Posted on 07/12/2005 8:49:47 AM PDT by untenured
A Danish pizzeria owner has gone to jail for refusing to pay a fine imposed after he barred German and French customers from his restaurant.
Aage Bjerre acted in protest against the French and German governments' opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.
He will now serve an eight-day sentence at a minimum security prison, the Associated Press reports.
"I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States," he said. He refused to pay a 5,000-kroner (£461;$800) fine.
In June 2003 a Danish court convicted of him of racial discrimination.
The 46-year-old was forced to sell his pizzeria on the western island of Fanoe after repeated vandalism and a plunge in sales.
In February 2003 he had put up signs at his pizzeria with bars through the images of people coloured in the French and German flags.
He also reprinted his menus without German translations.
The island is a popular spot with tourists from neighbouring Germany, but there are few French visitors to Fanoe, which has a year-round population of 3,300.
Germans and French aren't "races," but don't tell that to the PC crowd. .......a crowd only too willing to assign a "racial" cause to anything and everything.
Its illegal to be racist in Denmark? Wow
Invite him to move to America and become a US citizen!
Worse. The man was protesting political decisions of French and Germans. Race did not enter into it, nationality defined by political boundaries did.
Would this sort of thing be protected here? (USA)
Probably not, actually. I suspect the civil-rights legislation of 1965, which many states and cities have strengthened, would prohibit it.
Fanø is the island just to the southeast of Esbjerg harbor (see here: http://www.kms.dk/landetrundt/danmarkskort/d1113.html )
You can rent summer cottages on the beach on Fanø, but I don't know why anyone would want to; the wind howls in off the North Sea, and it's colder than a witch's a$$ there even in midsummer.
Oops, I meant "southwest". Sorry.
Do these places call themselves Free Countries? Cuz that's not freedom. They're even less free than we are, I think.
Well, bless his heart!
Laws against government "discrimination" are legitimate.Laws against private "discrimination" are an abomination.
Well, they sure made their point about non-violence.
My thoughts exactly. He's more American than a lot that have been born here.
Here's his website:
http://www.aagespizza.com/frameset.asp
Give it a look see, he's selling merchandise on there for income.
Bump^
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