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Dries Van Langenhove is one of the most impressive and important activists in our movement. And he has guts. Despite government persecution, financial penalties, threats from antifa, and furious media hatred, he gave a speech at the last American Renaissance conference called “This Is The Greatest Time to Be Alive.” He said our ancestors are watching us, and “I want to make my ancestors proud.” “I want to continue their legacy. I am, just like they were, prepared to give my life for our people and our future.”

Belgium has not killed him, but it is trying to steal his life. A Belgian court sentenced him to one year in prison for “spreading hate.” He must also pay a fine of more than $17,000. Most of the international media are pleased.

The “conservatives” at Fox News called the sentence a “major ruling in how the nation deals with extremism.”

Mr. Van Langenhove did not actually post the offensive memes, and none of these stories above reported what he had allegedly said.

He was simply in a group chat. “The activists of Shield & Friends can only be charged with some memes,” Mr. Van Langenhove said, “memes that I didn’t even post myself, by the way.” This was also seven years ago. Some people find memes and jokes offensive, but what kind of country imprisons people for jokes? A tyrannical one.

It was also a private group, so why do we even know about these jokes? A state media organization took it upon itself to infiltrate. This is just another example of the supposed “free press” serving as the vanguard of censorship. People then complained about what is now public, triggering an investigation. ” ‘The ridiculing of gas chambers, of incinerators, that was so over the top for me that I spontaneously lodged a complaint,’ said Henri Heimans, a former magistrate whose parents survived the Nazi death camps,” said Politico.

Nothing about this was spontaneous. These offensive ideas that supposedly harm the public would have remained completely unknown if an organization that is part of the state apparatus had not gone through a huge amount of trouble to reveal it. And now, members of the public can now demand “damages”! Judge Jan Van den Berghe said that “the file showed that he [Dries Van Langenhove] wants to undermine democratic society and replace it with a social model of white supremacy.” The “file” he’s referencing appears to refer to Mr. Van Langenhove’s other activities and not the private message group posts. If he had posted such rhetoric in the private group, he would have been charged for that.

Of course, if his views were truly harmful, far more people are seeing this now because of the case. Furthermore, some are likely to believe that a society in which acts like this are a crime should be undermined.

Mr. Van Langenhove has a GiveSendGo to raise enough money to pay these fines. I encourage everyone to donate.

He wrote:

Today I was sentenced to one year of effective prison sentence, 10 months of suspended prison sentence, €16,000 effective fine, €6,000 suspended fine, €10,000 in compensation and 10 years of loss of civil rights, which means I am no longer allowed to participate in politics. However, a years-long investigation, on which the Justice Department wasted millions of euros of taxpayers’ money, shows that the S&V [Shield and Friends] activists cannot be charged with anything other than memes.

“One of Belgium’s most prominent human rights organizations, the Human Rights League, was a party in the case,” said Politico. “Its lawyer said the ruling ‘counts as a clear signal.’ ” Of what? Of a self-proclaimed democracy that bans free speech? Of a so-called human rights organization that declares itself an enemy of the most fundamental human right? This is not “soft” tyranny; it’s tyranny.

One encouraging sign is that some conservatives seem to understand.

Vlaams Belang also denounced the verdict, with party leader Tom Van Grieken saying that it showed “Belgian justice is rotten to the core.” Mr. Van Langenhove is a former member.

Elon Musk also noticed the case.

Politico said Mr. Musk “appeared to row in behind a Belgian far-right leader convicted of inciting violence and denying the Holocaust on Tuesday.” No, Mr. Musk was stunned that a court in a supposedly free country could sentence a man to jail for being in a private chat group where someone else posted memes. All Americans should be. If journalists are offended by this, they are the problem.

As for the Washington Post, “Right wing extremism, racism, and antisemitism have been on the rise through much of Europe, and far-right political parties have made big inroads in many European Union nations over the last few years,” it concluded, implying it takes jail sentences to stop these scourges.

There will be EU elections in June. Let’s hope Europeans send their rulers a message, especially in Belgium, an artificial state that should, by rights, be cut in two. Perhaps in a year, we could see an independent Flemish Republic.

Please show your support for Dries Van Langenhove by donating to Mr. Van Langenhove or to Schild & Vrienden.

