Glass
3rd December 2012, 07:24 PM
I wonder what happened to the Netherlands. It used to be a relaxed place. I don't particularly agree with everything that goes on there and there is something to be said for a little bit of modesty. It really has changed these last couple years. Certainly detering the Schoolies that flock there from their privelaged Euro Public schools is not such a bad thing.
Amsterdam to expel nuisance neighbours
Amsterdam is to create villages where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision.
The new camps have been dubbed "scum villages" because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist right-wing party, for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers.
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"Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum," he suggested last year. "Put all the trash together."
The Dutch capital already has a squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six-month course on how to behave. Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.
"This is the world turned upside down," the mayor said at the weekend.
The project also involves setting up a hotline and system for victims to report their problems to the authorities.
A spokesman for the mayor denied the new projects would be punishment camps for "scum", but stressed that the units would aim to enforce good behaviour.
"The aim is not to reward people who behave badly with a new five-room home with a south-facing garden. This is supposed to be a deterrent," he said.
The tough approach taken by Mr van der Laan appears to jar with Amsterdam's famous tolerance for prostitution and soft drugs but reflects hardening attitudes to routine anti-social behaviour that falls short of criminality.
There are already several small trial projects in the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where 10 shipping container homes have been set aside for offenders, under 24-hour supervision from social workers and police.
The new policy will come into effect in January, when the first offenders will be moved to the new units.
In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful, becoming sink estates for the lawless.
"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's spokesman.
Link to Article (http://www.theage.com.au/world/amsterdam-to-expel-nuisance-neighbours-20121204-2ars4.html)
Who is to decide what and who are scum and what does it mean to create these Ghettos'? Will they be walled in? Will they be able to travel outside their ghetto?
What happends to a child unfortunately born into Scum Town?
You know who should be put in these ghettos?
Amsterdam to expel nuisance neighbours
Amsterdam is to create villages where nuisance neighbours and anti-social tenants will be exiled from the city and rehoused in caravans or containers with "minimal services" under constant police supervision.
The new camps have been dubbed "scum villages" because the plan echoes a proposal from Geert Wilders, the leader of a populist right-wing party, for special units to deal with persistent troublemakers.
http://images.theage.com.au/2012/12/04/3861798/mthol1-20121204080251567678-300x0.jpg
"Repeat offenders should be forcibly removed from their neighbourhood and sent to a village for scum," he suggested last year. "Put all the trash together."
The Dutch capital already has a squad of municipal officials to identify the worst offenders for a compulsory six-month course on how to behave. Social housing problem families or tenants who do not show an improvement or refuse to go to the special units face eviction and homelessness.
"This is the world turned upside down," the mayor said at the weekend.
The project also involves setting up a hotline and system for victims to report their problems to the authorities.
A spokesman for the mayor denied the new projects would be punishment camps for "scum", but stressed that the units would aim to enforce good behaviour.
"The aim is not to reward people who behave badly with a new five-room home with a south-facing garden. This is supposed to be a deterrent," he said.
The tough approach taken by Mr van der Laan appears to jar with Amsterdam's famous tolerance for prostitution and soft drugs but reflects hardening attitudes to routine anti-social behaviour that falls short of criminality.
There are already several small trial projects in the Netherlands, including in Amsterdam, where 10 shipping container homes have been set aside for offenders, under 24-hour supervision from social workers and police.
The new policy will come into effect in January, when the first offenders will be moved to the new units.
In the 19th century, troublemakers were moved to special villages in Drenthe and Overijssel outside Amsterdam. The villages were rarely successful, becoming sink estates for the lawless.
"We have learned from the past," said the mayor's spokesman.
Link to Article (http://www.theage.com.au/world/amsterdam-to-expel-nuisance-neighbours-20121204-2ars4.html)
Who is to decide what and who are scum and what does it mean to create these Ghettos'? Will they be walled in? Will they be able to travel outside their ghetto?
What happends to a child unfortunately born into Scum Town?
You know who should be put in these ghettos?