that he'll send them five girls.
As soon as they're back in Holland the previews for the show already air!
Joran tells the undercover people via MSN that things will still go ahead as scheduled, but he wants to wait until the show's been aired and the drama dies off.
Ahhh, here we go! Initiating human trafficking is illegal in Thailand at least.
Also, Joran said on MSN that he wants to send a Thai after De Vries, to teach him a lesson, no matter what the cost.
De Vries calls Joran, he says that he hasn't done anything and that De Vries initiated everything.
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But now, with this stuff going on, I am feeling quite sure that he is a sociopath.
Ah! The women are laughing in his face when he tells them they'd have to dance (that's the cover) 10 hours a day.
OMG, the girls don't want to, because they're still in school and can't go to The Netherlands right now, and he's INDIGNANT that they didn't tell him that before.
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All i can keep thinking of is that i hope there is a real life Dexter in the Netherlands.
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His mother must be so proud.
What a worthless human being he is.
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It's clear he's not a pro (yet) in this, he's just trying to make a quick buck over the backs of these women. I mean, he doesn't even talk of taking their passports away. Beginner! (Yes, um, sarcasm, hi!)
It's so weird, I don't think his father has all that much power, really. He did in Aruba, but things are kinda different here.
I know the guy who tipped off De Vries went to the police first, but they said they couldn't do anything because no crime had been committed yet (which was true). I'm not sure why this wasn't passed along to some sort of taskforce.
Peter de Vries is definitely the go-to guy for people who know stuff but can't be helped by the police.
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Gross.
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That being said, I would certainly suppose that 300(dollars or euros?) is well below the Dutch minimum wage, assuming there is one.
Anyway, I know nothing of Dutch law, I'm just positing one reason this Vries character might be showing the video to the public, not the police: perhaps his actions are reprehensible but not illegal.
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@maude_flanders: The father is a complete asshole bastard. I've seen several interviews, and ugh...