| "In a move that sounds straight out of Orwell, Amsterdam allocated 1 million euros last week to a plan that would relocate trouble-making neighbors to camps on the outskirts of the city, the BBC reports.
The "scum villages," as critics have called them, would lie in isolated areas and provide only basic services to their unwilling residents. According to details of the plan reported by Der Spiegel and the BBC, residents will live in "container homes," under the watchful eye of social workers or police. The residents themselves might not make very good company. According to the BBC, they'll include families that engage in repeated, small-scale harassment, like bullying gay neighbors or intimidating police witnesses."*
The proposal of sending "anti-social" people who are not convicted of any crime to "scum villages" sounds ridiculous, but it has been proposed by right-wingers in Amsterdam. How would it be decided who would be sent to these settlements, which would be essentially ghe... |
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