Dutch government allows existence of political party promoting paedaphilia

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Summary: Opinion piece

In May 2006 a new political party was formed in the Netherlands: the PNVD (Party for Neighbourly Love, Freedom and Diversity). The founders of this party are paedophiles, and as such they are well known to the police and the authorities. They are members of Martijn, an organisation for pedophiles, which was recently reported to the police by the National Reporting Point for Child Pornography, for grooming children for sex on internet sites.

The PNVD party programme includes the following points:

  • lowering the age of consent for sexual acts between children and adults to 12 years;
  • making participation in child pornography legal from age 16;
  • legalisation of child pornography with quality control;
  • allowing children to smoke, drink and gamble from age 12.

Whatever else the party programme states, the ultimate goal of its founders is to legalise the abuse of children.

The party programme is very deceptive: it lends an air of legality to its activities and by cloaking their agenda in the language of children's 'right to sex', there is a very real danger that they could convince outsiders to vote for them. By giving sex with children an air of normality, the PNVD creates a climate that leads to abuse of children.

The PNVD appeals to the right to freedom of speech. But Article 10 of the European Treaty for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms emphatically states that freedom of speech can be made subject to conditions, limitations or sanctions, in order to protect the rights of others, public health and morals. Freedom of speech and freedom of sexual orientation are rights of a different order. Paedophilia has only to do with abuse of children.

According to several law experts, the Dutch government could ban and dissolve the PNVD, based on Article 20, Book II of Civil Law, defining it as being against the public order.

But the Dutch government refuses to interfere. Mr. Donner, Minister of Justice, states that democracy is more important than protecting children, and that he will only interfere if and when the members of the PNVD commit illegal acts. There is currently no investigation into the party or the founding members.

The Foundation Profit for the World’s Children is a children’s rights organisation in the Netherlands. Its most important project is NO KIDDING, a national campaign against abuse and maltreatment of children. In the interest of all children, Profit for the World’s Children objects to the intended formation of the PNVD and requests that the Dutch government take appropriate measures against this party of paedophiles.

Profit for the World’s Children urges the international community to sign the petition, react and send their statements to the Dutch government and press.

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Country: 
Netherlands
Issues: 
Pornography
Violence: 
Pornography

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