The weather is oh so awesome! Rain and thunder and thrills and all that. Sadly I had a plan to go outside for a little walk and to play some basketball (!!!) and now it’s ruined. Instead I was reading the news and there was an article about Lithuania. Seimas – the parliament – passed a new law. Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public Information. This basically means that it is illegal to talk anything positive about homosexuality in any kind of channels where it is accessible to minors. The president put a veto on it but if the majority of Seimas votes against the veto/for the law it annuls it. And guess what they did?
Obviously Lithuania is a very catholic country and we all know how open-minded most Christians are but this seems unbelievable. I understand that if we talk about third world countries we can’t expect them to get rid of corruption if some randon person from Europe/USA tells them it criminal since it’s a part of their culture to prefer their tribesmen or whatever to others. Only time can heal things like that. But we’re talking about Lithuania. Okay – it wasn’t too long ago when they were still a part of the Soviet Union but by all means they should now be a normal contemporary European country. It’s the 21st century and a member of the EU does something like this? Could you explain to me how the fuck is this possible?
If it was up to me they’d be banned from the EU immediately but this isn’t very likely to happen and even if it was, what would it change? Of course this would let them know the rest of the world finds this unacceptable but it’s a country of a population of approximately 3,6 million people. The leaders of those people stand against human rights. They stand against what any other normal person thrives for – freedom.
It just amazes me. I’m not naive. I know the world we live in is far from perfect but this goes beyond. What’s going to happen tomorrow?
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July 31, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Oh, I read the newspaper this week (Theo is now having it delivered to the restaurant so it is relatively inevitable) and founf out that IMF analytics and most other smart (or The smart) money people considered Lithuania their favourite among Baltic countries. We cannot live in a place less popular than that or what?
August 1, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Shall we do something about it? A little coup d’état perhaps?