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Old 06-09-2009, 07:20   #8
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Well, a journalist could be like that Dutch chick who went to Taliban land to get their story on the killing of the 10 French troops. They kidnaped her and raped her. When she gets back who does she blame? Why the Dutch government of course.

Here is a link to the background of the Dutch Journalist story

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3946
Concurring to what others have said: you just can't fix stupid!
They did the right thing by not paying her ransom. Based on stoicism, one should care less but when her stupidity causes others misery and headache, it's plain frustrating.

The article sheds a positive side somehow, that even though the PC in the US is bad, it is not (yet) full blown logic-defying-mind-boggling madness that is in Holland. When folks like Geert Wilders are gone, it is scary to contemplate what that place will turn into.

This is the product of PC conditioning in America: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/013106.html
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