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Old 12-04-2011, 08:35 PM #8
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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva View Post
I think it's a disturbing new development that France feels it needs to enforce a new dress code. But I suppose it's not too surprising considering Europeans have, in sociological terms, positive freedom whereas Americans have negative freedom. If you don't like the burka why in the world did you allow millions of people from Muslim countries in to your country in the first place? They never agreed that they would dress like other French people.

I feel the government's responsibility is to protect unpopular freedom of speech and expression, not to cater to the impulses of the common people.

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we ain't the Euro
and not Europeans.
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