Paul Cliteur is a professor in Leiden, The Netherlands, a member of the Senate with Forum for Democracy, and the author of, among others, The State vs Wilders. Cliteur commented on the curious verdict recently announced against Geert Wilders.

Cliteur told De Dagelijkse Standaard that while the Court of Appeals in the Hague convicted Geert Wilders of group insult for his statement about “fewer Moroccans” he was acquitted despite the attempts by the Public Prosecutor to convict him for incitement to hate or discrimination.

Though it is naturally a disappointment that Wilders was not cleared of all charges, it is nevertheless a small success that now, all of a sudden, the incitement to discrimination on the grounds of race has disappeared. That has taken the sting out of the conviction, because only the group insult on the basis of race remains, argued Cliteur.

It is quite a backward move by the Appeals Court, he added, compared to the standpoint of the lower court. According to Cliteur, the next battle that Wilders is facing in the Supreme Court, will see the demise of the racial insult accusation, because the Supreme Court will, hopefully, acknowledge that Moroccans are not a race, but rather a nationality.

No Moroccan race and no Moroccan ethnicity exist, just a nationality, he said. And the legislature has explicitly not included that in the law. Thus, the zealots who want to include the concept of race can claim whatever they like, but, in doing so, they violate the principle of legality, and with it the rule of law, Cliteur concluded.

There remains the central problem however that the administrative elite, for one puzzling reason or another, is obsessed with labeling one group a “victim” while someone who spends the rest of their life on a jihadist death list can count on zero compassion.

PVV leader Wilders meanwhile reacted furiously after the statement by the Public Prosecution Service (OM) that the controversial rapper Akwasi will not be prosecuted for his inflammatory remarks on Dam Square. The Forum for Democracy supported Wilders.

“Total arbitrariness,” Wilders said. “I ask a question, stand in court for six years and am convicted, Akwasi threatens with brute force and goes free. The Netherlands has become a corrupt country.”

“Legally stupid,” said FvD MP Theo Hiddema, who is also a criminal lawyer. According to him, the decision of the Public Prosecution violates the principle of equality before the law. He points to similar cases: the lawsuit against Geert Wilders and the conviction of Jenny Douwes.

“Wilders asked a question about ‘less, less’ and Mrs Douwes tried to protect children from the activists of Kick Out Zwarte Piet, while this man has been harboring visibly violent fantasies for 10 years.”

More than 40 people had reported Akwasi for his comments on Dam Square during the Black Lives Matter demonstration in June. The rapper gave a speech saying: “The moment I see a Zwarte Piet in November, I will personally kick him in the face.”

Recently, old tweets from Akwasi surfaced in which he called for violence against Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet. In 2011, Akwasi tweeted: “Is anyone ever going to murder a Zwarte Piet or should I do it?” Also: “What am I provoking if I kill a Zwarte Piet?”

In 2012 he tweeted: “Zwarte Piet must die, man. Seriously.” A few months after an attack on Queen’s Day in 2009, the rapper fantasized about blowing up the steamboat that brings Sinterklaas and his blackface companions to the Netherlands every year.

The discredited public prosecutor Jacobien Vreekamp, who signed the decision on behalf of the Public Prosecution Service (OM) not to prosecute rapper Akwasi, until recently worked closely with Kick Out Zwarte Piet (KOZP) frontman Mitchell Esajas.

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While referring to France’s large migrant population, French philosopher and journalist Eric Zemmour said that even though the country is aware who is committing assaults and violent crimes, the media refuses to report on it.

Zemmour made his remarks as a part of a guest panel for the Face à l’Info television program, in which he discussed the influx of migrants to Europe and a corresponding increase in crime.

Zemmour, an Algerian-born French Jew who works as a columnist for one of France’s top newspaper, Le Figaro, mainly pointed out that mainstream media ignores the stories of French citizens when they become the victims of migrant crimes, while the government would in many cases take the migrant’s side and the victims would become prosecuted by the authorities.

