Prosecution of Wilders to go ahead in the Netherlands
We read:
"Geert Wilders, leader of the anti-Islam party PVV, will definitely be prosecuted for inciting hatred against Muslims and Islam, news agency ANP writes on Wednesday.
A request by Wilders’ lawyer Bram Moscowicz to have the decision to prosecute quashed has been rejected by the Dutch supreme court.
Amsterdam appeal court said in January Wilders should stand trial for hate speech and discrimination. The public prosecution department had said earlier there were not sufficient grounds to prosecute the MP.
The anti-immigration MP said he expected ‘a political trial’. ‘I am being prosecuted for something millions of Dutch people are thinking... Freedom of speech is being sacrificed on the altar of islam. But I am ready to fight back with my head held high’, he added.
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I doubt that anybody expects much to come out of the trial. It is just a "show trial" in a modern version of that expression: Its aim is to show the Muslims that the weak-kneed Dutch government is "doing something".
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The spine-less Dutch will find out that weakness is what fuels Islamic terrorism.
"No one is as blind as he who refuses to see."
No, they haven't changed since about a thousand years before WW2...
This trial is clearly an attempt to silence a political adversary to the ruling leftwing autocracy.
It WILL lead to conviction and either forced disbanding of mr. Wilders' party or his imprisonment.
An appeal may eventually overturn such a conviction, but not before the next elections, thus effectively removing him as a factor in those elections and ensuring the continuation of the current regime.
I guess they couldn't find an assassin clever enough to get past mr Wilders' security screen, or he'd have met the same fate as Pim Fortuyn several years ago.
It's in that little different from the renewed arrest of mrs. Suy Kyi last week, a measure that's so obviously intended solely to prevent her taking part in the upcoming elections there it's hard to see how anyone could miss it.
And yet, the people sleep. And they say animals are dumb?
If the Dutch government wanted to do SOMETHING, anything, it could commit an act of bestiality with a horse (speaking of animals) and be doing something less bad and destructive than persecuting the most prominent public figure they have for correctly identifying the cause of their problems and proposing a genuine fix. Of course in many cases, it's far better to do nothing than do something bad.
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