Friday, January 21, 2011

Free Speech Goes Dutch

Thierry Baudet on the Geert Wilders trial. An excerpt:

The higher court’s decision that the lower court’s judges had appeared biased has damaged the reputation of the Dutch judiciary. There are no jury trials in Holland; and if judges were incapable of remaining fair-minded when, for the first time in history, the eyes of the world were upon them, what must they be like when no one is looking?

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