Lees de commentaar van Stephen Pollard, Brits Socialist over de veroordeling van het Vlaams Blok, verschenen in The Times.
http://www.stephenpollard.net/001564.html
I've seen the future: it's scary and Belgian (The Times)
April 24, 2004 01:24 AM
Enkele quotes:
"This week democracy — the right to vote for the party you wish to support — ended inside one EU member state."
"The reason? The country’s political establishment dislikes its views."
"The opinion polls were predicting that it could win the most Belgian votes at the European and local elections in June."
" because of its policy that immigrants should be given only two choices: “to assimilate or to return home”."
"Maybe such a policy is indeed racist; maybe it isn’t. But in a democracy, surely, that is a decision which voters should make, not judges."
"The VB’s racism was merely an excuse. The real reason why the Belgian authorities have been bent on banning the VB for years has nothing to do with racism and the rights of immigrants. It is that the party advocates secession from Belgium and the establishment of a Republic of Flanders."
AGAIN: "The real reason is that the party advocates secession from Belgium and the establishment of a Republic of Flanders."
"As Belgium’s only conservative party it upsets the country’s cosy political applecart. The Belgian Establishment has responded not by defeating it in argument but by banning it."
After Wednesday’s ruling,
it is now illegal to distribute VB publications and its politicians are barred from state radio and television. The party is appealing against the ruling, but the Belgian judiciary’s predisposition to do the bidding of the political class means that the appeal has almost no chance of succeeding. When the ban is confirmed, the VB will be proclaimed a criminal organisation and disbanded, unable to exist, let alone to field candidates and argue its case.
"The political mindset which lies behind the EU’s “ever-closer union”: if you do not sign up to certain beliefs then your politics are, by definition, beyond the pale and thus illegitimate."
COMMENTAAR: Dit zal verstrekkende gevolgen hebben voor Europa, heel wat mensen beginnen Europa te zien als een DICTATUUR.
"When a Flemish judge refused to issue a judgment, arguing that these were matters for the electorate rather than the courts, the head of the Centre for Equal Opportunities said that he would continue appealing until he had found a judge who would find against the VB. This week one emerged: Alain Smetrijns, who happens also to be the chairman of the Lions Club in Ghent, a francophone pro-Belgian group."
"Belgium is an artificial state created (much like Europe’s three former such states, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia) as a result of political ideology rather than any sense of national unity, and held together by a political class which is prepared to subvert democracy to achieve its ends."
COMMENTAAR: Hier wordt duidelijk een vergelijk getrokken met voormalige communistische en dictatoriale staten"
"Add to that a judiciary which, far from being independent of the political establishment, is an important part of the problem, and you have a recipe for what took place in Ghent this week: democracy, Belgian-style, in which you may vote only for a party whose views are approved by the elites."
COMMENTAAR: Duidelijk dat de scheiding der machten in België definitief tot het verleden behoort.