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September 15, 2005
Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children
Dr. Joseph Mengele
The Dutch have decided to create Orwellian electronic dossiers on every serf manufactured in the welfare state of the Netherlands. In a massive assault against privacy, the governmental organs will assimilate intricate electronic files of the most sensitive details of a person's life, from arcane, esoteric trivia to sensitive, titillating, and embarrassing health and criminal records.
Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, all citizens will be tracked from cradle to grave in a single database — including health, education, family and police records — the health ministry said Tuesday.
The Dutch are basically an unapologetic, socialist welfare state. Much of their laws today are focused around their abysmal failures of WWII to protect their own citizens from the maw of the Third Reich. Amsterdam is the city that Anne Frank called home.
Amsterdam, as a city, was utterly defenseless. Some people rode out to face down the Germans on bicycles, but this was obviously futile.
When the Germans occupied the Netherlands, they rounded up and deported 90% of the Jews, throwing in the Gypsies and homosexuals for good measure. Josef Mengele stood on the other end of the line as they unloaded the human cattle from box cars at the death camps. Standing between German Shepherds, he tireless culled identical twins from the ranks for his horrific, barbaric experiments.
Much of Dutch law today was formulated in response to these grotesque assaults against humanity. For instance, if a policeman stops you today in the Netherlands, they don't have the right to ask you to identify yourself. Their police can't go around saying "Papers Please". I always felt that this was an indication that they had learned their lesson in WWII, and had taken steps to prevent this from recurring.
60 years after the collapse of the Third Reich, however, it looks like they've lost focus on their commitment to protecting the identity of their serfs.
Update: Hmmm. Looks like things are worse than I thought. As of January 1, 2005, the Netherlands instituted Compulsory Idenfication requirements. Perhaps this was conincident with the EU?
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Posted by Peenie Wallie on September 15, 2005 at 04:17 AM
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