Dutch Anti-Immigrant Party Leader Slain by Left-Wing Extremist

The Washington Times ^ | May 7, 2002 | Michael Standaert

[rightwing2]

Police arrested a suspect, a white male Dutch citizen, close to the scene of the 6 p.m. shooting in Hilversum, 10 miles south of Amsterdam. The shaven-headed Mr. Fortuyn, 53, sustained numerous gunshot wounds to the head, chest and neck as he emerged from a radio studio and approached his car.

[rightwing2]

In a recent television interview, Mr. Fortuyn said the Dutch government had "demonized" him. "If something happens to me, the government is co-responsible," he said. "They created this climate."

I found this comment an especially telling indictment of the orthodox left-wing ideological environment which exists in most Western countries including the US outside of which no one who dares be at deviance without risking condemnation as being "far right", "extremist" or worse. This environment is nowehere better documented than in Pat Buchanan's book, "The Death of the West." It is no where better illustrated than here with the assasination of a socially liberal former Marxist professor who was killed because he was somehow perceived to be "far right" for daring to challenge the Dutch Socialist Establishment on the issue of common sense limits on immigration. Certainly, Fortuyn was right, Socialist PM Kok and his far-left coalition partner the Greens were to blame for creating an environment of hate, bigotry, and intolerance against nationalist ideas including limitations on immigration as expressed by the late Pim Fortuyn.

Other countries where right-wing politicians have made gains in recent years include Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Romania and Austria.

Right wing politicains have made gains in Denmark, France, Italy and Austria, but Britain, Poland and Romania?? First of all, the renamed Communist parties of those two countries recently returned to TOTAL POWER last year in Poland and Romania so I am shocked and surprised by the liberal media's characterization of the Communist electoral victories there as somehow constituting "gains for right-wing politicians." Lastly, in Britain, Tony Blair's socialist Labor Party smashed his conservative opposition for the second straight election taking some 80% of the seats in Parliament. Again, hardly a victory for "right-wing politicians" in a country where the Conservative Party has been fighting against near electoral extinction since its first big loss in 1997. The liberal media's characterizations of Communists and Socialist Laborites like Tony Blair as being right-wingers never cease to amaze me. No wonder a socially liberal openly homosexual former Marxist like Pin Fortuyn was mistaken as a leader of the Dutch "far right"!

Speculation was rife last night that the election would be postponed.

Thankfully, they're not being postponed. AP just announced that Socialist Premier Kok has decided to go forward with the elections next week as previously scheduled which I should think should help Fortuyn's party capture most of the vote it would have had he still been alive.

[rightwing2]

The far Euroleft like the Greens and the Socialist--Laborites are responsible for the hateful and bigoted smear of List Fortuyn as a far-right extremist party and the socially progressive Fortuyn as a far right extremist himself that resulted in this ecoterrorist being whipped into a terrorist frenzy and identified a man he had undoubtedly been convinced was to be "the next Hitler". In fact, it is a socially liberal nationalist party which has little in common with "the far right" other than opposition to immigration which is becoming more and more mainstream since the horrors of immigration were exposed in the 9-11 terrorist suicide bomings.

Why is it that the left so vilifies the right when it expresses opposition to immigration? It appears to be because ethnic minorities who tend to be more impoverished than longtime residents of a country tend to form the base for socialist and other far-left parties and therefore provide a rationale to label all who favor common-sense limitations on immigration as some kind of "extremists". This is the problem with the Communist-inspired far left's usage of such extremist hate rhetoric, but then again I suspect that the Dutch Green Party and the Dutch Socialists are secretly happy with Fortuyn's untimely demise and it seems likely that they will do what they can to try to benefit from it and turn it to their advantage politically.

[KC_Conspirator]

I totally agree that the Dutch government and the leftist media are responsible for creating the hostile and hateful environemnt in Europe.

[Kobyashi1942]

Why is it that the left so vilifies the right when it expresses opposition to immigration?

I'll tell you why. Immigration is the ultimate weapon that will allow the left, both in Europe and in the USA, to destroy Western Culture.

[flamefront]

see also
Death of Dutch innocence sends a shiver through Europe (killer had environmentalist propaganda) ...

[bybybill]

I agree with Rush, its got to be Bush`s fault

[LarryLied]

The same vicious rhetoric has been used on Free Repbulic against Le Pen.

