The trial of Geert Wilders in his home country of the Netherlands ended yesterday with the Dutch statesman acquitted on all counts. Among those covering the trial who've written about this great news include Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs and Big Government, Robert Spencer at FrontPage and the people at Gates Of Vienna, all of them worth the read.
The right to speak freely in Europe has been preserved thankfully, but the trial continues to serve as a reminder of how perilous that freedom is. With hate speech laws over there combined with a bend-over-backwards appeasement mentality towards those who actually commit what is defined in Europe as the crime of hate speech, what was seen with Geert Wilders's trial (and also Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff's trial) is not an isolated incident.
May Geert Wilders and Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff continue fighting the good fight in Europe, and may others like them answer the call and continue fighting that fight.
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