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Dutch rightwing politician convicted by court for expressing anti-immigration opinions

Facists: The leader of the conservative and anti-immigration party in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, has been convicted by a Dutch court of expressing hate speech during a political rally, simply because he called for a change in policy that would bring fewer Moroccans into the country.

Essentially, this liberal court has ruled that it is illegal for any politician, or anyone for that matter, to express an opinion in opposition to the present policy of the European Union to allow uncontrolled immigration into Europe from the Middle East. As noted at the link, “You read that correctly. An elected representative was convicted in a trial for talking about public policy. If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine then you are considerably more comfortable with socialism than you should be.”

This behavior of the left, however, is quite typical. They are fascists. You aren’t allowed to disagree with them, and if you do, they will work to destroy you. Think I am exaggerating? Consider these two stories from today:

If I was to do a quick internet news search for stories in the past week, I could find another dozen like these. The left’s idea of debate is to demand that you shut up. And they are becoming increasingly aggressive in their efforts to enforce this demand, by the use of force or violence.

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  • Cotour

    I heard this story the other day and I believe the comment by the government officials was that Wilders was a threat to “free speech”. I laughed, I guess they did not see the folly of their counter intuitive statement.

    THERE IS NO FREE SPEECH in the Netherlands !

    And Hillary is now concerned with the “Fake news” that is now a threat to peoples existence and it is probably what lost her the election. I guess she does not remember that she herself was one of the originators of “Fake News”, remember how she was unloaded from a helicopter in the middle of sniper fire? (she said sooo convincingly with a straight face, just like Brian Williams) I have no problem believing that she attempted to have Mika pulled from the air, Mika (the little I saw of her) was actually uncomfortably, contortingly, painfully speaking against the Hillary machine, and for good reason.

    And once again, we remember the most important factual element of this past presidential election, Hillary Clinton will never become the president of the United States. It truly makes me smile and I am optimistic, I am seriously considering buying another building.

  • Edward

    So, the Netherlands has gone full-on fascist. If Europeans do not successfully complain about this, then more European Union countries will follow this lead.

    Of course governments do not want anyone to disagree with them. That just makes forcing their ideas and edicts upon the population that much harder.

    Obama sees the US Constitution as a document of negative rights, but that is what is so good about the Constitution. It limits government power (negative rights for government) and allows the population to retain the power that a governed people should have (positive rights for We the People).

    The actions of the Netherlands have been warned against for decades. Any right that is conferred upon the people by the government, such as freedom of speech and the right to disagree or even actively speak against government, can be taken away from the people by the government.

    By pretending that speech is generously given to the people, the government can also pretend that it can take it away, and this is what this conviction has done. Except that it goes farther than just taking the freedom to disagree from those who are ruled, it also takes it away from those who rule.

    In the Netherlands, government is now all powerful and can never be told that it is wrong. The Netherlands’ government has gone far beyond the purpose of government — the reason that civilized people created government — to being its own purpose for existence. The opinions of the Netherlands people (and maybe even their desires and perhaps even their needs) have become secondary to the needs of the government, and right now that government needs everyone to agree with it without any dissent.

    The reason for humanity to create government was to:
    1) protect the population from foreign and domestic enemies,
    2) peacefully resolve disputes, and
    3) stay out of the people’s way.

    Governments were not created to be mommy and daddy with the population the underage, dependent children, unable to properly care, feed, or speak for themselves, but that is where Europe is headed.

    The current US government’s administration encouraged the US to become more like Europe. But then again, the current administration does not like dissent or alternate ideas, either. For a while, the White House even had a web site to report people who disagreed with its position on Obamacare so that those dissenters could be “reeducated.”

    It seems from Mika Brzizinski’s account that a Clinton administration would have been just as fascist.

    The account of the student who may be expelled is interesting, too. From the article: “‘we’re really back to being in a civil war,’ [the professor] said, ‘and I don’t mean it in a fighting way, but our nation is divided as clearly as it was in civil war times.’

    Also from the article: “Every student knows it. If you stand up to your professor, 90 percent of the time the professor’s going to punish you.

    Professors being the ruling authority within a classroom, the students are showing that they understand the fascistic relationship on the modern college campus. So much for free speech on campus and the college as a place for discourse of alternate ideas.

    And now the professor’s union is saying (also from the article): “The student will be identified and may be facing legal action.

    It seems that professors and students, alike, are precious snowflakes unable to handle ideas that are foreign to them.

    Ironically, it is the professor’s own complaint about her rant becoming public knowledge and the union’s threat of legal action that are the divisive factors. As with the Netherlands, Obama, and Clinton, Orange Coast College’s professor’s union is aggressively attacking dissent.

