I don't mean to offend, but both of your analogies are not called for. The Netherlands has its problems, like the rest of Europe (and Kalifornia, for that matter), but it's a long way from being a totalitarian nightmare like North Korea.
I saw on your home page that you're in Frankfurt -- I have noticed that the Dutch are still a bit cool toward their neighbors to the east, so your point of view might be a bit biased, if you're basing it on having visited on holiday.
Oh, and would you mind returning the bicycles?
Thanks
Granted, I exagerated on purpose, I just know down the line what democracy can do. After all the Taleban had been democraticaly chosen by the people of Kandahar (and so did the Germans with Hitler).
WHat I am afraid of, though, it is that Dutch groups had a fatwah on the Pope.