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  1. jsinton says:

    I think it’s all clear signs that TPTB are quickly losing control and flail about with hail-mary lawfare to stop populist candidates. And nobody believes Fox News or WaPo anymore, they’ve gone the way of Pravda. I just see a dumpster fire of the elites. It doesn’t mean they’re winning.

  2. BuelahMan says:

    We must be extra clear here:

    jews had nothing, whatsoever, to do with this.

    Remember that.

    • Thanks: anonymouseperson, JimDandy
    • Replies: @Gvaltar
    , @Passing by
  3. Never has the notion that what you oppose, you thereby create or conjure into being, been so clearly demonstrated.

  4. Rich says:

    Verdicts like this will lead to actual violence. Once people determine that they can’t peacefully oppose government policies, they will turn to more extreme actions. These midwits are too dense to understand what they’re doing. Or maybe they want violence?

    • Replies: @Godly5
    , @36 ulster
  5. What happened there will surely happen here.

  6. Gvaltar says:
    @BuelahMan

    So what if some jews were involved?

    • Replies: @Catdompanj
    , @BuelahMan
  7. anarchyst says:

    The “elephant in the room” that “shall not be spoken of” is those who own our mass-media, entertainment, financial institutions, and the like (the “chosen”) who own and are directly responsible for the coarsening and debasement of our culture.

    It’s all by design.

    The “chosen” are laughing their asses off at the “stupid goyim” who rabidly suck up the degenerate debasement of a once-proud and vigorous society. We truly live in an age of “bread and circuses”, where grown men openly espouse and make idols of useless “sports figures”, “rap stars” and other degenerate figures and institutions. As long as the beer is cold and the “big game” is on with their useless “sports heroes”, all is well with the world.

    What used to be considered “good” is now “bad”. Homosexuality, transgenderism, pedophilia, and other perversions are not only to be tolerated, but accepted, while those who strive to live a chaste life are seen as “bigots”, “close-minded”, intolerant individuals and are to be criticized and marginalized at all costs. At the “top of the heap” for derision and ridicule are heterosexual white males, especially those with families and a female spouse.

    Hopefully, these “successes” that the “chosen” are implementing will be short lived as more and more people realize that we are being manipulated for the benefit of the “chosen”.

    It is long overdue for our present-day “Weimar Republic” to fall on the ash heap of history”…

    It’s time to make preparation for expulsions #110

    • Replies: @Catdompanj
  8. anarchyst says:

    Every federal agency has been “weaponized”…
    I can remember a time when federal agencies were prohibited from commenting or promoting advocacy for or against proposed legislation as it was seen as interference in the political process and was prohibited by law.
    The real “push” for “weaponization” began in the O’bama era when straight white agency personnel were being replaced by O’bama-selected “yes-men”. This also infected the military as general leadership is more akin to politicians than professional military men.
    The first real vestiges of this “weaponization” was the use of the IRS to deny 501(c)-(3) status to conservative organizations. When (((they))) saw that (((they))) could get away with it, all bets were off. The onslaught of agency “weaponization” was unleashed full-force. From parents voicing their concerns at school board meetings to outright arrests of the J6 gulag defendants (political prisoners whose cases are still going on for years after the act) the “weaponization” of the federal government is now complete.
    Observe the viciousness of the judiciary both on state and federal levels going after Trump for supposed “crimes”.

  9. Anon[388] • Disclaimer says:

    One can almost hear the rumbling of tumbrils in the streets. Can’t come soon enough.

  10. Anonymous[242] • Disclaimer says:

    Belgium is the vassal chosen to be the headquarters of NATO.

    Van Langenhove’s fate was decided in D.C., not Brussels.
    Europeans have no say in the matter. Or in any matter. At most they are allowed to think they have some input, like a child on his father’s lap with his hands touching the wheel and allowed to pretend he’s driving the car.

  11. SafeNow says:

    A guy carrying jumper cables walks into a bar. The bartender says, I’ll serve you, but don’t start anything!

    I’ve got a million of these. Who knew it was going to be so easy to get into the reeducation camp?

