This is a beautiful translation of Pim Fortuyn's column "Extreme Left" (Extreem Links) by Herr Winn of http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/ This was written by Pim on 26 March 2006, shortly before his murder on 6 May 2002. I'm having trouble with my own site, so I hope that no one minds if I post this here. But all of the kudos go to Herr Winn at Klein Verzet, one of my favorite sites. Enjoy:
Extreme Left (Extreem Links)
There’s something remarkable going on in the Netherlands. Ever since I’ve entered the political arena, we’re confronted with a resurrection of the extreme right. I haven’t noticed this myself, but many a politician and journalist from the establishement apparently has.
I don’t do anything more then name and analyse the problems in [the Netherlands] in a clear language that everyone can understand and I’ve suggested numerous solutions to the problems I’ve identified. Insofar as those solutions are at hand, that is.
After all, the Church of the Left, GroenLinks, PvdA (Green Left and Labour –HW-) and the media entwined with them, have for years prevented us from measuring – that would only be stigmatising – and well, how is one to know then? All that notwithstanding, particularly Elsevier magazine and the opiniating yours truely have been working for eight years to chart [Dutch] multicultural society and – oh miracle – we’ve been wonderfully succesful, despite all the official and informal resistance of everything and everyone we will for convenience categorize as the Extreme Left.
The success was so complete that if you wanted to know facts and figures regarding the failure of Dutch multicultural society, the side bars of Elsevier magazine are more worthy of study then, for example, the information at the Ministry of Justice. Thanks to the extreme left, who have continuously frustrated and prevented discussion of the facts, no holds barred.
The extreme left – GroenLinks and PvdA plus accomplices in official and media circles – have, through the thought police, i.e. the so-called anti-racism committees subsidized by you [the Dutch citizen], nipped any and criticism on the blessings of a multi-cultural society in the bud. And woe is the critic that didn’t express himself careful enough. The state’s crown prosecutors would jump on the opportunity to drag him before a judge.
Have you ever heard of a Maroccan or Iranian brought before a judge for viciously anti-semitical remarks? Or a muslim for calling our women prostitutes and ourselves christian dogs? I didn’t. As you may know, I don’t necessarily want to hear about it, because freedom of speech trumps all, in my opinion, as long as there’s no incitements to hatred or violence.
The extreme left, however, chose to have poop in the eyes where these categories of insults were concerned. Because Jews and indigenous Dutch do not, of course, merit sympathy. The worst thing is that the crown prosecutor followed the extreme left so naturally, while the crown prosecutor, Lady Justice, is supposed to have a blindfold, literally with no regard for a persons stature or background.
We are at a point where it is possible to talk normally about the problems of multi-cultural society. But if I understand things correctly this is only thanks to the extreme left, that have always seen things in this way. Even that scary little GroenLinks, riddled with ex-communists, feels that firm action (or rather: firm words) are allowed every now and then. But remember it was these ghost whisperers that sabotaged any discussion by labelling critics as racists, fascists, xenophobes and by invariably tying the discussion directly to the blackest page in our history: the Holocaust.
I’ve have seldomly seen such an example of ideological terrorism, and that during a number of decades, by the very people that all of a sudden have seen the light and shamelessly, without any apology, label us extreme right.
Groen Links and its extremely left wing ideology (I will not speak another word of them until May 15th [2002]) are a disaster for The Netherlands. Billions more will be dumped into the bottomless pit of healthcare, education, security and immigration policy. For the former three this has been standard procedure for years now, without any signifcant improvement in efficiency or performance. We need to clean up and improve the whole kit ’n kaboodle first. Then see whether there is any improvement in performance before deciding who will and who will not receive extra money.
In short, the exercise of power in education, healthcare and security should go back to the teachers, the doctors and nurses and the police officers. Those are the people that know the business and not all those dreadful burocrats and managers, that have never stood in front of a class, never have seen a patient or caught a criminal. All these sectors have been run a-ground by power in the hands of burocrats, the omnipotence of administration and the know-it-all meddlesomeness of all those managers and experts.
If it is up to GroenLinks and the PvdA, despite all the tough language, the borders will remain open and the flood of immigrants from other countries and cultures will not really be dammed. On the contrary, it’ll continue as before, every three or four years a moderately large city of new immigrants added, mostly filled with problem cases, people that will hardly grasp the language and will integrate only with difficulty. The success of the citizenship courses is an indication: Only 15% of the participants has, at the time of ‘graduation’, a workable command of the Dutch language. Count your blessings(!).
In short, if you want to help this country even further ‘to hell in a hand basket’, vote for the extreme left, i.e. either PvdA or GroenLinks, of course.
Translators notes:
GroenLinks (literally GreenLeft) was founded in 1990 as a fusion between the Communist Party Netherlands, Political Party Radicals, Pacifist Socialist Party, the Green Party Netherlands and the Evangelical Peoples Party; all of them in the left most regions of the political spectrum.The CPN was in essence stalinist, the PPR were mostly anarchists, the PSP marxists (of the type you'll also find in the current day Socialist Party), the Green Party Netherlands were, well, green eco-collectivists and the EVP was some weird christian/marxist party basing its ideology on liberation theology.
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