[monday]

"They'll enact laws in the name of fighting terrorism that would make our Patriot Act look like child's play."

No. Political correctness is what makes the Patriot Act so miserable in the US. Airport screeners only search blond white women. The Netherlands is small enough that they can turn on a dime compared to the US. If political correctness pops up in regard to their new laws it can be ridiculed mercilessly an quashed before it makes a mockery of their new laws. I suspect that it will be only Muslims who are inconvenienced by the new attitude of the Dutch.

[Californiajones]

What is the old saying -- if a nation will not obey God, they will be slaves to tyrants? I put no truck in the Patriot Act one way or another; the point is that Old Europe knows very well how to turn the fascist screws on themselves -- commie, Nazi or just basic totalitarianism. I think the old fascist communist spirit is lying in wait in the EU and "terrorism" will give it a reason to resurrect itself.