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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2892)	10/18/2000 4:05:44 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 10042

Re: Btw, don't begin to tell me that it's different in Europe. All Judges have a political constituency in their local communities. Hell, it's much WORSE over here!!! Europe's still in the Middle Ages as far as Justice is concerned.... Just think of Belgium's Dutroux scandal. As regards the US, it reminds me when I travelled over there about 10 years ago.... In Edmonton (Canada), strolling down the street with a beer was a violation! Jaywalking was (almost) a crime! My tentative explanation for such a "wrong-footing" legislation is that Americans still bear their forefathers' legacy, that is, the repressed fear of losing each and every civilized criterion as defined in Europe. The fear that the Wild West mentality could prevail over Europe's law-and-order model drove American legislators to "overreact" to minor offenses.... A few examples: over here (in Brussels as elsewhere in Europe), one can order a Big Mac + French fries and a BEER!! We don't have liquor stores --you just buy your wines, beers and bourbons from your local retail store. In short, Europeans don't nurture that kind of hidden anxiety about people straying out of control and about society as a whole falling apart because of its judicial laxness.... America's frontier mindset praises the pioneers and the freewheelers but then, on second thought, wants to rein them in as dormant lawbreakers.... Gus.