[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10689]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




             GEERT WILDERS--CHAMPION OF THE PUBLIC LIBERTY

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, free speech is under assault from 
Islamic terrorists worldwide. They use threats and political 
correctness to silence anybody who speaks out about their violent 
beliefs. Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders made a movie about these Islamic 
clerics who incite violence in the name of religion. But the Dutch 
Government is putting Wilders on trial for incitement to hatred. The 
oppressive Dutch Government says it's irrelevant that the speech in the 
movie may be true.
  You see, there is no freedom of speech in the Netherlands if a person 
is critical of radical Islam. Freedom of speech is a basic human right. 
Political speech and religious speech are the most controversial types 
of all speech. That is why these types of speech should be protected 
the most. Benjamin Franklin said, ``There can be no such thing as 
public liberty without freedom of speech.'' Geert Wilders is a champion 
of the public liberty and the free speech that guarantees that liberty.
  And that's just the way it is.

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