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Monday, September 26, 2016

"Hate Speech" trial of anti-Islamist Geert Wilders



Using Political Correctness to 
Silence Freedom of Speech

  • Both the Left and much of the Right will do anything they can to keep borders wide, wide open.


(AP) — Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders appealed Friday for judges to throw out a hate-speech case against him, branding it a political prosecution that should not be handled in a criminal court.

"You can bring this charade of a political process to an end now," Wilders told judges in an emotional final statement to the court at a pretrial hearing.

The politically charged case comes just months before parliamentary elections that are due in March, which could see Wilders' Freedom Party emerge as the largest party. The party placed second in a poll of polls four days ago, narrowly behind the Liberal Party of Prime Minister Mark Rutte. If the court allows the case to go ahead, Wilders' trial is expected to start Oct. 31.

The case against Wilders, who was acquitted in 2011 of insulting Islam, centers on comments made before and after Dutch local elections in 2014. At one party meeting he asked supporters whether they wanted more or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands, drawing them into the chant of "Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!"

"We'll take care of it," he replied.

Wilders told the judges his comments were no worse than those of many other Dutch lawmakers, up to and including Rutte, in the fiery public debate in the Netherlands about the place of ethnic minorities in society.

"It's right that they aren't prosecuted," Wilders said. "But I don't understand why I'm prosecuted ... and they are not."

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                 Geert Wilders: Stand for Freedom!





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