1/08/2008

The liberal consensus and the politics of intolerance

In defense of freedom of speech -- and of blogger Lionheart.


I watched something interesting on Dutch public television yesterday night. Former minister and now member of parliament for the market-friendly VVD party Henk Kamp consulted the online Electoral Compass USA, and found out he is ideologically closest to Hillary Clinton, followed by John Edwards and Barack Obama. He himself said to feel more connected to the latter, however; the fact that Hillary's success depends for a large part on her husband's past achievements he did not like very much. (See picture below for my own result.)

This is a guy who is supposed to represent the conservative wing of our formerly most "right-wing" party (that is, until the emergence of "populist" parties on the right). Admittedly, from following Dutch media coverage of the American pre-election season, one might conclude that only Democratic candidates participate. But this fact alone cannot be a sufficient explanation for Kamp's liberal bias.

Another incident also demonstrated the lack of serious conservative alternatives in Dutch politics and media. The very successful "right-wing" weblog GeenStijl -- featuring politically-incorrect and often hilariously sarcastic analyses on issues including immigration, integration, left-wing radicalism, and the welfare-dependent underclass -- held a poll among its visitors. It turned out that 41 percent of them would vote for Hillary Clinton had they been American citizens, followed by 32 percent for Barack Obama.

These are interesting facts. They show that the right wing of the Dutch political spectrum is in fact equivalent with -- at best -- the center of American politics. It testifies to my long-held opinion that we are being paralyzed by a choking liberal consensus. (Indeed, if the opposite were true, that American rather than European media and politics are extremely biased, such enlightened figures as Michael Moore and Oprah Winfrey would simply not exist in the United States.) And the Netherlands are not alone, of course. It made me remember the former Clinton administration official who moved to London after his tenure, and found out -- to his own delight -- that the Liberal, Labour and Conservative Party more or less reflected his personal political views.

Perhaps this liberal consensus, openly intolerant of opinions critical of its policies of multiculturalism and socialism, is the driving force behind the planned arrest of British blogger Lionheart on the grounds of inciting racial hatred: "I am currently out of the Country and on my return home to England I am going to be arrested by British detectives on suspicion of Stirring up Racial Hatred by displaying written material" contrary to sections 18(1) and 27(3) of the Public Order Act 1986. This charge if found guilty carries a lengthy prison sentence, more than what most paedophiles and rapists receive, and all for writing words of truth about the barbarity that is living in the midst of our children, which threatens the very future of our Country."

Here is yet another disgraceful product of bankrupt, yet all too popular, liberal ideals, which should be met with outrage all over the Western world. If we don't speak out today, it might be too late tomorrow; Dutch prime minister Jan-Peter Balkenende recently said (NL) in a television interview that his government is planning to make an extra effort to prevent society from becoming more polarized, referring to old but hitherto dormant hate-speech laws. (Of course, he refused to answer repeated questions as to whether this new policy would target Geert Wilders's confrontational politics as well.)

One Dane has already written a letter to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown concerning these politics of intolerance aimed at Lionheart. Atlas Shrugs devoted an article to this disgrace, and fellow Dutch blogger R. Hartman (from whom I learned about the incident) wrote about it as well, concluding that "Freedom of Speech is on the way out fast in the formerly free Western world." Please allow me to be next. Hopefully many will follow.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for posting on this. Keep in mind, the evil forces are after Lionheart because he helped the cops put a drug dealer in prison, then they started sending him death threats and then the cops wouldn't help him.

Local bloggers blogging locally all over the world generally are going to face much more danger because they will always be in their foe's backyard reporting on everything they do and driving them mad for revenge.

He's not just writing about Islam encroaching on Europe and the UK. He's writing about what a very wealthy and well connected Pakistani Muslim organized crime family is up to in Luton.

Pakistani Muslim Mafia, the Mob.

We can't stop, WE MUST NOT STOP fighting for Free Speech and Justice! We will fight for Lionheart!

absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
ignore creeping sharia

don't believe Jihadists
want world domination


The 'Bushies' would never advocate these legal shenanigans but some of the PIAPS people and Dhimmicrats do and would.

This 'Racial & Religious Hatred Act' is a load of crap. Hopefully it will be scrapped someday when the lawyers start being pressured to use it against Islam's obvious and much more virulent hate speech.

This planned arrest is terrible news for Lionheart, Britain and the world.
Probably the Luton Pakistani Muslim Heroin and crack gang (which is also involved with forcing non-Muslim teen girls into sex-slavery) who he has helped expose pressured the dhimmi pigs to arrest him.

Too many in the dhimmidiot government in Britain are pathetic and corrupt.
The EU is showing itself to be very evil in practice as well as most misguided and extremely stupid and ignorant of reality.

This suppression of free speech will actually cause more violence and hatred of course.
This case will also serve to educate the masses even more about the evils of Sharia and the importance of standing up to Islam.

This must be made very public, we should all tell all our friends about this. Spread the word! God bless Lionheart, I believe he will prevail.
The lawyers on the Right MUST be supported to start fighting this BS more.

Both 'The Left' and 'The Right' should be ticked off about this.

We should tell all the Radio Gods about this. Maybe they'll rant about it on their shows.

.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
outlaw most bloggers

license all the rest
monitor their writing

.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
eliminate FREE speech

the truth may not be spoken
if criminals are exposed

.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
outlaw self-defense

exposing violent crimes
shall be deemed hate speech

.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe loves
corrupt politicians

offer immigrants welfare
get their votes to keep your jobs

.
absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
be traitorous garbage

just destroy your country
screw your great-granddaughter
.

http://lionheartuk.blogspot.com/

http://haltterrorism.com/

http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/

:)
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no2liberals said...

Interesting survey.
As you might suspect, all of the GOP candidates were in my circle of friends, with Ron Paul barely sneaking in.
The difference in positions on the political spectrum has to be explained by many more years of Marxist leanings in your educational system, as well as media, not to mention vote buying with Mohammedan immigrants.
I first encountered Lionheart's plight at Gates of Vienna, several days ago. If you visit their page, they put up a post today, that translates Lionheart's post in nearly every language in Europe.
It's chilling to think that simply expressing oneself could get you arrested. I fear for my European friends, as well as for my country.