“The entire French society doesn’t resort to savagery. Then, what is it? We know who the savagery comes from,” he said. “We all know who commits these assaults. We all know who ran over the police officer Melanie. We all know who killed the bus driver in Bayonne. We know who breaks everything at amusement parks. We know who spoils the beaches of Marseille. We know who is forbidden in a swimming pool in Switzerland. We know all that. We know who it is: 99.9% are the children of North African and African immigrants,” said Zemmour, according to the RAIR Foundation, which translated his remarks on the Face à l’Info program.

“That doesn’t mean that all Maghreb and African immigrants do that. Of course not. However, it does mean when we know who they are, and we know who their victims are. We know that it’s Melanie and that the killers of Melanie are called Youssef or whatever.”

“We all know all that, and we also know that the newspapers don’t want to say that,” he said.

Zemmour was referencing a number of high-profile crimes this summer committed against French people by migrants or citizens of migrant descent, including Philippe Monguillot, a bus driver who was beaten to death by a group of young migrants after he asked them to wear their masks when they got on his bus without tickets.

In addition, he mentioned the case of officer Mélanie Lemée, who was deliberately hit and killed by an African male on a motorbike who was trying to escape a police checkpoint. In perhaps one of the most high-profile murders this summer, 23-year-old Axelle Dorier was killed in a brutal hit-and-run by Youcef T., who dragged her with his vehicle for nearly a kilometer and then left her to die.

This summer, a Rwandan migrant confessed to the crime to an arson attack on Nantes Cathedral during a time when France has faced a wave of attacks on its churches.

Zemmour also noted the tremendous increase in so-called “crimes of passion” that France saw over the summer. He said that this was greatly tied to the coronavirus lockdown, which meant many of the migrants and those with a migrant background have remained in France this year instead of taking vacation abroad.

“We all know why [crime has risen]. Most of these young people couldn’t go back home during summer vacation, and so they stayed here. In fact, it was the first summer where we had to live together. That’s the truth. Before that we didn’t live together as Gérard Collomb famously said, you know, ‘We live side by side,'” said Zemmour.

He continued by saying that many have a “bad reputation” in their home countries, including in Algeria.

“The Algerians think they are very ill-mannered, rude, and violent. The Algerians can’t stand that,” said Zemmour. “And the Algerian police are a bit tougher than ours.” 

Recently, Zemmour has been attacked and threatened with physical violence while walking on the streets of Paris. For his remarks that Muslims were not integrating in France but instead “colonizing” it, he has also been prosecuted by the French government. 

Despite the threats he has faced, Zemmour is one of the country’s most famed intellectuals who continues to share his opinions not only on immigration, but also feminism, LGBT issues, and the preservation of Western civilization.

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Violent knife attack in the night to Sunday in Stolberg near Aachen!

At 0.40 a.m. a man is said to have attacked a driver in his car with a knife and to have injured him critically. An emergency surgery saved his life. The man is in hospital with severe injuries.

During the attack, the assailant is said to have shouted “Allahu akbar” according to tabloid BILD information. As a police spokesman stated when asked by BILD, the victim was walking at walking pace in his car when the attacker opened the driver’s door and stuck a knife in the driver’s arm.

A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior: “We cannot rule out an Islamist background to the knife attack tonight. Therefore, a nationwide search is currently underway for the suspect.

According to the newspaper BILD, the suspect was already considered an Islamist test case by the State Security Service, but after the crime he was now classified as an Islamist dangerous person.

Further backgrounds of the bloody deed are at present still unclear. According to police, the crime took place at the Bastinsweiher pond in the heart of Stolberg. The Cologne police have taken over the investigation of a possible background to the attack from the Aachen authorities.

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Two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies were ambushed and shot in Compton. One is the mother of a 6-year-old boy.

Black Lives Matter activists responded in typical fashion by holding a protest at the ER entrance to St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, blocking it and chanting, “We hope they die.”

“To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling “We hope they die” referring to 2 LA Sheriff’s ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People’s lives are at stake when ambulances can’t get through,” the official LA County Sheriff’s account tweeted.

