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Saturday, October 11, 2008

Austrian Far Right Leader, Jorg Haider, Dies in Car Crash


Haider is on the left, you should know the nut job on the right

Jorg Haider, the controversial Austrian far-right political leader who was leader of party while they were in the 2000-2006 coalition, died in a car crash near his home twon. The Austrian president has called his death a 'human tragedy.'

His time is government and the rise of the right in various European countries is the real human tragedy though. With their anti-immigrant platforms, politicians like Haiger breed contempt towards those with a different shade of colour in their skin.

They may have beautiful ski pistes, but it's intolerable that Austria allowed a man to get and stay in power for so long despite his citing the 'proper labour policies' of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany in a criticism of the Austrian government's record.

In addition to this he once commented on Nazi concentration camps in a parliamentary debate as 'penal camps'.

Let's hope the Freedom Party that he once led takes a crash in the polls soon.

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