http://blog.mpp.org/uncategorized/ne...nals/05262009/
http://www.nrc.nl/international/arti...k_of_criminals
They let you smoke marijuana without throwing you in jail.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
All this means is that there are plenty of rampant and homicidal drug addicts still at large on dutch streets. If we decriminalized murder, we would have need for fewer prisons as well, due to "fewer criminals". A positive correlative relationship between free marijuana enthusiasts and societal well-being has never been demonstrated.Originally Posted by TheEvilDetector
You are 100% right, but why stop there?
To leave a job half done is endangering our society and I think you sound like someone who is very responsible and wouldn't want to endanger society.
I propose that we should put people who drink alcohol into jail, because if you drink alcohol, you run the risk of driving a car dangerously or behaving inappropriately/dangerously/violently. We can ill afford to run the risk of this, so preventative detention is very much warranted.
In addition, I believe it would be wise to put cigarette smokers in jail, because if you smoke cigarettes, you run the risk of dying early and depriving children/family/friends of your loving presence, which constitutes willful and planned emotional torture on those close to you, which apart from the physical after effects is a thought crime of the highest order.
I believe, we shall also put everyone who eats unhealthy foods in jail, due to the same rationale as cigarettes.
Pennsylvania, do you have any comments?
Last edited by TheEvilDetector; 06-01-2009 at 11:22 AM.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Sarcasm was implied of course
Oh, sarcasm.. I get it.
Nm..
http://www.allamsterdam.nl/article/3...Amsterdam.htmlCompared to other countries such as the USA, the crime policies of Netherlands are extremely lenient. Where one may be shocked about the leniency towards criminals, the crime rate in the Netherlands is generally low, especially when compared to other European countries with tougher crime policies such as the UK. Indeed in the UK they have found that 60% of inmates in British jails had served a jail sentance previously. Even in the USA where there is a prevalent view that crime is rampant in Amsterdam, the rate of deaths caused by crime rate was 1.22% per 100,000, where as in the USA it is 8.22% (1996).
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Less people locked up, more people Pennsylvania can hit on.
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Last edited by TheEvilDetector; 06-01-2009 at 11:36 AM.
"A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity." - Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
Are you sure?
Total crimes (per capita)
# 8 United States: 80.0645 per 1,000 people
# 9 Netherlands: 79.5779 per 1,000 people
Adults prosecuted (per capita)
# 1 United States: 48.029 per 1,000 people
# 10 Netherlands: 10.7919 per 1,000 people
Car thefts (per capita)
# 9 United States: 3.8795 per 1,000 people
# 15 Netherlands: 2.33559 per 1,000 people
Assaults (per capita)
# 6 United States: 7.56923 per 1,000 people
# 18 Netherlands: 2.68964 per 1,000 people
Robberies (per capita)
# 11 United States: 1.38527 per 1,000 people
# 16 Netherlands: 1.13549 per 1,000 people
Rapes (per capita)
# 9 United States: 0.301318 per 1,000 people
# 22 Netherlands: 0.100445 per 1,000 people
Murders (per capita)
# 24 United States: 0.042802 per 1,000 people
# 51 Netherlands: 0.0111538 per 1,000 people
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cr...ted-per-capita
EDIT: Forgot Burglaries
Burglaries (per capita)
# 17 United States: 7.09996 per 1,000 people
# 20 Netherlands: 5.55531 per 1,000 people
Last edited by TonySutton; 06-01-2009 at 11:29 AM.
Insanity should be defined as trusting the government to solve a problem they caused in the first place. Please do not go insane!
phew that was AWESOME fun.Sarcasm was implied of course
anyone else feel that ride?
How did they get from 15, 18, 16, 22, 51, 20 to # 9 overall? Parking tickets?
My guess is tax evasion.
I pulled different stats from their database. It also included things like fraud, embezzlement, etc. I tried to pull out the ones which are commonly tied to illegal drug use in the US.
Insanity should be defined as trusting the government to solve a problem they caused in the first place. Please do not go insane!
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