Today politician Geert Wilders was acquitted for incitement to hatred, discrimination and group insult, ending a legal soap opera that has preoccupied Dutch society for too long. It is up to politics, again, to deal with him now the law has spoken. For the court's judgment has not ended the tension between political responsibility and populism.
[A COMMENT] In a democracy it is exactly debate by politicians/people that should address these issues...it should not be courts imprisoning people/putting them on trial for having views that are claimed to be offensive...
I would have thought that free speech was one of the values that we are trying to defend in all this …. [Guardian Cif] Read more
