More trouble in Belgium

From The Brussels Journal:

This morning the police came to my door again to question me about allegedly racist articles on The Brussels Journal. I was not in. Tonight the local police phoned to "invite" me urgently to the police station. In Belgium any leftist or totalitarianist can lodge a complaint against "internet racism" through a Belgian government website and the judiciary starts an investigation. Apparently someone in Ghent has lodged a complaint against this website. I am not allowed to know who this person is, but I am requested to come to the police station to be interrogated. I told the officer that I refuse to justify my writings for anonymous complaints. "I am not living in the Soviet Union," I told him (though I fear I am).

As a matter of principle I will not go to the police station. I defend the freedom of the press, which implies the right of journalists not to be questioned by the authorities about articles and opinions that they write or edit. I told the officer that if the police wants to question me they will have to arrest me. The Belgian authorities are clearly intent on intimidating us and closing down this website.

This is important for us Americans to take note of because the left in this country is heading down the same road that the left in Europe is on. The Europeans are just further down it than we are.

For all of Mr. Belien's courage and intelligence he does not understand what he is dealing with. The totalitarian impulse which is never far from the surface in European politics is once again asserting itself. Sometimes it wears the mask of communism and sometimes fascism, but the one thing that remains unchanged is the desire to crush any dissent.

If Paul Belien does not get himself and his family out of Europe now he will live to see the day when his home is invaded by thugs operating with the approval (if unofficial) of the government. He will be forced to watch as his wife is beaten and raped before he is beaten to death or permanent disability.

It matters not whether the agents of the Left are wearing brown or red they will not tolerate dissent. They will utterly destroy any opponent over whom they can gain power.

If you are in continental Western Europe and you refuse to live as a slave then get out now.