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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Several self-avowed pedophiles founded a political party in the Netherlands Wednesday, but it was unclear whether the party has more than a handful of members.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity party said its central campaign platform will be lowering the age of consent in the Netherlands from 16 to 12.
“Forbidding children from sex only makes them more curious,” party president Martijn Uittenbogaard told The Associated Press.
Uittenbogaard said his new party had supporters from “all corners of the country” but acknowledged Wednesday’s launch had been marked by poor attendance. Reports said the launch in the city of Leiden was only attended by people from the media.
Uittenbogaard declined to give membership figures. The party still has to register with the government to be recognized as a political party.
He acknowledged his ideas are loathed by most Dutch people.
“A lot of people are against us and that’s not strange but that doesn’t worry us very much because we know we also have a lot of support,” he said.
‘We’re dead serious’
Pollster Maurice de Hond dismissed the Netherlands’ newest political arrival. “No one will vote for this party. Maybe they will get a thousand voters but not the 60,000 needed to get a parliamentary seat,” he said.
Uittenbogaard said he had been a pedophile activist for many years.
Party secretary Norbert de Jonge told local media that he had been a target of hate e-mails and phone calls since Tuesday.
“They think its a joke,” he said, “but we’re dead serious.”
The party will also follow an anti-immigration policy and oppose religious elementary schools.
It endorses broadcasting pornographic material on daytime television, and allowing children as young as 12 to feature in porn films.
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I wrote a piece a few days ago about my feelings on the legalization of the illegal substance marijuana. I read over all the comments and I must admit I was swayed by the “pot heads” arguments.
I did more in depth research online and offline. I found a website that had something to do with what apparently is a magazine of some sort called “High Times”. I read many articles and dedicated much of my time to learn everything I could about the culture of pot users. For instance, did you know that George Washington, our first and greatest President, used to grow marijuana? Well he did, and so did many other famous men and women I admire. Remember Woody from Cheers? He also supports the legalization of marijuana. And he is one of my favorite characters from Cheers. I liked Norm a lot too.
But back to the point I was making. It turns out a lot of people support this culture that we have been keeping suppressed in America. I always had this stereotypical view when thinking of a typical pot user. You know, a fat, lazy, Mountain Dew drinking, South Park watching, one bedroom apartment living, unemployed guy who will never go anywhere. And that is when it hit me, my stereotypical views of people who smoke weed were just a projection of what I have become. So after all the research I did, I decided to go out and try to get stoned myself.
Well I must say, it is not something I thought I would ever be doing. But there I was, in downtown Saint Louis at a country and western bar, trying to “score” some “grass”. It turns out that a lot of different types of people smoke marijuana. I was expecting all these cowboy guys to direct me to some black man wearing a purple fur coat with white leopard print trim. Turns out the guy that had a bunch of weed to sell was a white guy in a purple fur coat with white leopard print trim. I ended up getting a half ounce of some very sticky buds that looked like some of the pictures I had seen on marijuana grower’s websites. After handing over the 120 dollars I went into the bathroom and brought out the tiny pipe I purchased at a gas station.
After firing it up, I was relieved that it did not have the nasty taste of a cigarette I was anticipating. Instead it was a delicious scent that brought me back to fresh cut lawns and chocolate bars. It was very stimulating to my sense of smell. After what I can guess as only several minutes, I found myself giggling at the thought of what I was doing. Smoking marijuana in a country and western bar’s bathroom, I could not believe it.
Suddenly there was a banging on the door and I jumped. There was more banging and then the rough voice from behind the door asked me what I was doing in there. I do not know what came over me, but I said aloud, “Smoking some dope in the bathroom of a country and western bar!”. I then began to giggle again. The voice then asked, “You gonna share?” I unlocked the door, and to my surprise it was a 6 foot 3 burly man, with rugged good looks, wearing wrangler jeans and a cowboy hat. I started to get the weed out and we sat there on the floor of the restroom, getting high. His name was Cletus. When I asked him what he was doing here, he lightly touched my hand as I passed the pipe and said, “I am always looking for a good time.” He winked and took a big hit off of the weed.
It must have been just about 3 in the morning, because a man came in and told me that the “Cowboy poke” was closing (name of the country and western bar). Cletus invited me over to his house to stay the night. Considering I had never smoked marijuana before and was in no condition to drive all the way back home, I accepted his offer.
In my original article I said that the one side effect I liked about pot was possible jail time. Well it turns out there was another side effect that I did not anticipate. The love of a Cowboy named Cletus.
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