Should child marriage be legal? Then why is it?

Whenever there's a Republican convention in an American town, the 'ladies of the night' complain they don't have much business. Why? Because a lot of the 'business' goes to their male counterparts. Male escorts make crazy money at the RNC (click).

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It's an established 'secret' that Lindsey Graham is secretly gay.  Male escorts write 'appointment with Lady G' in their book of clients when referring to the famous politician. Former vice president Mike Pence refers to his wife as 'Mother' and supposedly met her during gay conversion counseling, organised via their church. 

Sane people know you need to brainwash people in order to make them think they are not gay, heterosexual or like apple sauce. There are numerous examples of gay people who would rather die, than to be forced to live a life as a heterosexual. Like 24 years old Alana Chen (click). Who was found dead after she spoke out against gay conversion therapy, administrered via the same Catholic church where Mike Pence and his beloved 'Mother' met. 

'Yeah, but The Bible states homosexuality is wrong!' The Bible states a lot of things, as it is a collection of dozens of books, written in different times by different people. 

So, does the Bible say a marriage should always be between 'one man and one woman'? Yes. It also says that King David had eight wives and 'loved Jonathan (click) more than he loved any woman'. 

The God in the Bible loves everyone, including sinners. That's why Republican politicians love to sin, apparently. Because their precious God will forgive them anyway. So it's a good thing God didn't write our laws and it's illegal to have sex with underaged boys and girls and more than one evangelist was sent to prison (click) for child trafficking and/or sex with minors. I write 'minors' because - although less common - it's not uncommon (click) for boys to be wed before they are 18. 

But is sex with minors really illegal? Nope. Out of 198 countries, in 117 of them (sometimes under certain conditions) it's perfectly legal (click) for people to marry someone who is a minor. 

'Surely in the USA it's illegal to marry an underage girl, right?' Wrong. It's legal (click) in no less than 44 States. It's estimated that by the year 2030 a billion married women are younger than eighteen. Internationally speaking an age when a person has reached maturity. 

Should we allow men (mostly in rural areas in the USA) to marry their 15 years old niece so they won't have to go to prison for rape of a minor? If you think that practice should be outlawed, click here (click) to get educated and to see how you can help.

If you are or know someone who is convinced everyone should follow the Bible in the most literal sense, watch this presentation of a man who lived by every single law in the Bible for a whole year, a few years ago:

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She moved (a poem)

Her designer jeans

looked designed for her.

The fabric moved with every move

of her body and moved me.

So I made my move

and although her boyfriend

told me to move it,

she moved me again

by winking at me

in a most moving way.

Unfortunately we lost touch

when she moved.

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"Refugees get everything for free!"

The international organisation Doctors without Borders came to the aid of people who live in appaling conditions. In a refugee camp. In The Netherlands. And it's not a joke but a fact. One of the wealthiest nations in the world apparently can't provide food, water and shelter for a few hundred refugees.

The government has taken over 'the people''s (i.e. a few loud mouthing populists) narrative that 'the country is full!' Is it? So how come tens of thousands of other foreigners who come to live in The Netherlands yearly get housing immediately, a job instantly, loads of tax exemptions and in many cases they don't even have to learn Dutch? It's because this group of foreigners is called 'expats'. 

Meaning they came to the Netherlands mainly for financial gain and not because they flee from war or famine, more often then not caused by western greed. Like all capitalists, the current Dutch government loves people who are in it for the money. People who are starving may...well...starve. 

For people who may now think something in the lines of:

'Yeah, but my husband worked really hard for my pension and refugees get everything for free!',

I have created this meme:

 

Please excuse me while I sit back and enjoy the thought of racists smile at the title of this piece, start reading it and dropping the courners of their mouths.

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His Wife (a poem)

Waiting for the passion to subside

slowly dying from a lack of love

while life goes on

and her shirt is lost

in his sheets

That smell of her naked body

and he remembers

how she lay waiting

for the passion to subside

while he made tea

for his wife

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Is it okay to claim a land?

Imagine this scenario:

Native Americans get united and manage to get military and economic support from 170 countries. All because they want to reclaim Manhattan 'because we once lived there so that land is rightfully ours!'

The United Native People of America (the - for now -  fictional UNPA) gives the people of Manhatten a few choices. Just because they're being nice:

-You can keep 42nd Street but it will be under our control and we take all profits and taxes

and the rest of you may become citizens of Canada. If Canada agrees or not is not our problem.

-You all become second rate citizens of the newly formed United Land of Native Americans (ULNA)

and everything you own, including your time and labour becomes our property.

-You die.

There's a bit more to it but generally speaking:

if you would support the Native Americans in this scenario, you would act the same as people nowedays - and in real life - support Israel.

'Yes, but the European colonists didn't steal the natives land unfairly!' is not really the best defense of the Israeli tactics. Nor is: 'If the Palestinians were serious about keeping the land they live on, they should have fought harder!'

Interestingly enough there are people who state that the people of Palestine are not forced from their homes and olive orchards (click). Aha! I guess they are simply asked nicely to run away from bulldozers, guns and bombs.

