Comments by "Lynott Parris" (@DenUitvreter) on "Leiden: The Dutch Connection to Thanksgiving" video.

Your both full of it. Tolerance has brought us nothing but getting more and more to tolerate. It's being taken advantage of. Mass immigration has always been right wing and still is, it's for big money alone and the Dutch citizens have to make it work at their own expense.
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On a side note, the Act of Departure is a correct translation but it refers to the departure from the legitimate throne of the Netherlands by king Philip II through having become a tyrant. He had done so by trampling on the people's inalienable right to freedom of conscience, of how to believe in god, as well as ancient rights and privileges of dealing with local matters themselves, like religion's place in the public domain. This freedom conscience was already codified in the Union of Utrecht of 1579, where the 7 Northern Netherlands rallied around to form a union against Spain and turn the rebellion into a war. This became the de facto constitution of the Dutch Republic so there was a hard limit to interference with one's personal religion practiced in the private sphere which allowed even the catholics to congegrate. Anyway, by declaring the king had left the throne himself by his own actions, it was not a frontal attack on the legitimacy of kings and the divine right of kings, it was merely made conditional. Over a 100 years later, the king having left the throne himself and this time physically, was also used by the Dutch to get around the legitimacy issue, this time with William III of Orange.
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