Calling all Dutch coffeeshops for a strike

Dutch coffeeshop owner Nol van Schaik is calling all coffeeshop owners for a nationwide strike during the Dutch national parliament election day on June 9. By keeping the doors of coffeeshops closed for one day, he wants to warn visitors that this could become an everyday reality when rightwing parties form a coalition.
The current largest party CDA (Christian Democratic Alliance) earlier announced that they regard the use of drugs ‘undesirable’ and that they would like to see all coffeeshops gone. Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) is against any form of drug use (alcohol excluded) and they believe the country should abolish the policy of tolerance towards soft drugs. According to these ‘freedom fighters’ drug addicts should be locked up for forced to withdrawl in modern labor camps.
A coalition between said parties and the VVD (Liberal party) and CU (Christian Union) could lead to the closure of all coffeeshops within years. By keeping the doors shut of all coffeeshops during election day, van Schaik wants to show how the cities will look without coffeeshops. Cities as Amsterdam and Maastricht would face a surge in drug dealing on the streets and tokers would have nowhere to go to smoke.

Nooooo!

[Thanks Thomas!]

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Free dutchman. : 2010-03-21 14:31:55

You should note that the party for freedom refers to the freedom for 'civilized' people to streets clean of Islam, lefties and drugs.

This strike would be nice to show right wing smokers (of course the racist youths smoke) that they fuck with themselves.
Well nice one:)

dreamdust. : 2010-03-16 17:48:56

Fucking Christians. Again. Everywhere. Jesus didn't die for me. The jews aren't chosen people. Muhammad drank alcohol.

Religion ALWAYS has an agenda. Fucking conmen.

Anonymous. : 2010-03-15 10:53:42

"People, people. Every adult Dutch person knows that coffee shops and prostitution are their nation's biggest cash cows."

I thought most of the wealth of the Dutch came from their mafia-like control of the international tulip cartels!

And wooden shoes.

poxly. : 2010-03-15 01:55:36

People, people. Every adult Dutch person knows that coffee shops and prostitution are their nation's biggest cash cows. These things are not really under any serious scrutiny, despite the consevative rhetoric. The Dutch would never imperil an economic windfall like drug tourism. The current controversy is like all the others, when they want something from the U.N. they pretend to suddenly find all this cannibis smoking an outrage that betokens lax morals. It's all just an empty gesture.

GK-OR : 2010-03-13 10:21:02

I seriously doubt that one day of shop closures is going to cause a mob of violent pot dealers to flood the streets, lending instant credibility to the long term effects suggested. A "strike" is more likely to cause a lot of tourists and local smokers to say the equivalent of "bummer" in their respective languages. They might even remember to stock up the day before.

Johnathan. : 2010-03-12 22:17:05

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

motley. : 2010-03-12 14:15:25

what bunch of arseholes, freedom party what a joke

slay. : 2010-03-12 12:47:28

im tired of these delirious biblethumpers running around, ruining peoples' happiness.

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