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2010-10-23 Europe

Dutch Culture Wars, Starring Geert Wilders

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Posted by Pappy 2010-10-23 01:42|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Fennema has made so many wrong choices in his own past (e.g. joining the communist party, the party of Stalin and 30 million murdered innocents) that I would question anything he has to say on the subject.

Posted by Mike Ramsey 2010-10-23 08:19|| 2010-10-23 08:19|| Front Page Top

#2 "Western values are giving way to self-loathing and ethical relativism. "

Giving way? That train left the station decades ago in Europe. And its now riding high in the Obama administration.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-10-23 08:44|| 2010-10-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#3 'Republican' can have a very different meaning in Europe.

In civil war Spain, 'Republicans' were idealistic and violent communists, in a no-quarter massacre fight with the fascists that depopulated large chunks of the country.

This was referred to with some wit in the novel "For Whom The Bell Tolls", when the hot Spanish girl finds out the American's father was (an American) Republican (who, when caught up in the Teapot Dome or similar scandal, committed suicide, instead of being dragged before congress to testify.)

She assumes that American Republicans were like Spanish Republicans, and asks him whether his father committed suicide to evade being tortured by his enemies. He ponders for a while, then answers "yes".

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-10-23 09:54|| 2010-10-23 09:54|| Front Page Top

#4 And then, of course, there is the Irish Republican Army.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-10-23 09:55|| 2010-10-23 09:55|| Front Page Top

#5 That's why I asked, Anonymoose. America and the rest of the world, separated by the same language, as someone once said.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-10-23 10:16|| 2010-10-23 10:16|| Front Page Top

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