Amsterdam: Right idea?

[Guest]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/netherlands/9719247/Amsterdam-to-create-scum-villages.html

Amsterdam is to create "Scum 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.

I have to admit I checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 01.

[Merlin]

This sounds like a reasonable solution to me. If people cannot live properly within society in general then they should be removed and housed in an area where the police can keep a close eye on them. Have all the bad people in one area makes sense. As a disabled person I would feel safer knowing that the bad people are in "scum village" instead of trying to make me into a victim. Let's see how it works out.

[Bonam]

Hmm... I am not so sure. What are the criteria for "anti-social behavior" that warrant being exiled to one of these camps? Hopefully it's not making some comments that people find offensive. Also, hopefully, there would be safeguards in place to make sure neighbors can't just rat on people they don't like and have them sent to these camps...

There better be a full legal process with the usual burden of proof standards before such a punishment can be carried out.

Otherwise, these could very quickly turn into internment camps for the undesirables, where people are arbitrarily shipped off and forgotten about, at the whims of bureaucrats. And that is just a few short steps away from some of Europe's darker moments in history...

Edited December 4, 2012 by Bonam

[jbg]

http://www.telegraph...m-villages.html

Amsterdam is to create "Scum 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.

I have to admit I checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 01.

Sort of like being voted off the island? Or more like the Biblical fate of lepers? Edited December 4, 2012 by jbg

[Guest]

Maybe these teenagers can be the first guests...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/holland/9720726/Dutch-linesman-Richard-Nieuwenhuizen-killed-by-youth-players-had-been-officiating-his-sons-match.html

[Guest Peeves]

http://www.telegraph...m-villages.html

Amsterdam is to create "Scum 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.

I have to admit I checked the date to make sure it wasn't April 01.

Well, there need be some answer to societal woes and this is ok by me til a better one is found.

It reminds me of the frivolous law suits in the thousands by convicts with nothing better to do. Obviously they too need some controlling method.

Those that confront and repeatedly challenge the accepted rules of decency,reason and sense have to be expect and accept that there will be consequences.

[Guest Peeves]

Sort of like being voted off the island? Or more like the Biblical fate of lepers?

Sent to Coventry.

Edited December 4, 2012 by Peeves