The 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?
I bought Pikmin 2 today for my Gamecube (it was dusty as fcuk, meh), and I can tell you this: it rocks! It’s an extremely addictive game, really. Looks quite nice too. The Nintendo guys just know how to make good gameplay; I’m not really a gaming guy (I think gaming is childish), but every now and then, even I want to play cool games. This does not include those senseless kill-everything-in-sight games; they are for friendless pimplefaced nerds. And I mean that.
