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| Extremists roiling Dutch society | |
| 2004-11-22 | |
| Geert Wilders is on the run. He can't go home. He doesn't show his face in public. Six police officers track his every step. Wilders is not a fugitive, but a prominent Dutch legislator. The threat of assassination by Islamic extremists has forced him and several other politicians into hiding, while about 150 men identified by police as hard-core jihadis remain free. So the other 850 or so are just the attendant hangers-on and wannabes, I guess ... "I have stayed in five different safe houses," Wilders said in a recent interview. "It's a life you don't wish on your worst enemy. Meanwhile, they are still walking the streets of the Netherlands because the police can't arrest them — there is not enough evidence. I say that those who choose to kill our democracy with radical, fascistic Islamic ideas don't deserve the rights of our democracy. Once again we will have to wait until something else terrible happens before we do anything."
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| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #5 I should explain a bit. The EU bureaucracy is designed to not be responsive to society. The problem with that is that in time of crisis, it has no graceful failure. That is, it doesn't leave society with the mental option of "We just have to wait this government out and we can elect a new one". The remaining modes of change are all ugly. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2004-11-22 9:51:11 AM |
| #4 Not that they would, but they could do it through legislative process. It would provoke a crisis in the Wiemar Union if they tried. Methinks the PoMos are going to seriously regret all their efforts in Brussels. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2004-11-22 9:21:43 AM |
| #3 You can't arbitrarily change the date on a Visa with out due process. The rules must be followed, Mike. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-11-22 7:59:00 AM |
| #2 Meanwhile, they are still walking the streets of the Netherlands because the police can’t arrest them — there is not enough evidence. Here's what the Dutch can do with those who aren't Dutch citizens: Today is Monday. Change the expiration dates on the visas to today. Deport them on Tuesday. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-11-22 7:32:01 AM |
| #1 "Hello, Ivan? Wilders. How are you these days, starets?...Good, good. Listen, Ivan, I have some work I nned taken care of on the QT...Yes, that kind...Moroccans. I'm faxing you a list right now...10,000 Guilders a head, that's right. But I have a special requirement. I want them castrated, and their privates stuffed into their mouths...Before or after? I don't know Ivan, it's your line after all, not mine...Fine, before it is..." |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-11-22 1:50:01 AM |