Oh If Only America Were More Enlightened.... Like Europe!

[Memphis Slim]

HA!! t:
Fewer window prostitutes in Amsterdam


AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A non-profit corporation has purchased a large number of the buildings where prostitutes pose in windows in Amsterdam's Red Light district, the city said Thursday, in a deal that may lead to a third of the windows being shuttered.

The move is intended to break a logjam in an multi-year effort by the city to cut back on the windows, which it says are a magnet for crime and money laundering.
Mayor Job Cohen said the move was not intended to get rid of prostitution entirely, since it is part of the area's history and a major tourist draw for the city. Huh??

"What we do want is to get rid of the underlying criminality," Cohen told local television station AT5.
In Thursday's deal, public housing corporation NV Stadsgoed purchased 18 buildings with 51 windows for $35 million. That is around a third of the windows in the Red Light District, though there are other prostitution zones in the city.
NV Stadsgoed will redevelop some or all of the buildings, and because they are not likely to be worth as much as housing or regular commercial real estate, the city has agreed to reimburse the corporation by up to $21 million.
"We don't know yet what's going to come in their place," Cohen said. "We're very busy making a development plan, and we hope to have that ready by the end of the year."
Amsterdam has been conducting a crackdown on criminality in the city center for nearly five years, using a 2002 law that forces business operators to disclose detailed accounting in order to have their licenses renewed.
The seller in Thursday's deal, "Fat" Charlie Geerts, was ordered by the city last year to close the windows because the city said he failed to meet standards.
But he filed a legal protest and Amsterdam's District Court granted an injunction against closures while he fought the decision.
With its scantily clad prostitutes posing in brothel windows and coffee shops oozing the pungent aroma of cannabis smoke, the Red Light district's seediness has always been part of its attraction.
Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, and coffee shops are licensed to sell small amounts of marijuana. But the district is a magnet for petty criminals and, authorities believe, human traffickers, drug lords and mobsters — who take advantage of the situation to launder money.
Prostitutes' rights organizations have generally been indifferent to the crackdown, arguing that pimps are the main source of problems, not landlords.

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How Stupid are these people? These are the smart Europeans that a lot of you brag on. They want to get rid of the crime but not the hookers??? t: And I want the mice gone but I still want the cheese on my floor!

Seedy activity will attract seedy people. Wanna clean up crime Holland?? Get rid of prostitutes! News Flash!!!!!! Mobsters reeeally like hookers!!! They like drugs too. But Holland doesn't want to give up those things.

Well guess what? The problem will never go away. They want their cake and eat it too.

 

[taskmaster]

Listen, people are horny and if they can't pay for sex, they're going to take it. I don't want to be raped by some dude who could've had the chance to pay for sex.

Legalize prostitution. (Payed for by the women without fathers foundation.)

 

[kainedamo]

The argument could be made that if you legalise prostitution, you can chase away the organised criminals and make sure the girls are in safe environments without drugs and aren't being forced into it.

Prostitution is pretty much porno without the cameras.

 

[The Question]

Legalizing prostitution actually makes a lot of sense. Federal authorities would be able to regulate and monitor it, and set up higher standards of safety. Lower the amount of diseases and women getting hurt by their pimps for sure.

 

[turtlefocker]

Listen, people are horny and if they can't pay for sex, they're going to take it. I don't want to be raped by some dude who could've had the chance to pay for sex.

Legalize prostitution. (Payed for by the women without fathers foundation.)

Its legal (to an extent) in Canada.... I mean you cant stand on a corner and sell it and you cant actively look for it but its technically legal theres just a lot of red tape so to speak....

 

[Superhobo]

The argument could be made that if you legalise prostitution, you can chase away the organised criminals and make sure the girls are in safe environments without drugs and aren't being forced into it.

Prostitution is pretty much porno without the cameras.

Yeah. But you forgot to mention that sometimes girls turn to it out of a struggle. I saw a video on e***t about a bunch of girls ****ing themselves out for crack. Saddest thing I ever saw. Those girls are so emaciated.

