The Brussels Journal has come under attack by leftists after a youth committed random murder in the streets. Other journalists, politicians, and lawyers are linking the proprietor’s views and associations to the murders. See the story here at Brussels Journal.
Today a far-left organisation, the Progress Lawyers Network (PLN), attacked The Brussels Journal in a press release, and demanded that Paul Belien be prosecuted for his recent publications. Tomorrow the Belgian media will parrot the message. I am a prolific and outspoken writer, which in Belgium is not tolerated from a Conservative. Sixteen years ago, long before my wife went into politics, I was fired by a Belgian newspaper for writing an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal explaining why the Belgian media spiked the story of the late King Baudouin’s objections to the Belgian abortion bill. Since then I have never been given the opportunity to write for a Belgian newspaper again. Last summer I started The Brussels Journal, which some want to silence because political correctness is all they want the public to hear.
Update on Paul Belien at the Brussels Journal here:
Following last Thursday’s Antwerp massacre the Belgian authorities have announced zero tolerance for racism. Belgian journalists, lawyers and politicians (including Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt), say that I am responsible for creating the atmosphere of hatred that led to the massacre. Some people even demand that I be prosecuted.
Belgian television and the Brussels papers say that the Antwerp shoot-out is the result of my writings.
I don’t know the country well enough to be able to tell how serious this might be –whether Paul Belien is truly in danger of being successfully prosecuted or not.
