To: wagglebee
An unidentified man is arrested by police during a demonstration regarding what some believe as the Islamization of Europe in Brussels, Tuesday Sept. 11, 2007. Demonstrations were banned by the Belgian government on Tuesday and those who took part were arrested. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier)
2 posted on
09/13/2007 9:35:15 AM PDT by
NYer
("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
To: Between the Lines
That was truly sureal.
It was like something out of a cliche movie about the future except that it was two days ago.
3 posted on
09/13/2007 9:35:24 AM PDT by
freedomson
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To: Between the Lines
"I hope that in future we will not hear about such events anymore The EU will guarantee that you won't hear about it anymore by smashing the cameras of anyone there and shuting down any newspapers or TV stations trying to report it.
4 posted on
09/13/2007 9:35:47 AM PDT by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Between the Lines
No protesting of islam is to be allowed.
5 posted on
09/13/2007 9:36:09 AM PDT by
processing please hold
(Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
To: Between the Lines
You can bet your booties that if the crazy islamics wanted to protest the mayor would have rolled out the red carpet and the police would never touched these crazies.
6 posted on
09/13/2007 9:36:24 AM PDT by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: Between the Lines
Islam considers itself ultimately un-defeatable and we’re all capitulating - or having it done for us - day by day.
7 posted on
09/13/2007 9:36:29 AM PDT by
onedoug
To: Between the Lines
"Abolish Belgium," at the link below, provides some insight into the mindset there:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070912/EDITORIAL/109120017/1013/editorial
Six years ago Claude Eerdekens, a leading Walloon Socialist and the chairman of the Naturalization Commission of the Belgian House of Representatives, admitted that his commission was granting citizenship to foreigners without investigating the applicants' backgrounds because most of the immigrants speak French rather than Dutch. "Our commission does more for the frenchification of Brussels than the Flemings can ever do to prevent it," he boasted in a newspaper interview.
All this would not have been possible if Belgium had been a democracy. Belgium's Constitution stipulates, however, that no major decisions can be taken without a majority in both parts of the country and that the government should consist of 50 percent Flemings and 50 percent Walloons. In practice this means that 20 percent of the population (i.e. half of the Walloons) can veto every decision. This has made the Parti Socialiste (PS), the largest party in Wallonia, the power broker in the country.
While capitalist-minded Flanders generates wealth (it accounts for 70 percent of Belgium's GDP and 80 percent of its exports), Wallonia, at the receiving end of a generous welfare system, spends most of the money and vetoes any attempt to reform the system. Every year 6.6 percent of Flanders' GDP is spent on welfare in Wallonia.
8 posted on
09/13/2007 9:40:06 AM PDT by
3AngelaD
(They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
To: Between the Lines
Expectations for political unity in Iraq are astronomically comical when you see scenes like this.
10 posted on
09/13/2007 9:48:36 AM PDT by
Berlin_Freeper
(ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
To: Between the Lines
Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, the right to petition government for redress of grievances: do not ever take these things for granted. Many Europeans have chosen to cede their liberties, most recently paid for in American blood, in exchange for security. They will wind up with neither freedom nor security.
12 posted on
09/13/2007 9:57:45 AM PDT by
andy58-in-nh
(Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedoms.)
To: pissant
just damn fyi ping
To: Between the Lines
"I hope that in future we will not hear about such events anymore and that European Union where we live together will be area of liberty, not a soft-tyranny." Hate to tell him this, but Europe has been a soft-totalitarian zone since the 1950s.
14 posted on
09/13/2007 10:00:23 AM PDT by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(Want authentic 1st century Christianity? Visit a local, New Testament Independent Baptist church!)
To: Between the Lines
Whoo hoo! Whoopin’ ass on some protesters. Gotta love it.
15 posted on
09/13/2007 10:02:53 AM PDT by
Wolfie
To: Between the Lines
"Riot police units from Liege in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium, maltreated the demonstrators, many of them from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, in an excessively violent way," reports Belien. They used cops from the French socialist part of Belgium to suppress dissent from the Dutch capitalist part of Belgium. Classic.
To: Between the Lines
A political faction colluding at the bringing in of immigrants in order to change the voting blocs in their favour. Yes, that could only happen in Europe /s
To: Between the Lines
Watching that video should send a chill up everyone’s spine - it’s indicative of some very chilling portentsWe take heed now or we pay later
22 posted on
09/13/2007 10:13:46 AM PDT by
maine-iac7
( "...but you can't fool all of the people all the time." LINCOLN)
To: Between the Lines
And this was reported in the US media where?
Though this is a deplorable brown-shirt-like attack on a peaceful demonstration, I'm very heartened to see some Europeans--and especially elected leaders--beginning to stand up and resist both Islamicization and the Culture of Death.
God protect them!
26 posted on
09/13/2007 10:24:41 AM PDT by
Antoninus
(Republicans who support Rudy owe Bill Clinton an apology.)
To: Between the Lines; wagglebee; NYer
WTF? These people protesting are obviously not thugs - why would the LE be so treacherous???
33 posted on
09/13/2007 11:08:09 AM PDT by
Froufrou
To: Between the Lines
COMING SOON TO A US CITY NEAR YOU!!!!!
40 posted on
09/13/2007 11:59:49 AM PDT by
New Perspective
(Proud father of a 3 year old son with Down Syndrome)
To: Between the Lines
Alright, who DIDN’T see this coming in Europe.
Although, I must admit, it was unsettling to see it happening so soon. This is BELGIUM too, I mean, who associates violence with modern Belgium?
43 posted on
09/13/2007 2:27:15 PM PDT by
oakcon
To: Between the Lines
Belgium Bullies and Brutes Bookmark
Now having NO desire to visit the land of hate and intolerance: Belgium. Who would have thought...
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