 

[Memphis Slim]

[quote=kainedamo: The argument could be made that if you legalise prostitution, you can chase away the organised criminals and make sure the girls are in safe environments without drugs and aren't being forced into it.

Prostitution is pretty much porno without the cameras.

[/QUOTE]
It is legal over there!! IT'S NOT WORKING!

What's your next idea?

 

[Argyle of Sock]

Listen, people are horny and if they can't pay for sex, they're going to take it. I don't want to be raped by some dude who could've had the chance to pay for sex.

Legalize prostitution. (Payed for by the women without fathers foundation.)

Seconded.

Sure, no one, female or male, should be forced into prostitution, but that wouldn't be any more of a concern if it were leagalized than it is now. Maybe less.

Legalizing prostitution would make the whole process much safer and less shady.

 

[Kritish]

Newsflash Celldog, mobsters like hooker when they're not regulated by the government. Remember prohibition? When alcohol was make illegal organized crime sky rocketed.

If we pulled our heads out of our asses we'd legalize it as well.

 

[Carcharodon]

Prostitutes > Memphis Slim's Posts

 

[Addendum]

Prostitutes > Memphis Slim's Posts

QFT

 

[Kritish]

Prostitutes > Memphis Slim's Posts

Ebola > Memphis Slim's Posts

 

[R0rschach]

How Stupid are these people? These are the smart Europeans that a lot of you brag on. They want to get rid of the crime but not the hookers??? t: And I want the mice gone but I still want the cheese on my floor!

Seedy activity will attract seedy people. Wanna clean up crime Holland?? Get rid of prostitutes! News Flash!!!!!! Mobsters reeeally like hookers!!! They like drugs too. But Holland doesn't want to give up those things.

Well guess what? The problem will never go away. They want their cake and eat it too.

1: Getting rid of crime is a naive man's dream.

2: Mice prefer bread over cheese

3: Getting rid of prostitutes will in no way get rid of crime.

4: Mobsters like money and power beyond anything else.

BTW: Holland rocks.

 

[Joker]

HA!! t:
Fewer window prostitutes in Amsterdam


AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A non-profit corporation has purchased a large number of the buildings where prostitutes pose in windows in Amsterdam's Red Light district, the city said Thursday, in a deal that may lead to a third of the windows being shuttered.

The move is intended to break a logjam in an multi-year effort by the city to cut back on the windows, which it says are a magnet for crime and money laundering.
Mayor Job Cohen said the move was not intended to get rid of prostitution entirely, since it is part of the area's history and a major tourist draw for the city. Huh??

"What we do want is to get rid of the underlying criminality," Cohen told local television station AT5.
In Thursday's deal, public housing corporation NV Stadsgoed purchased 18 buildings with 51 windows for $35 million. That is around a third of the windows in the Red Light District, though there are other prostitution zones in the city.
NV Stadsgoed will redevelop some or all of the buildings, and because they are not likely to be worth as much as housing or regular commercial real estate, the city has agreed to reimburse the corporation by up to $21 million.
"We don't know yet what's going to come in their place," Cohen said. "We're very busy making a development plan, and we hope to have that ready by the end of the year."
Amsterdam has been conducting a crackdown on criminality in the city center for nearly five years, using a 2002 law that forces business operators to disclose detailed accounting in order to have their licenses renewed.
The seller in Thursday's deal, "Fat" Charlie Geerts, was ordered by the city last year to close the windows because the city said he failed to meet standards.
But he filed a legal protest and Amsterdam's District Court granted an injunction against closures while he fought the decision.
With its scantily clad prostitutes posing in brothel windows and coffee shops oozing the pungent aroma of cannabis smoke, the Red Light district's seediness has always been part of its attraction.
Prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, and coffee shops are licensed to sell small amounts of marijuana. But the district is a magnet for petty criminals and, authorities believe, human traffickers, drug lords and mobsters — who take advantage of the situation to launder money.
Prostitutes' rights organizations have generally been indifferent to the crackdown, arguing that pimps are the main source of problems, not landlords.

