As a website (nay, a public service) we run messed-up stories about kids all the time. Hell, if two kids were having a "lawnmower fight" and one of them suffered life-threatening lacerations, we'd toss that bad boy on the front page and call it a night. It's the kind of people we are...cruel and heartless bastards. You're welcome. Tell your friends.

But one thing we've shied away from is stories about child molesters, mainly because it's hard to come up with appropriate jokes ("Why was the nine-year-old girl impregnated by her father ?" "Cause she was drunk !") It's just not an easy sell, and anyway, we'd rather not pop up first on Google when you search for "Horrific Child Abuse"

That being said, we had to share this little gem of a story. In Amsterdam, Dutch pedophiles are organizing a political party, pushing for a cut in the age of consent from 16 to 12, and the legalization of child pornography. Even in a country where heroin and hookers are legal, this concept is raising some eyebrows.

Another promise is to "allow pornography to be broadcast on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening" Also, teenagers over the age of sixteen would be allowed to appear in pornographic films and to prostitute themselves, and sex with animals would be legal (but "abuse of animals should remain illegal" -- which means you have to buy dinner for that sheep, I guess)

"We want to get into parliament so we have a voice" said Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders. "Other politicians only talk about in a negative sense, as if we were criminals."