Monday, November 8, 2004

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All those encouraging words are well deserved in my opinion. Allow me to add mine to those. Kudos. The clarity of thought and quality of presentation that you produce in the middle of this ungodly storm are very helpful. All the best.

Liam (ip:194.159.73.69) 8 November 2004 - 15:15 uur

i totally agree; i think your blog brings together the best of two worlds: american love of liberty with dutch common sense (the latter being in short supply nowadays in our beloved country as a result of either political correctness or easy populism)

dutchie in yet another atlanta starbucks (yes there sure are a lot of them!) (ip:208.54.95.129) 8 November 2004 - 23:52 uur

Hey, look - you can be sad, you can be upset,
but van Gogh was stirring it up. Koran on naked
bodies, the political context of the insult on
Islam. Maybe not justifying for execution, but
what was he calling for? Understanding?
"Hi, I piss on your religion, but really, why
can't we just get along?"
Nice guy, mourn him all you want.

Bill Eldridge (ip:83.208.26.41) 8 November 2004 - 1:05 uur

Bill Eldridge, you are lower than whale droppings. And those sit on the bottom of the ocean.

tictoc (ip:217.234.20.93) 8 November 2004 - 12:21 uur

"Maybe not justifying for execution, but what was he calling for?"—Bill Eldridge

Maybe not?!?

I’m dismayed. Your post misses the point entirely. A vile murder and then mutilation of the body was committed publicly on the streets and you try to explain to us there was semi-justification for such depravity? Liking or not liking the victim is irrelevant! Blatant murder to silence a point of view is heinous in and of itself. But more importantly this act and its apparent motive threatens the existence of civil society itself. That can hardly be said of Mr. van Gogh’s opus.

mcj (ip:68.209.214.4) 8 November 2004 - 21:02 uur

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