Rick Siegel Prespectives on Freedom and Liberty

Czar Nicolas Sarkozy has won a small victory in getting the Burka and veil banned from use in France.

It was only a year ago that Sarkozy, the small Napoleonic figure heading the French State, has worked endlessly to get the Muslim woman and those whose choice is to be conservative to embrace what he claims is the French way.

One has to only look at Slick Nicks wife, Carla Bruni Sarkozy, to see what is seen as French sensibility and wonder.

There is no doubt that the state of Texas Child Protective Services has some serious problems. The state agents raided a peaceful community of a known religion and kidnapped all the children. It must have been like a scene from over a hundred years ago as children were kidnapped to work in servitude or sold off as orphans. At issue is just who owns those children?