WHOA – Austrian MP Lets Turk Ambassador Have It
We’ve done Daniel Hannan speeches here, and we’ve done a Nigel Farange speech as well. Those were in the EU parliament. Folks seemed to get a kick out of those.
Well, if you liked watching those two Brits let the Euroweenies have it, you’re going to really get a kick out of this guy. His name’s Ewald Stadler, and he’s a member of the Austrian parliament. He’s responding to a fracas started by the Turkish ambassador to his country, Ecvet Tezcan, who stepped on his crank by saying in an interview that Turks are treated like a virus in Austria and that the Austrian government was meddling in the process to integrate Turks into their society.
That, of course, wasn’t going to meet with total approval in a country – and a city, for that matter – where they’re still pretty familiar with a previous generation of Turks who showed up at the city gates and acted in an unpleasant fashion. Stadler let ‘em have it, and his speech is a classic rant for the ages.
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This rant was a few months back and really is what the general populace is thinking. My son was there from ’99 through ’01 as a university exchange student (later I found that he was bartending 1-1/2 of those years). There was already a lot brewing against the “Turks” (all moslems) and the European Union. It has been somewhat like the Tea Party over there but without the open public outcry for over a decade. It has just taken a decade for it to translate into growing “conservative” elected officials.
this speech has been on the net for a few weeks, but its still a good one, the gentleman ripped the turks a good one, and yes, the austrians are familiar with the turks from the old ottoman empire, they laid seige o vienna back in the middle 1500s.
“gunner”
Wish we had someone in government with his lack of “political correctness”.