Geert Wilders is on the run. He can't go home. He doesn't show his face in public. Six police officers track his every step. Wilders is not a fugitive, but a prominent Dutch legislator. The threat of assassination by Islamic extremists has forced him and several other politicians into hiding, while about 150 men identified by police as hard-core jihadis remain free.
So the other 850 or so are just the attendant hangers-on and wannabes, I guess ...
"I have stayed in five different safe houses," Wilders said in a recent interview. "It's a life you don't wish on your worst enemy. Meanwhile, they are still walking the streets of the Netherlands because the police can't arrest them — there is not enough evidence. I say that those who choose to kill our democracy with radical, fascistic Islamic ideas don't deserve the rights of our democracy. Once again we will have to wait until something else terrible happens before we do anything."
| I think he's trying to say something about how the tolerant can't afford to tolerate intolerance, or something like that ... |
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