Thursday, February 12, 2009

An Open Letter to the Government of the UK

Free Geert!

I’m going to finish up what has pretty much been an all-Wilders day with excerpts from an open letter to the government of the UK posted at the International Free Press Society:

On Tuesday, February 10, 2009, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, leader of the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Party for Freedom), received a letter written on behalf of British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. It informed Mr. Wilders that on traveling to the UK at the invitation of UK Independence Party peer Lord Pearson to screen the film Fitna and hold a Q&A in the Parliament on Thursday, February 12, 2009, Mr. Wilders should expect to be barred from entry into the UK…

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With this edict, the government of the UK has broken faith with its own glorious tradition of enshrining freedom of speech, and embarked on an authoritarian course of setting the boundaries of political debate. With this action, the government of the UK has also broken faith with its neighbors in the European Union by taking the unprecedented measure of barring entry to a democratically elected representative, and, in Mr. Wilders’ case, party leader from another EU member state. In so doing, the government of the UK has additionally given lie to the organizing EU principle of “open borders” among member states, demonstrating a capricious will to close its borders against ideas of which it disapproves.
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The British Home Office has further stated that in barring Geert Wilders from the UK it is stopping “extremism, hatred and violent messages” from coming to its country. The British Home Office is wrong. These things are already there. With this crude rebuff of Mr. Wilders, the Netherlands, and freedom of speech, the British government has all but ensured that such extremism, hatred and violent messages will continue to flourish in British soil, taking root and taking over.

And there is something else. Ideas know no boundaries, at least in what we continue to think of as the Free World. Fitna, Wilders’ writings, news of his political progress in the Dutch parliament: All remain available inside the UK via the Internet and other media. This means that the Home Office’s stated reasons for barring Wilders — to prevent the spread of what it calls “extremism” into UK communities of presumed “harmony”— is not at all what this action is about…

Read the rest at IFPS.

3 comments:

Czechmade said...

It seems Miliband hails from a noble marxist family which came to UK from Brussels in 1948 claiming asylum on false grounds.

Old Atlantic Lighthouse said...

An open letter to closed minds. Always remember that Neville Chamberlain declared war on Hitler. These are not Chamberlains they are Quislings and quasi-Marxists.

Unknown said...

What a feckless bunch of craven maggots our elites are. From Radio Netherlands Worldwide, via The Dawning of A New Dark Age, comes this very revealing snippet. Our rulers are running scared, and it shows. These people are NOT leaders of men, they are sniveling, deceitful opportunists and conniving rococo Marxists and nothing more.

30, yes that's right, 30; out of 743 of the upper house, and 646 out of the Commons; that is all that could be bothered to attend the screening of Fitna. And yet, one thing can be guarantied, when amongst their friends they will gladly pontificate and sneeringly denounce Wilders, while preening themselves on their superior knowledge, compassion and wisdom, before any audience foolish enough, and willing enough, to lend them an ear.