Why in a world of slogans where a commercial instrument or a communication event is abusively called a ‘concept’ and where the loss of their literal meanings is accepted in a common agreement, cannot we put the charters of fundamental rights into poems?Because, for once, lucidity dwells well in a European Commissioner's mind: Mrs Viviane Redding has kept her common sense -lucky us- and informed some bureaucrats of the 'slogan-world' they cannot ridicule a society’s pillars without endangering its own identity.
At case was the idea of the European Agency of Fundamental Rights to re-write the Charter of Fundamental right - a very legal & official tool- into a poem; this was blatantly criticised by the disillusioned Commissioner.
The idea was of course to make the Charter ‘accessible’ to dummies, i.e. to European citizens.
A bureaucrat ignores by definition what solemnity is; law to him has no symbolic dimension, it is a jumble of rules he must apply to all costs; in our case, this bureaucrat kindly wanted to convey those rules like he did for the Swine Flu's warnings for instance but in verses because, you know, he has a heart too.
"Bureaucrats with fine sentiments are the predators of the human kind" could be a new slogan to think about. Click here for details.
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