06-07-2006, 12:57 PM
Quote:Update:I guess his 15 minutes of infamy are over. I wouldn't think he would enjoy now the attention he gets, if he survives.
The party spokesman (the one with his lovely relation with his dentist) has gone into hiding and can't be reached any more after the trailer park where he resides received numerous threats.
It's a pretty ugly topic and I'm pretty tired of seeing it come up on the Lounge every few weeks. There are lot's of evil gruesome things happening in the world. Some of them are perpetrated by individuals, but it's scarier are when the individuals represent governments and do evil on a mass scale. As human beings we need to focus attention and action of areas where we can make a huge difference. We should not tolerate genocide in Darfur, or torture Abu Garib, or ...
I don't believe we can have any meaningful discussions about the clown who is the subject of this thread, nor as an American do I have any good perspective on the social fabric of Holland. I have my perceptions of what Holland is like from the times I've visited and from the news I've seen from there, but I'm sure my perceptions are distorted. Your laws are more relaxed than ours, yet it seems to me that the average Nederlander's morality seems about the same as other Europeans, Canadians, or Americans. I think the same misperceptions happen about different parts of America, or parts of Canada, or where I live in the Midwest. In the breakfast cereal analogy, we have our fair share of flakes and nuts.