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We're All Dutch Now
WHAT WILL THEY TAKE AWAY
NEXT?
Re: Brooke M. Goldstein and Aaron Meyer's Death
to Free Speech in the Netherlands:
Look for Holland to mandate sign language as the exclusive means
of communication, with all but the middle fingers and while
wearing mittens. Next, it will be illegal to look directly into
another's eyes, in the event that it might offend them. (One
might gaze briefly into one's own eyes in a mirror, but only for
an instant.) Next,…
-- David Govett
Davis, California
Business at the same old stand.
Anne Frank and her family were hauled off in perfect conformance with the laws then in force in the Netherlands. Whatever happened to the fellow Dutch who turned them in?
From the looks of things, they went on to write more
of Holland's laws. Somebody should tell Wilders to run for
it while there's time.
-- Martin Owens
Sacramento, California
When democracy is threatened, be it by spear, knife, gun, tank or nuclear device, both the Left and the Right put on sackcloth and ashes. Wailing, gnashing of teeth and lamentations are heard to heavens gates. And rightly so. But when democracy is denied its sustenance, freedom of speech, not a whisper wafts from our lips.
The Netherlands has every reason to hang its head in
shame. Every free nation has reason to tremble in
fear.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
Chairman Mao would understand this ruling, as would dear old Fidel, and most certainly Putin. As for those citizens within the Netherlands, well it may take them too long to realize the path their society is traveling.
Over here, in the States, we will glance at them, but not much more will come of it. We have our new savior, Obama. Soon, we will learn just how we must act toward his decrees.
How many can recall that angry religious leader, the man with the scowl, sitting in that small room talking about how he intended to go back to his beloved Iran and remove the Shah?
Anger (over being left out) seems to drive many people.
"Religion of peace" is what Ali mumbled to us right after 9/11 when the stars offered a tribute to comfort and rally our spirits.
Kinda like the husband who is caught in bed with his wife's best girlfriend whereupon he looks up at his startled wife and says: "Honey, are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?"
Perhaps it is time to apply that old duck test. Does it quack,
waddle, etc.?
-- R. Philips
New Mexico
Spoke to me cousin last night and he recounted an incident at work Tuesday afternoon. It seems he was the only one (not to be confused with the "One") who did not vote for our current president and let it be known. This upset his fellow employees who complained to his supervisor. He was formerly reprimanded for "upsetting" people. When he asked why his feelings were not taken into account during the last 6 years of Bush-bashing the response was that nobody was upset by it. He was told "we don't like you talking politics and bashing Obama." Even though his contention was the opinion was within the context of conservatism versus liberalism the response was the same. "We" don't care. His response was not documented.
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frost| 1.23.09 @ 7:54AM
Those first few letters/observations about the Dutch and their problems? Let Holder, Pelosi, Barney Frank (et al.) loose under the Obama regime and the (UN)"Fairness Doctrine/debacle installed, and, zap - there goes our Freedom of Speech, all under the guise of Political Correctness.
In the meantime, the right fiddles around lamenting gay-stuff, stem-cells and abortion while some really baaaad crap is going on?!?
Priorities again...
Alan Brooks| 1.23.09 @ 8:42AM
"gay-stuff", frost?
well, we dont want gays to grasp too much power.
Holland? the poor Dutch, they and the Belgians have been invaded so many times. and now this.
frost| 1.23.09 @ 9:00AM
The extreme right gnashes teeth and suffers Terminal Angst on topics like stem-cells, abortion (or initiating a lack of choice?) and, yeah, gay stuff. As a Libertarian and Deist, sorry, but those subjects are not nearly first'n'foremost on my agenda or list of priorities. In fact, my two greatest employees ever just happened to be gays.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.09 @ 9:04AM
just make sure they stay employees and don't become bosses.
Alan Brooks| 1.23.09 @ 10:10AM
please
Diane of MN| 1.23.09 @ 1:43PM
Mr. Greenwood: Saying that those without insurance can just go to Medicaid or to the emergency room is easy to say, but not true.
Until you reach 65 - federal medical assistance is not available unless you have disabilities. Medicaid is not often available until 3 months after application- based on assets. Also, hospitals can and do turn away patients without insurance or money for down payment. Come into an ER with a shot gun wound, they will see you. Other wise, where's your insurance?
Diane, MPH
Michele San Pietro| 1.23.09 @ 3:18PM
Let's not go Dutch with the Dutch.
Truth to Power | 1.23.09 @ 3:21PM
Diane of MN should visit an ER sometime. There are lots of people getting treated for lots of things besides shot gun wounds. The shot gun wound may take precedence over a sick baby but maybe that makes some kind of medical sense. In my state medical workers cannot refuse to treat you if you don't have insurance and it is posted everywhere. I refuse to believe that MN is so backwards. This has always been about power and never about care. Care will get worse and rationed.
ruth| 1.23.09 @ 4:00PM
Name withheld, that's the party of 'tolerance' you're talking about. The party that feels your pain, right?
Brat Magursky| 1.23.09 @ 4:12PM
& he shall come riding a white horse & his name shall be Obama...reap the whirlwind ya'll
Alan Brooks| 1.23.09 @ 11:15PM
Obama is okay; it's because of Jose and Leroy and Ahmad we have to watch our backs. thats the real, material that is, reason i became conservative-- a conservative is a liberal who was mugged. i say:
'top down, not bottom up'.
Blagojevich is much less of a threat than Jose & Leroy.
and Ahmad. he is not going away any time soon.
Marc Jeric| 1.23.09 @ 11:54PM
I just heard that Abu Hussein was going to close the Gitmo, after at most one year of "planning". I have a solution right now - no need to spend a year on beaurocratic planning. Release those terrorists right away, give them subsidized public housing in South Chicago together with food stamps. There they can collaborate with their neighbors Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn on community organizing and on new bombings, according the Bill Ayers "educational" writings.
Greg| 1.24.09 @ 1:35AM
Marc Jeric-
I like your idea...since the left loves those Taliban "freedom fighters / victims of Bush" sooooo much, why not release them in liberal havens like San Fransisco, Chicago, New Orleans, New York, and Detroit?
Alan Brooks| 1.24.09 @ 10:27AM
they'd be better off in Egypt getting hot oil massages.
VERY hot oil massages
Pete| 1.24.09 @ 2:41PM
Greg, please. Believe it or not, there are a few of us "neo-cons" out here in S.F.
ruth| 1.24.09 @ 8:01PM
Hurts to be from Cali doesn't it?
RightofRush| 1.25.09 @ 2:25AM
To Pete from SF:
Think of "neo-cons" as new to the con of Empire and Pax Bush & crew. Conservatives you're not.
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