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France to add green rights to constitution
Reuters ^
| June 26, 2003
Posted on 06/27/2003 9:30:00 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The French cabinet this week backed plans to enshrine the right to a clean environment in the constitution, a step President Jacques Chirac said would raise green safeguards to the level of basic human rights.
The plans would enable officials to take action to stop environmental damage. Chirac said they would make environmental rights equal to France's 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man, which is incorporated in the constitution.
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TOPICS: Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: environment; france; greenfrogs; rainbowwarrior; surrendermonkeys
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To: presidio9
The French cabinet this week backed plans to enshrine the right to a clean environment Does this mean that they'll finally start bathing and shaving their armpits?
To: presidio9
What is this talk of adding something to the US Constitution: the presidential line-item veto? Seems like Bohannon really wants some changes to the Constitution. Open the floodgates! ?
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06/27/2003 12:46:30 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(gazing at shadows)
To: presidio9
"This gives environmental rights the same weight as the civil and political rights of 1789." Result: Snails file class action suit to halt escargot ingestion.....
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06/27/2003 1:38:14 PM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(Racism is the codified policy of the USA .... - The Supremes)
To: presidio9; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; doug from upland; WolfsView; Issaquahking; amom; ...
Like we really give a rat's arse what the Frenchies do.
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
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06/27/2003 4:59:25 PM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: presidio9
"Eat your greens' froggies!
To: presidio9
Horah!!!!! Long Live the Plants of France!!!!
To: presidio9
"The French cabinet this week backed plans to enshrine the right to a clean environment in the constitution, So are they finally going to outlaw leaded gasoline, burning of trash, and driving for maximum fuel burn?
To: presidio9
Date Line Paris July 4, 2004
After disarming their fellow Countrymen with the introduction of Green Legislation into the French Constitution last year, the frogs rose up in successful one day coup that gave them control of the Government yesterday.
The new Government, expected to place Kermit T. Frog at its helm, has put an immediate ban on all agriculture commerce and increased local work visa fees by %300 to fund new research into the palatability of Soilent Green.
Senior Social Services and Remedial Developmental Training employees will be dismissed with one weeks severance pay and replaced with members of the former Pork and Poultry Producers Union.
The New Government has also announced plans to reduce the Nations Prison Population by %99 in the next 90 days.
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