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French Exceptionalism Again in the EU-(via Merde in France)
For you Francophones out there, the French are up to their old tricks again, getting French "cultural exceptionalism" enshrined in the basic law of the EU. Once again we see the hatred of classical liberalism and its consequence, limited government, by the so-called leaders of "Unified Europe." This is why such exception is taken to comparing "United Europe" to the United States. The two are founded on radically different attitudes towards freedom. In the former, "freedom" is the gift of the government to be revoked at will, while, in the latter, freedom is the natural right of humans and not the provenance of the government. Posted by: Ernest Brown 2003-07-14 |
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