
Willem Engel
Demonstrations



In de media
Wybren van Haga has lost the wappie voice again
The demonstration doesn't start until 12 noon, but more than an hour earlier it is already bustling on the Dam in Amsterdam. This Sunday, dozens of organizations demonstrate against the corona policy.
Baudet and Van Haga remain friends, says Forum leader: "I gave him a hug yesterday"
The split of three members of the House of Representatives already seemed old news at the first Forum manifestation after the split today. The message from party leader Baudet is:: The fight against the corona policy continues. ,,And we're not going to argue."
Research – The American roots of conspiracy thinking – "That has all been proven"
Conspiracy thinkers like Lange Frans, Willem Engel and Alex Jones are part of an international movement with roots in the Cold War. A world of government-fearing oil barons, right-wing Christians and the American John Birch Society.
Dutch conspiracy groups work together with libertarian American lobby group
"What do we want?"Freedom!' 'When?' 'Not!"A delegation of Virus Truth." (formerly Virus Madness) increase 29 August during a demonstration in Berlin.
Willem Engel, the Pied Piper of Hamelin in Coronaland
A woman with a tea light sweetly sings "You're the Voice". A man in the street shouts out, "Heil Hitler!’. They have more in common than it seems. Both protest against the corona measures.
Analysis: The fight on the right – A double landslide on the radical right: why does Wilders suddenly do it again (a lot) beter and baudet?
Thierry Baudet seemed like Geert Wilder's beginning 2019 as the main interpreter of the radical right-wing sound in Dutch politics. A year and a half and a pandemic later, the roles are completely reversed. How is that possible? "Baudet wants to be adored. It's almost tragic. "
Forum voters give up because of Baudet's conspiracy image
Forum for Democracy is not doing well. The party is losing many voters, and the PVV seems to benefit from this. Voters who run away are not charmed by the conspiracy thinkers with which FvD leader Thierry Baudet is involved. And also his vision on the corona policy, is not well received by them.
A neat publishing house?
Last week, the NCTV warned of the radicalization of the extreme right and virus madmen. Particular attention was drawn to the role of the "ultra-conservative" publisher the Blue Tiger.. What kind of club is the Blue Tiger?
What do the extreme right and virus truth seek together?
Between the privacy activists, Hooligans and conspiracy theorists also turn up people associated with radical right-wing organizations at Virus Truth demonstrations. What make the coronasceptic ideas interesting for the ultra-right, vice versa?
QAnon - Beyond the madness
A far-right conspiracy theory is gaining an increasing and more dangerous following in the US. President Donald Trump and the Republican party play into the hands of the QAnon movement and politicians in the Netherlands also flirt with it. Of course anti-Semitism lies close to the surface.
Grumbling within FvD: "Baudet does not listen to criticism, you end up sidetracked even sooner "
Internal criticism, declining polls: Forum for Democracy is under pressure. For the first time even openly the position of leader Thierry Baudet questioned.