>> 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.
> Anyone who makes a laughing stock out of his own country deserves to be > locked up for many, many years. Leaving the choice of units up to the individuals involved does not make a country laughable. But I would certainly laugh at a country so hung up with self-importance that it jails people for a trivial reason like this. > 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. On the contrary. If he did, I'd be in front of that jail with a flag and match of my own.
