If you've posted in forums you might remember writing some decent responses. I usually spend a lot of time polishing my discussion forum responses depending on the subject or who I am talking to. Often I want to remember what I said about something, but finding the original post can be difficult. So it makes sense to capture the better responses for later review. Welcome to Clint's Reposts.Saturday, November 06, 2004
Holland Starts to Get It
In the Politics forum, someone wrote "Dems have the Blues after seeing so much Red".
forgotten1 responded with "red as in bloodshed"
Sensing s/he didn't get it, I wrote:
Just whose red is it?
It looks like the Netherlands is starting to get it and I suspect they will finally get what the U.S. is up to.
A decendant of Vincent Van Gogh had his throat slashed on a public street, and a note pinned to his body with a knife. His crime? He had made a movie criticizing the treatment of women under Islam.
What was in the note? A warning to an ex-Muslim Dutch lawmaker and to some others. Here is a quick quote:
"I know definitely that you, Oh America, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Europe, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Netherlands, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Hirsi Ali, will go down," it said.
So how did the Dutch lawmakers respond? One said:
"We are not going to tolerate this. We are going to ratchet up the fight against this sort of terrorism," he said. "The increase in radicalization is worse than we had thought."
The whole news report is at:
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041105-111203-2758r.htm
This, dear forgotten1, is what we are fighting against. You will witness more governments joining us across Europe as time moves on, for reasons similar to what happened in Holland.
In fact:
Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary speaker for the nationalist People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the second-largest party in the government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, issued a statement that called Mr. van Gogh's slaying tantamount to a declaration of war.
"The jihad has come to the Netherlands and a small group of jihadist terrorists is attacking the principles of our country," he said. "I hope the Netherlands will now move beyond denial and do what is fitting in a democracy — take action.
"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said.
As the latest bumper sticker goes: "Give War a Chance".
I repeat what Jozias said:
"I hope the Netherlands will now move beyond denial and do what is fitting in a democracy — take action. "
"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said."
Given the circumstances, I will continue to believe that we must take action.
C
forgotten1 responded with "red as in bloodshed"
Sensing s/he didn't get it, I wrote:
Just whose red is it?
It looks like the Netherlands is starting to get it and I suspect they will finally get what the U.S. is up to.
A decendant of Vincent Van Gogh had his throat slashed on a public street, and a note pinned to his body with a knife. His crime? He had made a movie criticizing the treatment of women under Islam.
What was in the note? A warning to an ex-Muslim Dutch lawmaker and to some others. Here is a quick quote:
"I know definitely that you, Oh America, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Europe, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Netherlands, will go down. I know definitely that you, Oh Hirsi Ali, will go down," it said.
So how did the Dutch lawmakers respond? One said:
"We are not going to tolerate this. We are going to ratchet up the fight against this sort of terrorism," he said. "The increase in radicalization is worse than we had thought."
The whole news report is at:
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041105-111203-2758r.htm
This, dear forgotten1, is what we are fighting against. You will witness more governments joining us across Europe as time moves on, for reasons similar to what happened in Holland.
In fact:
Jozias van Aartsen, parliamentary speaker for the nationalist People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the second-largest party in the government of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, issued a statement that called Mr. van Gogh's slaying tantamount to a declaration of war.
"The jihad has come to the Netherlands and a small group of jihadist terrorists is attacking the principles of our country," he said. "I hope the Netherlands will now move beyond denial and do what is fitting in a democracy — take action.
"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said.
As the latest bumper sticker goes: "Give War a Chance".
I repeat what Jozias said:
"I hope the Netherlands will now move beyond denial and do what is fitting in a democracy — take action. "
"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said."
Given the circumstances, I will continue to believe that we must take action.
C
