Another Sign

Of the impending implosion of Europe. Dutch pedophiles are forming their very own political party. They want the age of consent, currently at 16 years, lowered to 12. They also want child porn legalized as well as approval for 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 the subject had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium.

"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals," Van den Berg told Reuters.

The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, was shocked by the plan.

An opinion poll published Tuesday showed that 82 percent wanted the government to do something to stop the new party, while 67 percent said promoting pedophilia should be illegal.

To the credit of most Dutch people, they are not happy about this and want it blocked. That pedophiles feel safe enough to start political parties doesn't speak well for the state of things in the Netherlands in general, though, I think.

UPDATE: Others taking a dim view of this: Moonbattery (do NOT miss the picture!), Liberty and Justice and Riehl World View.

UPDATE: And the champions of truth, justice and the American way (cough) at the ACLU just lost a biggie. The Supreme Court has decided that convicted pedophiles do not have the right to visits from children while in prison. Perhaps the ACLU would be more comfortable in the Netherlands.

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