thought control
1. “It is irrelevant whether Wilders’s witnesses might prove Wilders’s observations to be correct. What’s relevant is that his observations are illegal.”–This from the spokesperson for the Openbaar Ministerie, as quoted in this

2. Francis W. Porretto:
The unspeakable truth — unspoken because it’s been ruled illegal, or because the shamans of political correctness have condemned it — is the crux of virtually all political interplay in our time.
– Liberals don’t want to discuss the failure of Big Government and the welfare-regulatory state;
– Conservatives don’t want to discuss the failure of the War on Drugs or the support of “friendly” but dictatorial regimes;
– Libertarians don’t want to discuss the impossibility of an isolationist / open-borders state in an age of global religious warfare;
– Authoritarians don’t want to discuss anything.
We are being silenced by the willingness of those on the losing side of any particular argument to use intimidation and outright coercion to stifle candid discussion of the subject.
“The Fascists cannot argue, so they kill.” — Victor Marguerite
…and the suppression of open discussion of contentious subjects is an express route to fascism.
God bless and keep you, Geert Wilders.