Vlad Tepes blog in cooperation with many fine people and organizations, coordinated by Gates of Vienna, has posted quite a few recent-history videos of and about Pim Fortuyn recently. There is a reason for it.
The government sponsored a campaign of demonization of former Member of Parliament, Pim Fortuyn and used the power of state owned media to create such a powerful and distorted image of him, that some ‘left wing activist’ eventually murdered him, despite the fact that he was a (to quote Mark Steyn) “Gay hedonist” and a classical liberal if not an actual socialist. Whatever he was, he was not a “far right wing politician” as he was reffered to by Dutch media constantly.
The exact same thing is being done to Geert Wilders and for the same reasons. He is running against the modern multicultural narrative and prefers free market economics as well as individual rights. Essentially classical liberalism as spelled out by people such as Thomas Jefferson.
When you see a set of events as we did with Mr. Fortuyn once, we can say ‘oh yes I can see how this may have led to that but who could have expected it.’
Well please have a look at the cartoon below published on state owned Dutch media and keep in mind, the bird is the symbol of Geert Wilders political party, the PVV
It doesn’t take a Derren Brown to see how this may influence the more suggestible of the Dutch population.
Now how about this for subtlety?
Any ideas who they are comparing Mr. Wilders, the man who frequently visits Israel and talks about protecting the now threatened Jewish and gay populations of the Netherlands from Muslims who preach the death of individuals from both groups, as a matter of common policy?
Still not sure? How about now….
For a comprehensive analysis of Geert’s current situation and that of Mr. Fortuyn, please see this post at Gates of Vienna. It also contains translations from Dutch media. It’s well worth the click.
A while ago i was watching an old BBC documentary about the rise of modernism in art, called The Shock of the New. Now after watching the series i realised that art in any situation is usually used to support the status quo or used to support the political opposition. Art has in fact nothing to do with aesthetics, but IS the art of political manipulation, of power politics, or agitprop. Real art is folkloric, popular and abstract-symbolic. Real politics combines logic, history and a common cultural narative. This is government sponsored art to attack an cultural group that has it’s origin in the same society these artist where born, and that makes me sick. To think that my own people are making lies in order to support there idealist believes and group mentality.