[knighthawk]

This will be my last post here at the FreeRepublic. If some one needs me for something, feel free to contact me at:
hawkknight@wish.nl
knighthawk@wish.nl
knighthawk@mail.nl

I am sorry that it ended this way. Thanks go to the people who supported me. Maybe we will meet again.

Silence

So cold is the night
It's silent without light
Since days they promised us
To be home again

The death comes closer
The fear's coming nearer to us
There will be no tomorrow
Do we go insane

I have a picture of you with me

Will there ever be an end
Will there ever be a last goodbye
Please tell me there is hope
In silence till we die

There is still longing
In my eyes I see a different earth
I'm not impressed
It's just the silence

There must be something to believe in

Will there ever be an end
Will there ever be a last goodbye
Please tell me there is hope
In silence till we die
In silence till we die

Waiting it's lately
And there will be a fight
Escape to a new world
What will be behind these lies

There must be something to believe in

Will there ever be an end
Will there ever be a last goodbye
Just tell me there is hope
In silence till we die
In silence

Do you believe it

There is still hope in hy heart...

[knighthawk]

Thanks for the patience to endure my posts!

[knighthawk]

Emergency ping

[Bikers4Bush]

Now that's an Opus.

[VadeRetro]

Congratulations on an oxymoron, a resignation post with class.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This will be my last post here at the FreeRepublic.

Obviously this is your decision knighthawk, but I still disagree with you. In any group as large as FR there are bound to be a few idiots. Including some who know how to use ping lists. Can you name any city in the Netherlands with an adult population as large as the membership of Free Republic without at least a few people as ignorant as the ones who have upset you here. At least most of the folks here have the excuse of not being familiar with Pym Fortuyn, and were therefore not in a position to know the truth.

I hope that you change your mind, because you will be missed. The forces of liberty need friends like you.

[crystalk]

Oh, knighthawk, don't go away for that reason. That POS was pinged to my attention also, but if we all left the first time something vile was posted to us, we all would have been gone long ago.

You were very welcome poster here and the great majority of us on FR agreed with you, please stay with us, that was just one sorehead.

We Christians never agreed with ALL Pim said or did in his life, but we certainly recognized him as an honest and trustworthy man who made the world and NL a better place, and certainly did not deserve to be gunned down, --and the media HAD demonized him and created a climate of hate!

[Sender]

You don't need to go away from FR. Just disregard the reactionary posters who don't know the facts. This place needs people from all viewpoints.

BTW, from all I have read (disregarding the Scot article) Pim Fortuyn sounds like he was a very creative and dynamic person. I probably would have voted that way if I lived in the NL. I do get a bit more NL news than some Americans, since I work for Royal Philips. Keep in touch!

[SW6906]

As opus' (opii? opuses?) go, this isn't that great. Your'e supposed to go on and on about how Free Republic has changed, how true debate no longer takes place, yadda, yadda, yadda.

But I guess it's hard to do that when you're:

member since October 8th, 2001

[backhoe]

I'm in a rush, but crystalk's 13 says it well- don't let the SOB's get to you.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I hope that you will reconsider.

[remaininlight]

Go. But come back in a few weeks or months. After all, summer is soon here. There are larger evils in this world than the evil thread you refer to.

[Lazamataz]

Your Opus rocks! In my Opus, all I did was tell everyone I was staying.... my Opus sucked....

[skeeter]

I hope you'll stick around. You've got more friends here than most, & all of us get cr*pped on from time to time...

[antidisestablishment]

You've seen the worst, but don't forget the best. You inspired Americans to see that "shining city on the hill" and I am sorry your time was so short. From your home page:

We are fighting because others have fought for us, for our rights, for our freedom. We must fight this evil so it can no longer harm anyone again. Also we must keep on fighing to make others free (remember the Battle Hymne of the Republic: "as he died to make men holy, let us die to make man free").

Some people believe that we are giving in. Never I say! When George Washington faced a much larger British amry, did they choose not to fight for their (and our) freedom? Did the men who defended the Alamo give in? No, even when they knew they would all be killed and the Mexicans offered them safe passage, they choose to fight. They died so that others could be free, they gave their lives so others wouldn't die. When the Japanse army made their strike at Pearl Harbor, did we give in? Or when the US Amny landed at the beaches in Normandy and things went really bad? No! They fought on to victory!

[Stentor]

Ba bye.

