Posted on 09/20/2007 1:56:21 AM PDT by Argentine-Firecracker
Poland is once again on a collision course with other European Union member states, this time by by vetoing plans to create a European anti-death penalty day. At a meeting of EU justice and interior ministers on Tuesday, Poland was the only country to refuse to agree to make Oct. 10 a "European Day against the Death Penalty."
Once again Warsaw was not willing to play ball with its European partners, insisting the EU "approach the subject in a broader way and debate the protection of life" -- including issues such as abortion and euthanasia. Poland is a staunchly Roman Catholic country and is one of only three EU countries, together with Ireland and Malta, that prohibits abortion on demand.
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Seems to me that I read somewhere that the City of London was considering a Be Kind to Muggers, Murderers and Rapists Day, but I can’t recall offhand where I saw it.
I have no clue...though with Red Ken as mayor there, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I do know that there are complaints about the Human Rights Act precisely because it has protected murderers.
“At Tuesday’s meeting Poland’s deputy justice minister, Andrzej Duda, suggested the EU should celebrate a “right to life day” instead of marking its opposition to the death penalty. He then shocked his colleagues by reading out loud the number of abortions in Denmark, Sweden and Finland.”
“Afterwards, Danish Justice Minister Lene Espersen said that the Polish performance was an expression of “moral decay,” Italy’s Justice Minister Clememete Mastela called the Polish stance “arrogant,” while Britain’s Justice Minister Jack Straw insisted Poland should not push the issue of abortion at the EU level.”
“I just don’t think it’s appropriate for partisan politics,” he told reporters. Germany’s Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries agreed: “Everybody else said that’s not an issue.”
Oh, those arrogant Christian Poles. The EU gets on their intellectual high horse and lectures the rest of the world, and Poland has the nerve to lecture them about their hypocrisy!
The bunch of leftist social engineering hypocrites that set EU policy don’t deserve the term “intellectuals”. They will destroy the moral fibre of Europe and leave a vacuum that only the Polish seem to clearly recognize.
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