This article deals with the role of government in encouraging the decline of radical movements using the cases of Moluccan and Islamic Radicals in the Netherlands. Making use of the survey of factors promoting decline and disengagement drawn up by Demant, Slootman, Buijs and Tillie in 2008, as well as the factor “official policy strategies” based on concepts taken from discourse analysis, adapted to counterterrorism and deradicalization strategies by De Graaf in 2009, the question posed is: “Which story can the government tell to encourage the decline of radical groups and the disengagement of their members?”