LETHAL VERONICA THE DUTCH BLACK SCORPION by Hamlet VERONICA'S EARLY YEARS AS A TOUGH GIRL IN ROTTERDAM Veronica Schotte was a very big girl at the age of 17.To Her friends She was known as Lethal Veronica as a result of Her incredible fighting and wrestling skills at school. She was now over 6' tall with powerful muscles and very big hips. She was incredibly well developed for Her age a real high cheeked Ebony Cura�aoan beauty. Her amazing proud erect physique made Her look taller than She really was. In every way She was extremely athletic, muscular and positively excelled in every single sport imaginable winning in every track, field and gymnastic events easily outclassing every one of Her opponents. She was also an excellent footballer beating the boys every single time who could not even get nearer as She was so fast and agile. She had also developed Her fighting skills excelling particularly in wrestling and fist fighting to the extent that at school She was known to be invincible and would adapt the name the Wrestling Goddess. She had also attained black belts in both karate and taekwondo at the age of only 16.She was now learning the most dangerous martial art in the world Norselandic Gym Kata by which one could kill one's opponent in two deadly blows! Throughout the school She had attained the well deserved name of Lethal Veronica! She lived with Her widowed mother in Rotterdam the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam constructed in 1270 on the Rotte River, Rotterdam had grown into a major international commercial centre. Its strategic location at the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta on the North Sea and at the heart of a massive rail, road, air and inland waterway distribution system extending throughout Europe was the reason that Rotterdam was often called the "Gateway to Europe". In the province of South Holland, Rotterdam lay in the west of Netherlands and the south of the Randstad. The population of the city was 616,250 on February 1, 2012. The population of the greater Rotterdam area, called "Rotterdam-Rijnmond" or just " HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijnmond" \o "Rijnmond" Rijnmond", was approximately 1.3 million. The combined urban area of Rotterdam and The Hague was the 206th largest urban area in the world. One of Europe's most vibrant, multicultural cities, Rotterdam was known for its university (Erasmus), cutting-edge architecture, lively cultural life, striking riverside setting and maritime Heritage. It was also known for the Rotterdam Blitz. The largest port in Europe and one of the busiest ports in the world, Rotterdam's commercial and strategic importance was based on its location near the mouth of the Niue Maas (New Meuse), a channel in the delta formed by the Rhine and Meuse on the North Sea. These rivers lead directly into the centre of Europe, including the industrial Ruhr region. In the Netherlands, Rotterdam had the highest percentage of foreigners from non-industrialised nations. They form a large part of Rotterdam's multi ethnic and multicultural diversity. 51% of the population were of non Dutch origins or have at least one parent born outside the country. There were 80,000 Muslims, constituting 13% of the population. The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb, was of Moroccan descent and was a practicing Muslim. The city was home to the largest Dutch Antillean community of which Veronica born in Cura�ao, making up .4% of the population. The city had the largest Papian population outside Papia itself making up 5% of the population just over 25,000 The city also has its own China Town at the (West-) Kruwaskade, close to the central railway station Her family had moved to the Netherlands from Cura�ao when She was only 12. Cura�ao was an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Cura�ao which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Cura�ao ("Little Cura�ao") was a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its capital was Willemstad. Prior to 10 October 2010, when the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved, Cura�ao was administered as the Territory of Cura�ao one of five island territories of the former Netherlands Antilles. Cura�ao was a polyglot society. The official languages were Dutch and Papiamentu. The most widely spoken language was Papiamentu, a creole language spoken in all levels of society. Papiamentu was introduced as a language of primary school education in 1993, making Cura�ao one of a handful of places where a Creole language was used as a medium to acquire basic literacy.[47] Spanish and English also have a long historical presence in Cura�ao. Spanish became an important language in the 18th century due to the close economic ties with Spanish colonies in what are now Venezuela and Colombia. When Dutch rule resumed in 1815, officials already noted wide use of the language. According to the 2001 Census, Papiamentu was the first language of 81.2% of the population. Dutch was the first language of 8% of the population. English was the first language of 2.9% and Spanish was the first language of 4% of the population. However, these numbers divide the population in terms of first language and does not account for the high rate of bilingualism in the population of Cura�ao. Most of Cura�ao's population was able to converse in Papiamentu, Dutch, English or Spanish regardless of their first language. Because of its history, the island's population comes from a number of ethnic backgrounds. There was an Afro-Caribbean majority of African descent, from which Veronica came from, and also sizeable minorities of Dutch, Latin American, French, South Asian, East Asian, Portuguese and Levantine people. They had moved to a middle class suburb called Overschie in the north west of the city. Her father was a caretaker of a block of flats and when he died Her mother became caretaker so that they lived rent free. U8nfortuately Overschie was a stronghold of the right wing racist PVV. The Party for Freedom (Dutch: Partij voor de Vrijheid, PVV) was a right-wing political party in the Netherlands. Founded in 2005 as the successor to Greet Wilders' one-man party in the House of Representatives, it won 15 seats in the 2012 general election, making it the third largest party in parliament. It came second in the 2009 European Parliament election, winning 4 out of 25 seats. Since then, the PVV has agreed to support the minority government led by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, without having ministers in the Rutte cabinet. However the PVV withdrew its support in April 2012 due to differences over budget cuts. In 2012 the PVV party has launched a website named Reporting Centre on Central and East Europeans which receives complaints about Central and East European and Papian immigrants in the Netherlands. 'Do you have problems with people from Central and Eastern Europe and Papia? Have you lost your job to a Pole, a Bulgarian, a Romanian or another East European or a Papian or even an Antillean (people from Cura�ao are Antilleans)? We want to know,' the website states. It displayed newspaper headlines such as 'Wouldn't it be better if you went back home to eastern Europe, Papia and the Antilles?' and 'East Europeans, increasingly criminal'. The European Commission has condemned the website, and EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding declared, "We call on all citizens of the Netherlands not to join in this intolerance. Citizens should instead clearly state on the PVV's website that Europe was a place of freedom." The website caused a lot of controversy within the European Union. Veronica was generally a lovely good natured girl, except when a PVV supporter in the area called Her a 'nikker� 'or 'roetmop'� or kaffir all insulting terms in Dutch for Black people. If anyone called Her an abusive term like this She would flare up in fury and God help anyone who annoyed Her! She had learned through Her superior fighting skills to take care of Herself and beat Her opponents easily. Next door to Her lived a lovely Papian family called the Hutuhuahuas.They owned a restaurant n the centre of Rotterdam called the Polynesian Heaven serving the most delicious food. Veronica was a close friend of their daughter Susi who was a very sweet submissive girl with a gorgeous face and long flowing silky black hair. Like all Papians they were spotlessly clean and Susi being a dutiful daughter always remembered to put the dustbins out and swept the front of the house until it positively glistened. On this particular day she had asked Veronica if She could help her with her homework in maths. Veronica being a brilliant pupil readily helped her just as She helped her with her Dutch lessons a language Susi was finding it very difficult to learn. While Susi was doing her homework she noticed a boy walking his dog by her front door. He was a really nasty boy called Mark Van Haersma whose father Gert was a staunch PVV supporter. He would often walk pass the door calling the family 'Papi bastard' and yelling out 'Ga naar huis Papias! (Go home Papians! He saw Susi at the window and decided to make his dog defecate right outside the front door just where she had cleaned. The dog dipped its backside and shitted right in front of their front door. 'Goed eten Papwas !You can serve that in your restaurant! Susi was in tears too frightened to say anything. Veronica was furious as She ran to the window. 'Schoon dat verknoeien klootzak!' 'CLEAN THAT MESS UP YOU BASTARD!