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| Johna344 25.08.14 | 18:58 |
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| Its like you read my mind! You seem to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. I think that you could do with a few pics to drive the message home a little bit, but other than that, this is great blog. An excellent read. I will certainly be back. fedkggdaggcd |
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| Love 02.07.14 | 21:16 |
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| . In addition, his views on what Turkey "is like" can be suoeprtpd with objective facts. Turkey is, in fact, uniquely NOT European in at least the follwing fundamental aspect: The Turkish military's latent threat to the Government is the ONLY factor keeping Turkey from becoming an Islamic state, and that it is precisely this power structure that the EU wishes to see reversed as a condition to EU membership. I'd say Turkey may, in this respect, even be the anti-Europe...VB's "consistent demand for amnesty for Nazi collaborators" requires some clarification. When we think of "Nazi collaborators" we imagine snitches, Quislings, concentration camp guards and other outright Nazi "converts". Belgium's experience was a lot more complex than that. The post-war exercise in vengeance (by both citizens and the Government) is referred to in Belgium as The Repression. The reason for that is that the Government used the existence of several real-life collaborators as cover to cripple the (morally legitimate) Flemish-nationalist movement. As a result, the vast majority of Belgian citizens who were banished and stripped of their civil rights were Flemish - even though plenty of Walloons collaborated as well, they mostly got a pass. And while it's true that plenty of Flemish men joined the SS, we shouldn't forget that they did so to fight on the Eastern Front against the "godless Communists", at the urging of Catholic clergy - who also got a pass. This may explain why VB is still harping on this sixty years after the fact: an amnesty would undo the unequal treatment that Flanders received under the law."Vlaams Belang's membership in the Tradition, Identity, and Sovereignty group in the European Parliament." I have to confess this one bothered me too when I first found out. However, contact with other groups does not imply automatic endorsement of ALL those groups' positions. In fact, Front Nationale has only one common position with VB: that of opposition to limitless immigration. FN is also rabidly anti-jewish which puts them squarely in opposition to VB. |
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