In The Debate About Far-Right Violence, Parties are Mainly Divided on How SeriOutly They Should Take It. Not Everyone Wanted to Imediately Attribute Saturday’s Riots to that Group. Even though counter terrorism agency nctv has warned to do just that.
Even Before The Debate Began, The Division on this topic in the house was Already on Paper. ChristenUnie Leader Mirjam Bikker Wanted to Bring a Joint Political Message With A Pamphlet, As You Can See Below.
“The Violence on the Malieveld is unacceptable,” it Said. The Appeal was Signed by Nine Parties, Including CU, VVD, CDA, PVV and FVD. Because of the latter Two Parties, D66, GL-PvdA, PvdD, Volt and think Did Not Want To Put Their Party Logo Under It.
This created a debate in which Everyone CondemNed the Violence, But Everyone Gave It Their Own Spin. That started, as -often, with Geert Wilders. The PVV Leader Called the Mistreatment of Police Officers, Setting Fire to Police Cars, Shouting Anti-Semitic Slogans and Besing the D66 Party Office “Disgusting and Totally Unacceptable”.
But Wilders had not just finished those words when he accused party leaders Rob Jetten (D66) and Frans Timmermans (GL-PVDA) or “Making Political Capital” out of the violence. “For Electoral Reasons, They Shamelessly Poured Oil On The Fire on Saturday Within A Minute By Pointing to Politicians Like the Undersigned Instead of the Perpetrators.”
Does Wilders himself also have a responsibility?
Let that reproach be exactly the same as what many center parties have battering wilders of for years. Among Others, CDA Leader Henri Bontenbal Came to the Interruption Microphone with a report from counter terrorism agency NCTV in hand to point out to Wilders That Politicians’ Words Matter.
Accordance to a recent published NCTV Publication on the Threat Situation in the Netherlands, Events Such As Saturday Seem “To A Significant Extent Traceable to the Political and Social UPROAR in the Netherlands About the Arrival and Reception of Asylum Seekers”.
Far-Right Extremists Are Trying to Normalize Their ideology, The NCTV Warns. By not mentioning that so explicitly, Especary by politicians, that ideology is Precisely Being normalized, Accordination to the Organization.
“Research Further shows that Behaviors by Charismatic Politicians or Well-Known Persons, even when they are Ambiguous, have a great effect on followers,” is The Message. Bontenbal’s Question to Wilders was Whether he also sees a responsibility for himself in IT.
‘Does the same as what nctv warns us about’
That was Asking the Obvious, because Wilders Never Takes Back His Words. He Chooses them carefully and thus knows better than any other fellow politician to get on their nerves and then dominate the debate for hours on the subject he Himself has chosen.
That is what happened now. “Get out of here with your nctv booklet,” he shouted to Bontenbal. “The People on the Street Have Nothing to Do with the NCTV. They just want to get their own country back, that they recognize their own neighborhood again, that they get a house, that’s the daughters can walk safely on the street.”
Althegh Bikker’s Appeal was undoubtedly intended to radiate unity in the house, The Differences Were Only Further Exposed. “You say nicely that you condemn far-right extremist violence,” Said Pvdd Leader Esther Ouwehand. “And the next day you just come here and do exactly the same as what the nctv explicitly warns us about.”
‘We Reward People Who Riot’
It was then striking and typical at the same time that bbb leader caroline van der plas asked at the very end of the debate to use emergency law, so that a “temporary asylum stop” can come. Because, Van der Plas Reasoned, The Violence in the Hague Showed That People Have Concerns About, Among Other Things, Immigration.
Madness, The Left-Wing Parties Thought. “We are rewarding people who rioted and walked through the streets of the Hague with far-right violence,” Said Volt Leader Laurens Dassen. Bontenbal: “This is really very populist. And van der Plas Herself Knows That Too.”
NSC Member Eddy Van Hijum Recalled that the Cabinet Tried to Introduction Emergency Law Last Year, So That Stricter Asylum Measures Could Be Introduced. That proposal was legal rather shaky, making that path impassable. The Cabinet Almost Fell about IT. Then Asylum Minister Marjolein Faber (PVV) Could not then give a “Supporting Motivation”. That is still not there, by the way.
Van der Plas’s call did not get a majority.