Lovely evening hosted by Act for America.
Geller, Wilders, Dan Maloney (Gathering of Eagles) who sent me this pic
Urban Infidel was there – and those pics are fabulous. Go here.
Lawrence Auster and Geert Wilders
UPDATE: THE MAN IN THE ARENA: GEERT WILDERS NEW YORK SPEECH
UPDATE: Here;s another great post from last night. Dan, my favorite Gaterhing of Eagles patriot, has a post up at The Liberty Boys — he sent me the top pic which I love. It's a comprehensive report. Go.
The concrete steps that Geert Wilders proposes appear reasonable,
prudent and accomplishable for any government that recognizes the
imminent danger to it’s people, itself and it’s institutions. None of
them are draconian in their concept.
- Abolish hate speech laws and regulations. These serve only to stifle free speech and expression.
- Limit immigration. This would include stopping immigration of ‘refugee’ status immigration over a limit of 5,000.
- Punish criminal immigrant behavior. Immigrants convicted of
serious criminal behavior would be stripped of the Dutch portion of
their dual citizenship and deported to their country of origin. - Encourage acculturation of immigrants. Require that children be
enrolled in schools with a western cultural tradition. Prohibit the
institution, construction and operation of schools that serve to
prevent immigrant youth from exploring the western traditions of their
new country.
These proposals all focus on the measures any individual country or
groups of countries (such as the EU) could enact to protect against
internal subversion with a large unacculturated immigrant population.
They do not go so far as to address solutions for the global issue of
radical Islam.
While Geert Wilders makes the important distinction that Islam is an
ideology of world domination, not just a religion as we in the free
world have come to define religion, his failure to develop or express
solutions to the more global problem is something that he will need to
develop in the future as his political career carries him further in
his country and Europe. He remains an optimist about the European
ability to prevail against this latest ideological assault and I have
to agree with his optimism. Europe is not dead. Under assault and
reeling from a seemingly unending stream of subversive attack, but
still able to recover if decisive action is taken in a reasonably short
period of time. The primary obstacle there, as here, is the alliance
the socialist left has forged with the radical islamists. A marriage
of convenience for the Islamists, a marriage of necessity for the
socialists.
The only way to defeat the socialists would be to educate a
sufficient number of ordinary people to the imminent danger they are
facing to ensure that those politicians who favor a fairy tale belief
in detente, with a movement that understands only submission, are
eliminated from public office and replaced with those who have a more
firm grasp of reality. The false icons of political correctness and
cultural relativism need to be cast aside in favor of the defense of
the principles of a free society. One will never be free who submits.
UPDATE: The Silent Majority has great coverage and video