Geert Wilders has been exonerated of charges of “hate speech” by an Amsterdam court. The Dutch populist politician had likened the Koran to Mein Kampf, among other allegedly extreme statements, which were ultimately judged protected speech by the court. Wilders, who has appeared frequently in PJ Media, may have been strengthened politically by this victory. His Freedom Party is now the third largest in the Dutch parliament.
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May we see many more victories like this against our extreme enemies. The Muslims who exploit freedom killing “hate speech” laws, along with the extremist Leftists who implement and preosecute such laws, both work in concert, like evil enzymes to dismantle the very sinews of western civilization. I no longer view those on the Left as simply misguided, but as enemies who welcom the West’s enemies with open arms, abet them, take money from the productibpve citizens of the West to bribe and build coalitions of our enemies, agitate the poor to despise the rich, and will take everything from us and use the proceeds to destroy all that was bequeathed to us by our ancestors. They must be stopped.
What difference a year or two makes. Previously, I didn’t think he really stood a chance. Then there was vindication in Canada in Steyn’s (?) hate-speech case. Then the governments of Europe started moving rightward. Now this. This was a political case. The politics have changed.
Good news, but not unexpected: it was clear early on that the prosecution did not have a case, they were just required by law to go through the motions.
WRT the next Dutch election, I suggest that the party to watch are the Christian Democrats. If the CD party stays small, the Dutch are faced with a clear choice: more socialism and multiculturalism, or less of both. If it recovers the votes it lost at the last election, that is a sign that the Dutch would rather muddle through than make a choice.
My experience of the Dutch character is that they prefer to bite the bullet.
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Let’s not overlook the “sometimes the process IS the punishment” aspect. The Dutch apparatchiks have managed to tie up Mr. Wilders and his resources for a couple of years now. With no sincere apology on their horizon, and certainly, as the good Sisters used to say back in Catholic school, no firm purpose of amendment, many of the Dutch citizens will have gotten the apparatus’ message to tread very lightly, if at all when it comes to Islamomania and their muslim brothers and sisters. As one of my favorite Bob Dylan songs goes, “It ain’t dark but it’s gettin’ there.”
Great news! Hooray for free speech!