I have modified some entries since some things have changed:
- Hillary Clinton got in trouble in a debate when asked about Spitzer's plan. New York governor Eliot Spitzer stopped his attempt to provide driver's licenses to undocumented immigrants, while San Francisco is close to implementing this (for more see updated blog entry).
-In France, the Constitutional Committee declared on November 14th, 2007 that the legislative proposal regarding DNA tests included in the new immigration law was constitutional as long as the tests also respect the laws of the country of origin (very few people are clear about what is that supposed to mean). Concluding that discretionary and differential treatment depending on country of origin is NOT anti-egalitarian. While it declared that any official COMPILATION of ETHNIC STATISTICS of people living in France unconstitutional, since it violates the principles of equality espoused in the French Constitution and its declaration of human rights. Few people have bothered to point out the contradiction between these two rulings, one in favor of inequality within France and the other one accepting different administrative rules for people from different countries. Obviously this group of wise men cares more about political and ideological concerns than about philosophical coherence. So, the heinous DNA tests have been symbolically approved, although probably rendered inapplicable by so many caveats, while the law to finally gather statistical data to look empirically at issues of de facto inequality between people who are theoretically equal was disapproved by Chirac who opposed this idea throughout his 12 years as President(see DNA blog entry).
-In France, the Constitutional Committee declared on November 14th, 2007 that the legislative proposal regarding DNA tests included in the new immigration law was constitutional as long as the tests also respect the laws of the country of origin (very few people are clear about what is that supposed to mean). Concluding that discretionary and differential treatment depending on country of origin is NOT anti-egalitarian. While it declared that any official COMPILATION of ETHNIC STATISTICS of people living in France unconstitutional, since it violates the principles of equality espoused in the French Constitution and its declaration of human rights. Few people have bothered to point out the contradiction between these two rulings, one in favor of inequality within France and the other one accepting different administrative rules for people from different countries. Obviously this group of wise men cares more about political and ideological concerns than about philosophical coherence. So, the heinous DNA tests have been symbolically approved, although probably rendered inapplicable by so many caveats, while the law to finally gather statistical data to look empirically at issues of de facto inequality between people who are theoretically equal was disapproved by Chirac who opposed this idea throughout his 12 years as President(see DNA blog entry).
-The person who had been fooling foreign students into renting the same department many times, all while collecting their rent deposits, was found trying to leave to Italy and is under arrest (see blog entry called "Trust in Economic Transactions").
- People at Rue de la Banque continue sleeping in the streets since they have not found adequate housing. There was a big march on Sunday November 11th, 2007 in which I participated too, although, fortunately I have finally found stable housing in Paris.
- Students and transportation workers continue to strike in France.
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