Friday, June 14, 2002

Those wine-drinking, soccer-loving Europhiles over at TAPPED question why some U.S. territories have their own soccer teams. TAPED forget that Scotland and England field their own teams too. Arguably, U.S. territories like Puerto Rico are more independent from the U.S. federal gov't than Scotland and England are from the Britian/U.K. (though, that ever-evolving unwritten constitution does confuse things a wee bit).

I recognize they're trying to make a roundabout case for D.C. statehood, or at least a comment on D.C.'s lack of voting rights, but still...

UPDATE: Robot Dogs (via Instapundit) makes a similar point. Although, Wales has managed to obtain some "independence," with all things U.K. it depends on the meaning of the word "independence." The Welsh assembly has fewer powers than the Scottish Parliament, but..oh nevermind.