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Free Geert Wilders: Charges Against him widened as trial proceeds on January 20th
by Jerry Gordon
Red County
January 14, 2010
https://www.legal-project.org/594/free-geert-wilders-charges-against-him-widened-as
Excerpt:
Hon. Geert Wilders, MP and popular leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Netherlands goes on trial on January 20thin Amsterdam. Read our NER interview with him, here. He is being tried on what many believe are trumped up charges of criminalizing hate speech and now racism. All because Wilders has exercised his free speech – criticizing Islam and suggesting a ban on immigration of Muslims. Those charges couldn't be brought in a US court of law because of our First Amendment guarantees of free speech include the ability to criticize a religion. But not in Holland where a contrived case brought by a cabal of leftists and Dutch Muslims won an Amsterdam Appeals court decision.
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