November 10, 2004
SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF BELGIUM
Banned in Belgium: Filip Dewinter of Vlaams Blok, Belgium's largest conservative political party. Not banned: Arab European League leader Dyab Abou Jahjah, who last month declared that the death of every Dutch soldier in Iraq was a 'victory'
In a shocking bureaucratic coup d'etat, a court of socialist commissars in Brussels outlawed Belgium's largest conservative political party, the Vlaams Blok, declaring it a criminal organization guilty of politically incorrect thought crimes. The ruling effectively ends democracy in EU paradise Belgium, & is a boost for Islamists, since the Vlaams Blok was the only party addressing Belgium's immigration nightmare.
The court ruled that VB texts - including official statistics on crime rates, welfare expenditures, & a paper on the position of women in Islam - carried 'an intention to contribute to a campaign of hatred.' Under Belgium's tyranny of political correctness, any party member could now be hauled before the court & fined or imprisoned.
(No action was taken against Belgium's Arab-European League, whose leader Dyab Abou Jahjah recently declared that the death of every Dutch soldier in Iraq was a victory, whose party calls assimilation cultural rape, & demands Islamic schools, bilingual Arab education, & hiring quotas.) This outrage by a kangaroo court - no jury was allowed - is the culmination of a long battle by the Franco-socialist oligarchy against the free-market Flemish VB, & reveals the smoldering feuds between Europe's ancient tribes.
The VB - much like the murdered Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands - was smeared as 'far-right' for calling for deportation of illegal immigrants, insisting that Arab immigrants respect European culture, as well as pressing for Flemish independence. (Recall that when Austrians voted for Jörg Haider (r), the socialist EU imposed sanctions on them for daring to vote for someone it disapproved of.)
The VB was founded in 1977. It grew steadily, as Flemish voters resented subsidizing the southern welfare state (2000 unemployment in Flemish Antwerp was 6.9%, compared to 18% in Wallonia), which would collapse if Flemish secession were realized. Alarmed, left-wing governing parties formed an entente to shut the VB out of the government, a cordon sanitaire that also ensured no government could be formed without the Socialists.
But VB grew. Unable to defeat it at the polls, the Franco-socialist commissars resorted to judicial thuggery. Under the Belgian constitution, political parties can only be tried before a jury. This was too risky, so in the 90s the commissars changed the Constitution so that crimes of 'racism' were handled by a penal court, & passed nebulous Anti-Racism & Anti-Discrimination Acts defined so broadly that anyone could be charged under them.
In 1999, parties deemed 'undemocratic' & 'racist' were banned from receiving state funding, an attempt to strangle the VB since private donations of more than 125 Euros were also illegal. [NOTE: The totally bastardized word racism has a specific meaning, referring to theories of biological determinism according to race. Be assured that 99.99% of the time when you see this word, it's used in a context in which it means nothing.]
Socialist commissars then brought charges against 3 non-profits that had worked with the VB, in order to steer the case towards the sinister-sounding Centre for Equal Opportunities & the Fight Against Racism, an Orwellian organ reporting directly to the socialist PM. Still no success: judges in 2001 & 2003 refused to issue a verdict, under the maverick argument that the electorate should decide about political parties.
By 2004, the VB received 1 million votes in a country of 10 million, outpolling the French Socialists. This meant it would soon break the cordon, & Flemish voters would actually have a say in government. Desperate, the Socialists were forced to include the Christian Democrats in the government. Even more alarming, VB leader Filip DeWinter was moving to establish an EU-wide party.
Not to worry: the commissars found a liberal judge who ruled against the VB in April, which the Supreme Court upheld yesterday, thus outlawing the VB, & serving notice to anyone who dares speak out against illegal immigration or creeping Islamization.
Belgium, like Yugoslavia, is a phony creation, formed by French Catholics in 1830 in response to the drive by the Netherlands' Protestant King William I to deFrenchify his kingdom. (The French Walloons immediately banned Dutch, the language of the Flemish majority.) For 170 years, the Fracophone Walloons - the Sunnis of Belgium - have been systematically disenfranchising the Flemish majority.
Sophisticated Europe, where you can vote for any party as long as the cultural commissars approve of it. Otherwise, you'll face sanctions, fines, & imprisonment. See also - Paul Belien: Banned in Belgium; The Flemish Republic; Boston Review: An Immigration Crisis in the EU; The Periscope: Vlaams Blok Builds up Strength; Vlaams Dialect; Scandinavia Uber Alles
Posted by Jeff at November 10, 2004 11:22 AM