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Geert Wilders - guilty of "insulting a group"

icehorse

icehorse

......unaffiliated...... anti-dogmatist
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Geert Wilders was found guilty of
'insulting a group' and of 'inciting discrimination'
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From this article: The Guilty Verdict Dutch Politicians Wanted So Much

The trial began with a number of complaints, but the proceedings gradually honed down onto one single comment made by Wilders at a party rally in March 2014. This was the occasion when Wilders asked the crowd whether they wanted 'fewer or more Moroccans in your city and in the Netherlands'. The crowd of supporters shouted 'Fewer'.
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I don't know much about the Netherlands' immigration laws, but here's a ling that explains the U.S.'s immigration laws, which I imagine aren't that unusual:

How the United States Immigration System Works

A few key concepts are that the U.S. limits the total number of immigrants per year, and it also limits the number of immigrants from individual countries. I guess the point for me is that modern countries typically limit immigration. Why would this statement by Wilders cause such a commotion?
 
Sultan Of Swing

Sultan Of Swing

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At least he wasn't given a jail sentence or fine as the prosecutors had requested.

Ridiculous though. What do they hope to achieve by this? Will his supporters or potential supporters now shy away because he got a guilty verdict? Nope, it just adds to the entire image of the repressive nature of the establishment.
 
George-ananda

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
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It sounds ridiculous to me. I hope the liberals here in America, don't try to take freedom of speech away. I think they would have a much harder time.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
The Wilders verdict strikes me as nonsensical. I don't like the man, but this is ridiculous -- and dangerous.
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
George-ananda said:
I hope the liberals here in America, don't try to take freedom of speech away.
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Yeah, those damn liberals and their threats to "open up the libel laws" so they can sue penniless anyone who publishes something they don't like! Damn them!

Oh wait...it wasn't them who threatened that. It was Trump.

Which makes me wonder: Do you only care about threats to freedom of speech when they come from the Left, and not when they come from the Right?
 
Servant_of_the_One1

Servant_of_the_One1

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It shows how the Dutch Society is suffering from the cruel double standard sickness.

This guy would definetely be punished if he insulted Jews.
 
Servant_of_the_One1

Servant_of_the_One1

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Sunstone said:
Yeah, those damn liberals and their threats to "open up the libel laws" so they can sue penniless anyone who publishes something they don't like! Damn them!

Oh wait...it wasn't them who threatened that. It was Trump.

Which makes me wonder: Do you only care about threats to freedom of speech when they come from the Left, and not when they come from the Right?
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The Rights are in truth fascist @ n@zis
 
The Emperor of Mankind

The Emperor of Mankind

Currently the galaxy's spookiest paraplegic
Servant_of_the_One1 said:
It shows how the Dutch Society is suffering from the cruel double standard sickness.

This guy would definetely be punished if he insulted Jews.
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Europe has a reason to be guilty over how it treated the Jews in the past. Not so much Muslims. Stop building false equivalences in order to stoke the Muslim persecution complex.
 
Kemosloby

Kemosloby

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It must be part of the larger plan for the New World Order, along the lines of "nations without borders". Perhaps in part Jewish ideology, "be kind to the stranger in your land" , so if the New World Order considers the whole earth theirs, they don't want to impede us, the strangers from travelling wherever they (the heirs of the earth) will allow the strangers to go. So now they have busted down a notch, the fallacy that an individual nation can say who may enter their country.
 
fiat lux

fiat lux

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'The historic dimension of Wilders's conviction is related not only to the terrible injustice done to this MP, but that it was the Netherlands that, for the first time in Europe, criminalized dissenting opinions about Islam.'
 
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