Dutch have their own teabaggers

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http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Dutch_close_in_on_government_with_anti-Islam_party_backing.html?cid=18950756

Jul 30, 2010 - 22:53

By Ben Berkowitz and Gilbert Kreijger

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Pushing an austerity agenda, two right-leaning Dutch parties agreed Friday to have talks to form a minority government with support from an anti-Islam party five months after the last government collapsed.

The minority government -- a rarity in Dutch politics -- would include the Liberal Party (VVD), which narrowly won June 9 elections after a broader government collapsed over the Afghan military mission, and the Christian Democrats (CDA).

The Freedom Party (PVV), which wants to stop Muslim immigration and ban the Koran in the Netherlands, has agreed to back the minority government in the Dutch parliament, leader Geert Wilders said on Dutch NOS Radio 1.

The Christian Democrats had resisted forming a majority government with the PVV because of its hardline stance on Islam.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. They're the ideological grandchildren of Jacob Luitjens...

Jacob Luitjens

Jacob Luitjens (born 1919, Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch collaborator during World War II. He was nicknamed The terror of Roden, as he was active in and around Roden in the Drenthe Province.

After the war, on 10 September 1948, he was convicted in absentia to life imprisonment. Luitjens evaded this punishment by fleeing to Paraguay, aided by Mennonites, using the name "Gerhard Harder". After that, he emigrated to Canada in 1961, where he became a successful professor of botany at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

The Frisian Jack Kooistra, also known as 'the Frisian Simon Wiesenthal', managed to track down Luitjens in 1992. Luitjens was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and was deported to the Netherlands. At a court in Assen, he was convicted to an imprisonment of 28 months. He served this term, until March 1995 in a prison in Groningen. Afterwards, the Canadian government forbade his return to Canada. Luitjens is without a nationality since then.

Ian Kagedan of B'nai Brith Canada characterized the deportation as part of an ongoing "quest" to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.

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2. That explains a lot

Thanks for posting that.

Don