Pim Fortuyn Is Dead!!!

Mojo · #1 05-06-2002, 04:13 PM

Pim Fortuyn is shot in front of the Media Park in Hilversum, Holland

Fortuyn was the politician (?) who said The Netherlands should get the foreign people out of the country.

He was shot in the chest, shoulder and head..

What will become of this world???

Fazerina · #2 05-06-2002, 04:21 PM

I've never heard of the guy, but of course I'm sorry for him losing his life.

But...

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Originally posted by AlphaScrab
Fortuyn was the politician (?) who said The Netherlands should get the foreign people out of the country.

I must say, I don't like his political views much...

***Xavier*** · #3 05-06-2002, 04:28 PM

he was an extremist and racist, no?
it's never nice to hear someone is death

Mojo · #4 05-06-2002, 04:42 PM

I agree he is a bit of a racist and an extremist, but he still has (sorry, had) a point. Cuz most of the criminals on Holland are people from Marocco and Turkey. I'm not a racist, but if sending out those people to their own country can get crime to a minimum, I think thats a good idea, well, the part about the crime then...

Huge_Bro_Slig · #5 05-06-2002, 04:43 PM

Im sad to here of anybody dieing but if u r racist and an edxtremist he should of seen it comin no one deserves to die but no one has the right to be raicist

Majic · #6 05-06-2002, 10:11 PM

Exactly... That dude sounds wacked, hes dead and thats it, it would be rather ironic though if it was one of the people he wanted out killed him. Hehehe, I laugh, this guy sounds like a jerk.

Statikk HDM · #7 05-06-2002, 10:36 PM

No one has the right to be racist? I believe I have that right, wait a minute, silly me, the first constitution only protects porno and flag burning. Whoops.

Sydney · #8 05-06-2002, 10:53 PM

Are you a racist, Statikk?

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Gunman slays Dutch far-right leader

AFP - Dutch far-right leader Pim Fortuyn has been shot and killed, nine days before national elections in which his anti-immigrant party was set to make a strong showing.

The flamboyant and openly gay Fortuyn, 54, was hit by six bullets to the neck, head and chest, a spokesman for his party told Dutch television.

Witnesses said a man in a baseball cap opened fire as Fortuyn was about to get into a chauffeur-driven limousine in the parking lot of a Dutch media centre in the central city of Hilversum.

The suspected killer, a 33-year-old white Dutch male, was later arrested and his house was being searched, police said.

There was no indication of a possible motive for the killing.

Fortuyn sent shock waves through the Dutch political scene after he and his followers won 17 of 45 council seats in March's municipal elections in the number-two city Rotterdam with an aggressive nationalist and anti-immigrant platform.

His self-styled Pim Fortuyn's List party had been expected to make another strong showing in May 15 parliamentary elections, seen as the next test of the far-right in Europe after the election run of France's National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Acting Prime Minister Wim Kok said before Fortuyn's death was confirmed he was "shocked by the assassination attempt".

Other parties reacted with shock to the shooting and have decided to halt their election campaign, Hans Dijkstal, the leader of the liberal VVD party, told Dutch newsagency ANP.

Ad Melkert, the leader of the ruling labour party PvdA, described the shooting as "appalling".

"It's hard to grasp this can happen in The Netherlands. Dutch democracy has lost its innocence," he told NOS television.

Fortuyn, a political newcomer, had been largely dismissed by the major parties after he let loose a torrent of hard-right rhetoric in the run-up to the March vote, with many assuming he could not appeal to the traditionally Dutch liberal electorate.

Professor Pim, as he liked to be called, shocked the Dutch establishment with a blunt call for repeal of the first article of the constitution which forbids discrimination.

His campaign sound-bites were as provocative as they were unforgettable. His promise to shake up traditional politics and stiffen the Dutch fibre particularly struck a nerve with young voters.

His prescription for drug addicts: "You want more? An overdose? Go ahead!" His welcome for immigrants: a "The Netherlands is full" sign.

And he once described Islam as a "backward culture".

In a country where most politicians pride themselves on their low profile, Fortuyn stood out with his snazzy designer suits, two yapping toy dogs called Kenneth and Carla, and a statuesque butler.

Born in 1948 in a conservative Catholic family in a small town in the Dutch northwest, Fortuyn went to the hippie mecca of Amsterdam in the 1970s to study sociology.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/World/story_31087.asp

Cool Paramite · #9 05-07-2002, 07:00 AM

I didn't like that idiot and his ideas.
But this is SHOCKING!

It's also very strange. He was on TV and in the newspapers almost every day. And now he's gone......

Whistling kettle · #10 05-07-2002, 07:12 AM

I came yesterday back from disneyland paris (with the thalys). I heard it in the train....... I stil can't believe it, like cool paramite said he was on the tv and in the newspapers almost every day. And now he's gone....... Our professor Pim..... I hated that guy, but like Wim Kok said: you must fight each other with words, not with bullets. This is very shocking......

pinkgoth2 · #11 05-07-2002, 07:28 AM

Yea. Especially since his views were absurd it's shocking he's dead.

The dead adversary is one who has had his point proven.

- TyA

Gluk Schmuck · #12 05-07-2002, 12:32 PM

Yay! One down. Lots more to go...

I hope there's somebody in Washington DC who kills far-right leaders... Hurry up, whoever you are!

***Xavier*** · #13 05-07-2002, 01:33 PM

I didn't like his ideas, but use words, no weapons
It was all yesterday night on the tellivision, and worse of all: he's going to be a martire!

pinkgoth2 · #14 05-07-2002, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by Xavier
I didn't like his ideas, but use words, no weapons
It was all yesterday night on the tellivision, and worse of all: he's going to be a martire!

Precisely my point. By killing him, no one proved anything, except maybe to his followers that he was right. So killing people like that is utter (pardon my language) bullshit.

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten" - but verbally, please! Get them to turn around and run away in shame and you win, shoot them you lose.

- TyA

Whistling kettle · #15 05-08-2002, 08:08 AM

I heard yesterday that Pim was in love with a guy that didn't loved him. Pim Fortuyn wanted to be prime minister because he thought that Arie (his name is Arie) would love him then............................

Surfacing · #16 05-08-2002, 08:24 AM

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Originally posted by Gluk Schmuck
Yay! One down. Lots more to go...

I hope there's somebody in Washington DC who kills far-right leaders... Hurry up, whoever you are!

Some lefty you are, I have never actual heard of him, but it is sad.

Whistling kettle · #17 05-08-2002, 08:33 AM

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Originally posted by Gluk Schmuck
Yay! One down. Lots more to go...
I hope there's somebody in Washington DC who kills far-right leaders... Hurry up, whoever you are!

Why do you want people dead because of their political ideas?

EDIT: I changed my signature, dies supreme means day of death.

Yup Xavier, worse of all, Pim is going to be a martire!