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| Amsterdam to expel nuisance neighbours |
| 2012-12-04 |
| 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. "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." Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan ... "This is the world turned upside down". 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 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Send them to Gaza. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2012-12-04 23:22 |
| #5 In the US we call such places 'trailer parks', where my dear old mum lives. God bless her rat ass... |
| Posted by: Raj 2012-12-04 21:18 |
| #4 'Something for nothing', AKA 'working people are forced to support you' has to stop. Bulldog,that's the kind of hateful and hurtful language that keeps bien pansants awake at night, wondering where their next "feel good" fix is going to come from. I had a chat with me old mate Keven Marx who said if you understood how hard it is you would have more "compassion" |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-12-04 20:45 |
| #3 Construct a culture of entitlement for people prepared to give nothing back... this is the obvious outcome. But even the scum villages will be too comfortable to cure the malaise. 'Something for nothing', AKA 'working people are forced to support you' has to stop. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2012-12-04 19:51 |
| #2 KURT "SNAKE" RUSSELL in "ESCAPE FROM AMSTERDAM"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-12-04 19:18 |
| #1 I can think of a few neighbors I'd like to send to a scum village. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-12-04 17:53 |