It has now been deemed undemocratic to protect your children. For all those complacent in this world, go ahead allow your children to continue to be victimized but now under demoncratic authority.
Dutch court rejects ban of pedophile party
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World
Monday, July 17, 2006
Dutch court rejects ban of pedophile party
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court said on Monday a
political party formed by pedophiles could not be banned as it
had the same right to exist as any other party and was
protected by democratic freedoms.
The Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party (PNVD) was
launched in May and campaigns for a cut in the age of consent
from 16 to 12 and the legalisation of child pornography and sex
with animals, provoking widespread outrage in the Netherlands.
The Solace group that campaigns against pedophiles sought a
ban as it said the party infringed the rights of children and
its ideas were a threat to social norms and values in a
democratic state. But a court in The Hague rejected the bid.
"The freedom of expression, the freedom of assembly and the
freedom of association ... should be seen as the foundations of
the democratic rule of law and the PNVD is also entitled to
these freedoms," the court said in a statement.
The court said these freedoms were not unlimited, but
limits to them could only apply to activities that undermined
public order and judges could not take lightly a decision to
ban a political party.
"It is up to the voter to give a judgment on the arguments
of political parties," Judge H. Hofhuis told the court. It is
not Dutch practice to publish the first names of judges.
No Kidding, a group campaigning for children's rights, said
the right to freedom of expression was not absolute and called
on the Dutch government to act against the PNVD.
"Dutch citizens must make their voices heard if we do not
want to sacrifice our children to pedophile interests," it said
in a statement, adding it planned to petition parliament.
The PNVD says it wants to lift the taboo on pedophilia
which it said had intensified since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child
abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium.
"We expected to win. We are not doing anything criminal so
why should you ban the PNVD?" the party's chairman, Marthijn
Uittenbogaard, was quoted as saying by Dutch news agency ANP.
The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft
drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, has been shocked by the
new party. An opinion poll showed that 82 percent want the
government to do something to stop the party.
The party wants to allow possession of child pornography
and supports broadcasting pornography on daytime television,
with only violent pornography limited to the late evening. It
also wants youths aged 16 and up to be allowed to appear in
pornographic films and prostitute themselves.
Dutch court rejects ban of pedophile party
Incase the article goes missing off the internet, here it is:
World
Monday, July 17, 2006
Dutch court rejects ban of pedophile party
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch court said on Monday a
political party formed by pedophiles could not be banned as it
had the same right to exist as any other party and was
protected by democratic freedoms.
The Brotherly Love, Freedom and Diversity party (PNVD) was
launched in May and campaigns for a cut in the age of consent
from 16 to 12 and the legalisation of child pornography and sex
with animals, provoking widespread outrage in the Netherlands.
The Solace group that campaigns against pedophiles sought a
ban as it said the party infringed the rights of children and
its ideas were a threat to social norms and values in a
democratic state. But a court in The Hague rejected the bid.
"The freedom of expression, the freedom of assembly and the
freedom of association ... should be seen as the foundations of
the democratic rule of law and the PNVD is also entitled to
these freedoms," the court said in a statement.
The court said these freedoms were not unlimited, but
limits to them could only apply to activities that undermined
public order and judges could not take lightly a decision to
ban a political party.
"It is up to the voter to give a judgment on the arguments
of political parties," Judge H. Hofhuis told the court. It is
not Dutch practice to publish the first names of judges.
No Kidding, a group campaigning for children's rights, said
the right to freedom of expression was not absolute and called
on the Dutch government to act against the PNVD.
"Dutch citizens must make their voices heard if we do not
want to sacrifice our children to pedophile interests," it said
in a statement, adding it planned to petition parliament.
The PNVD says it wants to lift the taboo on pedophilia
which it said had intensified since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child
abuse scandal in neighboring Belgium.
"We expected to win. We are not doing anything criminal so
why should you ban the PNVD?" the party's chairman, Marthijn
Uittenbogaard, was quoted as saying by Dutch news agency ANP.
The Netherlands, which already has liberal policies on soft
drugs, prostitution and gay marriage, has been shocked by the
new party. An opinion poll showed that 82 percent want the
government to do something to stop the party.
The party wants to allow possession of child pornography
and supports broadcasting pornography on daytime television,
with only violent pornography limited to the late evening. It
also wants youths aged 16 and up to be allowed to appear in
pornographic films and prostitute themselves.