_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

How Stupid are these people? These are the smart Europeans that a lot of you brag on. They want to get rid of the crime but not the hookers??? t: And I want the mice gone but I still want the cheese on my floor!

Seedy activity will attract seedy people. Wanna clean up crime Holland?? Get rid of prostitutes! News Flash!!!!!! Mobsters reeeally like hookers!!! They like drugs too. But Holland doesn't want to give up those things.

Well guess what? The problem will never go away. They want their cake and eat it too.

Prostitution and drugs are legalized, therefore the mob has nothing to do with it. Unless by mob, you mean goverment, which are about the same thing in most cases anyway...the other cases it's because they're the exact same thing, ala the Kennedy administrations seedy underbelly.

 

[Joker]

Ebola > Memphis Slim's Posts

Hookers With Ebola=Memphis Slim's Posts...just cause, much like his posts, you go into them not sure exactly what to expect, and then you end up puking out your own internal organs after being exposed to them.

 

[Arkady Rossovich]

Amsterdam is considered one of the slums of Europe.

 

[Enriquespy]

1: Getting rid of crime is a naive man's dream.

2: Mice prefer bread over cheese

3: Getting rid of prostitutes will in no way get rid of crime.

4: Mobsters like money and power beyond anything else.

BTW: Holland rocks.

You are rigth, Memphis Slim is wrong.

 

[The Overlord]

So Slim I guess you like big government, this just big government trying to choke
private enterprise (in this case, hookers). Why do you hate the free market Slim?

 

[Memphis Slim]

Europe Strikes again...

Glamorous politician wants law to allow 7-year itch
By Madeline Chambers Fri Sep 21, 4:00 AM ET



BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria's most glamorous politician -- a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber -- has shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years. [SIZE=-2]ADVERTISEMENT[/SIZE]

Gabriele Pauli, who poses on her web site in motorcycle leathers, is standing for the leadership of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) -- sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) -- in a vote next week.
She told reporters at the launch of her campaign manifesto on Wednesday she wanted marriage to expire after seven years and accused the CSU, which promotes traditional family values, of nurturing ideals of marriage which are wide of the mark.
"The basic approach is wrong ... many marriages last just because people believe they are safe," she told reporters. "My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years."
After that time, couples should either agree to extend their marriage or it should be automatically dissolved, she said.
Fifty-year-old Pauli, twice divorced, is a maverick intent on shaking up her male-dominated and mainly Catholic party which has dominated Bavarian politics since World War Two.
"This is about bringing ideas into the CSU and starting a discussion," she told German television on Thursday after she had unleashed a wave of criticism from other politicians.
Former foe Stoiber said she did not belong in the CSU and European lawmaker Ingo Freidrich dismissed her views.
"She is diametrically contradicting our Christian, ethical values," Freidrich said.
Peter Ramsauer, head of the CSU in Germany's parliament, compared Pauli's ideas to "the dirt under your fingernails".
Pauli, who attracted attention earlier this year when she posed for a magazine wearing long black latex gloves, was at the centre of a snooping scandal which eventually led to Stoiber, Bavarian premier for 14 years, saying he would stand down early.
She said his office tried to obtain details about lovers and alcohol consumption to use against her.
The CSU will elect Stoiber's successor as party head at a conference next week. He will be replaced as state premier in early October.
Viewed as a party rebel, Pauli stands almost no chance of winning next week's vote. The contest has been fought mainly between Bavarian state economy minister Erwin Huber and German Consumer Minister Horst Seehofer.
The popularity of Seehofer, a 58-year-old married father of three, has suffered from the disclosure that he had been having an affair with a younger woman who recently had his baby.

 

[Memphis Slim]

Prostitution and drugs are legalized, therefore the mob has nothing to do with it. Unless by mob, you mean goverment, which are about the same thing in most cases anyway...the other cases it's because they're the exact same thing, ala the Kennedy administrations seedy underbelly.

If you think the mob doesn't have it's hands in this, you are more naive than I thought!

Drugs and hookers go hand-in-hand. Most of those girls stay high just to cope with being used as toilets for strange men. The mob is makin' cash and they will hang around.

