RIP Jörg Haider
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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