Posted on 05/06/2014 2:16:01 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
AMSTERDAM — The animal rights activist who assassinated Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was freed Friday, after serving just under 12 years in prison — years during which many of Fortuyn’s ideas, particularly his disdain of “multiculturalism” and his dislike of Muslim immigration, have become mainstream in the Netherlands.
Volkert van der Graaf killed Fortuyn on May 6, 2002, days before national elections in which Fortuyn was set to win big on an anti-immigration platform that upended the then-progressive Dutch political landscape.
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Murder a politician in the Netherlands, and you’re going away... for TWELVE LONG YEARS! Ya got that tough guy?
Socialist countries don’t have the death penalty. Murdering someone just isn’t as bad there as it is here. And they think we have no conscience.
disdain of “multiculturalism” and his dislike of Muslim immigration, have become mainstream in the Netherlands.
Yes and what a shit hole it has become..........
What kind of a message does this send to people there who may wish to change history in the same manner? Or would he still be in prison if he had killed a leftist? /rhetorical.
How many years would it have been if it had been a nationalist or conservative politician who killed an animal-rights activist?
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