Posted on 05/07/2002 7:30:58 AM PDT by knighthawk
After a meeting with Wim Kok and List Pim Fortuyn, it is decided that the Dutch elections will go on as planned on May 15.
Yesterday Pim Fortuyn, party leader of LPF was shot dead by an extreme left activist.
There were doubts wether the elections would still go on.
List Pim Fortuyn decided to go on and that the May 15 elections will still be held.
I would love to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting.
Thanks for the good news.
Wow. This could get interesting.....
It's the left committing mindless acts of violence. That will be very difficult for leftists to acknowledge. Leftists always have a problem with the truth.
Fortuyn wasn't poised to bring anyone out of "the clutches of socialism" either. His party got big votes only in one local election. (Heck, there are counties in the US where, in local elections, LaRouche gets a respectable turnout.) He was a populist playing to "the common man," and engaging in typical Marxist dialectic, pitting US (citizens) against THEM (immigrants) to acquire political power.
Berg, too, acquired his popularity by playing the populist game and, apparently like Fortuyn, it was one of the unwashed masses that he played to who decided to play back...
Live by the nuts, die by the nuts. The Berg/Fortuyn comparison seems frivolous, but it has a real message, when you bear in mind Gale Weather's observation that "Pop culture is the politics of the 21st century." Berg and Fortuyn were, for all practical purposes, playing the same game. Trying to win the hearts and minds of a population. They both tried the same strategy -- appeal to the most hoi polloi of the hoi polloi. And the both, so to speak, drowned in the hoi polloi tide they tried to surf... Live by the nuts, die by the nuts.
Mark W.
"It's the left committing mindless acts of violence. That will be very difficult for leftists to acknowledge. Leftists always have a problem with the truth."
OK, I'm Off to bed."
I wasn't trying to play with anyone's head here. What I posted above wasn't mine. It's actually part of an article written in todays Times. I just didn't want to start another thread on this subject, but felt IF this quote was REAL someone may wish to comment on it.
You will find the quote here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-289440,00.html
It is supposedly from a spokesman for President Bush.
Keep smiling,
Philip.
The fully corrupt left was alarmed by Le Pen/Jospin, following on earlier successes by Haidar, Berlusconi, etc. When I heard about this assassination I knew they were totally panicked. Of course, this was done by a lone nut.
We've had lone nuts here too. There was a psychotic guy a couple of years ago who killed two DC leos on his way to get Tom Delay. Nearly got him, too. It's frightening to have to compete polically against the violently insane. I'm glad the Dutch are going ahead.
What is the mood like in your country??
Any idea who this guy was and was he working with a group???
DPA reports: On his webpage, he said he opposed intensive livestock farming -which he describes as factory farming - and raising fur-bearing animals for profit. The Dutch news agency ANP said Fortuyn had recently announced that he would rescind a planned ban on raising fur-bearing animals for profit. Parliamentary elections scheduled for May 15 will not be postponed on account of the murder, the government said.
It's starting to look like Fortuyn was killed because he supported mink farms.
The country is still in shock and there is much outrage about his demonization. The police said that the killer acted alone and was maybe 'stressed'.
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