The demonization of Pim Fortuyn, the Dutch up and coming politician

March 13 2002 | Friso Stammen

[knighthawk]

Today it was announced that Fortuyn will get 27 of the 150 seats in the next national elections, surpassing the VVD and nearing the CDA and PvdA in the polls. Last week he got 18 seats in the polls, but his this week published book 'the scrapheaps of 8 years of Purple' (Purple is the coalition government of PvdA/VVD/D'66) made him jump 9 seats. Although the book officialy came out today, it was sold in bookstores on monday and sold out the 10,000 books in one day.

[knighthawk]

Allthough not a topic of the Middle East, I used this list because a lot of people on it are Jewish. There have been articles calling Fortuyn a nazi and there was mention of the rise of the 'far right' in the Netherlands. This will set the record straight.

[Catspaw]

Wow--I think I like this guy:

It is time that Sharon is invited here to visit our country and to strengthen our friendship. Also it's time to say to the Palestinians to do something useful on their land with the millions of aid they recieve. Instead of tunneling the money to Swiss bank-accounts from corrupt PA elitist, they need to invest it in a state.

[knighthawk]

Ping for a must read.

[dennisw]

Very good new. Very good that he says he is gay now so it cannot be used against him. Interesting man there. Send it Andrew Sullivan. He would like this one!

[knighthawk]

He always said he was gay, but it does not stop the real lefties from trying. Two months ago a extreme-leftwing organization rewarded money to the people who could reveal 'unpleasent' things about his sexual past!

[knighthawk]

It's the complete opposite of the pro-terrorist left! And it's time the public starts to learn the truth about Israel and stops to think Arafat and his terrorbuddies are the ones being oppressed.

[Catspaw]

He always said he was gay, but it does not stop the real lefties from trying. Two months ago a extreme-leftwing organization rewarded money to the people who could reveal 'unpleasent' things about his sexual past!

And who's calling who a "Nazi?"

Tactics from the Larry Flynt playbook. Sheesh.

[fortress]

So what do you think of a Leefbaar Nederland, VVD and CDA coalition government?

[knighthawk]

The PvdA/VVD/D'66 coalition has done it so bad the past 8 years, almost anything would be an improvement!

[fortress]

We had our 8 years of misery and GW is slowly turning the ship around.
We can only hope that Holland will do likewise.

[knighthawk]

No, that will never happen, here people still are too PC for that.

[fortress]

In Holland the people rely on the government to keep them safe.
Here we feel the need for guns to be safe from our government and to keep them honest.

[TopQuark]

What a great post, KnightHawk! Thank you so much for this education; without your help, where would I get this knowledge?

I, as many others here on FR, do care for what is happenning in Holland, so thanks for keeping us updated.

[knighthawk]

Thanks, TQ. I post this because I am afraid people will see Fortuyn as a nazi. But the truth is he is backing Israel and the Jewish people, like no other politicians do in Holland. Here so many people are anti-Israel. It's time Europe turned around and stopped backing Arafat and his killers! He is the man who can do it over here, so I support him. But I do not agree with everything he says.

The people who call him a nazi are the same people who kissed Arafat when he visited Holland!

[Consort]

This development can help solve our French problem. The Netherlands can take over France and make them all Walloons or Flemish, and they can help with all those dykes over there.

[TopQuark]

The people who call him a nazi are the same people who kissed Arafat when he visited Holland! I an no longer shocked by this: I still remember the same people saying, even before the 1980 election, that "Regan wanted to start the nuclear war."

They will never admit they were wrong; rather, they would find a new target to attack and a new "victim" to empathize with. Facts don't matter to them.

BUt you are absolutely correct: these people are very loud, and once they start calling someone "nazi" and "racist," we are in danger of forming a biased opinion. So, again, thanks for keeping us straight.

[Giddyupgo]

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