RIP Jörg Haider
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- digdre0
is it THE haider?
the one who I think you are talking about? THE HAIDER?
the one from swiss/austria? yes?rip
- VectorMasked0
who?
- janne760
he always defended his policies of xenophobia with
"good citizenship" and "decent behaviour"police investigation now learns he was speeding far above the allowed speed limit of 70 km/h.
what a decent man he was.
- drgss0
speeding at 70km/h? sure he was
this is from 3 years ago
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol…
- ukit0
Who?
- Nairn0
He was a nationalist Austrian politician, famous (here in the EU, at least) a few years back as one of the visible faces of a minor rise in right wing nationalist policies. This was, if memory serves, around the same time as the more vehement French Politician ('le Pen'?) came to the fore.
The guy's no angel, and stood for a wing of politics that has become abhorrent to most Europeans over the last half century, but his political existence meant something to some people, clearly.
I'm veering over to drgs' side of things a bit here, but I think it's a shame that nationalism and love for our own people has become such a dirty, shameful concept. At least, it's not a black and white idea, that justifies saying things like "a nazi pig who's death clearly wasn't painful enough".
If he was that wrong, then why has the EU made such an effort to tighten up its borders over the past decade?
- did you see fitna by Geert Wilders, thoughts on that my friend ?vcr
- a lot of extreme right wing politicians here in europe don't compare themselves with fellow politicians of this naturejanne76
- some even calls the other racist and what not. Wilders is mostly concerned with Islam and not as much a xenophobe as Haider (IMHO)janne76
- as Haider.. (imho)janne76
- Greedo0
Austria spent a good 400 years beating back the Turks, so naturally they'd be a bit indisposed towards immigration. It's a conservative country, he was just voicing things that a lot of people in the streets were either thinking or saying. Dancing on his grave now seems a bit declassé.
- drgss0
He and another far-right party gained 30% on the polls 3 weeks ago, and became the largest political force in Austria. The two campaign mostly on anti-immigrant and anti-EU platforms, such as to stop immigration, to send criminal foreigners back, ban Islamic dress etc...
So, it was a big scandal in european news.Coincidence? I don't know
- GeorgesII0
How I see it, in about ten years someone will come out and deny he ever died in a car crash.
- gung_hoek0
As bad as it is for his family, his death makes the world a better place.
And my mossad sources tell me they don´t have anything to do with it. They suspect he got drunk on the party that he was driving home from. :(
- GeorgesII0
Btw, anybody notice that once again they are blaming the jews.
- 1000 for neo-nazi originality
- dog_opus0
I think that far left zealotry has become so normative in Europe (and, to some extent, in Canada), that moderate, fair-minded folks have no real leadership to turn to except, sadly, for the far right. It's a shame how little regard so many Europeans seem to have for their heritage, accomplishments, and culture.
- read him up, dawg. he was a hatemongerer, genuine scum. he violated european heritage and culture. dude, please.gung_hoek
- No, I'm not defending him at all! I just think it sucks that guys like this are sometimes seen as the alternative.dog_opus
- I like Geert Wilders, myself!dog_opus
- +1drgss
- What about Merkel...Sarkozy...s... like the mainstream right is ascendent in Europe?ukit
- creez0
my god what a surprise, Haider was a nazi opportunist bastard
- drgss0
Just a note to certain members here, who seem to dislike the idea of ultra-right political parties coming to power. They have after all won the popular majority in Austria
If some of you shiteaters refuse to look into reasons to such development, if you somehow oppose the principles of democracy, and do not believe the people of Austria should be allowed to make a choice out of the recent changes in their society, that they perhaps should establish a dictatorial reign of traditional centrist social democrats, then you my friend is a clinical idiot, and is tenfold more far-right than Jörg Haider ever has been in early 90s
- dyspl0
'drgSS'
- lowimpakt0
"If some of you shiteaters refuse to look into reasons to such developmen......"
maybe they wanted another homegrown Hitler but really who knows why fascists and nazi scum act like they do.