Where is the border line?

Two weeks ago one Saturday me and Mr.B went to Amsterdam and this time not for a museum or a special event but only to get more familiar with the atmosphere of the city itself. This city has its own character as The Hague (Den Haag), Rotterdam and just recently visited city Maastricht have, each has its own personality and this tells you no matter how small the country is still things get different when you move from one city to another.
Anyway, at the end of the day we went to "red light district", I was too curious to skip seeing those streets which until then I always thought it was "red line strict" (Being an Iranian does explain that I guess :). It's needless to say this area and the banned-free access to Marijuana in certain cafes have made Holland "the" place to visit for certain tourists.
Apparently this doesn't sound as appealing to the Dutch people themselves. I heard once from one of my supervisors that this policy is coming from this mentality of Dutch which says: " You're free to do whatever you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else" and that they want to have control on the issues which have become underground problems for other countries BUT, that's not as clever as it sounds to many Dutch people and they're not really happy with that. They're having problems with under legal age prostitution and the number of teenagers with tendency to smoking cigarette and later on Marijuana has increased-as they say.
It's hard to say if it's really serious especially in the world of relativity with universal problems like addiction and so on, it's better be not too judgmental maybe.
But apart from the whole matter there was one scene I took when I left that red district. Two 11-12 (if not less) years old boys were walking in the area looking at the windows, giggling and whispering. I wonder when they got back to their homes what they said to their parents if they were asked where they had been to.
Isn't it similar to the right and responsibility that parents should have to control the TV channels when they have "kids" and if so who is taking this right from them. Does that famous Dutch mentality of "not my business unless you're bothering" have anything to say for such families?

Justice!

It was in the middle of post-election days in Iran that my supervisor put a paper on my desk which was news about Tariq Ramadan being fired from the university and it was because he ran a program in Press TV which is a channel funded by Iranian government. Apparently the program was not political or in support of the Iranian regime. My supervisor who's Dutch was against the university's decision. Later on, there was news on Maziar Bahari's case; an Iranian-Canadian journalist who works for Newsweek. He got arrested during the post-election days in Iran and spent months in Prison before being released. Working for a western media apparently was enough for him to be suspected of espionage!
Now, Tariq Ramadan left Holland to where he found open arms in Oxford university and Maziar Bahari is back to Newsweek.
The scale of troubles that the journalist went through is beyond my imagination but I cannot help but wonder how different the logic supporting each condemnation was in the first place. I don't expect the governments in Iran to be fair as unjustness is one of the very ugly angles they are defined with but from academia in a democratic country it was surprising to observe what I was observing.

The Dutch go green

Royal attack: the end of an illusion

...Foreigners who are surprised by ministers who cycle to their offices, a prime minister eating a herring alone at the fish stall next to parliament - it is all gone... Read more

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Irrelevant update: A different look at racism conference in Geneva, different from what I've heard/read so far, it's in Farsi I'm afraid.