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| Danish pizza maker in the wars again |
| 2004-07-29 |
| A Danish pizza maker who was jailed last year in a war protest has been fired from his new job for re-offending. Aage Bjerre refused to serve French and German tourists because of their governments' opposition to the Iraq war. The passionate supporter of America's Iraq policy moved to the Faroe Islands last October after serving eight days in a minimum security jail for refusing to serve the tourists on Fanoe island, western Denmark. He had refused to pay a £500 fine. After completing his sentence, he was employed at a pizzeria in Klaksvik, a town of 5,000 inhabitants. But last weekend a group of German tourists arrived in his pizzeria and Mr Bjerre refused to serve them. He was fired again. He said: "They [the restaurant] knew my point of view when they hired me and that was OK until the first tourists came." |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #10 There's one in every crowd Dar :) (thank God) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-29 7:50:21 PM |
| #9 "'Frah-gee-lay'--it must be Italian!" |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-07-29 12:46:23 PM |
| #8 Indeed, and mark the receipt Fragile. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-07-29 12:00:50 PM |
| #7 "And here's my receipt for your receipt" |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-07-29 11:49:50 AM |
| #6 Apparently no Danish equivalent of the First Amendment exists? Does the EU have such a guarantee either? I expect Aris'll trawl through the latest draft of the proposed constitution and find some sub-clause appended to paragraph 414b, subsection 8 of Chapter Five (The Rights of Protectees ('clients' or 'individuals') and Restrictions Thereof) outlining, together with some platitudinous and aspirational terms speech and opinions (uttered or presumed) sanctioned and deemed acceptable by the state concerning itself or others without incitement or offense as to be prescribed and allocated in due course by the designated committees under jurisdiction of the supreme European Court of Human Rights or senior legislative body where appropriate... |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-29 10:02:46 AM |
| #5 Apparently no Danish equivalent of the First Amendment exists? Does the EU have such a guarantee either? |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-07-29 9:50:01 AM |
| #4 Dunno about the Case of the Cloning Comments, lol... O/T - Mr Aage Bjerre should apply to immigrate to the US. He could make a more substantial case for political persecution than 95% of the Muslim immigrants. For me, this is the punchline: The Danish GOVERNMENT fined him for his politics! I can see the pizzaria owner firing him for refusing to serve customers, no sweat as it's not his pizzaria - but WTF is the GOVERNMENT doing involved? That's just fucking INSANE! Bravo for your courage, Mr Bjerre!!! C'mon over, my man! We'll find you a job or, better yet, help you get a loan to build your own pizzaria! |
| Posted by: .com 2004-07-29 7:45:20 AM |
| #3 Find out in next week's instalment of "Bulldog's HTML Nightmare"... |
| Posted by: Howard UK 2004-07-29 7:24:52 AM |
| #2 I mean #13 is dupliocated at #1, of course. What happened to the original #1? Was there a different #1 before Frank's contribution started cloning? Can Frank's replicating 13 be stopped? |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-29 6:49:54 AM |
| #1 Oops. In-article link's not what I intended. It should be this: http://www.rantburg.com/comments.asp?ID=39264&d=7/29/2004&HC=2 PS Tech staff - there's something funny going on with the comments associated with that article - note Frank G's #1 is duplicated at #13. WTH?! |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-07-29 6:42:46 AM |