Bloomberg supports Wilders
Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York yesterday came to the aid of PVV leader Geert Wilders by making a strong stand for freedom of expression.
In the presence of State Secretary Frans Timmermans [PvdA, Socialist, Labour], the Dutch ambassador to the U.S. Renée Jones-Bos and Mayor Cohen of Amsterdam [PvdA, Socialist, Labour], Bloomberg said he was absolutely against any form of restriction on freedom of expression.
“Of course I do not appreciate everything I hear. But when you start restricting that, you step on a slippery slope. Before you know it, you can no longer say what you want,” Bloomberg said at the kickoff of NY400, a year of celebrations in which a central theme is the arrival of the ship “Halve Maen” (Half Moon, of the Dutch East India Company) with the explorer Henry Hudson, who founded a settlement on Manhattan.
Cross-posted at The International Free Press Society.
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1 comment:
"...But when you start restricting that, you step on a slippery slope. Before you know it, you can no longer say what you want," Bloomberg said...
I find it ironic that Bloomberg said this because he does not seem to have the same views regarding freedom as it relates to anti-gun laws that he is trying to have passed (and proving his point by illegally sending NY straw purchasers to gun stores in VA).
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