''The time that the schools were a safe place is long gone''

The Big Brother Award 2014 goes to....the Dutch schools, for categorically violating the children's right to privacy. The school boards allow the GGD – the Government agency that ''guards'' youth health - to set up shop in the building and monitor the children in every move they make. Every boy and girl has a record at age 11.

A GGD school doctor even inspects the children's private parts to keep track of their physical development. The teachers present the prevention programs as obligatory school activity. Not participating is not an option. And this is where the Bits of Freedom Expert Jury strongly objects. The schools should stop facilitating.

Constitutional Chaos.

The Mayor resigned, but refuses to leave. He insists on making a dignified retreat in 6 months. Pundits agree; this is an illegal construction. Hoes went to the Interior Ministry today, where the deal apparently was closed. City Council was bypassed. Councilman John Steijns: ''Hoes presented the matter to us as a fait accompli''.

Mayor Hoes under fire. City Council in denial. The local newspaper lost the plot. The high school kids have taken over and they are reporting unfolding events on Twitter and Facebook. Police not amused. The people of Maastricht are anxiously awaiting the end of the turmoil surrounding the lingering story about local authorithies that keep on crossing lines.

The only solution is to arrest the instigators, who exposed themselves recycling, falsifying, copying and pasting public documents. Problem: they work at the Bisschopsingel Bureau..

PostNL 2.0

These are the new decentralized mail depots. Rented garages all over town. Key hangs next to the door.