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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21894)	11/17/2004 5:34:59 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81108

Gus > A united Belgium favors and strengthens France whereas the breakup of Belgium should strengthen Europe's Judeo-Protestant faction As I read this, maybe there's a reprieve for a while but I don't claim to know anything about Belgian politics. vlaamsblok.be >>Today (9 November), our party, the Vlaams Blok, has been condemned to death. This afternoon, the Belgian Supreme Court upheld the verdict, issued by the Court of Appeal in Ghent on 21 April, which declared the Vlaams Blok a criminal organisation. In order to preserve our party members from prosecution, we are now forced to disband. What happened in Brussels today is unique in the Western world: never has a so-called democratic regime outlawed the country's largest political party. The Vlaams Blok was supported by almost 1 million voters in last June's elections. We got 24.1% of the vote in Flanders, where 60% of the Belgian population lives. Voting is compulsory in Belgium and no other party was supported by more people. Our party has grown continuously for two decades. Since 1987, it has won twelve consecutive elections in a row. Belgium, established in 1830 by French revolutionaries, is an artificial construct dominated by the Socialist Francophone minority in Wallonia. Our party's main objective is the secession of Flanders from Belgium. Flanders is the free-market oriented Dutch-speaking and politically minorised northern part of the country.<< And here's a good piece which comments on the triumph of the neocons in the US truthout.org >>Now, by successfully discarding those who won't buy into the administration's ideological fantasies of remaking the world in our image, the neoconservatives have consolidated control of the United States' vast military power. With the ravaging of the CIA and the ousting of Powell - instead of the more-deserving Rumsfeld - the coup of the neoconservatives is complete. They have achieved a remarkable political victory by failing upward.<< And with that "lovely lady" now appointed as Secretary of State is there anything more one needs to say?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (21894)	11/17/2004 10:43:39 AM
From: philv	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81108

The Muslims aren't helped in their cause with the assassination of Van Gough in Holland. There is bound to be public reaction against Arabs or Muslims amongst the Dutch who are perhaps the most Liberal in the world. And I believe you ain't seen nothin yet, should there be a repeat of 911 or similar act in the U.S. Or an action somewhere in Europe. I can sympathize with your lament regarding Belgium because here in Canada we have two separate factions as well. Until recently I did not realize the extent of the division in Belgium.