Egmont is the struggle of the Dutch and Belgian peoples over centuries for freedom. Goethe’s play and Beethoven’s music celebrate the nobility of Count Egmont, lavished by the tyrant with power and wealth. Egmont pleads his peoples’ cause for which he gives his life. May the spirit that imbued Goethe and Beethoven come to life again in this tragic land.

Embarkation of the Pilgrims at Delft Haven, Holland, July 22nd, 1620

"This Thanksgiving, I visited the Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, the town where the pilgrims stayed for eleven years before sailing to the New World. The Dutch passed laws allowing them to confiscate the pilgrim children and raise them as Dutch."   The Father

Celina (15) and Stephanie (13) Yavelow, native-born Americans were spirited to Holland by their mother in 1999. They pleaded, "We are American citizens! We want to stay in America!"

In the spirit of Egmont, two American youngsters spoke up in open court for freedom, their own. The Dutch judges turned a deaf ear as they had to the Pilgrims. The symbol of sanctuary which endeared this land to Beethoven and Goethe by early upholding the dignity of each person as Erasmus and Spinoza preached lives no longer there.

America beware. Holland is a omen. Holland batters fathers. "You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs." The same goes for the revolution of post Western Civilization. When Dutch "justice" gets really expert that’s how it will treat its entire flock, including those who now urge its tearing fathers and their children apart.

It is no surprise that the Netherlands would act the way the father’s article describes. (Click here to go to the father’s website).

An Amsterdam psychiatrist recounted a ghoulish story of the new-fangled Holland. Relatives gathered for a man’s planned euthanasia. One relative came from overseas. When the patient had last-minute doubts, the family said, "Uncle, you can’t have her come all this way for nothing." Why would a society that makes it politically correct to treat an uncle like garbage do any less to fathers?

And as for children and mother’s love now preserved in formaldehyde, it is the ONLY nation in Europe that allows a child over fifteen to arrange to have themselves killed simply because they don’t want to go on. A child under that age can only enjoy that "benefit" with their mother’s go-ahead. It has to be the mother, since Dutch law prevents 90% of divorced Dutch fathers from seeing their children. One too young to read apparently can have the papers explained to him by her mother’s lawyer.

Holland is the first nation since Hitler’s Germany to encourage physicians to kick aged patients into the coffin rather than the gas chamber.

Holland’s "elite" danced with Hitler. Denmark had strong German cultural ties also. But Denmark said "no" to the Nazis from the King on down when they were expected to give up their Jews.

A small underground managed to salvage Holland’s reputation. But Holland has to be given credit for doggedness. It defeats its own integrity in the last moment of every game it plays with itself.

Holland exports its rotten social policies to the rest of Europe and the rest of the West. Every other EU country has denounced the Dutch Parliament for this Chinese-style totalitarianism. The Dutch Justice Ministry bluntly admits that although euthanasia must be voluntary in more than 70% of cases doctors have openly admitted over the last decade that they either decide the issue themselves or under pressure from greedy relatives.

Like Japanese cars, social policies come only in a package. If you want one feature, you have to buy them all. Prostitution and abuse of drugs have always been with us, but Holland didn’t have to turn then into Amsterdam’s largest department store.

Holland itself is a corpse. It can’t even keep up a replacement birthrate. These self-destructive policies will help Holland commit national suicide sooner, which is what they obviously want.

There are many nations worth visiting in Europe. Why find yourself in Holland in the first place?

Andrew E. Carlan
Farmingdale, New York

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