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Of course, I know the answer: Europe is catching on. The question is, can America\u2019s liberals be far behind? Yes, they are far behind, and they will remain far behind. But this has shaken them up over in Holland. Now there are people talking about eliminating immigration altogether. There are people in Holland talking about leaving; there are people in Holland suggesting that they\u2019ve got to get a handle on who they let in the country, and they thought all they had to do is be nice and tolerant and understanding and they would be immune. History is full of this. History is full of the appeasers, who think if they don\u2019t provoke the bad guys, the bad guys will leave them alone. What they don\u2019t ever understand is that is perceived by the bad guys as the ultimate white flag, the ultimate surrender, the ultimate weakness, and it says to the bad guys they can behave against people like that with impunity. <\/line> Pat Sajak has written a piece called, “A Hush Over Hollywood.” He nails Hollywood in this piece on the lack of outrage over Theo Van Gogh\u2019s killing by Muslim extremists. He says, “I?m trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and slit his throat with another. The presumed murderer, a Dutch-born dual Moroccan-Dutch citizen, attached a 5-page note to van Gogh\u2019s body with a knife. In it, he threatened jihad against the West in general, and specifically against five prominent Dutch political figures. Van Gogh?s crime? He created a short film highly critical of the treatment of women in Islamic societies. So, again I ask, where is the outrage from Hollywood?s creative community? I mean, talk about a violation of the right of free speech! Perhaps they are afraid that their protests would put them in danger. That, at least, is a defensible position. If I were Michael Moore, I would much rather rail against George W. Bush, who is much less likely to have me killed, than van Gogh?s murderer and the threat to creative freedom he brings. Besides, a man of Moore?s size would provide a great deal of ‘bulletin board\u2019 space…<\/line>“There?s another possibility; one that seems crazy on the surface, but does provide an explanation for the silence, and is also in keeping with the political climate in Hollywood. Is it just possible that there are those who are reluctant to criticize an act of terror because that might somehow align them with President Bush, who stubbornly clings to the notion that these are evil people who need to be defeated? Could the level of hatred for this President be so great that some people are against anything he is for, and for anything he is against? As nutty as it sounds, how else can you explain such a muted reaction to an act that so directly impacts creative people everywhere? Can you conceive of a filmmaker being assassinated because of any other subject matter without seeing a resulting explosion of reaction from his fellow artists in America and around the world? As I said, it?s a nutty-sounding explanation, but we live in nutty times.” Yeah, but they\u2019re getting saner.<\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Eric in Amsterdam, Holland, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you with us, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you. I would prefer to do it on another subject, but I\u2019ll talk to you about the murder of Theo Van Gogh who\u2019s actually not terribly distantly related to the painter. He\u2019s the grandson of the painter\u2019s brother — or the great grandson of the painter\u2019s brother. I would say that\u2019s pretty closely related.<\/line>RUSH: All right, I\u2019ll retract “distant relevant.”<\/line>CALLER: Okay, there is one thing I would like to preface this with is that Holland is a much, much more conservative place than you think it is. It\u2019s no, no, way comparable to France, Germany, and especially Sweden. But that\u2019s also a discussion for another time. No, I would disagree with you that the murder of Theo Van Gogh is “Holland\u2019s 9\/11.” There was a hell of a lot more passion last month when people, 200,000 people came to Amsterdam, which was the largest outpouring of people in since the postwar period, not because of planned cuts in social programs, the specific plan that they had, everybody realizes that the social system needs to be changed and cut back.<\/line>RUSH: Wait, let me ask you a question.<\/line>CALLER: Sure.<\/line>RUSH: Does everybody think that? I mean, that would be great if they did, but —<\/line>CALLER: Does everybody think what?<\/line>RUSH: Does everybody think that the social system needs to be changed and cut back?<\/line>CALLER: Yes.<\/line>RUSH: Everybody does?<\/line>CALLER: Except the people on the extreme left, which there aren\u2019t that many of. People in Holland are very interested in their money, and they don\u2019t like paying taxes.<\/line>RUSH: Uh, okay. That\u2019s also very strange sounding to me, but I\u2019ll accept your word for it since you\u2019re calling from there.<\/line>CALLER: Okay. But I would tell you, for example, that the murder of Theo Van Gogh brought eight or ten thousand people to the Dam Square, but the protest against the plan to cut — what was a plan to cut pre-retirement programs, early retirement programs, basically you could compare it to the tax — the changes in the tax reform act of 1986.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/line>CALLER: They had a whole bunch of people —<\/line>RUSH: How many people did you say showed up for this protest? Did you say two hundred thousand?<\/line>CALLER: Two hundred thousand, yeah.<\/line>RUSH: How could you say that everybody is tired of the welfare state there then?