Sex, Drugs and Cultural Euthanasia: Amsterdam, 1992...2010 corner euthanasia shops.....

 Sex, drugs, abortion, prostitution is not enough....now the Dutch are suggesting that the elderly be assisted in suicide due not to illness or disability but because of their age (over 70). Are we surprised?? Of course not, since the population is so imbalanced where are the young people to support the elderly population...aborted that's where....I remember visiting Amsterdam and everyone seemed to be dressed in black ......how appropriate! Is this where we want to go??


Posted by Michael Walsh Mar 14th 2010 at 4:03 pm
From Big Journalism


"By any measure, Dutch society has long been among the most liberal and tolerant in the world. Soft drugs a problem? Then stop the harassment of pot smokers and concentrate on blocking the influx of hard drugs instead. Prostitution flourishing? Legalize it. Want to block the spread of AIDS and venereal diseases? Put condom vending machines in the high schools and hand out needles and methadone to IV drug users. Unwanted pregnancies unacceptable? Make the Pill free. Want to terminate your pregnancy? State-sponsored insurance will pay for an abortion up to the 20th week."

Holland today is probably the worst country in Europe, a sinkhole of social pathologies that would make Berkeley blush.  And yet, at every step, the decisions the Dutch took to liberalize their formerly straitlaced Calvinist society seemed to make sense at the time, at least to some.
Today, with crime rampant, social tensions brought on by enormous, apparently unassailable migration from the Muslim world, and the collapse of its social cohesion and cultural self-confidence, the Netherlands is the Sick Man of Europe.
I originally wrote this story for the now-defunct Mirabella Magazine, to answer the editorial question: why are the Dutch so tolerant. “Tolerant” seemed like the right word at the time; today, nearly 18 years later, “suicidal” might be a better choice.