The Italians Get It (Sort of)

Two cheers for Italy. They have taken the first step to realizing that self-defense is a basic human right. The Italian parliament has legalized self-defence. In a blinding flash of the obvious, the rightist (and right) Northern League party introduced legislation that "allow[s] people to use legally registered weapons to protect themselves or others, and their property and the property of others, from harm." Lefist moron Paolo Cento expressed concerns that "This is a... measure that delegates the use of force to citizens ..." while not considering that force was initiated by the criminal in the first place and that the citizen is just responding to the initial use of force. Do these leftist imbeciles believe that people should just sit there and take whatever abuse a criminal decides to impugn upon them?

I skimmed through the new EU constitution and I've noticed it gives 'rights' to every conceivable group. You have the 'right' to be free from need in the EU and the 'right' never to be offended no matter how weird you are. But conspicuously absent is the true right to self-defense. It's an absolute right; one that cannot be taken away no matter how stupid the respective government is.

At least the Italians are taking a step in the right direction. They're following the excellent example of the Brazilians who realized that their government cannot protect them from every conceivable harm in life.

In other news, every citizen in Zimbabwe, thanks to socialism, is a millionaire!

ZIMBABWE is introducing a new range of bills that will more than double the value of the largest bank note to help reduce the piles of money needed in routine cash transactions in the stricken economy, the central bank announced Tuesday.

The biggest note currently in circulation is for 20,000 Zimbabwe dollars, worth 20 US cents (16 euro cents). With inflation running at 586 percent, that note buys only half a loaf of bread and is no longer sufficient for a local daily newspaper.

Zimbabwe's economy has collapsed since the government began seizing thousands of white-owned commercial farms for redistribution to blacks in 2000. Years of drought have compounded the country's difficulties. Inflation is soaring and the value of the currency plummeting.

Stores, restaurants and other businesses have frequently appealed for notes of up to 500,000 Zimbabwe dollars (US$5; euro4) or one million Zimbabwe dollars (US$10; euro8) to reduce the bagfuls of notes needed for routine transactions.

Nothing like "Hate Whitey!" as an effective economic policy. Way to go Mugabe! Oh I forgot, it's all the fault of the imperialist Whites.