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The facts of this news story are:
3 people formed a political party in Holland. The stated goal of the recently formed party (3 people) is to lower the age of consent from 16 to 12.
The court ruled that these 3 people have the democratic right to form the party. The court did NOT make any ruling or express any opinion regarding the party's stated goal.
The news story is actually about freedom to organize a party, it's not about underage pornography. The media is of course having a field day twisting and spinning the story. (The net effect of reducing the age of consent to twelve is that it would then be possible for a 12 year to star in a porn film, but again -- the legal issue here was whether or not three people have the right to form a political party.)
So now there's a global debate caused by three people in Holland who are admitted pedophiles.
Sometimes I think the world just needs a giant Prozac.
OK, for the record I'm not in favor of reducing the age of consent; I'm not in favor of child porn. But I'm not going to get too excited over three people who are stupid enough to form a party and - effectively - announce to the world that they are pedophiles. At least we know who they are, right?
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