    • Replies: @RestiveUs
  12. tosca says:

    Schild en vriend refers to the so-called ‘battle of the Golden spurs’, in which the flamish peasant infantry defeated the french chivalry. If I remember well, it was around the 13th or the 14th century. After the battle, the french tried to escape during the night and mingled with the flamish speaking soldiers.
    Check points were set to sort the french. The pass word was ‘schild en vriend’. The pass word was impossible for the french to pronounce. The dutch ‘s’ is very different from the french pronounciation.
    ‘ch’ is a palatal fricative that does not exist in french. The ‘i’ is impure. the ‘r’ is rolled and unknown in french. So, it was a sentence that could not be pronounced correctly by a french speaking person who could easily be identified and immediately killed. It became recently a flamish nationalistic slogan.

  13. tosca says:

    The name ‘Golden Spurs’ refers to the collection of the spurs of the french chivalry by the winning flamish infantry. The spurs were probably made of copper or brass.

    • Replies: @The Alarmist
  14. Wokechoke says:

    Were the memes about Congolese Ivory Miners and Child Lithium Hunters?

  15. @BuelahMan

    Hadn’t they?

    ‘The ridiculing of gas chambers, of incinerators, that was so over the top for me that I spontaneously lodged a complaint,’ said Henri Heimans, a former magistrate whose parents survived the Nazi death camps,”

    • Replies: @PetrOldSack
  16. @tosca

    Spurs of French, hands of Africans … Is there anything Belgians won’t collect?

    Having been in El Salvador in the ‘80s, all I can say to our Euro-Trash friends is that they have no idea what a real right-wing extremist is.

  17. Godly5 says:

    The people who will send you half way around the world to die for “freedom and democracy” are the same people who will throw you in prison for being a bystander to someone posting a meme.

  18. Godly5 says:
    @Rich

    They absolutely want to remove all peaceful recourse to provoke a violent reaction.
    That way they can go “see, we told you, they are threats to the state” and declare martial law and unleash their immigrant hordes on the native population. You will live to see government apparatchiks at supply depots handing out machine guns to deputized African and Hispanic invaders to go kill whites with. And there won’t be any “I’m one of the good ones” to save yourself with. Read their CRT theories – it’s “whiteness” itself that they’re eradicating.

  19. Belgium does the bidding of Jews. What else is new?

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
  20. @Gvaltar

    You mean like Jew bankers, newspaper owners, social media owners, prosecutors, judges, lawyers or lawmakers???? Youre right, so what. Nothing to see here kvetchtar.

  21. @anarchyst

    According to the idiot Gvaltar, it’s no big deal.

  22. mongrelito [AKA "Sez"] says:

    There is no other word than fascism to describe what is happening in Belgium and all over Europe.

    All these lies in the US whore media is as shameful as the Belgium kangaroo courts.

    The fact that amny former indepedant countries created “hate speech” crimes shows that these countries are just dictatorships, nothing else.

    Though crimes like these existed in the USSR, in Nazi Germany, in Khmwer rouges Cambodia, in China and now it is the norm in all European shitholes like Belgium.

    The judges are not only rotten in Belgium, they are rotten in all the western world. Look at the stalinist trial of Julian Assange, at the permanent repression and oppresion against white people in their own countries.

    Americans y don’t realize that the so-called “European Union” is the pusher for such thought crime “legislations”. The “EU” is the replacement for the USSR. The Maastricht treaty was imposed tow years after the USSR died, and it wasn’t by chance.

    The EU is a blueprint for the global dictatorship they dare to call “world government”. Unelected, unnacountable puppets installed in power by oligarchs to dictate everything to 400 millions people.

    They also don’t understand that the mock “EU parliament” has no real powers, and is made-up of sold-out, bought-out, corrupt puppets so elections will chnage nothing.

    The only way to stop the criminals at the head of European globalist-fascist (or bolshevik style) regimes is to destroy them and their systems.

    No elections can do that.

    People can do that but only with the most extreme violence as this is the thing they fear the most from us.

    When there is no blood in the streets, nothing is done.

  23. RestiveUs says:
    @SafeNow

    They used jumper cables to electrocute millions during the holocaust…Seize him!!

  24. anonymous[353] • Disclaimer says:

    Dries Van Langenhove may well win on appeal. 68-year-old Polish citizen Leszek Sachs recently won a huge Brussels court victory against the Belgium-EU crime bribery complex … tho this was quickly followed by corrupt Brussels prosecutors menacing to murder the Polish man if he did not leave Belgium!

