OT: Dutch democracy compromised... |
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OT: Dutch democracy compromised... |
Jeroen |
Nov 2 2004, 08:50 AM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 7,887 Joined: 24-December 02 From: The Netherlands Member No.: 3 Region Association: Europe |
A truely sad day for all Dutch
Today movie maker, columnist and chain-smoker Theo van Gogh was murdered He was known and feared for his strong critizism and his blunt and harsh statements that he spewed when ever he got the chance. Often shocking his "opponenents" Van Gogh had a very stong opinion about the way muslims-funtamentalists suppress women and how they condem gays. In an ultimate attempt to shut him up, he was brutally excecuted in Amsterdam this morning. He was shot 6 times and then a letter was pinned to his dead body with 2 knives The killer was captured after a shoot-out with the police. He is an immigrant from Marocco and aparently a muslim-extremist. Van Gogh paid the ultimate price for what he believed in the most: the freedom of speech |
type11969 |
Nov 3 2004, 03:43 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,231 Joined: 2-December 03 From: Collingswood, NJ Member No.: 1,410 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(nebreitling @ Nov 3 2004, 01:29 PM) chris: it's almost as if you're saying that we're making enemies faster than we can kill them... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif) I dunno how you could have possibly gotten that idea. I really like the fact that people think that this war in Iraq has made this nation safer, yeah, perhaps now there is a lesser chance that we will get attacked, perhaps. But people making the argument that the definite reason why we haven't gotten attacked since 9/11 is because of the war over there is like saying that this cup of water here is doing the same thing. We haven't gotten attacked, right? So this cup is doing a hell of a job. Anyway, its the not so distant future we have to worry about. When the kids in Iraq whos parents were killed by the invading Americans emerge from the Iraqi underground. When we begin to let our guard down because the war over there has "taught terrorist not to mess with us." When we have severed so many international ties that even if other countries know about the impending attacks, they won't tell us out of spite. When we have gone into such serious debt that our own intellegence agencies are more of a joke than they currently are and can't give us the warning we need. Okay, so maybe I'm a bit of a pessimist, but I think it is much more dangerous to be an optimist that thinks this war in Iraq is going to solve this terrorism problem. end rant -Chris |
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