Thierry "Handry" Henry is just like a politician

Unless you are Michel Platini or a fundamentalist France or Barcelona or Arsenal supporter, or you are not aware that at football you cannot play with your hands, you will agree with me that Thierry Henry is a bloody cheat.

As you may know, during last night’s World Cup qualifier against Ireland, Monsier Va Va Voom has controlled the ball with his hand (twice) before making the pass to his team-mate Williams Gallas, who did eventually score the goal that qualified France for the 2010 World Cup.

Now, it seems like that even the most fundamentalist France or Barcelona or Arsenal supporters (although I am not so sure about Platini) could, after all, possibly agree that Thierry Henry was wrong in controlling the ball with his hand (twice) but nonetheless they still excuse Mr Henry’s behaviour by claiming that everybody else would have acted in the same way in the same situation.

Sounds familiar this way of thinking, doesn’t it? Where did I hear it before? Oh yes, the politicians!

Do you recall the scandal of the MP expenses, a few months ago, where British politicians were caught claiming expenses for non-existent mortgages, armchairs, gate repairs or any other possible bizarre purchases with taxpayers money? Well, yes, do you remember their excuses? Yes, you got it, everybody-else-would-have-done-the-same-it-was-the system-that-was-wrong...

Nobody was feeling sorry for the politicians then, so is Thierry Henry any better? What about the bankers then? They were doing the same as the other bankers, why so much rage against them? Huh?

What I find really pathetic is that, after the match, Henry admitted to have handled the ball with his hand (twice) but then he concluded by saying “I am not the referee”.

Love that: “I am not the referee”.

So, if I understood correctly the Henry-philosophy (if there is actually any), I can go and steal a bike right now because I am not the law, I can throw a rubbish can in the street because I am not a cleaner and I can pee in your beer because I am not a barista!

I also must say that, in a way, I am glad Henry did what he did. I always knew the guy was not a gentleman and finally now I don’t have to hear or read any rubbish about the supposed flair of this overrated player. It is almost as good as when Zidane showed his true colours by head-butting Marco Materazzi after the 2006 World Cup Final, another example of a “gentleman” loved by the media and then showing himself as the thug he really was.

Save the crucifix from paranoid atheists and the EUSSR

The crucifix, in Italy, is everywhere.

If you go to a school, or if you go to a hospital or to any public place in Italy, you will always see a crucifix hanging from one of the walls. It is so much part of the Italian identity that the first time I happened to be in a British hospital, it took me several minutes to understand why the hell I did not feel to be in a hospital at all.

“Damn”, I then thought,”the bloody crucifix on the wall… it is missing!”

If you are a fundamental atheist or a know-it-best-laic, or an even-more-know-it-best-Liberal, you are probably thinking that I am a small brained bigot, brainwashed by the Catholic Church from an early age.

Maybe, I was indeed brainwashed from an early age, but I am rather glad to have been brainwashed by the Catholic Church than by the Soviet Communist Party or by the Politically Correct lobby that is running the propaganda show these days.

Anyway, back to the crucifix, in Italy it is everywhere and it has been there for a very long time.
However, Christ is not very much liked by the Socialist Super-State of Europe and it is recent news that the European Court of Human Rights has awarded €5,000 (of our money) in damages to Soile Lautsi, a Finnish woman (married to an Italian man and living in Italy) who had opposed the display of a Catholic crucifix at a state school attended by her two children.


Now, where should I start?

The European Court of Supposedly Human Rights is a Soviet-style bureaucratic body where all decisions are filtered by the political agenda of the European Union with the ultimate goal of undermining the sovereignty of each member of such a union.
Just as much Christmas has been increasingly banned by becoming Festive Winter Celebration in the United Kingdom, the goal of the EU policies is to eliminate the identity of Italy by diminishing the influence of the Catholic Church.

Now, Mrs Soile Lautsi is a paranoid atheist, who has not a clue of Italian history, Italian identity and Italian way of living. It is such a shame that she married an Italian and moved to Italy, it would have been much more engaging for her to have married, let’s say, an Iranian and have moved to Iran… there she could really have made a bigger name of herself!
Can anyone sane of mind imagine brave-heart Soile taking a stand against the theocratic government of Iran? Anyone guessing how much compensation the Great Council of the Ones You Do What I Say will be giving her?

Exactly.

However, the people who I understand the least are the Italians who stand on the side of the paranoid atheists and The European Court of Supposedly Human Rights.
I guess they think that Italy should follow whatever Europe decides to do with our history, tradition and identity… I guess they think it is advisable to avoid any confrontation with Mighty Europe… I guess they think that if they can get rid of the crucifix today, well why not getting rid of the saints from the calendars tomorrow, alongside with the sound of the bells of the churches and the images of saints and Madonnas in the streets… and I guess I am having none of that knee-jerk rubbish.

And, as a final thought, I would like to point out the wording of The Times in reporting the news:
The ruling could encourage a review of the use of religious symbols in state schools throughout Europe. The court did not, however, order the Italian authorities to remove the crucifixes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6901228.ece

I repeat: the court did not order the Italian authorities to remove the crucifixes…

Of course they didn’t! If they had, that would mean that Italy is not a country anymore but only a colonial outpost of the European Community Empire.

But that, I am very sorry to say, is only a matter of time.