Not my kind of democracy, thank you very much.....

There is a Brit fellow, named Nigel Farage, who is anti-European Union, but is a fully credentialed member of the European Union Parliament. You know, kind of like Nancy Pelosi is in our House of Representatives right now. Or Rand Paul in the Senate.

Anyway, when some Belgian named Harman Van Rompuy, finished his speech at one of their meetings, Mr. Farage rose and commented that in his opinion, Mr. Van Rompuy had "all of the charisma of a wet rag" and further, that he came from "pretty much a non-country."

Although the 'truthiness' of both of these statements was not disputed, the Brit, Mr. Farage was fined €2,980 ($4,000) for daring to utter such ghastly words.

Like I said, not my kind of democracy (with either a small d or a capital D)

And yet I hear some of our legislators and judges allow as how we ought to posture ourselves and our laws after the Europeans?