Posted on 09/03/2017 9:24:50 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Speech from the Ambrosetti Conference.
Thank you for having me here today. I realize that my views are different from those of the many members of the European establishment in our midst, but I am an optimist.
I believe in a positive future for Europe as a community of independent, sovereign and democratic nations -- working together without a supranational political union --without European Union.
I believe that true democracy can only exist and flourish within a nation state. National sovereignty combined with domestic culture gives us our identity.
Our forefathers have fought for a democratic Netherlands. That is a Netherlands where the Dutch electorate and nobody else decides on Dutch matters. Democracy means that a people can decide its own legislation.
Democracy equals home rule. But owing to the transfer by our governments of powers to Brussels, the EU institutions and other countries are now deciding on issues which are vital to our nation state: our immigration policy, our monetary policy, our trade policy and many other issues.
A huge part of our legislation has been outsourced to Brussels. Our national parliaments have become implementing bodies of the EU. Many people object to that.
In the 2005 referendum, the Dutch voted against the European Constitution, but a few years later a slightly altered version under a new name was forced down our throats.
Parts of Europe even resemble war zones. The EU did not prevent war. There have been horrible murderous attacks in Barcelona, London, Manchester, Berlin, Brussels, Nice, Paris, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Madrid, Amsterdam.
Terrorists have entered Europe among the flow of immigrants which the EU and the national governments allowed in.
Meanwhile home-grown terrorists are already one of the biggest problems our nations are currently facing. There are thousands of them, all over Europe,
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Good work, thank you.
I love this guy.
What a beautiful and timely speech.
This person got it just right.
I applaud him.
It is impossible to preserve your identity if you are inundated with millions of newcomers from an entirely different culture. A culture that -- as is the case with the Islamic culture -- aims to dominate and refuses to assimilate.
Excellent pull quote. I missed it.
American Progressives wish to destroy the American tradition. What better way than to import a hostile culture?
Oh, and while most pubbies oppose the muslim invasion, they daren’t risk their offices.
Europe suffers from the same cancer that inflicts us only their cancer is close to terminal. They need to root out the criminal globalists and their funders
How many countries in the EU have tried to root out criminal globalists? In most cases, the EU global puppetmasters bought off the leaders and ignored the people. In situations as with Poland and Hungary, whenever the leaders stand up for their people and against tyranny, Merkel and her motley crew tell them they have no authority.
A strong voice for sanity in an insane world.
God bless this brave man.
He says that their future lies in a coalition of strong sovereign nations, not as serfs to faceless bureaucrats in Brussels. Reading that made me think of our Second Amendment, without which most of the rest of our freedoms could not have been preserved longer than any other democracy in history.
We mustn’t give up the fight for freedom in every generation.
Yes, like Robert Spencer, I’m surprised that Geert Wilders is still vertical.
Well, Salman Rushdie, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Robert Spencer and Pam Geller are still with us, too. May God protect them all.
Oops, you just said Robert Spencer. Mah bad.
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