I doubt you can fully appreciate how difficult this is for Americans to understand, that a person, a leading politician moreover, can be criminally prosecuted for questioning immigration policy. We are slowly getting a dose of it, mainly through university speech codes. And of course, our resident PC expert from Canada, nine_ender, regularly reminds us we would be prosecuted in Canada for expressing negative opinions of officially protected groups. He does not see the irony of coming on here and slandering us as racists and bigots however.
I watched the whole trial on television. In his plea Gert Jan Knoops compared the position of Trump with Geert Wilders and actually mentioned that it would be totally unimaginable in the USA to prosecute a politician for something like this. Can you imagine what it's like to have grown up in one of the most free, open-minded and friendly societies of the world and see it turn into a DDR-light by socialists, it's like living a Orwellian nightmare.
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