Dutch desert their changing country

Telegraph ^ | December 11, 2004 | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

An exodus of native-born Dutch in search of a new life abroad has reversed immigration flows for the first time since the post-war era.

Last year more people left the Netherlands than arrived as migrants or asylum seekers, even though unemployment remains low at 4.7 percent and per capita income is higher than any major country in Europe.

Ellen and Peter Bles are planning to leave their home near Tilburg for Perth, Western Australia Lawyers, accountants, computer specialist, nurses, and businessmen are lining up for visas to the English-speaking world, looking to Australia, New Zealand and Canada as orderly societies where people have the space to breathe.

The new wave of "middle-class flight" has quickened this year following rising ethnic violence and crime committed by and against immigrants, and in response to fears that social order is breaking down. In the first six months there was a net outflow of 13,313 people.

They are disengaging from a multicultural experiment once hailed as the model for the world but now stretched to breaking point. They are also escaping traffic jams and chronic over-crowding.

Requests for visa information have exploded since the murder of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch film-maker and acerbic critic of Muslim views on women.

An all-party report by the Dutch parliament this year concluded that the country's immigration policy had been a failure, leading to sink schools and ethnic ghettoes.

The Netherlands has been transformed in barely 30 years from a tight-knit Christian society into a polyethnic state, with three million people of immigrant background.

[Texas_Jarhead]

never you worry though - leftists will always trade educated and prosperous natives for poor, uneducated, and highly dependent immigrants for that is the path to power

[Kurt_D]

As a Dutch-born European I can perfectly understand them... Why do you guys think I came to the USA?

[Hildy]

Camp of the Saints...Read it.

[America's Resolve]

And Thank HEAVENS, my people came over here to escape persecution in 1742!

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Still nothing on the CAIR site about the Van Gogh murders...

[Lorianne]

Who can blame them? New Zealand is looking better all the time to me as well.

[Kurt_D]

Why would that vermin care? CAIR doesn't care about "infidels".

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

The new "Dutch"

Mohammed Bouyeri, suspected killer of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, is seen in this image from the Dutch television program 'Opsporing Verzocht' , which was aired on Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. Police received more than 50 tips about the murder of van Gogh after an estimated 2 million viewers watched the program. Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner approved the publication of the photo, generally banned under Dutch privacy laws, which prohibit the release by authorties of a suspect's identity.(AP Photo/Justice Ministry, ho)

[45semi]

'Gated communities' have a reputation as havens of elitist snobs...

But on a national scale, they might serve to keep the
murderers,
rapists,
thieves,
arsonists,
& other species of scumbags out.

[Ginifer]

Shame they are leaving and allowing the radical Islamists to overtake their country. What ever happened to standing up and fighting for your country and your rights?

[skip_intro]

What ever happened to standing up and fighting for your country and your rights?

The left has made that a hate crime

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

"As a Dutch-born European I can perfectly understand them... Why do you guys think I came to the USA?"

Glad you made the decision and got here.

I was at a seminar in the late 80's and found common interest with an engineer from the Netherlands. We both owned Emco Maier machine tools and we both made fire arms.

But, he was amazed that while he could only make neutered non-working models, I was making real firing rifles for my own use. I remember him saying that such a thing as a private individual doing so back in Europe where he hailed from was unheard of.

[TASMANIANRED]

The wages of socialism, diversity and political correctness. Sorry I am being redundant.

[TASMANIANRED]

Kurt, got out before the rush. You must really be prescient.

[nightdriver]

"What ever happened to standing up and fighting for your country and your rights?"

It's destroyed as a result of the liberal leftists.

They come into power by beguiling the intellectually lazy with promises of "the government" doing wonderful things for them and then they work tirelessly to give their country away until they can establish their "socialist utopia."

With the help of a politically correct media, "standing up and fighting" for your country is downplayed and ridiculed, so the morale of the nation is destroyed.

[Kurt_D]

Well.... actually I grew up in Latin America, but I went back to Europe to get my degree and start my professional life. But I have a problem with living in a Socialist light society. And I was always a huge fan of Ronald Reagan...

[vrwcagent0498]

With the help of a politically correct media, "standing up and fighting" for your country is downplayed and ridiculed, so the morale of the nation is destroyed. You've hit the proverbial nail on the head. Great statement.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bingo. Welcome.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Look what was just posted here, and it's on Drudge, too:

Pizza courier 'targeted' Amsterdam sex zone