Comments on: Dutch Pedophiles Launch Political Party

By: dutchmarbel

dutchmarbel — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:36:10 +0000

KatHy of course, sorry

By: dutchmarbel

dutchmarbel — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:51:51 +0000

Katy: In their case promoting heated toilet seats for the elderly might make me suspicious too :)

By: Kathy K

Kathy K — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:33:53 +0000

I think dutchmarbel has a point. Seems the Dutch just got themselves a Monster Raving Loony Party...

By: dutchmarbel

dutchmarbel — Wed, 31 May 2006 20:32:25 +0000

I looked at their party-program and have decided that they can't be serious. In actual fact I hope it is just a satire, a playfull way to start a discussion about freedom of speech. The program is sooo full of holes and contradictions. With jewels like the prohibition of top-sport sponsoring because it causes too much nationalism - or the national obligation to become vegetarian...

They might also be real morons of course, but I doubt they will have a very long political career.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Wed, 31 May 2006 19:48:48 +0000

Interesting argument, but I call baloney.

You aren't the only one think baloney in regards to the Fersboo-Ragshaft theorem of moral behavior. The mechanism, apparently, is the same one that if you allow gay marriage straight people will be more likely to suddenly turn gay. Or something...hard to tell with this kind of stuff. All they seem to know is that its icky, in their view, hence bad.

By: Gollum

Gollum — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:35:34 +0000

So if I get the Ragshaft-Fersboo coalition correctly, making it "morally OK" for me to put my lips wherever my wife wants me to put them somehow diminishes the immorality of the same act between a 35 year-old man and a 12 year old girl?

Interesting argument, but I call baloney.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:04:49 +0000

Justice Ginsberg once argued for lowering the age of consent to 12 (http://volokh.com/posts/1104181917.shtml ). So if you consider such a political party as being beyond civilized boundaries, what would that say about a party that produced a president that would nominate such a person to our nation's highest court? Seems to me they are just advocating what a "mainstream" justice from the left advocated.

By: Conservative Culture » Pedophile Political Party - Children 12 yrs old invited

Wed, 31 May 2006 15:09:54 +0000

[...] And on Sunday, another alleged pedophile saved the folks of Massachusetts some money by avoiding a messy trial. William A. Brandt, a math teacher at Parker Middle School in Taunton, Massachusetts, was accused of having an affair (if one can dignify the ongoing statutory rape as such) with a 14-year-old female student. Brandt, the day after being suspended, was found hanging from a bridge by two high school students. WikiNews: Political scientist Joop van Holsteyn thinks the establishment of the NVD to decriminalise acts most people find abhorrent is a Trojan horse to insert the subject into an otherwise unwilling political debate. “What is ethically sound is not laid down in the law: it is an element of the political struggle. If it gains publicity, they already have attained their goal, but they will find more opponents than proponents.” Outside the Beltway: Dutch citizens tired of the threat to their civil liberties posed by bans on pedophilia and bestiality are organizing their own political party… [...]

By: Fersboo

Fersboo — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:50:29 +0000

Brian wrote:

Mr. Ragshaft: Somehow I fail to see the connection between legalization of sex between two consenting adults and legalization of child molestation.

Your failure to see the connection is one of the contributing factors in the cultural decline we live in. We either don't care about morality (if it feels good) or we fail to think of the consequences of our actions (I fail to see).

By: The Florida Masochist

The Florida Masochist — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:08:39 +0000

The Knucklehead of the Day award...

Today's winners is The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party of the Netherlands....

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 31 May 2006 03:45:54 +0000

Y'all are so funny! Are you in on some joke or something???

It's not gonna happen! These guys are wacko!

Typical libs. Wanna solve every problem in the world-real or unreal.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 31 May 2006 03:34:02 +0000

Mr. Ragshaft: Somehow I fail to see the connection between legalization of sex between two consenting adults and legalization of child molestation.

By: arky

arky — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:36:24 +0000

But there's this as well...

"The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public and promotes legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all."

If they're for free train travel, maybe they'll catch on. Non?

By: Zelsdorf Ragshaft III

Zelsdorf Ragshaft III — Wed, 31 May 2006 02:16:20 +0000

Remember when sodomy was illegal and taboo? Once you open the gate there is no telling what will walk through. Once a society loses its sense of morals, who is to say what will become common place.

By: Cricket

Cricket — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:24:59 +0000

Well, if you talk about it enough, you can rationalize anything. So, get it on the table and vocalize your opposition to their need to irreparably harm children. What is sick about this is they want to prey on youngsters with the blessing of the state.