fantapolitica
humorous look at Italian politics (bilingual)Friday, February 18, 2005
Birds of a Feather
A Small victory for US chutzpa (faccia di bronzo)
Via Kevin Drum Via Sam Heldman
Kevin Small argues that his punishment for violating the endangered species act should be to lobby congress to "reform" the endangered species act so that his actions would be legal. My countryman has more nerve than Marcello dell'Utri who argued that his punishment for false accounting (and thus tax evasion) should be a the "community service" of putting his personal library in order.
Now it is true that ForzItalians have pioneered both the fields of making the punishment more fun than the crime and of changing laws so that their actions are no longer crimes, but they did not think of combining these noble efforts.
And Small isn't even (exactly) a politician. He is secretary (read secretario not secretaria) of the Smithsonian Institution a foundation which owns musems on the Mall (next to the capital building in Washington DC).
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