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May 26, 2005
Europe Good News and Bad News
First the good news. It looks like the proposed massive EU constitution is going to be defeated in France. This is funny because some of the biggest promoters of the proposed constitution were French. Any natioanl constitution more than twenty or thirty pages long is too long. Even if the proposed EU is a good idea, which I doubt, a constitution works best when it says how a government will work, not what specific policies the government must enact. What Europe needs most is rule by its people, which it has never had to the extent the US has. The proposed constitution will continue to concentrate power in a bunch of unelected elites and that is not the most just solution for Europe's problems.
The bad news is that Oriana Fallaci is facing a blasphemy/defamation trial in Italy for her statements about Islam. I read The Rage and The Pride by Fallaci about a year ago and although I did not think it was that great, Fallaci should be allowed to say whatever she wants about Islam or any other religion or belief system. Fallaci lives in the US now and will probably ignore the trial.
Update 5/27: Go here for an English translation of the list of the 18 sentences Fallaci is on trial for.
Posted by Pete at May 26, 2005 08:29 PM
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