The answer is, not much since the 1600s.
A very small country, the Netherlands has tried very hard to accommodate its larger and more powerful neighbors. My personal family experience is with the NSB.
The NSB is short for the National Socialist Bond, a party that admired the German Nazis and did much to run the Netherlands during World War 2.
Thanks to immigration from its former colonies in Asia and Morocco, the Dutch are busy accommodating its Muslin population, much as it did its Nazi neighbors in earlier times.
We think of the Netherlands as being a peaceful country of pot smoking hippies and elderly burghers, advanced enough socially to legalize not just drugs but the flesh trade and the duty to be snuffed out if you get too old and sick. As I get older and my memory and hearing isn’t as good as it once was, I’m glad my parents moved me to a country where I don’t have to fear that nice young man in the white coat with the needle.
About that peaceful part, it seems to have more than its share of high profile killings. Van Gogh and Fortuyn were both killed by within a few years of each other, one by a Muslim, the other by a Leftist. The rest of the population is terrified by “youths” with exuberant ideas.
To keep the natives docile, the Dutch political establishment does what it can. And if it means suppressing free speech, keep in mind the free speech is enshrined in the US constitution, not in Dutch common law, which has decided to prosecute…
… Geert Wilders … for calling the Koran a ‘fascist book’ because this amounts to inciting hatred..
Richard Fernandez has much more.
The NSB would be so proud.
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