Fortuyn suspect is animal rights activist - source

Reuters ^ | 5/7

[eastsider]

Fortuyn beefed up his security ...

Oh, those whacky journalists! : )

[xm177e2]

If he loves animals, he should be fed to the pigs.

[Shermy]

Good day. Is this the first time this info has been posted? I think this perpetrator had other views that made him want to kill Pim...I don't see the connection anyhow. Perhaps he is of the sensitive, hysterical sort (many animal rights extremists are) and got inflamed with the recent demonization of Pim in your press.

These animal rights extremists are often cold blooded, substituting their hate for humans and humanity for love of animals.

[LarryLied]

Sounds like he is a cutout.

[TheMole]

Hmmm. Didn't Tim McVeigh go through an animal-rights phase?

[pabianice]

Strange. The killer is never referred to as "left-wing." Might this be evidence of press bias??

[RLK]

environmentalist material were found during a search of his home.

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People who are obsessed with this type of crap generally are obsessed with the entire array of the leftist agenda.

[CatoRenasci]

but he seems an unlikely dupe. Either he's a professional or he's mental.

[skeeter]

People who are obsessed with this type of crap generally are obsessed with the entire array of the leftist agenda.

Exactly. The press will now lead us down a rathole to avoid the truth of the matter - that the Left and their accomplices in the press are entirely responsible for an alternative voice being silenced.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Knighthawk,

Here is what De Telegraaf sez about the suspect in the assassination. One of the other papers I know, NRC Handelsblad, referred to him as a 'milieu-activist'. Comes out in the translation is "environmental activist." Here is the Telegraaf text right now, what do you say?

"Verdachte kan nog tijdje vastzitten RIJSWIJK - De 32-jarige Volkert van der G. uit Harderwijk die wordt verdacht van de moord op Pim Fortuyn kan nog wel een tijdje vastzitten. Hieronder volgt een kort overzicht van de gerechtelijke procedure. Als de politie een verdachte inrekent, kan zij deze maximaal twaalf uur vasthouden voor verhoor en eventuele identificatie. Hierna heeft de officier van justitie de mogelijkheid om, voor een periode van drie dagen, de verdachte in verzekering te stellen. De officier kan deze periode verlengen met nog eens drie dagen, bijvoorbeeld als de verdachte weigert informatie te geven. Na deze periode moet de rechter-commissaris zich over de zaak buigen. Die kan opdracht geven tot inbewaringstelling van de verdachte. Het gaat hier dan over een periode van tien dagen, die justitie niet mag verlengen. Als de periode van inbewaringstelling is afgelopen, verschijnt de verdachte voor de raadkamer van de rechtbank die beslist over eventuele gevangenhouding voor een periode van dertig dagen. Deze periode kan tweemaal worden verlengd. Hierna vindt er een normale of een pro forma zitting plaats." END OF TEXT

[LarryLied]

The left plays offensive in depth. They have a vast pool of whackos out on the fringe they can call on to do most anything.

Not as severe a case but I saw it happen in New Haven Ct. Took decades to come out the black "revolutionaries" who would have nothing to do with "the man" were working closely with the Democrat mayors all during the riots and protests in the 1960s and early 70s. The were fronts for the gang which wanted to tear the city down and make money rebuilding it. They did it too. Sorta. It is a slum now but with newer building.

[SoDak]

I have a feeling we're going to find out our mad bomber of the midwest is an environmental wacko too.

[Clemenza]

It is a slum now but with newer building.

Well, better that than post-riot Newark, which for years remained unchanged, including autos that were abandoned during the "uprising."

New Haven also has the advantage of Rose DeLauro, the sexiest woman in Bizarro congress.

[aristeides]

Volkert van der G. uit Harderwijk

At last we have part of his name.

I wonder how an animal-rights activist would learn to be such a crack shot.

[aristeides]

According to this Der Spiegel article, prosecutor Theo Hofstee denied the reports that the suspect is a leftist environmental activist, but admitted that environmental literature had been found in his home.

[NativeNewYorker]

Do you read German? Or did I miss a link to English?

[LarryLied]

Lol! Rosa the Red is something else. This partial birth abortion lover uses her Catholic communion picture in campaign literature. She looks so angelic in a satanic sort of way. People buy the con too. I know salt of the earth Sicilian Catholic who are rock solid conservatives in their real lives who vote for her.

Her secret is constituent service. My 89 year old aunt who has been a Republican all her life (hated FDR) had a problem with transferring her medicare supplement. Her son worked on it for three months and got nowhere. One call to Rosa's office and the matter was cleared up in two days. Republicans could learn a lesson from how Rosa and Ted Kennedy treat those who elect them (took me days to convince my aunt not to switch and vote for Rosa)

[Nebullis]

Volkert van der G. uit Harderwijk

Groen?

[Texas Mom]

Enviromentalists and animal right activists are become terrorists in their own right. Wonder if GW will put them on his terrorist list?

Nah!