A right wing activist and former member of parliament has been sentenced to prison in Belgium for posting racist memes to a group chat.

The right winger's name is Dries Van Lagenhoven. He will serve a year in prison in addition to being

deprived of certain civil rights for a decade during which time he cannot hold or even run

for public office. He also has to pay a 16,000 euro fine and he received

an additional 10-month suspended prison sentence. Van Lagnon-Hove, I'm sure I'm pronouncing his name incorrectly, is not just some random right-winger.

He is a former MP and a member of the Vlam's Balang Party, which according to Politicos,

Poll of Poles is the quote biggest political force in Belgium

going to prison for some spicy memes sent to a private group chat. Lots of complacent

conservatives in America will make excuses for this kind of thing. Some will say,

well that one he really is a racist Nazi. Okay.

Some will say well you know his party really is far right biggest political force in Belgium

but sure oh it's really far far right. Some will say look it's oh it's really far far right.

Some will say look it's Belgium

that sort of thing could never happen here.

Except it already is happening. The Biden administration is currently right now

imprisoning a random right-winger, not a former member of parliament, not a leader

of a party, a random right-winger for posting memes on social media. Douglas Mackie is serving a seven-month prison sentence after having been threatened with 10 years in jail for posting memes, not even

far-right racist memes, just like memes, just kind of funny memes.

The Democrats already call the Republican Party far-right and they call the Republican Party,

far right, and they call the leader of the Republican Party

a racist and a Nazi.

I wish I could say, today it's happening in Belgium,

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