have knives. Starting when they're small, they learn at their yearly offerings how to cut the throats of warm-blooded livestock. We get sick at the sight of blood, but they don't. They're trained and they're armed. We can't even carry pepperspray in our pockets. They have switchblades and butchers knives and they know how to use them. On 25 April 2006 Beliën wrote a new article, which title differs from the post Geef ons Wapens! ("Give us Weapons!") from his blog, The Brussels Journal with a new title "En Geef Ons Dus Wapens" ("And Thus Give Us Weapons"). Beliën made a lot of effort to remove any sign of the article Geef ons Wapens! ("Give us Weapons!"). A month later, Paul Beliën re-iterated his stand from that article, after the death of Guido Demoor in an Antwerp bus, saying: The Belgian state is no longer able to guarantee the security of its citizens. [...] Belgians do not have a constitutional or legal right to bear arms, not even purely defensive arms such as peppersprays. With the police and the government failing to protect law-abiding citizens the latter are, however, totally unprotected. Saturday's murder has shocked bus drivers and train conductors, but they stress that they are not in the least surprised. Violence on public transport has become a fact of life. After the conservative Washington Times commented that "free speech is under attack in Belgium", the Flemish newspaper Het Nieuwsblad complained about the Time's links to Reverend Moon. The Belgian unitary state Beliën supports the independence of Flanders from Belgium. Beliën believes that the Belgian state has always seen the Flemish "as a threat." He sees both the EU and the Belgian state as a denial of Flemish national sovereignty, and as a danger. On 26 June 2008, in light of the lasting Belgian political crisis, Paul Beliën wrote on his blog that he expects the unitary Belgian state is about come to an end. Homeschooling prosecution In June 2006 a judicial enquiry was conducted regarding the homeschooling of Beliën's children. The Flemish Ministry of Education had asked the judiciary to press charges on child neglect by failing to educate his children adequately. In 2003, the Flemish government adapted the executive order on compulsory education, requiring homeschooling parents to sign an agreement about the education they give their children. The declaration contains the following statement, inspired by the United Nations