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From The War Room:
Steven Thoburn is a fruit-and-vegetable vendor in Sunderland, England, a small city north of London.On Monday April 9, he was found guilty of the crime of selling bananas weighed in pounds and ounces, instead of the metric measures that are now mandatory under European law. It is illegal in Britain to sell loose products-such as vegetables, fruit or meat-in pounds and ounces. This was the first prosecution of this kind in Britain.
For his heinous crime, Thoburn was hit with a maximum fine of ũ,500 on each of two offences, and court costs up to ,000.
Thoburn-dubbed the "Metric Martyr-had challenged what he considered an outrageous law. And many people agreed. Sympathizers flocked to Sunderland to show their support and sent him thousands of letters. Even the sentencing judge expressed sympathy.
However, Judge Bruce Morgan didn't let his sympathy get in the way of his duty to the Leviathan state, declaring that "...it would destroy the concept of a [European] union if member states could go off on legislative frolics of their own."
Nicely put, Judge. But the 1920 platform of the National Socialist Party-the Nazis-said it even better:
"The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all... The Common Good Before the Individual Good."
