Hello Dixit! I am a Belgian born, naturalized American. I lived in the US on and off (mostly on) for 44 years, and recently returned to live in Belgium Welcome!
do you speak Dutch, French or German. I have been to your fair city, Brussels, (home of NATO) and noticed bi-lingual signs in Dutch and French...
Hi everyone! I speak French and English of course... and Czech! My father is American, my mother is Czech but I lived in Belgium most of my life... By the way, I renounced my US citizenship last year, the IRS is worse than the KGB under the USSR...
I have a degree in political science, not employed in the profession though. Coming to Belgium in July, I can't wait! Driving through from Croatia to Amsterdam, only planning to stop at Bruges in Belgium unfortunately. I had hoped to protest the EU in Brussels. Welcome to the board!
As it is in Belgium! - - - Updated - - - If you can only see one city in Belgium, Bruges is a very good choice!
AS it is NOT! http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...1/belgium-bans-a-wide-range-of-sexist-speech/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Welcome! My son studied abroad in Italy this past semester, visited your country one weekend and said he loved it there.
If I spoke my mind on the subjects they have outlawed discussing, then I'd be jailed. I've actually been to Belgium. Passing through on my way to Holland, I stepped off the train for a few seconds just to put a check on my to do list. I'll let the Muslims deal with the Liberals in Belgium once they take over, my imput isn't needed.
Indeed it is.americans have been programmed and conditioned to believe they live in a free country when it is actually one of the very most supressed countries in the world.
Hahaha, a political discussion even in a "welcome and presentation" thread! I love this forum! Anyways, no, Belgium is not freer than many other "liberal democraties" around the world... The only difference in my mind, is that in some countries, people are more or less aware of how much their freedom is an illusion or not. In the US, many people actually "believe" they are free whereas I find that in Europe, especially in some countries like France, people are well aware of the BS of "freedom" and the limits that the state arbitrarily puts on freedom.
Oh! I must apologize! Obviously, "stepping off the train for a few seconds" in Belgium makes you a scholar on the subject! Well, I was born and raised here, lived most of my life in America (and France and England), and came back to Belgium to retire. . . Obviously, this explains why I am so ignorant on the subject of "freedom" in Belgium! So funny!
I do think think you're funny, not funny like a clown, but you know, "funny." Anyway, the facts speak for themselves. America does not have the anti-free speech hate laws that Belgium does, as I proved by my links. If you have any evidence to rebuke this, then let's see it.
Maybe, if you had gone a little further than these sources, to trying to understand the basis of this law, you might have a point. However, you missed some very important point: this law is based in the case of DEFAMATION and SLANDER:
