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2017-12-17 Europe
European far-right leaders get together for anti-EU bid
[IsraelTimes] Heads of nationalist parties from La Belle France, the Netherlands, Italia, Austria, Britannia and other countries meet in Prague to discuss working together against bloc.

Far-right populists in Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
vowed Saturday to work together to create a new model of intercontinental cooperation that is far removed from the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
Leaders of parties from La Belle France, the Netherlands, Italia, Austria, Britannia and other countries met in Prague to discuss ideas for Europe’s future under the headline "For a Europe of Sovereign Nations."

They attacked the EU for its migrant policies, accused its leader of trying to create a super state run by Brussels and praised US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s approach to migration.

Marine Le Pen, leader of La Belle France’s far-right National Front, blamed the EU for getting "everything wrong."

"Because we love Europe, we accuse the EU of killing Europe," Le Pen told news hounds. She said parties like hers want to save Europe "by preserving nation-states."

"We are not xenophobes, we are opponents of the European Union," Le Pen said. "I think this is something we have in common, because the European Union is a disastrous organization which is leading our continent to destruction through dilution by drowning it in migrants colonists, by the negation of our respective countries, by the draining of our diversity."

Geert Wilders, founder of the Dutch anti-Islam Party for Freedom, followed suit.

"My party is convinced that the Netherlands would be better off outside the European Union, and it will be better for our economy, for our security," Wilders said.

Wilders singled out immigration and "Islamization" of Europe as the most pressing issues.

"We must have the courage, to introduce travel bans as President Trump has done in the United States," he said. "We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it. We must have the courage to repatriate the illegal immigrants colonists."

Parties with anti-immigration platforms have been making gains at the polls in Europe, although Wilders and Le Pen both ran unsuccessfully this year for the top political posts in their countries.

More recently, Austria’s far-right Freedom Party became a partner in a new coalition government after receiving more than a quarter of the vote in a parliamentary election.

The meeting was hosted by the most anti-migrant, anti-Moslem, anti-EU party in the Czech Republic, Freedom and Direct Democracy. It finished fourth in October’s parliamentary election, winning 22 seats in the 200-seat lower house of Parliament.

The party wants to ban Islam, which it calls an ideology of hate. Its chairman, Tomio Okamura, is currently a deputy speaker of the house.

Hundreds of protesters joined a peaceful rally against the far-right gathering in Prague on Saturday.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 00:30|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 The [Czech, anti-migrant] party wants to ban Islam, which it calls an ideology of hate. Its chairman, Tomio Okamura

Heh?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-17 02:42||   2017-12-17 02:42|| Front Page Top

#2 'Okamura' seems more likely to be an immigrant as opposed to migrant.
Posted by jpal 2017-12-17 09:16||   2017-12-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 It's multiculturalism that opposed not multi-racialism.

What's the problem?
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-12-17 10:41||   2017-12-17 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The label "far-right" gets tossed around as insult and condemnation of any sort of nationalist party, but it is useful to remember that National Socialism was considered far-right. I think the simplified political scale in Europe looks like this:
Commies - Social Democrats - Far Right
Posted by SteveS 2017-12-17 15:22||   2017-12-17 15:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Wikipedia:

Tomio Okamura (岡村 富夫 Okamura Tomio, born 4 July 1972[1]) is a Czech–Japanese entrepreneur, writer and politician. He is the founder of the political parties Dawn of Direct Democracy and Freedom and Direct Democracy. Since October 2013, he has been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP), initially for Dawn of Direct Democracy and then from May 2015 for Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD), of which he is also leader. He previously served as an independent Senator for Zlín district from October 2012 until his election to the Chamber of Deputies a year later.

Born in Tokyo to a half-Japanese, half-Korean father, and a Moravian mother from the Zlín region,[2] Okamura came to Czechoslovakia for the first time when he was six years old. He spent 10 years in Japan in total. He spent part of his childhood in a children's home in Mašťov near Podbořany where he experienced bullying, causing him to have a stutter until he was 20 years old.[citation needed]

In his youth he worked as a waste collector and later a popcorn seller at a cinema in Japan.[3] Okamura is fluent in Czech and Japanese.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 15:25||   2017-12-17 15:25|| Front Page Top

#6 it is useful to remember that National Socialism was considered far-right.

Post-WWII, yes. But back in the 1930s-1945, the national socialist Nazis considered themselves as legitimately socialist as the international socialist Soviets (“commies). And for that matter, Geert Wilders and all the rest are as definitely of the socialist left economically as the various respectable labour socialist parties of Britain and Europe. But really, the definition of fascists of all sorts as “right wing” comes from Stalin — and he was correct that from the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist perspective, national socialism, which retains business owners so long as they do exactly as the government orders in every jot and tittle, is ever so slightly to the right of the Stalinist method, which directly replaced owners the owners with government functionaries.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-17 16:00||   2017-12-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Real world is sure stranger than any fiction.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-12-17 16:24||   2017-12-17 16:24|| Front Page Top

12:58 trailing wife









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