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Plan for Pascal "decoy" Bos

by Pascal Bos · 05/07/2002 (1:52 am) · 3 comments

Funny how just a few hours after i posted my plan someone proved my whole point. For the once who didn’t get the point I was trying to make, it was all about how people become to serious and how some of them think they have total wisdom, people are afraid to keep the kid a life inside and to let others live their lifes like they want to, with their own ideas.

Yesterday, Monday 6 may 2002 around six some one shot and killed freedom of speech in the Netherlands, murdering Pim Fortuyn in a parking lot of a radio station just after he gave an interview.

For the once of you who don’t know Pim Fortuyn, he was an upcoming right politician, who was very clear in what he wanted for the country. Although some of his ideas might be interpreted as radical the over all idea of him was that he was not a racist or fascist in any way. It was a highly charismatic person, with strong ideas, he single handed caused a revolution in our current political country… Some agreed with him some didn’t, you know how it goes…

He was killed because he had some other idea’s, ironically one of his highest priorities was public safety…..

This is a black, black day for our democracy , when someone is killed for his political ideas, good or bad, we are on our way to become the next banana republic.

The Netherlands have always been bragging about how tolerant they where and how anything could be done here, even when the people didn’t wanted it any more, even when there where very clear signs of people who didn’t feel save any more in their own country. If I ask any of you non Dutch about how you know our country it’s always the same, Amsterdam, drugs and prostitution, we are more than that, though these days even we have to look hard….. Community money going to all kinds of vague causes, while public safety is going backwards, while hospital waiting lines grow and grow. Priorities have been set wrong and people are unhappy and now??? Now they don’t even feel save anymore to speak up…….

This isn’t about politics though it’s about how people kill other people just because they have some other ideas. We land of tolerance have fallen, we tolerate drugs, we tolerate prostitution, we tolerate illegal immigrants, but we don’t tolerate freedom of speech….

I feel sad, I feel SO sad, what is my country coming to……

#1
05/07/2002 (1:56 am)
blues rapsody again...
#2
05/07/2002 (1:43 pm)
I have always respected the Netherlands for their high level of tolerances. I think it speaks a lot on a society when they go out of their way to not let people infringe on other's freedoms.

I didn't know anything about Mr. Fortuyn, but I also feel this is just another blow for free speech. It angers me that some peopl feel they have a right to silence the voices of others.
#3
05/08/2002 (2:15 am)
Exactly my point Yacine, it truly is sad...