Dream’s a lie
October 16, 2005The fact that FoxNews is an abomination for everything that is journalism, is no news to many of you.
However, lately they’re on a Netherlands-bashing tour. One of the more worrying occurences was by this Pravda, err, FoxNews editor Cal Thomas, who said the following in one of his columns:
Holland is a perfect example of what happens when there is no governing moral standard. The Dutch have decriminalized most drugs and people smoke dope openly in venues set aside for the practice. Prostitutes display their wares like mannequins in department store windows. And now we have at least one hospital murdering already born babies because someone has decreed them unworthy of life.
First of all, my country isn’t named “Holland”. Holland does not exist. My country’s name is The Netherlands.
Second, we did not decriminalize anything. All forms of drugs in my country are still illegal. The thing we did is this: we made a divide between softdrugs (marijuhana, hasj) and harddrugs (everything else). Softdrugs are not legal in this country. We only “allow” people to use this form of drugs in minute quantities. “Allow” isn’t the right word– in Dutch it’s called “gedogen”, and it means something else than “to allow”. It means something like, “the police will look the other way if you do it without causing harm to anything else”. Basically what American policemen do when black people are beaten up.
As you can see, “most drugs” is a gross overstatement. It simply isn’t true. This guy is simply lying.
And no, we don’t “smoke dope” openly whenever we want. Drug abuse and drug related crimes are among the lowest in the world in my country. Quite the contrary to the United States, where these figures are among the highest of the “developed” world (it’s kind of hard to consider the US as a developed nation. They’re not even a real country anyway).
So, which system works the best? Ours or yours, Cal?
Yes, we legalized prostitution. This is a good thing. This gives the state the possibility to control and inspect this world, creating higher standards for prosititues, legal protection, the whole nine yards. I see the legalization of prostitution as a sign of civilization. It shows that my government actually cares about everyone, whether they fcuk men like Cal for money, or exhange stocks.
And prostitution is still heavily regulated, and only allowed within designated streets. Go just as much as one centimetre out of that area, and it’s again strictly illegal.
Cal Thomas rambles on:
The Dutch are now grappling with their open border policy. They have admitted thousands of radical Islamists who have not assimilated and are threatening the stability of the nation.
Right. I guess 9/11 happened magically?
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And the last few weeks, we have another Pravda editor joining in. John Gibson writes about Joran v/d Sloot, a guy who was held in custody due to the Nathalee Holloway case. He was released since there was no evidence to hold him any longer. Seems like a normal way of doing things.
Not according to John.
Without listing any reasons, without him seeing any police reports or whatsoever, he says that Joran should have never been released, and that in the US’ system, Joran would still be in custody. Then he makes a weird move:
But he’s in the system of the Netherlands and in the Netherlands, they let Victor marry Bianca and Mirjam and Bianca marry Victor and Mirjam and Mirjam marry Bianca and Victor.
This guy is a plain liar. These three people did not marry eachother. They did something else. They created a legal document called a “living together contract”. An LTC is not a marriage. In an LTC, lovers can, by law, set out whatever should happen to ie. possessions after a break-up, they can set out whatever happens with any possible children, you know. But it is not marriage.
Yet, John simply ignores that fact and says it’s the same as a marriage. Again, a Pravda editor lying his ass off.
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I could continue on for ages about how my country is a better place to live than the US, but pictures say much, much more.
Where are al the white people?
In a developed country, the government would have fallen over this. In the wonderful US, they find a scapegoat.
Where are these people’s lawyers? Why are they held there without any regard for the Geneva conventions? Why don’t they get a trial?
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The US is a country based on something as empty and elusive as a dream. The American Dream. The Boss said it best. Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true?
OMG, you couldn’t be more right!
About Natalee Holloway, you should read this;
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/3/491/18474
and when you’re done, check out the comments. (I laughed my ass off)
The US seems to have lost all sense of proportion. They’ve gone crazy and desperately want to make its citizens believe it’s not their fault; it’s the rest of the world’s!
Yeah right, and my grandma had a fling with Santa… *rolls her eyes*
Comment by LoeZ — October 16, 2005 @ 8:03 pm
You’re right! We’re a giant hippie commune! (But seriously: what are you talking about?)
There are also people who think making prostitution illegal shows the government cares for the well-being of everyone, because they consider prostitution to be harmful. Opposite view, opposite logic. It’s the reason different countries exist: some people here don’t think like you.
In May you wrote: “You cannot unifiy all the various cultures in Europe.” Coincidentally, you also cannot unify all the various cultures in the world. Our cultures are not alike. You keep your prostitution laws and we’ll keep ours as long as we see fit.
As an aside, I in fact do not support many of the things that go on in this country, and many of the things that our citizens do when they’re outside this country. Just in case you were wondering whether I enjoy beating prisoners in my spare time, and ignoring black people who need saving during natural disasters. In fact, some might even call me a nice guy. Go figure!
Our nation is 230 times the size of yours by area and has 18 times the population. For every idiot you have, we’ve got eighteen. I think a lot of our relative problems stem from that fact alone.
What is the difference?
And on a lighter note…
From Wikipedia:
Ah, I guess you’re one of those people. ;)
Comment by Tom — October 16, 2005 @ 8:34 pm
Well, always be on the look out for generalization.
I’ve been to the US (Austin, TX), and I can tell you, the people there are so friendly. I really like how openminded (yes!) they were, and how they respected other people’s views, even though they didn’t fit into their own paradigms. Astonoshing.
Always remember that whenever I’m talking about the US, I’m referring to its government and its governmental system. Not the people. They’re Europeans anyway.
Comment by Administrator — October 17, 2005 @ 2:57 pm
What is the difference?
In marriage, you agree to a set of terms that are universally the same almost evrywhere in the world. Taking care of kids, your husband/wife, provide for them, in sickness and in health, etc. Other than that, a marriage can consist of two parts: legal marriage, and marriage of faith.
An LTC is basically an empty sheet of paper. And then you and your girl/boyfriend set a few basic rules and ifs to facilitate the process of living together– so that when you ie. break up, or whatever, all financial stuff is taken care of by whatever you agreed upon in the LTC.
A lot different from marriage.
Ah, I guess you’re one of those people. ;)
Actually, no. I’m from Noord-Holland.
But seriously: what are you talking about?
It was a personal joke, for myself, basically. You guys have no history, a fcuked up governmental system (according to me), and no official language, and you bought a lot of parts of your land. Nope, the US doesn’t look like a real country to me :).
Comment by Administrator — October 19, 2005 @ 9:23 pm
My home is the U.S
But I do agree with a lot of you. The United States is not even worth calling a state.
and personally, Bush makes this state look like shit.
I honestly hate it here now just because of him.
Comment by Julia — September 10, 2007 @ 3:28 pm