@Tryptameanie 576038 wrote:
I wasn’t criticizing the Dutch GL, far from it, as I said I think the Dutch do an amazing job with respect to safety, harm reduction and making sure the info, no matter how bad it may seem on them, is out there.
Unfortunately the Dutch themselves (or at least the centre right leaning Protestant half of the population) are far more critical of their own country; and these critics are well off and powerful. They have put a lot of effort into monitoring Amsterdam and the only reason gedoogbeleid exists is to bring in the tourism revenue. it would otherwise be no different culturally and demographically from Ipswich and the crime levels in comparison are way higher (overall crime levels of the UK and NL are near identical) – both towns suffer from the same social problems caused by a combination of the economic depression, addiction issues and tensions amongst a multicultural European population.
As the Dutch have good English skills there is an increasing problem with emigration and capital flight to the UK (i,e investing in farmland and industries on our side of the coast) from NL disagree with the amount of tax money spent on keeping places like Amsterdam safe and feel that young people are given too much leeway.
What is most sinister about this incident is it could even be a “lone wolf activist” with a grudge against English drug users deliiberately doing this; they may have planned it for years, perhaps carefully stalking dealers and their clients using standard detectives techniques, in order to learn how to approach them.
If this seems outlandish consider that earlier this year Els Borst, a female Dutch politician from the D66 party (similar to the LibDems) who legalised euthanasia was found dead with her skull pierced by a sharp object such as an icepick. She was 85 but in good health and fitness and like most politicians who deal with controversial issues security aware. The feds still haven’t caught the killer although she was receiving increasingly violent threats from the religious types – most of whom would be of her own age group.
