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Wilders trial: Final end
And thus we arrive at the whimper that marks the end to a sad, awkward, absurdity that has marred the reputation, at home as much as it did abroad, of the justice system (not to mention the wider governing system) … Continue reading
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Quote of the day
The God-given rights revealed in the Judaeo-Christian scriptures and developed under the Anglo-American Enlightenment tradition of Natural Law have been usurped by a European Union Napoleonic system in which the state has become the ultimate arbiter of what privileges (‘rights’) … Continue reading
No justice at all
In the Netherlands this week there has been a small uproar (NL) about a community service sentence handed to a defendant accused of punching a cop in the face six times: The sentenced young man, Bilal el B., was stopped … Continue reading
Posted in crime, justice, multi-cul, the netherlands
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Full re-run
From Elsevier (NL): Wilders trial to continue. The court of justice of Amsterdam has decided to continue the trial against leader of the PVV, Geert Wilders. Defence attorney Bram Moszkowicz earlier argued that the public prosecutor nor the court are … Continue reading
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In a lot more trouble than we thought
The court of judges in the first trial against Geert Wilders, which was pulled off the case after dismissal on the grounds of ‘apparent prejudice’, was under heavy pressure caused by media attention and public opinion. The court was insufficiently … Continue reading
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Wilders trial resumes on February 7
From the website from Rechtspraak: The criminal case against Mr. Wilders will continue on Monday, February 7, 2011 at 10:00 before the court of Amsterdam. The session will start with a public procedural hearing where parties may state their wishes … Continue reading
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Hope and Change
Glen Greenwald: Obama argues his assassination program is a “state secret” There’s another word for that: Tyranny I don’t trot that word out lightly. But Jesus. (…) There are no mitigating factors, here. Obama is arguing the executive has the … Continue reading
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Wilders trial to resume some time between July and October
Apparently the trial will resume somewhere between July 1st and October 31st, depending on the availability of the three witnesses Wilders was allowed. According to Snouck, where I got the information from, resumption depends specifically on when Wafa Sultan will … Continue reading
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Delegitimizing the state itself
Mark Steyn in classic form on the Wilders court case: [T]his court is explicitly attempting to criminalize the political opinions of a large swath of the Dutch electorate. That doesn’t seem a smart move. Whatever it does to Wilders, it … Continue reading
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More EUnion goodness…
Nothing marks the absence of any real EUnion-sceptic reporting in the Dutch MSM as the fact that we continental Saxons have to get the news of what our Brussels overlords are really doing from our brethren from across the little … Continue reading
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