    To paraphrase what the professor said, the people leading the assault on free speech are indeed among us.

  • Cotour

    MASS SHOOTINGS, “RACISM” AND POLITICS

    This morning we wake up to at least three mass shootings. One in California, One in El Paso, and one last night in Dayton, Ohio. The one in California seems to have set the other two off (?). Perpetrated by a young white male. The second in El Paso also done by a young white male. This is allegedly a part of the El Paso shooters manifesto.

    The Left nor the Right own the exclusive franchise on crazy.

    “Hispanics will take control of the local and state government of my beloved Texas, changing policy to better suit their needs,” the manifesto said. It added that politicians of both parties are to blame for the United States “rotting from the inside out,” but went on to say that “the heavy Hispanic population in Texas will make us a Democrat stronghold.”

    https://buffalonews.com/2019/08/03/multiple-gunmen-reported-in-active-shooting-at-el-paso-shopping-center/

    Now I think we can all agree that these kinds of people are severely mentally deranged in some manner and have in their paranoia over interpreted the immediate implications of what appears to consume them. Their mental illness. In the case of the El Paso shooter the Invasion of Texas by Hispanics from South of the border. And immediately the likes of the impotent and faking it “Beto” O’rourk is quick to blame who else? Trump. Trump did it.

    Why? Because Trump has the audacity to promote American Nationalism. American Nationalism being very different from other forms of Nationalism, like German nationalism to make a very clear distinction. American Nationalism is related to the inclusion and assimilation of all legally present citizens and immigrants. German nationalism is of the most extreme kind of Nationalism and is not about the inclusion of all but a doctrine of exclusion and what turned out to be a culture of death and extermination
    of all who are not of a certain specific heritage. The political manipulators in the media and in politics will tend to conflate the two and call them one. And that is a fraudulent, dishonest and manipulative position to promote. You can have pride in your country and not promote the later kind of Nationalism.

    To bunch all of this into one bundle and attempt to define Nationalism in the broadest terms possible is a form of political correctness and political correctness destroys all meanings of words and terms in order for the destroyer to insert their own definition. And that definition is without doubt meant to steal freedom and cause oppression. When you can control how people define words and terms you can make them think just about anything.

    If a political opponent can put forth this perverted thinking not based in the true intent of another who they oppose then they have to some degree tagged and defined them. Its a strategy, and it can be very effective. Unfortunately it can be fraudulent and dishonest. America, and American nationalism is exactly 180 degrees from most all other forms of nationalism. And that is because America as a country is formulated in an entirely different manner than all other forms of governance. Unique on the planet.

    American Nationalism does not mean that Americans do not welcome immigrants. That is fraudulent.

    That being said lets look further into the clear agenda being executed by the Democrat party leadership for the past 50 years. What has been their goal? To establish through flooding the country with poor souls from South of the border who they believe will vote for them and keep them eternally politically empowered. Very simple.

    Let me ask you a question that will establish this as a fact in your mind.

    What is your conclusion about the Democrat leadership in our country when we all witness live in the media 100 thousand people per month rushing the American border, OUR border? We see caravans of 10 to 15 thousand people flying their own flags marching to our borders and demanding entry and all that comes with that privilege. And the Democrat leadership looks into the lens of the media and tells you “There is no crisis at the border, its all made up!”.

    What do you think about what the Democrat leadership, a leadership that some Americans have voted for and have politically empowered to represent them, and they tell you while looking square into the lens and tells you with a straight face “There is no crisis at the border!”.

    First, what do you think about that? And second, what exactly do you think they intend? These are not stupid people, although they count on the American public to be just that, stupid. Stupid and in constant confusion.

    So these issues, insanity and the insane deciding at some point to act on their insanity are fed by many avenues, most which can never be rationally understood. And the politically motivated and the media that now spins for a living and has abandoned journalism are not doing rationally thinking, patriotic to the country and Constitution American any favors.

    We must be able to see through these frauds and manipulations if we as a people, we as Americans are to move as America into the future.

    For if we Americans as a group are unable to properly accomplish this essential task our precious country and its Constitution will certainly die and be no more.

  • Cotour

    PS: I have said this before, anyone who perpetrates such an evil such as a mass shooting or bombing and they survive it needs to be federally charged and tried and if found guilty needs to be executed. Preferably by firing squad, and have it televised live.

    Timothy McVeigh being the most obvious example, but he was put to death by lethal injection.

    Actions taken and consequences exacted, clear and unambiguous.

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