Possibly the worst use of spin (or just bad reporting) I’ve seen in a while. Amsterdam was voted one of the top cities to live in by Mercer (13th). San Fransisco (where a lot of the same practices are emulated) comes in at 29. New York scraped in at 49.
Bill O’Reilly: A Cesspool Of Corruption, Crime
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Bill O’Reily is a comedy genius! Always makes me laugh how does he do it?! HAHAHA!!
My Goodness…what a bunch of smart reporting kids…
O’Reilly meets his own personal satirist in this clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZM6GoEZ4FY&feature=related
Hilarious indeed. O’Reilly really is an enormously ignorant twit with, sadly, a enormous following of ignorant twats. Amsterdam is one of the treasures of the world, compact, friendly, open-minded, beautiful and stylish -in fact, it’s the exact opposite of Bill O’Reilly and indeed Fox News. Luckily, I gather, O’Reilly will never be in The Dam when I am. That means a lot.
Ehehehehe ….. …
What an arsehole… excuse me, I live in Amsterdam, and I feel a lot safer here than I did in LA when I was on holiday there! Over here, if somebody is murdered, it’s headline news. In lots of American cities, it’s business as usual… cesspool of crime, indeed. Yeah, there’s crime, of course — drug dealers, pimps, whatever — but it’s not like it’s out of control, or worse than in any other reasonably big city. We’re not the ones with the gang problems, police shootings, and kids living on the street. Good video, shows them who has the real problem here!
He is a buffoon of the highest order.
He’s doing it live!
He’s just perpetuating the drug war, like the left does as well.
This man makes me angry whenever I watch something he’s don, though I’m not sure how much attention people pay to him. He’s an inflammatory guy in newscasting over there – it’s sortof his format.
I was recently in Holland (not Amsterdam, Eindhoven if I remember) and it was very nice over-all, except for nearly being run over every 5 minutes as they could use small motor-bikes on the foot path between my hotel and the venue where I was performing. Of course I wasn’t in the city centre so was unlikely to witness any bank robberies but still….
The point on cannabis might be misleading in two ways:
First of all cannibis is not legal in the Netherlands (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands). Possession and production for personal use is a misdemeanor, but prosecution is not brought for possession of 5 grams or under or growth of 5 plants or under (confiscation on discovery). Coffee shops where cannibis is smoked are popular and are not prosecuted. While I was there I was told that its frowned on to smoke it in public (im not sure what would happen if you did).
Second of all, this policy may well draw criminals in, but a full legalisation of soft drugs (which the majority of the Dutch population supports) would put them out of business. As I have said for a long time, legalisation would empty prisons, improve quality as drug companies produce it, reduce price for the same reason and reduce crime. Not to mention draw in large amounts of tax.
Bill O’Reilly never fails to give me a laugh. Unfortunately, my parents worship the guy.
another O’Reilly moment to treasure for posterity…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tJjNVVwRCY
No need to take this seriously, guys. He’s just an uneducated waste of space. His words don’t change the facts. And if some people treat what he is saying as true then they don’t deserve to be taken seriously either.
colbert is amazingly smooth & he really nails o’reilly. and i strongly suspect bill is studying him very closely to pick up pointers on how to handle guys like himself.
Come on. Did anyone ever expect Bill O’Reilly to actually say something intelligent? Logical thought goes against everything he stands for. I visited Amsterdam and few years ago. It is a delightful city. There was never any sense of danger. I can’t say the same about many US cities I have visited. There is a very simple solution to the entire FOX news crew and all of their propagandist right wing nonsense – don’t watch the channel.
Nice! The only thing what this report reconfirms is that FOX is the biggest hypocrite in the world!
I am a Dutch guy and I belong to the 22.6% who has done “grass” and a lot worse.
However! Smoking weed and doing drugs are not socially accepted in The Netherlands –you become a social outcast if you publicly smoke weed.
Now the thing is why do kids (because that is the biggest market of drugs, ages 12-24) result into using drugs?
In my opinion is the social pressure put on kids! Pressure that comes from the corner of the conservative folks.
I can confirm that there is no anarchy in Amsterdam. It’s not a city I would normally choose to live in -due to its touristic nature- but it’s certainly not significantly dangerous or chaotic in there.
And I don’t care much about cannibis but I would recommend everybody to try some mushrooms, at least once in their lives. I had an amazing experience with psilocybe mexicanas (philosopher’s stones) while in Netherlands and I wish everybody could taste that awesomeness. It’ll probably turn out to be much more awesome than you think it could be.
Also check out some of the studies here: http://www.maps.org/
I’m confident that psychedelics will be an integral part of the culture in the future. They have so much potential and it’s just extremely tragic we’re not making use of them. Imagine our cavemen ancestors finding a forest full of car trees (high-tech fruits) but either they don’t know how to use the cars or they’re too hysteric and afraid about the whole thing and they burn the trees. Thus they can’t take advantage of the transportation power offered by the technology. Similar with psychedelics today. Seriously. But things will change if the awareness can be raised.