HERE’S AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW with French freedom activist Sabine Herold. Excerpt:

I’d say that when you have no freedom and when you don’t respect the individual, it can lead to slaughter. And the only way to respect the individual is to give him the freedom to decide for himself.

I’d say that you can’t decide for others what they should be. When you try to centralize everything and when the state tries to help the people too much and to decide for them what is good, it doesn’t work. It didn’t work in China, it didn’t work in Cuba, it didn’t work in North Korea.

Perhaps there’s hope for France, after all.

UPDATE: And here’s another woman who’s fighting for freedom in Europe, Ayaan Hirsi Ali.