Wednesday, September 13, 2006

FUTURE: When We Become Like Europe, This Is How We'll Look

Scanning a story by FoxNews.Com it occurred to me the US of A has a lot to look forward to. The rule of thumb is entertainment norms move west to east; cultural norms move east to west.

Hhmm! Let's see what's moving west.

Straight from the Queen's personal masseuse comes this ...
The South Wales police arrested evangelical Stephen Green outside the Mardi Gras event in Cardiff and charged him with using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour." A spokesman for the police said Green had not behaved in a violent or aggressive manner, but that officers arrested him because "the leaflet contained Biblical quotes about homosexuality."
And from the land of the perpetual lisp we hear this ...
Black leaders in France are demanding that the new edition of a dictionary be recalled because its definition of the word 'colonization' puts too positive a spin on the concept... .
From the EU West we understand ...
An Orthodox Jewish man was removed from an Air Canada Jazz flight in Montreal last week for praying, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation reported on Wednesday.
And from the other MSM (non-American) this ...
The latest manifestation of the Leftist doctrine of "moral equivalence" (which flows from their belief that "There is no such thing as right and wrong") is their refusal to recognize terrorism. Only very recently has Australia's major public broadcaster removed from its guide for reporters the advice that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and, as far as I know, Reuters, the BBC and others still proclaim that. HT: Tongue Tied
The US isn't where the rest of the world is yet, but we're gaining ...
Following complaints from a local atheist, a post office in California removed a poster carrying the words "God Bless America" from public view so it wouldn't violate the separation of church and state, reports the Santa Maria Times.
All kidding aside, Americans need to watch what is happening to the once great European countries as they defragment into communal dysfunction.

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