Belgium, a tiny, peaceful, quiet Western European country with one of the smallest armies in the world. Buggenhout, a teeny tiny rural village in Flanders - one of Belgium's three communities. You'd think the main concern of people living in a village like Buggenhout is some chicken thief.

Wrong!! Buggenhout is home to more than just farmers and chickens. It's also home to the leader of 'Blood, Country, Honour and Loyalty', who was recently detained, along with some 18 members of his nazi terrorist group. And the worst part is that most of these **** are military men and women. Apparently, they were preparing to commit terrorist attacks in order to destabilize Belgian society. Their ultimate goal: a new nazi government who would restore order. Fortunately, this particular 'Blood and Honour' terrorist cell has been dismantled by Belgian law enforcement agencies, who were monitoring the group's activities since 2004.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: nazis are just not that bright. If you want to disrupt society, don't put it on your freakin' web site!! Don't distribute pamphlets saying you'll bomb the hell out of Jews and immigrants. But hey, I'm not complaining. As far as I'm concerned, Vlaams Belang/Blok can put their ideals - their REAL goals - on their web site too, so we can put those **** where they belong (here's a thought: send all nazis to the Middle East - "who's the immigrant now, eh?").

Nevertheless, this whole incident reminds me of the "Bende van Nijvel" - Nijvel Gang - who committed some of the most violent hold-ups in Belgian history. The gang members would 'rob' supermarkets and kill as many people as they could, striking fear into the hearts of Belgian citizens across the country. It's presumed that they, too, were a neo-nazi death squad intended to undermine law and order.

However, the difference between these two cases is that the first group was part of an international conspiracy to establish a "Fourth Reich", while the second group was operating independently (or so we're told). Another difference is that this second group consisted of military personnel, men and women who were sworn to protect this country, NOT attack its citizens in cowardly attempts to establish a fascist state. Let's hope that they'll be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and get the treatment they deserve.

"A lot of them are in civilian areas, on farmland and in people's homes. We're finding a lot at the entrances to houses, on balconies and roofs," Farran said. "Sometimes windows are broken, and they get inside the houses."

So who are the victims of this fine American product that was so graciously delivered to the Lebanese people by Israeli bombers? No, not the Lebanese army and certainly not Hezbollah, but ordinary citizens, people like you and me, children, elderly people, families trying to find their belongings amid the rubble that was once their home.

But hey, the American government is not to blame, because they had a secret agreement with the Israelis, stating that these bombs would only be used against soldiers. Israel didn't just break the Geneva Convention , but also US rules on the use of cluster bombs, so the US State Department will immediately "launch an investigation". However, economic or other sanctions will not imposed on Israel, whatever the outcome of this investigation may be.

Remember when Bush asked himself, after the 9/11 attacks, "why do they hate us?" Well, this is why.

Municipal elections in Belgium, set for October, will be another test for the country's fragile democracy.

Sounds like something you would read in an article on the Democratic Republic of Congo, doesn't it?Unfortunately, democracy in some Western European countries is in danger of being replaced by fascist regimes whose aim is to rid society of people who are 'different', i.e. non-white, non-European immigrants or refugees. Just look at some of the Vlaams Blok/Belang election posters and you'll know what I'm saying.

However, what bothers me most is that people in Western Europe have forgotten their history and I'm not talking about the crusades or the battle of Waterloo. No, I'm talking about what happened here only 60 years ago!!!

Now, I know some people will argue that 60 years is "like ancient history, dude. Contemporize, man". And I'm fully aware of the fact that I have been going on and on about this particular subject, but I strongly believe that we have a responsibility, not only to remembrance of the victims of the Third Reich, but to our fellow citizens, our neighbours. The responsibility to protect them against these nazi wannabees, against persecution, against genocide. And do not tell me that this will never happen again, no matter what. That Europeans are far too sensible. It happened before, it can happen again!!!

The danger lies in the fact that these far-right rejects pose as decent, hard-working people, pilars of the community. And their message doesn't sound too bad either: crime is on the rise, unemployment numbers are soaring, and so on. And guess who's to blame? That's right: foreigners, communists and those freaking tree huggers. So we have to protect our society, our children against these misfits, and put them on a plane to wherever the hell they came from.

But as you know, reality is much more complex than that, and you cannot simply blame everything that's gone wrong on one particular group of people. We all know how that goes... .