Posted on 07/12/2005 6:02:05 AM PDT by BJClinton
"This means that the French can do things such as take private property for national projects"
And Britain cannot ? Ho-hum.
While the article does make some interesting points, I still can't help but crack up laughing whenever I see that headline. It's so....incongruous.
bttt
Are you kidding? The process in Britain is much more convoluted for doing anything with private property. Many of our railways have peculiar bends in them for this reason.
Ivan
Where is the ACLU... Governed by International rather than American Law they should be all over France.
And let's not froget Ira Einhorn's Tour d' France a few years back...
http://www.russbaker.com/Ira's%20tour%20de%20France.htm
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