Friday, April 29, 2005

You just can't argue with logic

Israel has rejected a proposal by the United States to supply the Palestinian police officers in the West Bank with weapons that would assist them in performing their duties.

American officials have told their Israeli interlocutors over the past few days that the Palestinian security forces need weapons to help them maintain order in the territories. In response, the U.S. officials heard a negative reply from Israeli officials: "Let them first take the weapons from the terrorists."

  Haaretz article

Without weapons. However they can manage.

[A] German regional justice minister proposed fitting long-term unemployed people with electronic tags used for to monitor criminals in order to help them "get back into an ordered daily routine."

Christean Wagner, a conservative politician in the central state of Hesse, also compared people out of work for a number of years with recovering drug addicts.

"An electronic foot shackle offers the long-term unemployed and drug addicts undergoing treatment the chance to get back into an ordered daily routine and find a job or get some training," Wagner said in a statement.

Wagner added that "many of them have got out of the habit of following normal hours and so are compromising their chances of working or getting training."

  DW World article

Well, they're pissed at him in Germany, but I see a bright future for him here in the U.S.

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