Discuss please.
Indeed, if there is a nation blazing the trail for the suicidal social
policy the Liberals and their allies on the Supreme Court seem determined to
pursue, surely it is Holland. Legal drugs, same-sex marriage, euthanasia and
an immigration policy that has filled the country with angry, unassimilated
immigrants, swamping the stolid, tulip-growing Dutch burghers once renowned
world-wide for their tolerance and industry.
This is the country whose vanguard has been anointed as the global model for
multicultural harmony. But now we learn, courtesy of the Daily Telegraph's
European correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, that it has all gone
horribly wrong. Traffic gridlock, ethnic ghettoes and a couple of notorious
political murders have plunged Holland into crisis. In the first six months
of this year, Evans-Pritchard reports, 13,313 more people left Holland than
arrived "ending a half-century cycle of surging immigration that has turned
a tight-knit Nordic tribe into a multi-ethnic mosaic with three million
people of foreign roots out of 16 million."
Pim Fortuyn, the gay Dutch populist, complained that Muslim immigration and
its extremist elements were beginning to destabilize the whole society. He
was shot for his trouble. The controversial and radical filmmaker Theo van
Gogh criticized Muslim treatment of women and had his throat cut in broad
daylight in the middle of Amsterdam.
We can only hope that Mr. Martin's venture into the world of same-sex
marriage isn't merely the first step on the destructive path of so-called
progressive social policies that have reduced Holland to its current plight.