#LASD Century Sheriff’s Station Watch Commander reports the following: After deputies issued a dispersal order for the unlawful assembly of a group of protesters blocking the hospital emergency entrance & exits, a male adult protester refused to comply & cooperate…During his arrest, a struggle ensued at which time a female adult ran towards the deputies, ignored repeated commands to stay back as they struggled with the male and interfered with the arrest…The female adult, who was later identified as a member of the press, did not identify herself as press and later admitted she did not have proper press credentials on her person. Both individuals have been arrested for 148 P.C.”

This is sick and evil. And it’s the kind of behavior by BLM that the media continues to suppress. 

LAist managed to write an outraged post about the arrest of the woman, Josie Huang, without once mentioning what “protest” she was there for. And the media is swarming to support her.

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By Thomas Lifson

If the allegations made in a lawsuit prove truthful, the very woke, 81% Black NBA and 70% black NFL team players apparently prefer young, blonde, Caucasian flight attendants, despite all their social justice rhetoric. Two flight attendants at United, one Black and one Jewish, are suing the airline for allegedly excluding them according to this Bloomberg article by Robert Burnson.

United Airlines Holdings Inc. packs its charter flights for sports teams with young, blond crews and bars older flight attendants from working the plum routes, according to a new lawsuit.

In so doing, the airline bases the value of workers “entirely on their racial and physical attributes, and stereotypical notions of sexual allure,” according to two veteran flight attendants who sued Friday in California.

The attendants — a Black woman who has worked for the airline for 28 years and a Jewish woman with 34 years of tenure — say that they both tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get assigned to work the charter flights. (snip)

Sharon Tesler and Kim Guillory said they were told by supervisors that they were unable to get work on the charters because they weren’t on “preferred” lists that were based on team preferences, according to the complaint.

They said they later discovered that young, white blond attendants — with less seniority — were given the assignments.

Cabin crews regard assignment to major league sports charter flights (United has contracts to fly 36 major league sports teams) as a plum job, not just because of prestige, but because of tangible, valuable benefits to working these flights.

Attendants who work those flights earn more and are provided with premium accommodations. They also sometimes get tickets to games, including playoff and Super Bowl tickets, and “extremely valuable” infield passes, according to the lawsuit.

United denies it all:

“While we cannot comment on this ongoing litigation, the flight attendants included in our sports team charter program are largely representative of our overall flight attendant population in regards to age and race,” the company said. “Importantly, flight attendant eligibility to work a charter flight is based solely on performance and attendance and has nothing to do with age, race or gender.” (snip)

United said the average age of flight attendants on its sports team charters is 46, that the average tenure of such attendants exceeds 19 years, and that it has a higher percentage of African Americans in its sports team charter program than in its overall flight attendant population

I don’t like our litigious nature, but one benefit of a lawsuit is the discovery of documents, and the ability to depose people under oath. So, we are likely to find out whether or not there is any truth to these allegations.   

I’ve chatted with many a flight attendant over decades of frequent air travel, much of it long, boring intercontinental and transcontinental flights, and know that it is a difficult life.  The salary and working conditions have deteriorated tremendously compared to the glory days of decades ago, when airfares were much higher and other career opportunities for professional females were fewer. I can understand why veterans of the profession feel put upon.

No one can deny that decades ago, airlines played up the sex appeal of their young frmale cabin crew memebers.

If the allegations are true, the major leaguers are not alone in preferring young and comely cabin crews.  Almost a decade ago, a Southwest Airlines pilot got into major trouble for accidentally broadcasting a cockpit rant over the air that was intended for his co-pilot, apparently, complaining about the abundance of “gays, grannies, and grandees” and lamenting “only a handful of cute chicks.” His union saved his job for him. Major leaguers have unions, too.

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Last Wednesday, a 37-year-old man was injured in an attack involving several people. The man had to be taken to a hospital for further treatment.

According to the victim, he was attacked in front of his store in Halle by six people with stones, planks and batons. The attackers are said to be Syrians who live in a nearby high-rise building.

The police, on the other hand, are still keeping a low profile. “No information can be given at this time of the police investigations about possible weapons being used or individual criminal involvement of certain persons,” said a spokesperson.

At the scene of the crime various traces were secured by forensic technology.

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