Dutch Coffeeshops to Fingerprint Customers!

Starting September 2007, coffeeshops in the City of Mastricht will start fingerprinting and photographing every customer and copying their ID cards. This is due to a new law requiring each customer be identified and the amount of cannabis purchased recorded.

Since 2002, police have strictly enforced the existing laws, and shops found in violation are automatically closed for a minimum of three months for a single infraction, six months for a second offense, and permanently for a third. Now only 15 of Maastricht's 26 licensed shops remain open, and more are likely to close as a result of these new laws.

Despite efforts to fight this new law, the remaining coffeeshops in Mastricht are going to comply with the new rules. Other Dutch border towns and the city of Rotterdam are also considering implementing these new rules for coffeeshops.

No doubt this will have a chilling effect upon the cannabis trade in Holland. The big question is whether Amsterdam, the world capital of cannabis, will follow suit.

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In this case it may have more to do with internal Dutch politics and that of their neighboring countries. The Dutch have a relatively conservative gov't, which they can't seem to change for some unclear reason.

The rush to get personal information by the US, the EU and certain countries is very Orwellian and will soon turn into a nightmare as more and more unscrupulous individuals get access to very personal information that they never had access to before. Many of these are in Gov't spy agencies and will eventually use that info against people.

 

Believe it or not, such intolerance is rooted in Christianity, whose murderous legacy the Dutch seem to have conveniently forgotten.

Who is the head of state? Balkenende, a Christian minister. What the fuck do you expect?

And when the FUCK are the Dutch gonna change this SAME gov't they've had since when? Since Pim Fortuyn was murdered, no? Guess those Xtians couldn't face having a GAY man lead their country. More intolerance.

The reality of Dutch Tolerance is fading fast. Maybe there's still a few liberals hanging out in Amsterdam coffeeshops, but I've met many YOUNG Dutch people and many of those were only concerned about material possessions and partying on E.

The only political stand the Young Dutch have is to stop immigration and kick out the Muslims.

In fact true integration of minorities into Dutch society is another illusion they present to the world that isn't real. The only group marginally integrated are the Indonesians, because they've been living with the Dutch for so long (like almost 400 years).

 

I think too many casual tourists take away a incorrect impression of the Dutch based upon their experiences visiting Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a whole 'nother place compared to the rest of the Netherlands, in fact the Dutch are a minority in that city.

Amsterdam has always gone its own way (like providing arms to the French against their own countrymen), but even today Amsterdam has lost much of its independence under this gov't.

Amsterdam & the area around it is now viewed as the future, where Holland becomes much more of an international banking, finance and investment center (lots of new tax breaks for int'l business).

So it's clear the Dutch care more about money than social progress, and many are willing to let wane the great social experiment which they pioneered in the 1960s-70s.

The current gov't has been making great inroads in destroying the personal freedoms that generations took for granted. One day they will wish they still had them...

I watched as the Dutch emulated American society. I couldn't believe they adopted the WORST of American traits. Then of course many turned against the US during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, but they still haven't rejected our negative cultural influences, and this new law proves it.

 

Well add to that the random street sweeps by the Polizei who stop and search people in the center of Amsterdam, and you've got Big Brother come to life! I would never have thought that the Dutch would be the first Big Brother society. The US and UK are not far behind either.