The Weekly Forum - 28 February
03 maart 2025 | Forum for Democracy Intl
Gideon van Meijeren MP returned to the issue of abortion in the Dutch parliament this week. To be precise, he tried to but was again prevented from speaking, just as he had been a month previously when he showed a plastic model of a 22-week-old foetus. This time, he entered the chamber with a picture of a foetus on his T-Shirt. As soon as he took off his jacket, so that it was visible to all, the Speaker immediately ordered him to stop. Gideon never gave his speech. Apart from the sheer injustice of preventing an elected MP from addressing the national representation, it is striking to see how images are far more powerful – and a far greater taboo, in the case of abortion – than words. If they are all so strongly in favour of abortion, what, exactly, are they trying to hide? Could it be the reality?
Lenin said, ‘There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.’ This wise saying applies to the few extraordinary weeks since Donald Trump took office. The US president has said that Ukraine will never join NATO, that NATO expansion caused the war, and that Zelensky is a dictator. That is about as big a disavowal of decades of policy as one can imagine. Both Zelensky and the Europeans are being thrown under a bus. FVD International’s director, John Laughland, emphasized the magnitude of what is happening in an interview he gave to Basil Valentine of The Pulse Today, of which two clips are accessible on X. (The full interview is behind a paywall.)
Meanwhile, in Bulgaria demonstrations against the euro have been met with police repression in the capital, Sofia. MEP Rada Laykova, whom FVD originally met in Sofia last year and who has attended FVD events since, has written a piece for us detailing the various police abuses – tear gas, pepper spray, injuries. Just imagine what people would say if anti-Orban protesters were treated like this in Budapest! This time, the EU roundly condemned … the demonstrators. The broader issue, of course, is that Bulgaria is being forced to abandon its national currency, something which the Bulgarian people have not been, and never will be, asked about. They are opposed to it because they know that the euro is a racket which will not only make them poorer but which will also destroy what is left of their national independence. Read Rada Laykova's article here The Forum ‘travelled’ to South Africa this week from where our guest Joost Strydom joined us to talk about Orania, the new town created by Afrikaners in the middle of the desert to give themselves a proper homeland. It is a fascinating experiment, the creation of a new society. If you missed it you can listen back here. |
