The Iceland volcano's ash fallout led the European Union bureaucracy that increasingly rules Europe to shut down air traffic and many Europeans think they went too far:
Politicians from across the continent lashed out at what they saw as the E.U.'s sluggishness in a vociferous debate in the European Parliament on Tuesday - when about half of Europe's scheduled flights departed - blasting the bureaucrats in Brussels for being out of their depth in responding to the chaos. Europe, said German lawmaker Jo Leinen, was "ill prepared for natural disasters." Philip Bradbourn, a British Conservative Party member of the E.P., said the E.U.'s response had been like "licking a finger and sticking it in the air to see what way the wind is blowing."
As Churchill once said of Hitler invading Hell, if a volcano can inspire resistance to the EU soft dictatorship forming before our eyes, I'll at least put in a favorable reference about lava in The Dignified Rant.
