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DUTCH MP Geert Wilders is due to screen his controversial anti-Koran movie in the House of Lords next month. Wilders has accepted an invitation from Lord Pearson of Rannoch to screen his film 'Fitna' on March 5.

Back in the 1990s, when I was working on a book with a congressman in Washington, D.C., I was able to walk freely in and out of the building where his offices were, and to tag along with him around the halls of Congress, without anybody ever stopping me, asking me my name, or demanding to see some identification.  A couple of years later, when a friend of mine was working on the staff of a senator in Washington, D.C., I was able to walk right into the Senate office building where he worked, and the situation was the same: nobody stopped me at the entrance, and I made my way up to the senator’s offices and let myself in, simple as that.  Once, when my friend gave me and my partner a tour of some of the more remote, unfrequented areas of the Capitol building, and took us along on the underground train that connected the Capitol with the senatorial and congressional office buildings, nobody anywhere asked for our I.D. or detained us at any point along the way to ask who we were and what we were doing there. 

Back in the 1990s, when I was working on a book with a congressman in Washington, D.C., I was able to walk freely in and out of the building where his offices were, and to tag along with him around the halls of Congress, without anybody ever stopping me, asking me my name, or demanding to see some identification.  A couple of years later, when a friend of mine was working on the staff of a senator in Washington, D.C., I was able to walk right into the Senate office building where he worked, and the situation was the same: nobody stopped me at the entrance, and I made my way up to the senator’s offices and let myself in, simple as that.  Once, when my friend gave me and my partner a tour of some of the more remote, unfrequented areas of the Capitol building, and took us along on the underground train that connected the Capitol with the senatorial and congressional office buildings, nobody anywhere asked for our I.D. or detained us at any point along the way to ask who we were and what we were doing there. 

09.02.10: Back in the 1990s, when Bruce Bawer was working on a book with a congressman in Washington D.C., he could walk freely in and out of the Congress building. No security, no checkpoints. The situation was the same when Bawer visited a senator's offices in Washington D.C.: nobody stopped him or asked him for I.D. Interviewing Geert Wilders in the Parliament in The Hague this weekend was a totally different story, more like a science fiction. The result, in any case, was that Bawer was granted an exclusive video interview with the most hunted politician of high rank in today’s Europe.