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Susanne wrote that it was very annoying for a Member of Parliament to be on their way home or just at home after a heavy work week on Thursday after 8:00 PM and then receive a request to immediately return to the House of Representatives for a roll call vote on a rainbow flag. #TweedeKamer #Politiek #Regenboogvlag #Wetgeving (translated)

Cees van de Sanden, former VVD senator, realizes that as an independent member of parliament he has gained the freedom to critically assess the quality of legislation, after he resigned from the VVD due to his dissatisfaction with the populist direction of the party. #CeesvandeSanden #EersteKamer #VVD (translated)

Afshin Ellian asked what would happen if Islamic rules became visible in the police and the judiciary. He argued that guidelines could change under pressure from leftist and Islamic politicians, and that the VVD could permanently prevent this with strict legislation. Ellian wrote that neutrality and a neutral appearance of government bodies and their officials could be enshrined in an overarching law or in separate laws, such as the Police Act and the Judiciary Organization Act. He suggested that leftist and Islamist politicians would, in principle, never obtain a majority in both Houses to amend such a law. He also noted it was remarkable that the VVD had not proposed such legislation in recent decades. According to him, a robust law should guarantee the neutrality of the police, judiciary, and public prosecution, unlike a guideline. #neutraliteit #wetgeving #politiek (translated)

Jitse Groen wrote that the Netherlands, according to him, pursued economic growth, more housing, a leading position in AI, food security, fewer regulations, better mobility, and energy independence, but simultaneously enacted policies that countered these goals. He mentioned, among other things, taxes on the economy and rental housing, opposition to data centers and farmers, the growth of government, deteriorating infrastructure, and the lack of domestic gas production. Groen warned that box 3, on top of what he described as overreaching legislation, could also drive away entrepreneurs, investors, and crypto companies. The lack of vision, according to him, would be held against the current generation of politicians for a long time. #Economie #Politiek #Toekomst (translated)

To think about: In April 1946, Nazi leader Hermann Göring explained in his cell in Nuremberg exactly how political power really works. He said that ordinary people never demand war or crisis, but you can always get them on board. The recipe is simple: tell them they are in danger, and accuse the critics of endangering the community. That eighty-year-old formula is today the exact blueprint behind the permanent state of crisis in which we are kept. We see this in the conflict between Europe and Russia over Ukraine, where fear is used to push through billions in weapons without real democratic debate. But it doesn’t stop at geopolitics. We saw the same recipe with COVID-19, and now with climate change and the energy transition. It penetrates into our immediate living environment, such as the Environmental Vision Fryslân or the planned closures of the Wadden nature. While island residents are excluded, the elite discusses coercive 'system changes' at the Springtij Forum on Terschelling. The control over the narrative has now gone frighteningly far. Unheard Netherlands (ON!) is being ousted from the public broadcasting system, and through new legislation, there is an open search for ways to ban right-wing opposition parties. This is exactly where history painfully begins to rhyme with the 1930s, when critical media and parties were gradually silenced under the guise of 'public order' or 'safety'. The lines of this coordinated policy go directly to international networks and think tanks such as NATO, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the UN with their coercive SDGs. Through programs like the Young Global Leaders, politicians worldwide are being trained to roll out exactly the same crisis narratives in their own countries. Our local democracy seems to have become an execution office for a predetermined global agenda. The great eye-opener that Göring left us is that this mechanism works in every system. Once a population is made afraid enough of an invisible enemy (whether it is a virus, an aggressor, nitrogen, or CO₂), it willingly surrenders its freedom, its diverse media, and its common sense. Fear is the ultimate weapon to steer the masses. This pattern only stops when we cease to blindly follow that automatic pilot of fear. Will you let history repeat itself, or will you say no? #politiek #geschiedenis #angst (translated)

An Italian gay couple, Andrea and Alessandro, risks imprisonment and a heavy fine because, as a result of the new legislation in Italy, they want to keep their child, born through an American surrogate, a secret to protect their son from discovery by the authorities. #Draagmoederschap #Homostellen #Italië (translated)

That crypto and precious metals do not automatically fall into the existing list of exceptions can simply be fixed through a legislative amendment. In short, a fallacy by @Stas_Financien @eelcoeerenberg. Thus states @pesla. Dismissing this with "can't because it's not in the bill" is argumentatively insufficient. #crypto #edelmetaal #wetgeving (translated)

I just saw the debate between @MPHoogeveen and @Stas_Financien about the difference in taxation between directly held bitcoin, in a wallet or on an exchange (capital gains tax), and bitcoin through an investment product at a bank or broker (wealth tax). @Stas_Financien states that crypto cannot be included in the amendment, because the existing exception for start-ups and scale-ups can only be extended to other securities. But is that really true?! An amendment is a legislative proposal with which you can modify and/or supplement another legislative proposal. The fact that there is currently no exception for crypto (and precious metals) does not automatically mean that you cannot add one. If speed is the reason to accept that difference, then concretely justify why direct crypto/precious metals cannot be included in time. My question would be: What concrete legal provision makes it impossible for crypto/precious metals to be included in the same amendment? Saying "that exception was not included yet" is not sufficient. It didn't exist for start-ups either, but was also added. Think of an addition for regulated institutions, exchanges, or brokers that have a license or AFM permit. #Crypto #Belasting #Wetgeving (translated)

Vandaag ontving ik een delegatie van mensen met een handicap. Zij trokken aan de alarmbel over de vaak onaangepaste wetgeving voor mensen met een handicap in Europa, en over het gebrek aan aangepaste woningen. 💔Belangrijk om niet enkel óver mensen maar ook mét mensen te praten🫶 https://t.co/GCnA6Vu17T #Toegankelijkheid #Handicap #Inclusie #EU

Wat @sarahdobbe (SP) hier doet in het wetgevingsdebat over personeel van defensie, zou ik graag meer Kamerleden willen zien doen: D66 confronteren met hun gedraai ná de verkiezingen. Ongeacht of je het eens bent met D66: hun kiezersbedrog moet vaker exposed worden. Geldt trouwens ook voor de VVD. Dat is iets wat we zouden mogen verwachten van de parlementaire journalistiek maar wat daar dus niet gebeurt, waardoor ze verkiezingen blijven winnen op basis van leugens. Dat moet stoppen. #TweedeKamer #KabinetJetten #Defensie #Kamerleden #Politiek