Reader Mail: Polygamy in the Netherlands??
August 18, 2008
Zeister writes in with a comment on this article.
As I recall Canada fought the Germans to rid the world of National Socialism. I don’t think our men were worried about polygamy. The Netherlands has many things they can be proud of. They too work to define a developing society. Canadians should do the same and leave the Dutch to make their own decisions.
Toronto has David Miller as their mayor. Now there is a politician that is well beyond his ‘best before’ date. His ideas about personal freedoms are a little too socialist or should I say fascist for my taste. Beware of politicians that tout civilian disarmament in the name of public safety. Historically, Hitler and Stalin held the same views. It may be that Miller is simply ignorant with questionable ethics rather than being a fascist. In any case, the man is a danger and the sooner he leaves City Hall the better for all Canadians!
Miller is indeed a shoddy mayor, and his policies leave one with little recourse other than to scratch one’s head and/or roll one’s eyes. I don’t think anything much needs to be said about his disarmament proposals; increases in violent crime have followed, almost in lockstep, with diminished rates of civilian gun ownership…and only a very deluded person could possibly believe that a different outcome would result if Miller has his way in Toronto.
That said, while I agree that our soldiers were probably not concerned with polygamy whilst they were liberating the Netherlands, the point I was making was more along the following lines: why now, after having been liberated from a hard tyrany, are the Dutch making concessions to the demands of those who a) come to the Netherlands out of an alien culture, b) have no respect for Dutch culture or norms, and c) are demanding that the Dutch adapt their own culture to the habits and proclivities of the alien culture in their midst. What makes the soft tyranny of unreasonable, unthinking multiculturalism a virtue, when the hard tyrany of Hitler was so obviously a bad thing?
And if the Dutch are willing to roll over and succumb to a soft tyrany, what does that say to all those who lost friends and family in the cause of restoring freedom to the Netherlands way back when?
