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OMFG! They just shot Pim Fortuyn, political leader of one of our oposition parties.... It's fucking unbelievable!!! This sort of awful shit hasn't happened in our country in a few hundred years! WTFF!?
And BTW, that CNN report calls him 'far-right'... that's not entirely true. He himself doesn't (or 'didn't' ) seem to know which side he really was on. Yes, he called the Islam 'a backward culture', but he kind of tolerated that .... he's (or 'was' ) something of a tolerant right-wing extravagant guy...
And no, I do not agree with any of his and his parties opinions, but they did bring some life to Dutch politics, which is always good.
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CNN makes me laugh when they label European parties roughly equivalent in terms of political spectrum location to the Republicans as "far right."
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quote:A few weeks ago, protesters threw cream pies laced with urine in his face.
You know, you guys have some pretty f'ed up protesters...
Any leads on who whacked the guy?
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The gunman has been arrested but that about covers what I know.
Motive is still unknown four hours after detainment... probably a lone whacko who wanted to make a political statement. He isn't volunteering a lot of information -- neither are the police for that matter -- so much remains speculation.
I'll post an update when I hear anything new / substantial.
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Both of those articles refer to this Kok guy in the plural: "The only exceptions were Kok...".
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Heee, Nederlanders
I'm down ever since I've heard the news (on TV). Although I'm a VVD voter, it really hit me hard. I was fighting against my tears the whole evening.
Nevertheless, I agreed with his criticism against our government. The only reason I was not planning to vote for him were his over-simplistic solutions. And I agree with the commentaries that the media and our left-wing parties created an environment in which something such could have happened. Particularly Melkert and Rosenmuller.
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The pies not only contained urine, but also puke and horse shit.
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quote:The pies not only contained urine, but also puke and horse shit.
And that was probably their 'big gun' as far as debating tactics go.
Throwing shit? MONKEYS throw shit.
What goes through these people's minds? "You gonna go to the debate tomorrow?" "Yeah! But I've nothing intelligent to contribute, so I'm gonna throw pukepisspoop pies!"
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