Dries Van Langenhove is among the most spectacular and vital activists in our motion. And he has guts. Regardless of authorities persecution, monetary penalties, threats from antifa, and livid media hatred, he gave a speech on the final American Renaissance convention known as “This Is The Biggest Time to Be Alive.” He stated our ancestors are watching us, and “I need to make my ancestors proud.” “I need to proceed their legacy. I’m, identical to they have been, ready to provide my life for our individuals and our future.”
Belgium has not killed him, however it’s making an attempt to steal his life. A Belgian courtroom sentenced him to at least one 12 months in jail for “spreading hate.” He should additionally pay a tremendous of greater than $17,000. Many of the worldwide media are happy.
- “Belgian Choose Sends Far-Proper Activist to Jail for ‘Racist, Hateful, Nazi’ Speech,” by Maggie Hroncich, New York Solar, March 12, 2024
- “Belgium’s far-right prodigy will get jail time period for inciting violence,” by Camille Gus and Laurens Cerulus, Politico, March 12, 2024
- “A Belgian courtroom sentences a distinguished far-right activist to 1 12 months in jail for spreading hate,” by Raf Casert, Related Press, March 12, 2024
The “conservatives” at Fox Information known as the sentence a “main ruling in how the nation offers with extremism.”
Mr. Van Langenhove didn’t truly submit the offensive memes, and none of those tales above reported what he had allegedly stated.
He was merely in a gaggle chat. “The activists of Defend & Associates can solely be charged with some memes,” Mr. Van Langenhove stated, “memes that I didn’t even submit myself, by the best way.” This was additionally seven years in the past. Some individuals discover memes and jokes offensive, however what sort of nation imprisons individuals for jokes? A tyrannical one.
Extra context @elonmusk:
I based @schildnvrienden, Belgium’s largest and most influential political youth motion, in 2017. It was banned from Twitter a while later, with out purpose.
We (allegedly) had FB group with 900 activists and a Discord chat with many a whole lot of…
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) March 12, 2024
It was additionally a non-public group, so why will we even learn about these jokes? A state media group took it upon itself to infiltrate. That is simply one other instance of the supposed “free press” serving because the vanguard of censorship. Individuals then complained about what’s now public, triggering an investigation. ” ‘The ridiculing of fuel chambers, of incinerators, that was so excessive for me that I spontaneously lodged a grievance,’ stated Henri Heimans, a former Justice of the Peace whose dad and mom survived the Nazi loss of life camps,” stated Politico.
Nothing about this was spontaneous. These offensive concepts that supposedly hurt the general public would have remained utterly unknown if a corporation that’s a part of the state equipment had not gone by way of an enormous quantity of bother to disclose it. And now, members of the general public can now demand “damages”! Choose Jan Van den Berghe stated that “the file confirmed that he [Dries Van Langenhove] desires to undermine democratic society and exchange it with a social mannequin of white supremacy.” The “file” he’s referencing seems to check with Mr. Van Langenhove’s different actions and never the personal message group posts. If he had posted such rhetoric within the personal group, he would have been charged for that.
In fact, if his views have been really dangerous, way more individuals are seeing this now due to the case. Moreover, some are more likely to consider {that a} society by which acts like this are a criminal offense ought to be undermined.
Mr. Van Langenhove has a GiveSendGo to lift sufficient cash to pay these fines. I encourage everybody to donate.
He wrote:
At this time I used to be sentenced to at least one 12 months of efficient jail sentence, 10 months of suspended jail sentence, €16,000 efficient tremendous, €6,000 suspended tremendous, €10,000 in compensation and 10 years of lack of civil rights, which implies I’m not allowed to take part in politics. Nonetheless, a years-long investigation, on which the Justice Division wasted hundreds of thousands of euros of taxpayers’ cash, reveals that the S&V [Shield and Friends] activists can’t be charged with something aside from memes.
“Certainly one of Belgium’s most distinguished human rights organizations, the Human Rights League, was a celebration within the case,” stated Politico. “Its lawyer stated the ruling ‘counts as a transparent sign.’ ” Of what? Of a self-proclaimed democracy that bans free speech? Of a so-called human rights group that declares itself an enemy of probably the most elementary human proper? This isn’t “tender” tyranny; it’s tyranny.
One encouraging signal is that some conservatives appear to know.
That is insane.
Belgian politician Dries Van Langenhove was sentenced to 1 YEAR in jail for being in a gaggle chat with offensive memes.
Free speech is on its deathbed. pic.twitter.com/8l956UUTDj
— Finish Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 12, 2024
🚨BREAKING | Former Flemish parliamentarian Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove has simply been sentenced to 1 12 months IN PRISON as a result of supposedly “racist memes” have been shared in a non-public group chat he was part of.
This is absolutely the state of freedom of speech in Europe.… pic.twitter.com/FGoLbrbxdD
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) March 12, 2024
Belgian politician Dries Van Langenhove has been sentenced to at least one 12 months in jail as a result of he belonged to a gaggle chat the place someone else posted “offensive” memes making enjoyable of blacks. He didn’t submit the memes himself. And even when he did, that might not justify an arrest — a lot… https://t.co/EoRS3HM7xb pic.twitter.com/xuJ5ozv7YY
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 12, 2024
Vlaams Belang additionally denounced the decision, with celebration chief Tom Van Grieken saying that it confirmed “Belgian justice is rotten to the core.” Mr. Van Langenhove is a former member.
Elon Musk additionally seen the case.
Sure. Despite the fact that the choose (and the media) admitted that I by no means despatched any of those memes, he argued that I ought to have completed extra to maintain others from sending them and he labeled the memes “hatespeech”, which is a punishable offense in Belgium.
— Dries Van Langenhove (@DVanLangenhove) March 12, 2024
Politico stated Mr. Musk “appeared to row in behind a Belgian far-right chief convicted of inciting violence and denying the Holocaust on Tuesday.” No, Mr. Musk was shocked {that a} courtroom in a supposedly free nation may sentence a person to jail for being in a non-public chat group the place another person posted memes. All Individuals needs to be. If journalists are offended by this, they’re the issue.
As for the Washington Publish, “Proper wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism have been on the rise by way of a lot of Europe, and far-right political events have made huge inroads in lots of European Union nations over the previous couple of years,” it concluded, implying it takes jail sentences to cease these scourges.
There will probably be EU elections in June. Let’s hope Europeans ship their rulers a message, particularly in Belgium, a man-made state that ought to, by rights, be minimize in two. Maybe in a 12 months, we may see an unbiased Flemish Republic.
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