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[From the
archives] The Meaning of
the Murder of Dutch Politician, Pym Fortuyn
"When I become prime minister, I'm going to buy one of those Margaret
Thatcher handbags and I'll bang it on the table and demand my money back
from the government for past bad services." Pym
Fortuyn
Popular, flamboyant, openly gay Dutch politician, Pym Fortuyn
("Professor Pym") was portrayed by Dutch, European, and international
media as:
Far right, New Right,
extreme-rightist, Racist, Fascist, neo-fascist, anti-immigration, similiar
to France's Jean Marie LePen, and sometimes even as a radical
laissez-faire supporter (which is the exact opposite of statist fascism of
course - but these left-wing journalists aren't known for their
intelligence).
But Pym Fortyn was NONE of these
things.
Repeat: NONE!
Listen to this interview to find
out what he actually stood for, what kind of a man he really was, and how
wrong, wrong, wrong the media and his opponents were.
One of the key issues discussed in
this interview is whether branding him in the above manner contributed to
his murder.
i.e.
Step 1 ->
Murder the reputation ...
Anti Pym
Fortuyn posters make him out to be like Hitler
Step 2 -> ? ?
? ?
On Monday, May 6 2002, nine days before the
Dutch elections, as he walked out of a radio station, Pym
Fortuyn, age 54, was shot dead at close range by an "animal
rights" activist who claimed
he considered Fortuyn as: "a steadily increasing danger for
vulnerable groups in society, namely
Muslims."
A quote from Pym
Fortuyn: "I don't hate Islam. I consider it a backward culture.
I have traveled a lot around the world. Everywhere where the islam has
power conditions are simply terrible."
Guests
Hubert Jongen, Netherlands
(Holland) President, Libertarian International *
Ronnie Jansen, Netherlands
(Holland) Writer and Dutch Libertarian** activist
* Note: Linking to
this site does not imply any sort of "endorsement". "Non-endorsement"
does not imply rejection or criticism of the site or
organisation.
** Note from Prodos:
Ronnie asked to be billed as a "Libertarian activist". That doesn't mean I
support "Libertarianism". But I do know that - labels aside - both
Ronnie (and Hubert Jongen!) do a lot of very good work in my view. In any
case, within the context of this interview, their knowledge and views are
definitely worth hearing. I learned a great deal from them. I'm confident
you will too.
Links
BBC News interview:
At
Home with Professor Pym Also has lots of other links
http://www.pim-fortuyn.nl/ But
it's all in Dutch.
Fortuyn Voted
Greatest Dutchman
Death in Rotterdam: Tolerance takes its
toll Good article by Chuck Colson, Chairman of Prison Fellowship
Ministries
To read about the murderer,
Volkder van de Graaf -> click
here
Point of interest: The media have referred to this murderer as an "animal
rights activist". However, as the above link notes [with my
bold emphasis and minor reformatting]
In a press statement of November
23 the Public Ministry announced that Van der Graaf had
confessed to the murder.
He said that he planned
it for some time beforehand and that nobody else was involved
in the plans or knew about them.
He said he saw Fortuyn as a
steadily increasing danger for vulnerable groups in society, namely
Muslims.
It was thereby a combination of
Fortuyn's stigmatising views, the polarising way that he presented them
and the great political power that Fortuyn was threatening to obtain.
He saw no other possibility for
himself than to end the danger by killing Fortuyn.
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