-Caveat Lector- Alamaine Ratliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > Anyway, more myth & legend on the Pilgrims: > > From http://www.athensnewspapers.com/1997/112697/1126.a3pilgrims.html > > American detective work brings > alive Pilgrims' forgotten years > > By William J. Kole > Associated Press <snip> An update on Jeremy Bangs... ================================ Dutch border tightens on American historian By William J. Kole ASSOCIATED PRESS AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Nearly four centuries after it took in the Pilgrims, the Netherlands has ordered America's foremost Pilgrim expert to leave. Jeremy Bangs, founder of a new Pilgrim museum in the medieval city of Leiden, has been caught in the Dutch government's immigration crackdown, a response to an unprecedented wave of refugees. For Bangs, the order to leave by Jan. 15 is thick with irony. He has been chronicling how the Pilgrims, before boarding the Mayflower, spent 11 years in a Holland that proudly declared in 1609 that it "refuses no honest people free entry." The Netherlands' refusal to grant him a residency permit, Bangs contends, will force the closure of the only museum focusing on the Pilgrims' little-knownexile here. "I'm not a refugee; I'm a historian," Bangs, 52, said yesterday. "They can expel me. They can just appear and deport me. It's incredible. People are shocked, and my own mood is souring." The Justice Ministry, which oversees immigration policy, this month rejected Bangs' application for new residency papers, saying the historian needed a work permit. Officials also have refused to recognize Bangs' financial support, expenses and health insurance through the New England Historic Genealogical Society as an adequate source of income. Bangs, who has written 10 books about the Pilgrims, was told that he could not apply for a work permit because he was officially considered an employee of the museum he opened on Thanksgiving Day 1997 and only employers can apply. "The whole thing just makes me furious," said Jane Fiske, editor of the Register of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which publishes Bangs' research. Bangs' Leiden American Pilgrim Museum is in a typical Pilgrim-style, 16th-century, one-room house in the heart of Leiden, 25 miles southwest of Amsterdam. It was an instant hit in the town that offered refuge to 100 Pilgrims and that still holds yearly Thanksgiving Day services in the main church. More than 2,600 people have visited the cramped museum cluttered with Pilgrim-era tools, pottery and furniture. Supporters worldwide are writing letters to Queen Beatrix and cabinet ministers on behalf of Bangs and his wife. Even the Ministry of Culture has issued a statement that Bangs' work "serves an essential interest of the Netherlands." But the Justice Ministry has refused to budge. It is struggling to contain a record of nearly 50,000 illegal immigrants this year from Afghanistan, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia. "Nobody could be more politically harmless than Jeremy," Fiske said. "You know, I used to be proud of my own Dutch heritage but not anymore." © 1998 Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. ================================= Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
