Nelson
09-29-2007, 01:17 AM
Say, does anybody know what's happening with Joe Sobran? He doesn't seem to write anything anymore.
http://www.sobran.com/columns/index.shtml
http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2007/w070531.shtml
Hunting up Pat Buchanan to tide me over, it turns out there's news on the Vlams Belang front: its leaders are being mangled by cops.
http://www.theamericancause.org/
Is Belgium breaking up?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 28, 2007
Heightening the tensions, on Sept. 11, a demonstration was held in Brussels to protest "the Islamization of Europe," featuring a moment of silence for the victims of 9-11. There, as Washington Times columnist Diana West describes the videotape, "we see black-clad Belgian policemen brutalizing a man in a light-colored suit and tie. His hands are cuffed behind his back, his right elbow is clasped in what is known as an arm-bar hold, and he is being subjected to a genital hold -- a vicious grip that, a retired cop friend of mine tells me, would get any American policeman thrown off the force."
The victim of this police brutality was Frank Vanhecke, president of the Flemish secessionist party Vlams Belang and a member of the European Parliament. Also arrested and beaten was Filip Dewinter, the leading politician of Vlams Belang, which is Belgium's largest opposition party. This is like having Mitch McConnell beaten up and arrested at a rally on the Washington Mall to protest illegal immigration.
Seemingly condoning what was done to the Vlams Belang leaders, Terry Davis, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, issued a statement declaring, "The freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are indeed preconditions for democracy, but they should not be regarded as a license to offend."
Are offensive ideas and speech now verboten in the European Union? ..................
http://www.sobran.com/columns/index.shtml
http://www.sobran.com/wanderer/w2007/w070531.shtml
Hunting up Pat Buchanan to tide me over, it turns out there's news on the Vlams Belang front: its leaders are being mangled by cops.
http://www.theamericancause.org/
Is Belgium breaking up?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
September 28, 2007
Heightening the tensions, on Sept. 11, a demonstration was held in Brussels to protest "the Islamization of Europe," featuring a moment of silence for the victims of 9-11. There, as Washington Times columnist Diana West describes the videotape, "we see black-clad Belgian policemen brutalizing a man in a light-colored suit and tie. His hands are cuffed behind his back, his right elbow is clasped in what is known as an arm-bar hold, and he is being subjected to a genital hold -- a vicious grip that, a retired cop friend of mine tells me, would get any American policeman thrown off the force."
The victim of this police brutality was Frank Vanhecke, president of the Flemish secessionist party Vlams Belang and a member of the European Parliament. Also arrested and beaten was Filip Dewinter, the leading politician of Vlams Belang, which is Belgium's largest opposition party. This is like having Mitch McConnell beaten up and arrested at a rally on the Washington Mall to protest illegal immigration.
Seemingly condoning what was done to the Vlams Belang leaders, Terry Davis, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, issued a statement declaring, "The freedom of expression and freedom of assembly are indeed preconditions for democracy, but they should not be regarded as a license to offend."
Are offensive ideas and speech now verboten in the European Union? ..................