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Dutch are doing just fine

Having lived in the Netherlands as recent as 2008 and with many friends still residing there, I feel I have some understanding of the Dutch political scene

Having lived in the Netherlands as recent as 2008 and with many friends still residing there, I feel I have some understanding of the Dutch political scene. As a result there are a number of fallacies that need to be corrected from Gwynne Dyer’s most recent affront to Dutch democracy.

He could begin by spelling the name of the leader of the Freedom Party correctly. After all, if you can’t correctly copy a word, what does that say about your mental digestive system?

Wilders is an extremist, according to Dyer.

He has not killed anyone and does not intend to do so, unlike the Muslims who murdered Theo van Gogh and Pim Fortuin and who threatened Ayaan Hirsi Ali with the same fate, just because they happened to be critical of the socio-economic system of Submission (Islam). This all happened in tolerant Holland, which for ages has welcomed anything that drifted towards their shores, clothed them, fed them, housed them and had them join their liberal welfare system.

If Wilders is so “obsessed” with clothing where does that leave the new law in France where burkas are banned? All Frenchmen also xenophobic extremists? That implies that Dyer is of the common socialist opinion that democracy is only valid if it agrees with the prevailing opinion of the left.

It is also very unlikely that Wilders will be convicted of the counts that he stands charged with, simply because of the fact that the prosecutor has refused to present a number of the charges against him. Stronger yet, the prosecutor has requested acquittal!

Dyer is also wrong on the account that the so-called economic crisis has a bearing on the emergence of this supposed “fringe party,” which according to a recent poll by Maurice de Hond in the Netherlands, would now be the largest party if an election were to be held. In Canadian terms, that is equal to calling the Conservative Party of Canada a fringe party. The Freedom Party was doing quite nicely already, prior to the crisis.

These are just some the examples of an article so full of holes that a Swiss cheese would look green with envy.

Don’t apply for a job as a foreign correspondent yet Dyer! The Dutch are doing just fine!

G.Vande Bunte

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