IN MEMORIAM
PIM FORTUYN
1948 - 2002
Posted on 05/10/2002 6:03:41 PM PDT by AM2000
If the growing popularity of an extreme right-wing party bewildered and frightened the Dutch, the assassination of its leader, Tim Fortuyn, earlier this week appears to have numbed their faculties. His spectacular success in the local elections last March, and the even more striking success that opinion polls predicted for him in the general election scheduled for May 15, had rattled the political establishment and large sections of public opinion. They simply could not understand how the xenophobic outpourings of Fortuyn could strike a chord in a country which is envied for its prosperity, welfare measures, political stability, progressive laws, commitment to Europe, generous aid for overseas development and, not least, for its multi-culturalism. But it is his murder that has traumatised them. Holland has not known a political assassination since 1632. Dutch politics may be dull and Dutch politicians strain to be staid and predictable. None of this, however, can detract attention from the country’s remarkably sound political system where three major parties have controlled all the levers of power, sometimes with, and at other times without, the support of a small left-wing party. Fortuyn’s murder has brought intolerable pressure to bear on this smug consensus. With its innocence lost, Holland now joins the ranks of other European countries where right-wing extremism is striking deep roots. Fortuyn’s party may well be prevented from sharing power after the May 15 poll, but the genie he released from the bottle is bound to haunt the Dutch for as long as one can foresee.
The reasons are not far to seek. Fortuyn was an unlikely right-wing extremist. A Marxist in his youth, he had earned an enviable reputation as a sociologist, journalist and television commentator. With his striking appearance — a fashionable shaven head, broad colourful ties, outlandish shirts, suits and shoes — opulent life-style and homosexuality, which he flaunted with much abandon, he ensured that his views attracted far more attention than those of any established politician. Fortuyn hammered home the point that Holland, a small country, was now “full”, that there was no more room for asylum- seekers and immigrants. He attacked those who were in the country for not assimilating into Dutch society and was especially harsh on Muslims for their educational backwardness, their attitude towards women, their refusal to come to terms with modernity and their avowed sympathy for Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. But he dismissed out of hand the allegation that he was a racist. Is it racism, he often asked, to candidly express concern at the fact that the ethnic minorities, who refuse to have anything to do with the language and culture of Holland, would make up half the population of the country’s four largest cities within less than 20 years? Is it racism to quote official statistics which say that half the prisoners in Dutch jails are drawn from the minorities? Fortuyn raised other questions which cannot be brushed aside. He ranted against the stifling bureaucracy, castigated the established political parties for refusing to decentralise power and, above all, chided the liberals for their unwillingness to call a spade a spade, let alone a bloody shovel. A failure to address these issues could tear apart Holland’s social fabric, disrupt its economy and deal a body blow to its much-admired multi-cultural experiment.
In fact, the last time I was in Santa Cruz I could not find it. I never see it down here in Monterey. Do you know where it can be found local to me?
Now, I realize that it may be difficult for people to accept that their own political and intellectual elites hate them....but this realization is crucial if the West is to survive.
In a nutshell, the lefties want uncontrolled immigration as a means to deculturize the Netherlands (and all of the other western nations as well). Once the population is sufficiently de-westernized, the last vesitges of western civilization that exist in these countries will cease to exist. This will, in the minds of the elites, usher in a new age of universalistic socialism (to be run, conveniently, by these same elites)
This is the underlying motivation for the elite's embracing feminism (destroy the traditional western family), environmentalism (destroy traditional western notions of property rights), socialism (destroy the economic independence of western peoples), and most of all, it is the underlying motive for the elite's immigration policies.
Fortuyn threatened a fundamental strategy of the elite's destruction of western civilization. Therefore, he was the target of a campaign of defamation, and ultimately the victim of an execution.
Fortuyn is a martyr of the West....sacrificed because of his concern for western man and western civilization. The people of the Netherlands would do well to analyze exactly who is sticking up for them...and who is attempting to destroy them (and why).
Well said.
i.e anyone who doesn't agree with me is an extremist, if anyone states publicly they don't agree with me they are a right/left wing extremist.,
Anyone who gets elected who doesn't agree with me, gets shot.(and of course (despite evidence to the contrary) they were a left/right wing extremist.And violent.And mad/bad.)
...er that's about it.
IN MEMORIAM
PIM FORTUYN
1948 - 2002
WE WILL - WE WILL - ROCK YOU !!!
Isn't it something like 92% over here? Throw in the percentage of College Professors and High School teachers who vote Left, and you realize what an uphill fight rational man has in battling back against the neurotic compulsions of the Left.
Good luck, next week!
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