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By my count, this is the third time the police have come to Paul Belien's door and demanded the right to interrogate him:
This morning the police came to my door again to question me about allegedly racist articles on The Brussels Journal. I was not in. Tonight the local police phoned to “invite” me urgently to the police station. In Belgium any leftist or totalitarianist can lodge a complaint against “internet racism” through a Belgian government website and the judiciary starts an investigation. Apparently someone in Ghent has lodged a complaint against this website.
I am not allowed to know who this person is, but I am requested to come to the police station to be interrogated. I told the officer that I refuse to justify my writings for anonymous complaints. “I am not living in the Soviet Union,” I told him (though I fear I am).
As a matter of principle I will not go to the police station. I defend the freedom of the press, which implies the right of journalists not to be questioned by the authorities about articles and opinions that they write or edit.
I told the officer that if the police wants to question me they will have to arrest me. The Belgian authorities are clearly intent on intimidating us and closing down this website.
As Paul Belien has said before, it seems the lights may be starting to go out in Europe.
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- Belgium - Be Warned - Infidel Bloggers Alliance Is Keeping An Eye On You
The Corner on National Review Online: "The Belgian government needs to understand that a number of people here in the United States are now carefully watching the outcome of this case. Should government harassment of the Brussels Journal continue, should...
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The governments of the major nations of Europe are competing to see who will be the first taken down by a violent rebellion of their people. About six weeks back, a young white man freaked out and shot some North Africans in the streets of Brussels. Now,...
- Belgium: The Frog Is Getting Warmer
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- Infidel Alert: Brussels Journal Accused Of Provoking Racist Murder
Yes, that's right. Paul Belien, the writer of the Brussels Journal is being accused by Belgian authorities for having provoked the racist murder of two black Muslims in the streets of Antwerp. Infidel contributor Thomas the Wraith wrote of the murder...
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Brussels Journal Is Being Harrassed By The Belgian Government
By my count, this is the third time the police have come to Paul Belien's door and demanded the right to interrogate him:
This morning the police came to my door again to question me about allegedly racist articles on The Brussels Journal. I was not in. Tonight the local police phoned to “invite” me urgently to the police station. In Belgium any leftist or totalitarianist can lodge a complaint against “internet racism” through a Belgian government website and the judiciary starts an investigation. Apparently someone in Ghent has lodged a complaint against this website.
I am not allowed to know who this person is, but I am requested to come to the police station to be interrogated. I told the officer that I refuse to justify my writings for anonymous complaints. “I am not living in the Soviet Union,” I told him (though I fear I am).
As a matter of principle I will not go to the police station. I defend the freedom of the press, which implies the right of journalists not to be questioned by the authorities about articles and opinions that they write or edit.
I told the officer that if the police wants to question me they will have to arrest me. The Belgian authorities are clearly intent on intimidating us and closing down this website.
As Paul Belien has said before, it seems the lights may be starting to go out in Europe.
- Saturday Night Stabbing At Union Station
At Washington, D.C.'s Union Station Metro, that is:Stabbing Suspect Shot by Off-Duty Police Officer at Union Station Metro An off-duty Baltimore County police officer shot a man who was wielding a knife on the Metro escalators at Union Station Saturday...
- Belgium - Be Warned - Infidel Bloggers Alliance Is Keeping An Eye On You
The Corner on National Review Online: "The Belgian government needs to understand that a number of people here in the United States are now carefully watching the outcome of this case. Should government harassment of the Brussels Journal continue, should...
- How Many Years Until The Great European Revolution?
The governments of the major nations of Europe are competing to see who will be the first taken down by a violent rebellion of their people. About six weeks back, a young white man freaked out and shot some North Africans in the streets of Brussels. Now,...
- Belgium: The Frog Is Getting Warmer
A great post on the deterioration of Belgian civilization, by Dymphna from Gates of Vienna: The best example of the loss of personal and civic freedom is what is happening to the proprietor of Brussels Journal in particular and to Belgium itself in...
- Infidel Alert: Brussels Journal Accused Of Provoking Racist Murder
Yes, that's right. Paul Belien, the writer of the Brussels Journal is being accused by Belgian authorities for having provoked the racist murder of two black Muslims in the streets of Antwerp. Infidel contributor Thomas the Wraith wrote of the murder...