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To: Southern Federalist
Too many people on this thread are confusing the opinion of condoning pedophilia with the fact of being a pedophile. If Fortuyn wrote such a column, that is only evidence of the former. One may disagree with such an opinion, but wasn't the essence of the man that he was brave enough to express outrageous opinions? Do we really want to disown such a man because he held some opinions we do not agree with, even in a state of war and emergency?

Politics is the art of the possible, which means it is necessary to strike alliances with people who agree with us on the basics. Excessive purism is a prescription for futility.

62 posted on 05/16/2002 6:45:51 PM PDT by aristeides
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To: aristeides
A Dutch version of me would probably not have voted for Fortuyn. But I suspect Fortuyn got lots of people to think, who then voted against the multiculturalist Left (going Christian Democrat or the like) even though they couldn't quite bring themselves to vote for his movement/party.
70 posted on 05/16/2002 6:56:00 PM PDT by Southern Federalist
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