[Paleo Conservative]

I'm glad the President of the United States has no such power. Constitutional amendments require that lots of thought go into them, because the process of ammending the constitution is so arduous. The constitution is not a place for fads.

[max_rpf]

GO FOR IT! In 10Y France will be a cesspool of Islamism and and economic black hole that every business on the planet will have to avoid in order to stay in business.

(Not that it isn't already)

[blackdog]

Nice to know that a peasant in the french countryside has the same rights as the tree outside Chirac's front door.

How collectively insane can one country become as a result of it's political whores?

I know first hand that the majority of the people in the French countryside do not care for their whacky liberal politicians. Good people, bad front men.

[theDentist]

France takes one more step towards the dustbins of History.

[Kenton]

France to add green rights to constitution

Kermit will be happy to hear this...

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[blackdog]

My suspicion is that this is a UN hatched plan to errode and eventually eliminate private land ownership, being carried out under the cover of "saving our environment" when nothing could be more distant from the truth.

Based on France's positions against Bush and America, you will see a whole lot of UN plans being hatched under the auspices of the French Government. The first shots fired in a froggy/Texan war.

[ThomasMore]

Chirac, a conservative

If he's conservative, I'd hate to see what this guy calls liberal.

[MattAMiller]

It's either meaningless or dangerous. Just how clean does a person's environment have to be? And how far does a person's environment extend?

[Weimdog]

"This gives environmental rights the same weight as the civil and political rights of 1789"

The slippery slope of giving trees the same rights as humans.

Hmmmm, this is going to be funny watching this unfold.

[Mike Darancette]

"At the start of the process, we were faced with an empty glass. Today we have a half-empty glass...

That's right keep pissing in that glass Europe.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

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?

[RightWhale]

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! ?

[Uncle Miltie]

"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.....

[farmfriend]

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.

[sheik yerbouty]

"Eat your greens' froggies!

[CaptIsaacDavis]

Horah!!!!! Long Live the Plants of France!!!!

[cookcounty]

"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?

[Fearless Flyers]

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 week’s 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.