Those who participated never considered that it is in America's interest to have a nationalist in power in France.

[atafak]

i do not find anything in the article about his being slain by a left wing extremist...do you have info to that effect, or is your title mere speculation??...

[Ohioan]

Why is it that the left so vilifies the right when it expresses opposition to immigration?

The Left is trying to dismantle the bases for traditional social cohesion--in effect, depriving the intended subject populations of any basis to work together effectively to strike back. A homogenious population group, proud of their heritage, are a real threat to those who pursue a Collectivist, conformist, world order.

If you look at what is accepted in terms of group identification, and what is not, you will see over and over again--both in America and in Europe--the same pattern. A grouping of people with a sense of grievance--i.e. people looking to the Government to make things right--is acceptable. A grouping of people with a Conservative tradition, who want to be left alone, is not.

The Nationalist, who loves his own country and his own kith and kin, has no place in their new world order. He is a threat. The major reason for encouraging liberal immigration, is really to emasculate such people. You are close to being on ground zero of the real battle, when you take them on on this issue (immigration). (See, also, An American Immigration Policy, and Myths & Myth Makers In American "Higher" Education. With those articles, you will find links to a lot of others that explore different nuances of the same battle.)

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[rightwing2]

i do not find anything in the article about his being slain by a left wing extremist...do you have info to that effect, or is your title mere speculation??...

That information was from other articles I have read including this one. The other article that I read said the assassin was an environmental extremist.

Fortuyn suspect 'is animal rights activist'
Staff and agencies
Tuesday May 7, 2002

The 32-year-old man being held in connection with the assassination of the rightwing Dutch populist politician, Pim Fortuyn, is a vegan animal rights activist with no criminal record. The man, from the central Dutch town of Harderwijk in the county's bible belt, wrote on a website that he used legal means to fight permits for factory farms and fur farms, and that "protecting animals is civilising people". Police have not released the suspect's name. Radio Netherlands reported that Mr Fortuyn had recently said he would lift a ban on raising animals for fur.

Mr Fortuyn, a flamboyant, openly gay man known to dote on his two pet King Charles spaniels, was known primarily for his zero immigration policy and outspoken criticisms of Muslim culture as "backward". However his environmental policy was unclear. Joost Eerdmans, a candidate for Mr Fortuyn's party in the May 15 general election, told the Reuters news agency: "We don't have a very developed policy on animal rights. We were busy developing it." "[Mr Fortuyn] had two dogs. They were his life since he didn't have a partner. He loved animals. There is no mistake about that," he added.

Mr Fortuyn was shot dead yesterday evening by a lone gunman after giving a radio interview in the town of Hilversum near Amsterdam. He bled to death in the radio station's car park as paramedics attempted to resuscitate him. Police were reported to have searched the suspect's house and seized ammunition that matched the empty cartridges found at the murder scene, as well as environmental materials. The suspect has not made a statement, public prosecutors said, and he was calm when police arrested him yesterday evening.

[hellinahandcart]

The real title is "Gay Dutch Leader Slain By Gunman" (tsk, tsk, rightwing2).

But there have been several other articles today about the suspect in custody, in which he was described by local law officials as an "extremist", and some of them describe "environmental literature" found in his home. Some of us are speculating he's a Greenie.

[ex-snook]

Thanks for ping.

"This environment is nowhere better documented than in Pat Buchanan's book, "The Death of the West."

Buchanan was demonized by the neo-cons just for advocating a timeout for assimilation. I guess the Dutch take 'killing the messenger' more literally than the neo-cons. Only Sharon is not criticized for an anti-immigrant policy.

[flamefront]

I missed that. Fill us in. Is this the argument that Bush has been appeasing the liberals so much he provoked these reactions?

[bybybill]

This was supposed to be a joke---shows just how far that Rush has gone--sad

[backhoe]

I thought conservatives were opposed to practicing homosexuals

As long as we are talking about consenting adults ( and being discreet as, say an average married couple ) this conservative really doesn't give a hoot. Some things ought to be private. More later, maybe- I have to leave for a while to fetch my wife.

BTW, welcome to FR...

[dougherty]

Nope, not all of us, just the Puritan Brigade.

[flamefront]

No, it shows how overboard Bush has gone.