Wilders & HM Customs - Ryanair / Aer Lingus next?

Thursday February 12, 2009 22:10

by no platform

As anyone in the hinterland of UK politics will have noticed, one of the House of Lords UK Independence party wanted to invite Geert Wilders the far-right Dutch parliamentarian with the ugly hair and uglier politics to show his "Fitna" vid this afternoon in Westminster.

But then the UK Home Office decided he was persona non-grata. Ooooo shock & horror a society, which like many in Europe faces an increase in far right politics and anti-migrant opinion against the backdrop of economic collapse, has now turned to debating whether or not he should have been allowed past the passport desk in the name of "Freedom of Speech".

So far the chattering classes of far and wide on the usual fora of the BBC, Guardian & Independent newspapers seem to think a politician facing trial for incitement of hatred in his home country ought to be have been allowed through the green lane & a chance to sip the Lords' whisky***.

I honestly reckon the man should have been a full body cavity search like any dodgy geezer arriving into Heathrow on a weekday afternoon flight from Amsterdam's Schiphol airport followed by a rake of stomach x-rays and just to make sure obliged to sit on the potty till he was forthcoming and evacuated all his shitty poo.

But instead the man has played the gallery for fools as usual.
Not only the British gallery who forget how selective their free speech concepts have been but also the Dutch parliamentary establishment who ensured the ambassador was present at Heathrow and the Dutch public who were treated to minute by minute updates in their press. I am minded to mention the recent Czech EU presidency art scam sculture "Entropa" which depicted the Netherlands as a flooded land with only minarets appearing over the waves - an image due in much part to Geert's politics as well as Theo Van Gogh's legacy. Perhaps many Irish readers don't know the "Entropa" sculpture depicted Ireland as a sheepskin bagpipe reflecting a land of ethnic diversity.... (**)

What works for the Brits & their vapid sensibilities quite often works for the Irish too.

Hence this little article which in addition to inviting responses and opinions on the long list of persona non grata in both the UK and Ireland would remind readers that for many years elected politicians of the Irish Republican movement were denied freedom of movement and transit and their chance to prance untouchable through the executive lounges of British airports. let us not mention full body cavity searches.

I'd suggest we formulate a quick position on how we ensure that Geert Wilders does not appear at an Irish university, Irish thinktank conference or vidnight in either houses of the Oireachtas -

neither soon nor sharpish but ever.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/12/far-right-d...ted=1
** http://www.eu2009.cz/en/news-and-documents/news/entropa...5634/

*** (I have sipped that beverage and verily it is quite excellent which is why I mention it - but only because a flatmate who was then a junior doctor serviced a peer in an A&E room and was sent a bottle as a thankyou not only for being a proper snobbish arse lick but also foregoing to mention she was 4 times over the drunk driving limit)

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Fitna row

by uillean

Fri Feb 13, 2009 07:53

For all his way-2-the-right politics, I can't see how he was going to "incite" those 30 members of the house of lords to hate anything. And Entropa doesn't include england...

Religious bigotry defeats freedom of speech

by Henry

Fri Feb 13, 2009 17:31

Wilder's movie documentary "Fitna" shows a collection of Muslim clerics who preach to European Muslims calling for jihad, death to the infidels, the imposition of sharia law, the overthrow of democracy, forced conversion to Islam, the oppression of women and homosexuals etc etc etc. The film is merely attempting to show the level of extremism, intolerance and hatred at the high levels in the Muslim world and its malign influence on Muslims worldwide and the Muslim extremists who follow through on this violent hatred.

Whether you are on the political left, centre or right, this movie shows that a minority of influential extremists have hijacked the Islamic religion. Islam has been hijacked as surely as if the KKK had taken over the Vatican.

The spineless treatment of Wilders who was put on a plane back to Holland after trying to enter a British airport shows the slave kow towing of a modern European democracy to religious fundamentalist fanatics.

What we witnessed at Drumcree when Mo Mowlam caved into the Orange Order is being repeated with even more implacable sectarian bigots by the current British government.

It is a sad day when calling a spade a spade is a crime.

oddly enough uillean "Entropa" doesn't show ulster, scotland or wales either.

by potty trained

Fri Feb 13, 2009 22:14

Entropa though as a scam really showed how little EU types look at art CV's. All the supposed artists not only came with fake names and projects but fake galleries where they had supposedly showed their previous award winning arse.

Doesn't it say a lot about a Czech artist´s ignorance that the clichéd stereotype he held up for ridicule of Ireland was a sheep skin bagpipe? Admittedly it ended up coloured like guinness and I suppose the pipes could be Corrib.

But then again you reckon it was an uillean pipe ?

where are the keys I ask you..,

I'm barred from the UK too. or rather I've got a long standing "handle with care order" which generally means full body cavity searching & you know that somehow gets the message across. Would you go into a pub where you were guaranteed a full body cavity search? Perhaps you would. & fair play to you in all diversity. But rest assured Mr Geert Wilder's party don't like your kind of fun even if their late Austrian peer & role model Heider had spent his last night of fun on such a premises.

still got a catholic funeral.

& state one to boot.

if the boot fits wriggle it.

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Wilders & HM Customs - Ryanair / Aer Lingus next?

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