[harpseal]

First, I did not see the article you are reffering to. I can not comment on it, but will take your description of it at face value The thing everyone must remember is the Free Republic is an open forum and absolutely anything that is published just about anywhere is fair game for posting and commenting. Often, threads are based on what are basically published libels. By the open exchange of ideas and knowledge those who do not have an intimate knowledge of the subject matter are able to work towards the truth and are able to dismiss the propaganda.

It can be very irritating when one sees blantant lies on the screen. It can be even more irritating when one sees Free Republic posters promulgating the lying propaganda. To me the best response to these libels is to stay in the fray and let people know the truth. The uncollected reward you mentioned is very significant. It lets people know that a calumny has been spread against Pim Fortuyn.(sp?) This forum is in the USA. Many of us do nit follow politics in every nation on the surface of the planet and even those of us who do follow many foreign political situations need to focus our attentions on a few nations.

Obviously you are offened and I will presume quite rightly so but remember that this is a free for all exchange of ideas where hopefully the truth will become evident to those who read threads here.

All of us have endured insults from ignorant posters. All of us who have been at Free Republic for several years have had disagreements with other posters. Much of what you have posted has provided many of us with insights into what is happening in Europe that we might not otherwise have gotten. This insight has proven quite useful in determining the nature of world events.

I do not know your final decision about leaving. I guess that if you do leave then I shall have to look to others for insights into the internal structure of politics inside the Nethelands.

My usual reaction to posters who publish statements that they are leaving Free Republic is to say something equivalent to "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out." I think my comments here are partly a result of your giving an inside view into Dutch politics and my view that perhaps you have not been at Free Republic long enough to realize that just about anyone or an idea you view as important will be attacked by someone.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[piasa]

I didn't see the article in question, nor what people said... but I can't believe you of all people would let some single-issued automatons manipulate you off the forum. Stick around and fight, if you can't stay the course someone on an 'anonymous' forum, how can you ever expect to develop the steel you need to take ideological ground in person? If the one thread was absorbing all of your time battling with the people who are fixated on a certain thing and who won't be convinced one way or another, move on to other threads on other subjects for a while. Sometimes you will run into people who aren't interested in reasoned debate but who will simply try to eat up as much of your time as possible by getting into a battle of 'who shall have the last word' with you. Don't fall for it. Those threads will be around for a while and you can always go back to them weeks from now. By that time, there's a good chance the person who you were arguing with will have self-destructed.

If you think these people are annoying, try dealing with the numbskulls the owner of Freerepublic has to deal with...

[fnord]

you don't need to go. your friends here far outnumber the idiots, and always will. if you do go, come back and visit some time, ya hear.

[fortress]

Knighthawk, I hope you will stay around, but it is our loss if you are not.
You are our reporter from the Netherlands and you have educated us more about that nation than Time or Elsevier.
Remember: Be strong and couragious......
Pim died for his ideas and you can help keep his vision alive, by standing up to unfair critisism.

[Nebullis]

Als je echt moet gaan kan je gaan met de woorden van Pim zelf:

De rechtsfilosoof en pedofiel Brongersma, jarenlang senator voor de PvdA, heeft zijn leven lang gestreden voor begrip voor de pedofiele medemens. Hij begon daar onverschrokken aan na het uitzitten van een gevangenisstraf voor ongewenste intimiteiten met een minderjarige. De desbetreffende minderjarige had het helemaal niet ongewenst gevonden, maar justitie oordeelde in de jaren vijftig anders.

In de jaren zestig en zeventig kreeg Brongersma langzaam maar zeker voet aan de grond. Na de uitvinding van de pil was er de bevrijding van de seks. Homoseks werd geaccepteerd, en waarom zou dan - onder de strikte voorwaarde dat het kind het wil en dat het niet wordt gedwongen - pedoseks niet zijn toegestaan? Dit verlichte standpunt is inmiddels verlaten en onder invloed van de gogen is het kind neergezet als geheel en al vrij van seksuele lusten, in elk geval tegenover volwassenen.

We zijn ver verwijderd van het begrip dat Brongersma trachtte te kweken, overigens tot schade van onszelf, want alles wat bespreekbaar is, is in beginsel ook beheersbaar, moet u maar denken!

Mischien denk je dat dit niet te bespreken is. Maar hier op FR mag zoiets juist wel onder discussie komen. En zonder kogels. Als je daar niet tegen kan, hoeven we je hier niet.