Intentions

The new year has started and by now most good intentions have been drowned in reality.
Luckily, I would say, since the road to hell is said to be paved with good intentions.
Some intentions, which would have been absolutely ridiculous and despicable 10 years ago, are now considered very plausible.
One that stands out is the new "Code of Conduct" that was launched by the city of Rotterdam.
It entails that only Dutch should be spoken in the streets
That only Dutch should be spoken in the streets.
Such attitudes are normally encountered in isolated places like the sahara but not in a modern multicultural city.
The other extremely good intention, that will surely lead to unpleasant places, is to put up to 40.000 youngsters in military camps to be educated. To teach them "norms and values".

Norms and values, I am afraid it has all started with that.
After last elections, some years ago, a government was formed that was not elected.
The Prime Minister ( who was not elected) emphasized the importance of "norms and values".
I will not go into highlighting the hypocrisy of his statements.
It just makes me wonder about our values, when it takes military discipline to teach.

Of course I'am taking some risc by publicly stating my doubts.
We are in a state of war ( on terrorism) and i remember our Prime Minister, just before the elections. He was an MP then, and during a public debate he was the first to mimic mr. Bush,
"Those who are not with us, are against us".

Of course we will have plenty of enemies tomorrow when we chase off the millions that are with us today.