Posted on 12/12/2016 1:18:35 PM PST by grundle
The Dutch far-right opposition leader Geert Wilders was convicted Friday of inciting discrimination and "insulting a group" after a trial over statements he made about Moroccans.
But the court found him not guilty of incitement to hatred and handed down no punishment.
Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), was charged after inciting supporters into a chant calling for fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands in 2014.
According to a court statement, Wilders asked his audience: "Do you want more or less Moroccans in this city and in the Netherlands?"
The audience repeatedly chanted "less."
The court said that Wilders "singled out an entire group of citizens" and that the message "came through loud and clear." It convicted him of insulting a group and incitement to discrimination.
But the court found insufficient evidence to find him guilty of incitement to hatred.
The court, which could have fined Wilders, decided that verdicts were sufficient punishment and imposed no further penalty.
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Coming to an America near you very soon!
Free Republic will be shut down eventually.
Hey! Now I'm guilty of insulting a group, too.
I'm sorry, but I laughed out loud when I read that.
Two Four Six Eight
Let's All Go Discriminate!
Yeah, Team!
Memo to Don Rickles: Don’t book into the Amsterdam Biaggio......
Geert Wilders, Convicted of Speaking the Truth!
Geert for Prime Minister!
End the Muslim take over!
ahh the left - so stupid to see the error of their ways.
Sadly, when Muslims take over their land, “hate speech” will only apply to whites - Muslims will be free to spread their hate all over the country.
Who will stop them? Some limp wristed politician, lawyer or judge? ahaha, yeah... he’ll end up in a body bag, and everyone will be afraid to speak out against Muslims for fear of decapitation.
Insulting a group. Incitement to discrimination. Incitement to hatred.
Thoughtcrime. For real.
And here, it is CNN that is guilty of all of these things.
WTF is it with Europeans and their fascination with nihilism? Is it that their leaders are in full tilt globalist population replacement? Or have they been so diluted and decimated that they just don’t give a shit anymore?
As an American, I just can’t wrap my head around their line of thinking.
At least the Eastern Europeans are putting up a fight. They’ve been down this road before, and still have the living memory and ability to deal with this.
Did the original Dutch statement include the English equivalent to ‘less’ or ‘fewer?’
They are feeling the heat in Holland and backing down from attacking the most prevalent beliefs.
It’s that Europeans are so desperate to not be Nazis or white colonizing imperialists they are now no longer anything. Literally they are now a culture that strives not to exist!
They need to get over it, and get over it fast.
All of the muslims that they’re letting overrun them are like the NAZI’s on steroids.
The third reich couldn’t even hold a candle to the totalitarian regime that is islam.
And these idiots are clueless as to why Russia and eastern European nations are distancing themselves from the rest of Europe.
I’ll insult a group.
The Dutch are pansies.
They were before and during WWII and since.
The majority turned in their Jews and others to the Nazis, ratted out their neighbors and generally capitulated. They haven’t shown much backbone “as a group” since. Now they’ve been busy capitulating again to PC and mobocracy for the last few decades.
Yes, there are brave decent Dutch people, but as a group they don’t have much to be proud of.
I believe they will try, and sooner rather than later.
I don’t know if they will be successful.
I believe they will try, and sooner rather than later.
I don’t know if they will be successful.
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