Meanwhile, Back in the Netherlands …

… the fix appears to be in.

I refer to the trial of bold, valiant Geert Wilders, leader of a rising and hopeful political movement in the Netherlands, and whose free speech rights to warn his countrymen and the wider West about the threat to liberty posed by the advance of Islam poses are imperiled in a Dutch courtroom. So are his political powers as recently granted and expanded by the Dutch electorate. And so is his personal freedom. His purported “hate speech” crimes carry a sentence of one year in jail.

Watching the players arrayed against Wilders assemble — from the Justice Minister with the political axe to grind who is improperly directing the case against Wilders to a court judge known for leniency in Islamic terror cases and with a seat on the Morocco Fund — gives me a very sinking feeling.

Klein Verzet is covering the case in English here.