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Death of an 'Extremist': The assassination of Pim Fortuyn should make us think hard.
Pim Fortuyn's assassination by an "environmental activist" in Holland, like the shaking of a kaleidoscope, produces dramatically different new patterns of politics. Together with September 11, it tells us that old political orthodoxies are breaking down and new political alliances are being formed.
Initially, the U.S. and West European media told us that we should see the assassination ambiguously, as a murder that was almost deserved because the victim was "far right," "an extremist," "ultra-right," "the Dutch Le Pen," etc. (His presumed murderer merited nothing worse than "activist.") Nor was Fortuyn alone the threat. As the Associated Press put it, his rise ...
- The political legacy of Pim Fortuyn; Assassination in the Netherlands.(Could...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) May 11, 2002 700+ words
...at peace with itself. Pim Fortuyn challenged this comfortable...the head of a national Pim Fortuyn List, he was running...On the one hand the Pim Fortuyn List, as its name implies...Austria and Jean-Marie Le Pen in France. The Dutch...
- Ad Melkert, meet Pim Fortuyn; Charlemagne.(Ad Melkert, Pim Fortuyn: two kinds...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) March 30, 2002 700+ words
...6th, local-election day, a bomb exploded. Its name was Pim Fortuyn. He is a colourful, shaven-headed, mid-50s, gay, volatile...tone, his like is widespread: think of names like Haider, Le Pen, Bossi, Switzerland's Christoph Blocher, Denmark's Pia...
- Rightist politician's assassination stuns Netherlands: An animal-rights...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor May 8, 2002 700+ words
...somber after the shooting death of Pim Fortuyn, a controversial right-wing...right politicians Jean-Marie Le Pen of France and Jorg Haider of Austria...Sunday showed the Lijst (Party of) Pim Fortuyn (LPF) likely to be a leader among...
- Sudden Death : A brutal political assassination blows Holland apart--and poses...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International McGuire, Stryker Endt, Friso Rossi, Melissa Theil, Stefan Underhill, William May 20, 2002 700+ words
...the expression it would take. Pim Fortuyn, the anti- establishment populist...notably France's Jean-Marie Le Pen and Austria's Jorg Haider. Then...simple. In fact, the fate of Pim Fortuyn is a cautionary tale for all of...
- Never a dull moment: Pim Fortuyn and the Dutch parliamentary election of 2002.
- Magazine article from: West European Politics Van Holsteyn, Joop J.M. Irwin, Galen A. April 1, 2003 700+ words
...will be associated with the name of Pim Fortuyn. He dominated the media and determined...than three months earlier (the List Pim Fortuyn, LPF), achieved by far the most impressive...rise and electoral success of the List Pim Fortuyn.(5) First, the campaign, in particular...
- The Netherlands confronts assassination and election.(Pim Fortuyn)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Hylarides, Peter July 1, 2002 700+ words
...assassinated politician was Professor Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant ex-Marxist who, in...liberal and social democratic opponents. Pim Fortuyn wanted to bring change to a political...total amount of seats is 150. The LPF (Pim Fortuyn List) did just that, at the expense...
- Pim Fortuyn's fate.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times May 15, 2002 700+ words
Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES For a brief moment, Pim Fortuyn flickered on the stage of European politics, forcing...Fortuyn, leader of a party bearing his name, the List Pim Fortuyn, was close to the top of the polls before he was shot...
- On Tiptoe Through the Tulips: Why Holland is nervous -- and an alarming case...
- Magazine article from: National Review DREHER, ROD July 15, 2002 700+ words
...square, and certainly would not have found a voice in the late Pim Fortuyn. The rookie politician was assassinated by, police believe...center-right Christian Democrats to power, and made the List Pim Fortuyn, a brand- new political party, one of the country's largest...
Source: HighBeam Research, Death of an 'Extremist': The assassination of Pim Fortuyn should make...