Bureaucrats run amok, regulation without representation, and a governmental form that can’t come into existence through popular vote, so seeks to create itself through legislative sleight-of-hand.
Via Maggies Farm, an amazing example of over-reach:
Only in France:
Country and western has become so big in France that the country’s bureaucrats have decided to bring the craze under state control.
The French administration has moved to create an official country dancing diploma as part of a drive to regulate the fad. Authorised instructors who have been on publicly funded training courses will be put in charge of line dancing lessons and balls.
Because you don’t want line dancing getting out of control. People may dance … out of line.
Jean Chauveau, the chairman of the country section of the French Dance Federation, said … the French shunned the square dancing that is popular among country and western fans in the United States because it involved physical contact. “They don’t want to take anyone by the hand or anything like that,” he said.
Well, it’s France.
French civil servants say line dancing should be submitted to the same rules as sports such as football and rugby … Amateur instructors will have to take 200 hours of training under the new rules. Professionals will get 600 hours …
Wow….You can’t make this stuff up.
