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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen

Nog al iemand die de mensenrechten overboord gooit. Je bent niet de enigste in deze tijden. Zelfs coloniale gedachten vinden terug ingang tegenwoordig.

Degenen die op oorlog aansturen nemen een grote verantwoordelijk op zich. Laat ons niet vergeten.

Ja, Geert Wilders heeft al tegen dat koloniale denken gewaarschuwd:
Wilders: Marokkanen koloniseren Nederland

Marokkanen zijn bezig Nederland te koloniseren. Dat heeft PVV-leider Geert Wilders woensdag betoogd tijdens de Algemene Beschouwingen in de Tweede Kamer. "Ze zijn niet gekomen om te integreren, maar om ons te onderwerpen en te overheersen", zei Wilders.

En over de verantwoordelijkheid voor burgeroorlog wil ik dit aanhalen:

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils. In seeking to do so, it encounters obstacles which are deeply rooted in human nature. One is that by the very order of things such evils are not demonstrable until they have occurred: At each stage in their onset there is room for doubt and for dispute whether they be real or imaginary. By the same token, they attract little attention in comparison with current troubles, which are both indisputable and pressing: whence the besetting temptation of all politics to concern itself with the immediate present at the expense of the future.

Above all, people are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles: 'if only', they love to think, 'if only people wouldn't talk about it, it probably wouldn't happen'. Perhaps this habit goes back to the primitive belief that the word and the thing, the name and the object, are identical. At all events, the discussion of future grave but, with effort now, avoidable evils is the most unpopular and at the same time the most necessary occupation for the politician. Those who knowingly shirk it, deserve, and not infrequently receive, the curses of those who come after.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m...607.xml&page=1