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August 27, 2007
Foreign Policy, Texas Style
The European Union don't like much about Texas, and something in my DNA suggests the feeling is mutual. Latest evidence: EU wringing its soft perfumed hands over Texas' use of the death penalty. Quothe the BBC:
The EU expressed "great regret" at Texas' preparations to carry out its 400th death penalty and renewed its call to the US to halt executions. . . . But Robert Black, a spokesman for the Texas governor, told the BBC News website: "Two hundred and thirty years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination."Texans long ago decided the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens.
"While we respect our friends in Europe ... Texans are doing just fine governing Texas."
The Texas government should try to repackage its approach to the death penalty. Why not call it an expression of some random judicial impulse, perhaps "sharia," and then dare the EU to denounce its very own prospective legal system, which has a rich heritage of death penalty?
Van | 08/27/07 at 06:40 AM | Categories: - Across the Pond
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I liked Perry's reply. But, your riposte would leave a nasty scar.
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| August 27, 2007 12:30 PM
