Remember the Pizzeria owner on Faroe island in Denmark? The one who refused to serve either French or German people, as a protest to those countries' opposition to the war in Iraq.
He's in jail now. And he's holding fast to his principles.
Here's the background, courtesy of BBC News, July 12, 2005:
In February 2003 he had put up signs at his pizzeria with bars through the images of people coloured in the French and German flags.
He also reprinted his menus without German translations.
The 46-year-old was forced to sell his pizzeria on the western island of Fanoe after repeated vandalism and a plunge in sales.
In June 2003 a Danish court convicted of him of racial discrimination.
But he refused to pay the fine imposed as a result of that conviction.
Aage Bjerre acted in protest against the French and German governments' opposition to the US-led war in Iraq.
He will now serve an eight-day sentence at a minimum security prison, the Associated Press reports.
"I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States," he said. He refused to pay a 5,000-kroner (£461;$800) fine.
I love it when non-Americans, especially Europeans, get what we're doing in the world. Since the first day I heard about Bjerre's refusal to serve Germans in his pizzeria, I've admired him. That admiration still stands.
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