Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 8:38:19 am
The person using the pseudonym “Fjordman,” who made a dramatic exit from LGF after being challenged on his ideas about the ethnic cleansing of Europe, then came back, then made another dramatic exit after being challenged again, has now made another dramatic exit: My Farewell to Little Green Footballs.
In all the words he’s written, please notice the many facts I’ve posted that he does not address. Nothing about the White Power symbols in the Vlaams Belang youth magazine, nothing about the connections between unrepentant Nazi collaborator Leon Degrelle and top Vlaams Belang officials, nothing about the top VB leaders who fought with police in order to lay flowers on the graves of SS soldiers, nothing about the White Power symbol on Filip DeWinter’s bookshelf, nothing about DeWinter’s calls for a “white Europe.” The list of things Fjordman chooses not to talk about goes on and on. His whole essay amounts to yet another diversionary attack, with absolutely no substance.
The one issue he does address is the Vlaams Belang’s association with Holocaust “minimizer” Jean Marie Le Pen and the far-right European coalition Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty:
However, out of all the information published by LGF, a lot of which is nonsense or outdated or both, the one piece of information that I disliked the most was VB’s connection to Jean-Marie Le Pen from the FN in France through the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group at the European Parliament. I don’t like Le Pen at all and consider it to be poor judgment by the VB to have even a formal link to that party. They should seriously consider cutting that link in the future. It’s not helpful.
In the context of everything else that’s been posted, most people would see the association with Le Pen as more evidence of a disturbing agenda—but to Fjordman it’s simply “not helpful,” and “poor judgment.”
The connection to Jean Marie Le Pen, by the way, is anything but peripheral; Vlaams Belang leader Filip DeWinter kept a framed photograph of himself with Le Pen on his bookshelf, and said in an interview that Le Pen was a “father figure” to him.
Read Fjordman’s whole screed for yourself, and then take a look through the volumes of factual evidence I’ve posted, and ask why Fjordman, Gates of Vienna, and Brussels Journal are spending so much time blowing smoke and personally attacking me, instead of addressing the facts.