Posted on 05/30/2006 9:58:06 AM PDT by floridaobserver
Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the legalization of child pornography and sex with animals.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its Web site it would be officially registered Wednesday, proclaiming: "We are going to shake The Hague awake!"
The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.
"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.
"We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said, adding that the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium. "We have been hushed up. The only way is through parliament."
The Netherlands already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage, but the NVD is unlikely to win much support, the AD quoted experts as saying.
"They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest," anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the daily.
The party said private possession of child pornography should be allowed although it favors banning the trade of such materials. The broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening, according to the party.
Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said.
The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public.
The party's program also includes ideas for other areas of public policy including legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.
How's this for a knee-jerk libertarian response:
A libertarian was asked about sexual relations, and said that anything between or among consenting adults should be legal.
What about children?
Well, there is a question as to whether a parent or other guardian can give consent on behalf of the child for such a thing. In the state of Mississippi, it used to be legal for children as young as 14 to marry with the consent of their parents. Perhaps it still is.
What about animals?
Again there is a questions to what ownership of animals involves. Can you be cruel to animals?
What about this line of reasoning ...
A Republican, a Democrat and a Libertarian were deer hunting, when a deer came into their kill zone. A flush of embarrassment came over them, and each of them felt he had to justify why they could kill the animal.
Well, said the Republican, I have a gun. That gives me the right.
I take that as a vote in favor of us killing the deer, said the Democrat, to which I will add my vote, which makes a majority of the three of us, and that gives us the right.
The two of them then looked to the Libertarian. The deer, he said, walked into our kill zone of its own free will, thus giving us its implicit consent.
And then there's this line of reasoning ...
Why is chicken kosher for Libertarians, but not horses?
Chickens say, "cheap, cheap," while horses say "nay."
LOLOLOL
Which is a worse fate than being sodomized. Makes sense if you're possessed.
Well at least, they're compromising some.
free train travel for all.
Yup. In Massachusetts today it would barely fail in a referendum. Opposition runs about 48% to 46% in favor. 15 years ago it was unheard of.
Haha.. thanks
Ruth Bader Ginsburg did argue for the lowering of the consent law...someone can find the details...
It's well known on the left that if anything can be talked about on a national level, moral barriers come down.
It's why there's no talk of second amendment rights here or anywhere, anymore. And it's why there's much talk of homosexual rights. Here there and everywhere.
The more pedophilia is discussed, rather than shunned or condemned, the more it will become a part of the culture -- and the equivalent of a "he said - she said" twisted equivalence.
We live in sick times.
It's time to start discussing the death penalty for pedophiles.
Sodom, Gomorrah, Amsterdam?
Debate for a mandatory death penalty for pedophiles has started. Which side are you on?
"homosexual rights" "abortion rights"
If the South had merely asked for "slavery rights" they might have won over the northern newspapers of the day.
It's all in the semantics.
A list of NO FLY people that should be banned from the US
Yep, this is where moral relativism leads. Who am I to judge - or to say what's right or wrong?
I'm dying to see their campaign posters!
Sheesh! This is sick!
Good point.
Guarantee that at least 90% of these sickos in the US vote Democrat. Anything goes with the Democrats - sodomy, diddling little kids, whatever.
It's only sex!
You obviously totally misrepresented my remarks.
Posts like these always invite the knee-jerk arguments that Libertarians support child-porn and free drugs.
I was, in fact, defending Libertarians, not criticizing them.
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