Dutch right-wingers urge citizens to denounce eastern European workers

[pampango]

The website's language doesn't exactly portray the kind of unity and solidarity that the European Union members are supposed to share. “These masses of immigrant workers bring many problems: public nuisance, dirtiness, crowding out the labor market … If you have a problem with central and eastern Europeans, or if a Pole, Romanian or Bulgarian has taken your job, we want to hear about it.”

The website appeal, launched by the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, even features a multiple choice form were Dutch citizens can tick off the type of problem they’ve encountered from eastern Europeans. It includes drunkenness; nuisance parking; noise; or “degredation.”

Not surprisingly the website has provoked outrage. Ambassadors from 10 eastern European nations wrote to the Dutch parliament Monday to protest. Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, a leading Polish member of the European Parliament accused the PVV of “spreading xenophobia, hatred and prejudice.”

Under pressure from the PVV, the Dutch government has long alienated Romania and Bulgaria by blocking their entry into the EU’s Schengen Treaty, which allows most EU citizens to travel freely within the bloc without showing their passports. Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007. Eight other former Communist nations in the east joined in 2004 and their citizens can travel and work freely across the EU.

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/120213/dutch-right-wingers-urge-citizens-denounce-eastern-european-work


Dutch anti-Islam deputy Geert Wilders (R) sits next to his lawyer
Bram Moszkowicz on May 23, 2011 in court in Amsterdam. The
leader of the far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) faced five counts
of giving offence to Muslims and of inciting hatred against Muslims
and people of non-Western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans.

[DCKit]

1. I'd act shocked, but any RW group always blames the immigrants first.

They have no solutions, so they look for someone to take the heat off them - immigrants (esp. brown immigrants), "teh gay", the poor, the elderly, women, libruls, those on some form of assistance. It's not as if minorities can fight back.

Pity we don't have those "inciting hate" laws here in the U.S.. It'd really thin the (R) pResidential field to something more manageable.

[SmileyRose]

2. Capitalism 101

Keep the masses fighting each other so they are too poor and too busy to pay attention.

[nanabugg]

3. We all knew that it wouldn't be long before they turned on each other. nt

First, folks that don't look like me, next, folks that look somewhat like me, next, folks that look exactly like me.