 

[Bill]

Europe Strikes again...

Glamorous politician wants law to allow 7-year itch
By Madeline Chambers Fri Sep 21, 4:00 AM ET



BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria's most glamorous politician -- a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber -- has shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years. [SIZE=-2]ADVERTISEMENT[/SIZE]

Gabriele Pauli, who poses on her web site in motorcycle leathers, is standing for the leadership of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) -- sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) -- in a vote next week.
She told reporters at the launch of her campaign manifesto on Wednesday she wanted marriage to expire after seven years and accused the CSU, which promotes traditional family values, of nurturing ideals of marriage which are wide of the mark.
"The basic approach is wrong ... many marriages last just because people believe they are safe," she told reporters. "My suggestion is that marriages expire after seven years."
After that time, couples should either agree to extend their marriage or it should be automatically dissolved, she said.
Fifty-year-old Pauli, twice divorced, is a maverick intent on shaking up her male-dominated and mainly Catholic party which has dominated Bavarian politics since World War Two.
"This is about bringing ideas into the CSU and starting a discussion," she told German television on Thursday after she had unleashed a wave of criticism from other politicians.
Former foe Stoiber said she did not belong in the CSU and European lawmaker Ingo Freidrich dismissed her views.
"She is diametrically contradicting our Christian, ethical values," Freidrich said.
Peter Ramsauer, head of the CSU in Germany's parliament, compared Pauli's ideas to "the dirt under your fingernails".
Pauli, who attracted attention earlier this year when she posed for a magazine wearing long black latex gloves, was at the centre of a snooping scandal which eventually led to Stoiber, Bavarian premier for 14 years, saying he would stand down early.
She said his office tried to obtain details about lovers and alcohol consumption to use against her.
The CSU will elect Stoiber's successor as party head at a conference next week. He will be replaced as state premier in early October.
Viewed as a party rebel, Pauli stands almost no chance of winning next week's vote. The contest has been fought mainly between Bavarian state economy minister Erwin Huber and German Consumer Minister Horst Seehofer.
The popularity of Seehofer, a 58-year-old married father of three, has suffered from the disclosure that he had been having an affair with a younger woman who recently had his baby.

It would certainly cut down on marital problems and divorce rates. Two people enter into a contract for a specific amount of time with terms and conditions already factored in, and at the end they have the option of renewing or letting it expire and go there separate ways with their possessions divided according to the contract or staying together and continuing the contract.

 

[The Overlord]

If you think the mob doesn't have it's hands in this, you are more naive than I thought!

Drugs and hookers go hand-in-hand. Most of those girls stay high just to cope with being used as toilets for strange men. The mob is makin' cash and they will hang around.

If its making cash that means its part of the free market. You trying kill free market enterprise with over regulation. Its clear you hate the free market, that makes you....A COMMUNIST!!!!

Go back to Russia, commie!

 

[Joker]

If you think the mob doesn't have it's hands in this, you are more naive than I thought!

Drugs and hookers go hand-in-hand. Most of those girls stay high just to cope with being used as toilets for strange men. The mob is makin' cash and they will hang around.

The phrase mob implies something illegal is being done. There is legal drugs and prostitution in Amsterdam. Therefore, having hookers and keeping them constantly strung out is not illegal. Therefore it is not the mob, it's a legitamate buisness. Therefore, the mob has nothing to do with it. I'm sure there are probably some mobsters who run those places, yeah. But if you look at America, there's instances of the mafia controlling alot of things, like strip clubs, and even waste disposal industries, but you dont see us shutting down the strip bars or banning garbage dumps.

 

[Joker]

It would certainly cut down on marital problems and divorce rates. Two people enter into a contract for a specific amount of time with terms and conditions already factored in, and at the end they have the option of renewing or letting it expire and go there separate ways with their possessions divided according to the contract or staying together and continuing the contract.

I agree. Germany is genius for thinking of this.

 

[Dangerous]

Europe rules, we got ****es! loads of ****es I love it!