SHOCKING: Dutch Lack Inmates,Closing 8 Prisons!

Leniency in drug laws, legalization of prostitution, euthanasia, and the push to electronically monitor inmates in their own home has created an unusual dilemma. There aren't enough convicts in the Netherlands to keep prisons open for business!

Announced Tuesday of last week, the Dutch Government made it official what has been whispered about long enough. At least eigth prisons will close within one year.

Officials attribute the shortage of prisoners to a declining crime rate.

Imagine this. The general population of the Netherlands is 16.6 million. Their prison population is 12,000. Compared to California, the world's most notoriously overcrowded prison system, they should have only 24,000 inmates considering California has 36.7 million people. Not so! California actually has nearly four times that amount-171,000 inmates in of itself!

So what is California doing wrong? Are we teaching "soft criminals" the ways of the "hardened and violent criminals" within the confinements of prisons? And, who's drug policies are keeping the streets safer?

I am not supporting legalizing marijuana by any stretch of the imagination. However, we have a huge crisis with national security on our hands. It's not just with Iran.

The Dutch are trying to figure out how to save 1,200 government jobs, the far left are striving for, by hauling in at least 500 Belgium inmates from their overcrowded prisons. The far right cry foul, for they think that the Dutch are being to weak on crime.

If the Netherlands accept Belgium's inmate transplants, the Netherlands would get 30 million euros in the deal, and it will allow the closing of the prisons in Rotterdam and Veenhuizen to be postponed until 2012.

It's an interesting argument. Are Dutch people becoming more civil or is their society becoming more tolerant of incivility?

It wasn't always like this.In the 1990's, the Netherlands had their own prison shortage nightmares. Policies to lower the standards of what defines a crime came into play. Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak assures the Dutch public it is just a sharp decline in crime, and the government becoming stricter on crime.

I don't claim to be a prophet, but I see the future of the U.S going in this same direction that the Netherlands has gone. We have a liberal president, who openly supports abortion and marijuana use. He doesn't have an ounce of comprehension about national security, and is a pansy about putting pressure on Iran and others who threaten our nation. However, he would like nothing more than to sweep all the problems under the rug and appear as if all is good. What better way to do it, and combine all the aforementioned problems he already possess, and make America liberal on crime?

This may be a bold statement few of you want to accept. Hold the hate mail if you will! I am seeing an all too grim percentage of crime spikes on the streets that I work. I see the desperation of the people that ordinarily wouldn't think of commiting a crime ever in their lives. Suddenly, they find themselves in front of a judge for the very first time with a rap sheet because they can't feed their family, pay their bills, or get a job.

Think of the nightmare we are heading into as a nation if our president gets any more lax with policies affecting our security!

My last note: perhaps the Netherlands are actually doing well and actually do have a significantly lowered crime rate. If this is actually so, and not because of lax crime policies, laws, and their national security, let me be the first to give them a huge pat on the back! If it is a zealous sweep under the rug act, hopefully our president won't follow suit!