On 2002-10-05 John D Galt said: > They wouldn't have jailed that guy in Britain recently for selling meat by the pound. And it's a violation of human rights that they did.
My view is:- Anyone who makes a laughing stock out of his own country deserves to be locked up for many, many years. It was only that guy's own selfishness that he refused to use metric scales. He had no care for the large number of visitors from Europe and the metric world. He certainly had no care for wanting to enhance his own country's image in the eyes of the world. The fact that Europeans shake their heads in disbelief or even laugh at how Britain wants to keep living in the dark ages doesn't bother him at all. If an American embarrassed America in any way, such as burning a US flag in front of a TV camera, you would expect him to go to jail - violation of human rights or not. Mike Joy