Now imagine this land being Manhattan. The green bits are the land where people have lived for several generations. The white bit is the part that Native Americans are progressively reclaiming 'because our ancestors lived there!'

Is it okay to reclaim a piece of land 'because our ancestors once lived there'

and in the process kill people who have lived there for generations?

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The world (a short story)

He awoke in the bed of the vicar's daughter. 

It was, however, not the bed he had gone to sleep in the night before. 

That had been the marital bed of the vicar himself.

It had been a strange night and the memory of it would stay with him forever.

Perhaps it even formed him into who he was. 

It had all started innocently enough with a conversation for two in the garden, 

listening to the radio and having a wine on a cool summer's evening. 

It ended in amusing confusion and a swift end to a close friendship.

Almost 25 years later he still didn't know what to think of it 

but he did know that he wouldn't have want to miss it for the world.

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Most change does not come from inaction

More than a few people are not happy with how their lives are developing. Yet they seem to wait for some miracle to happen. Often they are the same people who want changes in society. But do we really want society to change? If so, why do we watch football or Netflix instead of join a political party, do our best to get elected in the (local) counsil and change things from within? 

We want things to change in our neighbourhood. Yet we don't want to join the local residents' committee. Complainers claim to have 'no time' but that's a weird statement, coming from a group of people of who a substantial number is unhappy because they are unemployed.

People who say they want change but fail to perform any action to make that change happen, remind me of 'the twelfth player' in football (which Americans call soccer): they shout they know everything better than the actual coach or players but none of them is willing to train for hours and years on end so they can one day join the team and actually help them win. Sure, moral support is important so please keep on signing and spreading online petitions against social injustices 

If you want something to change you'd first have to change your behaviour. Being 'old' is no excuse. A guy in my neighbourhood wrote his last column a month before he died. Two weeks before he died he was still handing out leaflets on the street. Still fighting for better and more affordable housing, never giving up the struggle he joined in the sixties. He passed at age 98. 

Even 'Yeah, but I'm handicapped and reliant on my wheelchair' is no excuse. A 68 years old lady in my neighbourhood is chairwoman of an environmentalists group and she oversees the work at a large communal garden. You can find her almost every week at the local counsil, taking her minimum of five minutes of speaking time to speak on behalf of some marginal group she is concerned about. And goes to the gym a few times a week, early in the morning 'because I need to stay fit although I suffer from muscle atrophy.'

She takes this notion of 'become part of a team and actually do something about a bad situation' very seriously as she is part of maybe a dozen different 'teams' of people who want to change society/the world for the better.

I myself am part of three of such 'teams'. Are you part of any 'teams' tham aim to improve the world around you? If not: what's your excuse? Are you perhaps 'too busy' shouting at the newsanchor that someone should do someting? Just remember you yourself could be that someone.

Becoming part of the team our chances of changing the outcome of the game increase drastically compared to staying put on the couch and shouting at the TV screen that others should perform better.

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We were beautiful (a circle poem)

We were beautiful

So was the weather

and so was our love

We had no knowledgde of the future

or other places

Would things have been different

if we had?

We had eachother

and that was enough

We were beautiful

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Anti-everything

In the USA no one was forced to take a vaccin against (the spread of) covid-19. Although refusing to take it could cost you your job. It's amazing how many people don't realize that freedom has limits. And consequences: You're free to decide not to drink. But will die from thirst. You're free to not take an anti-covid-vaccin. But may contract the virus or infect your dear old nana. Do you really want to claim your freedom, even though it means constricting the freedom of your nana?

No wonder anti-vaxxers are usually called selfish.

Millions of people mistake 'freedom of speech' for 'freedom to spread lies'. Which happened en masse with news relating to covid-19.

Some of the anti-vax arguments were so far fetched and downright stupid that it made me wonder:

If there was a vaccin to protect against chemtrails and 5G radiation, would anti-vaxxers take it?

Unfortunately, peoples from all over the world are looking to their counterparts in the USA for guidance on how to be 'anti'. For example: The Netherlands is by far not as liberal and tolerant as it was just a few decades ago. Clamping down on the use of marihuana is just one of the examples. If it was up to our current government, The Netherlands would fill in an application form to become the USA's 52nd state.

Not really strange, considering the USA is faling back to the days when the old puritans had their say. And they were Dutch. And kicked out of Holland because of their extreme beliefs. After the Britons kicked them out.

America is against prostitution. Women should not have the freedom to ask money for sex. Unless the act is filmed of course. Leading to America having the pargest p0rn industry in the world. If you're under 21 you are not free to have a beer. But it is okay to get paid for sex. But only when the act is filmed. 

In no other country in the world is such a large portion of the population incarcerated. Yes, the land of the free statistically has the least number of free people.

'Cancel culture' is happening in het USA: Large groups of people want to ban books, want a government that tells people how to behave, how to dress, what to watch, et cetera. Strangely enough, these so called 'conservatives' claim to be against cancel culture. Which begs the question:

If you are against cancel culture, why do you want to cancel culture?

The USA being 'The land of the free' is a myth.

Don't take it from this foreigner, just listen to this one:

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