by Hilary White
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AMSTERDAM, May 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) -Â The newly formed Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party of the Netherlands has introduced itself to Dutch politics as a champion of children’s rights and has vowed, “We are going to shake The Hague awake!”
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The NVD is Europe’s first political party dedicated to promoting and legitimizing pedophilia. In a press release, the NVD’s spokesman and co-founder, Ad van den Berg said among their goals is lowering the age of consent for sexual activity from 16 to 12 and eventually eliminating it completely.
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“A ban just makes children curious,” van den Berg told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper. The party will also be working to decriminalize child pornography and to lower the age for which it is legal to appear in it from 18 to 16. The party suggests that in order to prevent “abuse” a governmental body be appointed to investigate whether children had been forced to appear in pornographic movies.
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“We want to get into parliament so we have a voice. Other politicians only talk about us in a negative sense, as if we were criminals,” Van den Berg told Reuters.
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The party says toddlers should be given sex education and wants pornography to be broadcast on daytime television. Other party platform planks include the right of everyone to go naked in public and legalizing all soft and hard drugs.
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It is unlikely that even the extremely liberal social views of the Dutch public is ready for a political party all about sex with children, however. Reuters reports that a poll found that in the same country that has legalized prostitution, marijuana use, euthanasia of children and homosexual “marriage,” 82 % said the government must do something to stop the pedophilia party from advancing its agenda.