Ik Sta met Denemarken!

Now that ought to confuse some of my readers who only speak English. ;-) It is Dutch for

I Stand with Denmark!

This is prompted by two things. The flood of Dutch readers who have graced my website recently via.

The Dutch Disease Report and GEENSTIJL

You are most welcome.

The other reason I discovered at No Pasarn! in one of the comments about a a demonstration
on Saturday 25 February at Dam Square in Amsterdam.

I see No Pasarn! has also put up a post on this
We (heart) Dutchmark

You are invited to a demonstration
on Saturday 25 February at Dam Square in Amsterdam.

Directions - Map

This information from Balder Blog in English.

"Call for demonstration at Dam Square on Holland!?s Remembrance Day (Feb 25)
Compiled and translated from the weblog Nekklachten

Monument for fallen Dutch Resistance Fighters during the Nazi occupation of Holland.
Situated in the centre of Amsterdam a ten minutes walk from the main railroad station Centraal Station. In the sixties a rendez vous point for flower power hippies, later a favourite spot for African and Arab drugdealers and hustlers.
Everybody who wants to support Freedom of Speech:

Come to Dam Square in the center of Amsterdam on Saturday February 25 at 13:00 o!?clock.

The purpose of the demonstration is to show the politicians that the Dutch are sick and tired of the religious frenzy around the famous Jyllands Posten Cartoons, and even more tired of the demands for restrictions of our Freedom of Speech.

We shall not tolerate as much as 1 millimeter of restrictions of our rights to free speech.

The demonstration will be a signal of solidarity with the people of Denmark, and is also a message to Xavier Solana that we will not accept that the EU top bowes down to Middle Eastern dictatorships in a so called !?dialog!? about freedom of speech. We have that freedom, and it we will keep it. That!?s final.

Demonstrators are being urged to bring Danish flags, and it is being discussed if books from H.C Andersen, the famous Danish storyteller, as well as the newly composed Danish / Dutch Solidarity flag in order to emphasize the support for Denmark and Jyllands Posten."

and in Dutch at Nekklachten

There are also comments on this on the website of the heroine Ayaan Hirsi Ali

We will be with you in Spirit if not in Body on that day.

You will be supported by some and reviled by others.

Do not despair, you are not alone.

We too in the Past of our Republic had those who would prefer to place their necks under the Heel of Oppression, rather than to face it.

One of our Founding Fathers Samuel Adams had this to say to such persons.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace.
We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand
that feeds you; May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen."

I STAND WITH DUTCHMARK!

In the struggle for Freedom of Speech.

Sign the Petition NOW!

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