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French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life
Kjella writes "A little over a week ago we discussed the EU's forbidding of disconnecting users from the Internet. But even after having passed with an 88% approval in the European Parliament, and passing through the European Commission, it was all undone last week. The European Council, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, removed the amendment before passing the Telecom package. This means that there's now nothing stopping France's controversial 'three strikes' law from going into effect. What hope is there for a 'parliament' where near-unanimous agreement can be completely undone so easily?"
You're a nitwit. The popular vote determines what representatives will be voting in the electoral college and that is all. The only thing Al Gore ever won in his life was a double chin.
One more time:
Gore would not have won Broward, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Volusia counties in the recount.
Gore would have won a state-wide recount, a common-sense solution BushII et alia prevented by having the GOP use the Federal court and then the Supreme Court to kick the Florida courts and state law in the teeth.
All in all, an interesting overriding of "state's rights" by a party that claims to highly prize those rights. (For the irony-impaired, that's what irony sounds like.)