[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.

[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??...

[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.