Political pedophilia
Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Republican-American

Negative comparisons between America and Europe get old very fast, especially those urging Americans to adopt Europe's mores. One wonders, then, how America's critics on this side of the Pond will react to the news that the Netherlands is moving toward normalizing pedophilia.

The Dutch answer to the North American Man-Boy Love Association, the PNVD, a political party whose Dutch acronym translates into "brotherly love, freedom and diversity," is lobbying to change Dutch law to lower the age of consent from 16 to 12 as a precursor for eliminating the law entirely. Children of all ages, the party said, should be able to "make their own decisions" regarding sex, in keeping with the party's civil-libertarian view that "people should have as much freedom as possible as long as they don't harm others." the rest