Democracy in Action in Holland

[Ralph]

Dutch pedophiles to launch political party
Tue May 30, 2006 8:56 AM ET

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - 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.

[Corlyss_D]

un-BE-lievable!

[Madame]

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Happy and privileged is the man, who looking upon another, determines to fix upon a single excellency amid a thousand defects.

But sad and misfortunate, the man who looking upon another, determines to fix upon a single defect amidst a thousand excellencies, a defect he might have hit upon by chance.

[mourningstar]

this toleration policy of my country is getting out of hand. Drugs and Prostituion is okay. but to accept a Pedophile Party is insane. Well i hope those people don't have a wide connection. because if 549 people vote for them. they can be elected and chosen. and worse. participate in the Second Chamber.

[Corlyss_D]

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