    Trump was deeply right about the Brussels ‘hellhole’ but for a different reason – Belgium has jurisdiction over crimes in EU offices, and they do ‘corruption exchange’ now with each other:

    Belgium doesn’t prosecute crimes of EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen, Ursula and the EU Commission co-sponsor all violations of law by Belgium, including a bribe-seeking extortion scheme over EU citizen health care rights
    https://southfront.press/german-elites-eu-crimes-to-promote-war-on-russia-wreck-eu/

    There is deep fear in Brussels that this year’s elections will bring more populist governments into both Belgium and the EU itself, replacing the current gangsters. The persecution of Van Langenhove is further fuelling populism amongst Belgian voters. And a half-deaf Polish citizen boomer is exposing the crime complex not only in Belgium but at the core of the EU:

    His court victory was quickly followed by direct terrorist threats to murder Leszek Sachs if he did not leave Belgium, these threats made by corrupt racist Brussels prosecutor Gilles François working under Tim De Wolf. Current Belgium and EU officials fear that as new governments take hold in both in 2025, Leszek Sachs would be a powerful anti-corruption witness against them. The menacing François did not hesitate to boast of his ‘mafia’ in the Belgium-EU-Commission government crime complex, and grinned as he spoke of how he is willing to see unlimited numbers of EU citizens dead, unless they pay bribes for their health care rights to corrupt Belgians.

  25. I am always surprised that people are shocked by this kind of things.

    Do you really think that they will just relinquish the power?

  26. “One of Belgium’s most prominent human rights organizations, the Human Rights League, was a party in the case,” said Politico. “Its lawyer said the ruling ‘counts as a clear signal.’ ” Of what? Of a self-proclaimed democracy that bans free speech? Of a so-called human rights organization that declares itself an enemy of the most fundamental human right? This is not “soft” tyranny; it’s tyranny.

    I say:

    FREE SPEECH will speak TRUTH to the ruling classes of European Christian nations, and that is why the evil, treasonous ruling classes are attempting to attack and destroy all FREE SPEECH.

    The evil, treasonous ruling classes will fail.

    FREE SPEECH NOW!

    The nasty treasonous slobs in the French ruling class went so far as to put Marine Le Pen on trial in 2015 for speaking the truth about multicultural mayhem and the mass immigration invasion destroying France.

    The evil and treasonous rats in the JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire are trying to put Trump in prison now.

    Tweet from 2015:

  27. @Passing by

    Conflict of interest any-one. Jew kiss-ups doing the International Jews’ bidding.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
  28. 36 ulster says:
    @Rich

    I’m betting on the latter. They seem to WANT another Timothy McVeigh to emerge out of an otherwise fearful or apathetic citizenry.

    • Replies: @anarchyst
  29. anarchyst says:
    @36 ulster

    McVeigh is the wrong example…
    McVeigh didn’t do it…
    He was a “patsy” who was peripherally involved, being contracted to drive a truck and park it. The whole OKC investigation is full of holes and was tainted from the start. The intent was for McVeigh to be stopped and arrested. His missing license plate was removed by those involved and was part of the “plan” to pin the whole affair on him. Notice how quickly McVeigh was tried and executed, “witnesses” being the families who lost loved ones in that “operation”, being paraded through the trial, normally emotional anecdotal “evidence” is not admissible or permitted the be introduced as “evidence” but was allowed and was rampant throughout the McVeigh trial.
    A “death sentence” normally takes approximately 20 years to completion. Not so for McVeigh. Who knows?…if he was a government “asset” he might still be alive.
    There were critical ATF, FBI, DEA and other Justice Department records that needed to disappear in order to keep the “shadow government” from being discovered. In a normal investigation, evidence is preserved for weeks, months, and even years. Not so with OKC, as the debris from the Murrah building was carted off almost immediately under armed guard.
    There were explosives planted within the building. “Utility and maintenance workers” were observed going in and out of the building for weeks, wiring up the building for charges, being observed dealing with “blue barrels” that (presumably) held explosive charges. There is NO WAY a truck bomb could do so much damage as the building across the street was unscathed.
    FBI and ATF agents were also advised to “stay home” that day. It is clear that the destruction of the Murrah building was a government “operation”.
    The OKC “bombing” was implemented for a multitude of reasons, one being the destruction of critical government records as well an attempt to defuse the growing “militia movement” which was gaining strength in “flyover country”.
    The OKC bombing rates right up there with WTC 9-11 as being a successful government “false-flag operation”.

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