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The Dutch -- arguably Europe's most liberal, tolerant non-judgmental people -- are getting fed up too.
Seems a "disadvantaged immigrant youth", i.e. a criminal unassimilated Muslim invader, snatched a woman's purse near the spot Theo van Gogh was murdered, and sped off on a moped.
Which was no match for the enraged woman's car.
Guess the punk felt lucky.
We are told:
It would behoove us all for government to live up to its responsibilities.
Seems a "disadvantaged immigrant youth", i.e. a criminal unassimilated Muslim invader, snatched a woman's purse near the spot Theo van Gogh was murdered, and sped off on a moped.
Which was no match for the enraged woman's car.
Guess the punk felt lucky.
We are told:
The story has been front-page news all week in the Netherlands, home to about one million Muslims, more than a quarter of Moroccan descent. De Telegraaf daily said on Friday it was the man's own fault.When governments fail to secure the borders or to control destructive elements, the people are forced to take personal action as a last resort.
Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration politician whose popularity has soared since Van Gogh was murdered, called for the government to strip criminals with dual citizenship of their Dutch nationality.
"Arresting the woman makes the victim the criminal and the criminal a victim. It's turning the world on its head," he said.
Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was forced on Friday to defend Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, who said the woman had not committed murder and the death would never have happened if the youth had not stolen the bag. A placard reading "Verdonk, murderess" was placed at the site of the death.
Van Gogh's murder on November 2 triggered a series of attacks on mosques and churches and a wave of death threats against politicians, including Verdonk and Wilders, shattering the Netherlands' reputation for tolerance.
The woman, who prosecutors want to charge for manslaughter, was released on Thursday pending further investigations.
It would behoove us all for government to live up to its responsibilities.
posted by RDS at 8:58 PM
2 Comments:
I can't agree with the conclusion that the purse-snatcher got his due, regardless of his cultural background.
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I wasn't claiming this was the outcome a Solomon would have decided, but I was surely gratified that the authorities were placing the ultimate resonsibility with the theif. Once the Social Contract is breached, well, anything can happen.
We don't know the woman's intention; that will be for their courts to determine. But as accidental deaths go, at least this case wasn't "senseless".
If the Scales of Justice are ever to be unbalanced, I'd rather have them tilt this way than O.J.'s way.
The other point is, government had better get control of its unassimilated immigrant problem, or we're inevitably going to be seeing more of these non-standardized outcomes.
And I'm heartened that there's clarity on who the real predator was here.
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