I am biased against the Dutch. Euthanasia, the murder of disabled babies, and in this case the vile persecution of someone who has stood up to one of the greatest and most dangerous evils of our time, are enough to convince me that there is a nation who have sold their collective soul to the Devil. And you are defending the worst of them, not the best. If you imagine for one minute that any other country would behave like those villainous and crooked neighbours who went to court for the privilege of being quivering, gutless cowards, for the privilege of knuckling under to violence and terrorism, you have a very strange idea of mankind at large. Maybe we Italians are a bit too used to violence - we have, after all, defeated our own terrorists, reduced the mightiest crime organization in the world to a shadow of what it was, and made heroes rather than outcasts of those who risked their lives and limbs doing so. But what really bewilders me is this: as we write, there is a major parliamentary revolt going on, with Verdonk threatened with a vote of non-convidence and Balknenende shamefully trying to move away from her. There are people in the Dutch parliament, including members of the current majority, who realize what a total disgrace, what a sub-human display of spinelessness, this affair has been. And instead of referring to them and using them to defend your country, you talk as though Verdonk and Balkenende were the ones you have to defend; and miss the opportunity to point out that not all the Dutch are as craven and murderously cowardly as I made them. You think you are defending your country, when you defame it worse than anything I could do.