VITTORIA!! VITTORIA!!

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One day after the 150th anniversary of the proclamation of the free and united nation of Italy, the European Court of Human Rights voted by fifteen against two that the display of the Crucifix in school rooms does not violate any human right.

I was wrong in fearing that the Court might judge wrong, and equally wrong in doubting the Government's will to go on with this. IN spite of all his other enormous faults and flaws, Berlusconi has, at least once, acted honourably. Let us record this wonder (we are not apt to witness it again soon) and give thanks to God.

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The Bulgarian judge sounds like a holdover from the Communist period. She certainly has no understanding of law: her only argument against the Italian laws as laws is that they are "very old" - all dating to between 1860 and 1948. That would invalidate half the laws in use in Europe, and is if anything evidence on the opposite side, as is the fact that the laws have been passed by all shades of different national governments: Savoy constitutional monarchy, Fascism, and republican democracy. The legal and precedent force of this agreement is enormous. Luckily other judges don't seem to be so incapable of law.