<\/line>CALLER: Because there\u2019s seven million people who work in Holland, and there are three million of them who are in the unions, and 10% of those people made their way from all over the country to Amsterdam. So how many people call the Rush Limbaugh Show compared to how many people listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show?<\/line>RUSH: Well but that\u2019s a function — Wait a minute, you can\u2019t draw that comparison.<\/line>CALLER: Sure you can. How many people write a letter to the news to complain about something compared to how many people were mad about it? You know, 200,000 people don\u2019t show up in Amsterdam every day.<\/line>RUSH: That\u2019s my point. I\u2019m not sure we\u2019re communicating here. You have said that there are people, that everybody is opposed to this massive welfare state, my term for it —<\/line>CALLER: Everybody is opposed to the plan — to the changes that the government came up with, to the point where they had to change that plan.<\/line>RUSH: All right, and what was the original plan?<\/line>CALLER: The plan was to scrap the ability for people to retire early between the ages of 57 and 65 and to push the retirement age for full social benefits to 67.<\/line>RUSH: All right, so —<\/line>CALLER: It was basically changing the rules in the middle of the game like they did with the 1986 tax reform act. And that generated far more passion than the murder of Theo Van Gogh, which has ignited a discussion. Theo Van Gogh stood mostly for the right to freedom of speech, and he was extremely brutal in his insistence on freedom of speech to the point that he offended a lot of people.<\/line> RUSH: Well, wait a minute. Now, wait a second.<\/line>CALLER: Yes, he did.<\/line>RUSH: I have a problem with the use of the word “brutal” associated with freedom of speech.<\/line>CALLER: Okay —<\/line>RUSH: Freedom is not brutal.<\/line>CALLER: Okay, say less than polite.<\/line>RUSH: Less than polite.<\/line>CALLER: In other words, he went out of his way to insult people and used freedom of speech as —<\/line>RUSH: Would you consider the short story, the short movie he made detailing the lack of freedom and the lack of rights by Muslim women in Islamic societies to be brutal? Was it offensive?<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s right on target, and it\u2019s a brutal movie. It shows — details the abuse of Muslim women and the scene which enrages everybody is that a naked woman, abused naked woman is shown with particularly misogynistic quotes from the Koran written on her body. And the biggest thing that was being talked about, it\u2019s not even on the front page today of the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, drug smuggling is, they caught somebody running an airline with drug money, and that\u2019s been the big story, and the second biggest story is, does the person who is accused of the murder of Theo Van Gogh have the right to royalties from the newspapers who published his picture without permission this morning after —<\/line>RUSH: Okay. Now, now —<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m telling you that\u2019s the big story today.<\/line>RUSH: Well, then you\u2019re describing a pretty screwed up country to me.<\/line>CALLER: No, I\u2019m describing a country — I\u2019m describing a country which is not as upset as a country which has just gone through its 9\/11. It\u2019s just talking — they\u2019re talking about — basically his lawyer said, you guys don\u2019t have the right to publish his picture.<\/line>RUSH: Well, he doesn\u2019t have — that\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s just patently absurd.<\/line>CALLER: What is absurd?<\/line>RUSH: It is absurd that a suspect has any say over royalties whether his picture shows up in a newspaper.<\/line>CALLER: Hold on, hold on. Don\u2019t you believe in following the law? In the Netherlands, his full name is not being used. He\u2019s “Mohammed B.”<\/line>RUSH: You know what it sounds to me like? It sounds to me like everybody is bending over backwards not to make these people any angrier than they are. If this guy\u2019s requests are being taken seriously, if this is causing a massive outcry, and this guy wants royalties for his picture showing up in the paper and he can\u2019t be used, his picture, his full name can\u2019t be used, and there\u2019s some people supportive of that, it sounds to me like what\u2019s really at the root of it is they don\u2019t want to anger his friends, which are Islamic extremists. Now, I\u2019ll take what you said; you\u2019re there, and I\u2019m not gonna argue with you about it. I just want to tell you that in certain segments of the media in this country that I trust and believe, the story is just the opposite, that there is, at high levels of the Holland government, the Dutch government, a genuine panic and fear over the murder of Van Gogh, by whom, and what it means for the future precisely because they thought they were immune to this kind of behavior from Al-Qaeda type groups because they never threatened them or challenged them or opposed them in any way, didn\u2019t join the U.S. in any coalition anywhere, and it\u2019s shaken them up. And that there are reports here that high officials in Holland are making suggestions about drastically reducing immigration opportunities for these people and basically closing off the country. I tell you what, I\u2019ve got this stuff here in the stack, and we\u2019re going to link to it, these reports that I have on the website this afternoon when we update it to reflect the contents of today\u2019s program. But, look, I\u2019m really glad that you called, Eric. I appreciate your time. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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