I had to do what I did, claims Fortuyn's assassin

The Times ^ | March 28, 2003 | Adam Sage

[MadIvan]

This fellow actually is quite bonkers: if his intention was to destroy Fortuyn, he failed - his legacy is even more strongly entrenched in the Netherlands now.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Bump!

[Monty22]

islam+peta stuff is a mixture made in hell..

[ffusco]

"AN ANIMAL rights activist confessed yesterday to murdering the populist Dutch anti- immigration politician Pim Fortuyn last May."

This sentence neatly describes the Lefts problem with (populist?) Fortuyn. His open homosexuality trumped their effort to label him neo-nazi.

[MadIvan]

Fortuyn showed how you can make the Left look like the idiots they are. His gripe against the Muslims was very simple: in a country where tolerance is a virtue, a group that preaches intolerance undermines the values of that country. Thus, immigrants should be expected to live by the rules or get out.

This is an elegant, beautiful and truthful argument. How can the Left be calling for "tolerance" of the mullahs, when their purpose is to undermine tolerance of any kind?

Regards, Ivan

[Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle]

Volkert van der Graaf

You know, if you're gonna pick a "Dutch name" you might as well go all the way!

[The Electrician]

Talk about blaming the victim - the lefty perp is trying to use the "he made me kill him" defense - wonder whether he will get away with it... (Oh, but if the maximum sentence is 20 years for premeditated murder, I guess that the answer is "yes, he will get away with it).

[xm177e2]

Ponder the absurdity of an animal rights activist defending Muslims...

[cornelis]

Zeeland, in what is known as the Dutch bible belt

Bible smelt.

Last year the Telegraph reports "The prosecutor added that the search of the flat, in the country's "Bible belt", found "he was in possession of material that indicates involvement in environmental activism", although he said he made no link between that and the murder."

The belt appears to be a strip that stretches from the south western province of Zeeland to the northern province of Groningen. The study that perpetuated this terminology cites census figures and has nothing to say about the millenialist pietism that harbored in the provinces north of Amsterdam, even though that section is now below the 50% mark for denominational affiliation. All the same, this belt is supposed to originate out of the 17th century.

More on target, the whole country was a bible buckle before the advent of WW I.

Sorry for going off topic; I live in the loop of belt.

[cornelis]

Volkert van der Graaf

He's the character pushing the bible thingy.

[Rome2000]

Charged with premeditated murder, Van der Graaf faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence if convicted.

Thank Christ killers don't get that kind of slap on the wrist in this country.

There wouldn't be any politicians left.

[PoisedWoman]

I still miss the colorful, intelligent Fortuyn. "At your service," will ring forever. I hope the assassin gets maximum penalty and wish he'd been a Texan, where justice would have demanded death.

[Regulator]

You're supposed to be tolerant of their intolerance. Or else you're a racist. Except they aren't a race. It's a religion. Right? Right.

My favorite part: this was a highly vindictive man the little shit said. And uh, killing someone because you don't like his political platform is not vindictive?

Find the lineal descendant of Martel and let him behead this traitor.

[Burkeman1]

Does the Netherlands even have such a punishment as "life in prison"? I was under the impression that even the severest sentances in Western Europe usually go no more than 20 years or so.

[jim_trent]

Early reports after his arrest said that the gun he was using was tied to an earlier murder of a politician. No mention of that here. Is he going to get that one for free?

[AdamSelene235]

The BBC is complicit in Pim's murder. They did everything they could to portray him as the next Adolf Hilter. Just look at this hatchet job.

At home with 'Professor Pim'

B*stards.

RIP Pim.

[Jacob Kell]

If the Netherlands does come under Sharia rule, I hope that htis @$$hole lives long enough to see it, so he can see what his stupidity has caused.

[rimmont]

The left is a largely dormant army of psychotics which is gradually being awakened by current events. The more this process occurs, the more obvious the corrosive, socially destructive inclinations of these people will be to the general public.

[Mister Baredog]

Ponder the absurdity of an animal rights activist defending Muslims...

congers up something about "the inmates running the asylum", or perhaps an old episode of the Twilight Zone!

[San Jacinto]

Charged with premeditated murder, Van der Graaf faces a maximum 20-year prison sentence if convicted

I find that amazing.