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Sat, Mar. 29th, 2008, 02:45 pm
Thank you absolutely not, mr. Geert Wilders.

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Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for publishing the movie Fitna, which incites hate and advocates violence against your fellow countrymen.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for endangering the country you say you want to protect.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for depicting all Dutch people as short-sighted muslim haters.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for taking on the role of martyr, for inciting violence against yourself, so you can turn around and say, "I told you so!"

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for inciting hatred between the ethnic and religious groups within the Netherlands.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for reenacting a certain German politician, who also worked his way up in a union of European nations, with the only purpose of taking it down. I hope you will be stopped in time.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for inciting the boycot of Dutch export products in some Islamic countries.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for pretending to want the best for the Netherlands and its inhabitants. Thank you too, for deluding your voters, who thought that the political views of your "Party for Freedom" actually had anything to do with freedom.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for showing that the Dutch laws on freedom of speech and democratic political representation can be used to hurt the Netherlands as well.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders, for destroying the reputation of the Netherlands in the world view and in international politics. Did you know that China recently told us not to chastise them about the problems in Tibet, because they think we wish to prohibit the Islam? That, too, is caused by you.

Thank you, mr. Geert Wilders. Not.

Sat, Mar. 29th, 2008 07:59 pm (UTC)
[info]phoenix_blue

I don't know about this. Geert Wilders is one man -- all that the Dutch people really need to do to combat one man is to speak for themselves and say, "This man does not represent us, but we respect his right to express himself freely -- even when that expression offends us."

Sat, Mar. 29th, 2008 10:57 pm (UTC)
[info]xentor: Re: I don't know about this

That is exactly what my complaint does. I do hope, however, that the people reading this will understand that our democracy allows for Geert Wilders to be in office without me being personally responsible. Even minorities with unpopular views are allowed a voice. When that voice incites violence and endangers the inhabitants of our country, it needs to be silenced. I hope that this silencing is under way. My post is intended as a contribution to the protest.

Sun, Mar. 30th, 2008 03:15 pm (UTC)
(Anonymous): Re: I don't know about this

There are multiple ways to censure freedom...