Foreign Children Running Wild! (part 2)

Earlier this week, the Dicta called out Canada and Sweden for coddling children. Now it seems we must add Germany to this list, courtesy of the good folks over at Lowering the Bar:

Germany plans to give vote to babies
By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin

Dozens of German politicians have tabled a new law to extend voting rights to babies, toddlers, children and teenagers.

The bill, which has won the cross-party backing of some heavyweight German politicians, would wipe away decades of "exclusion" and "discrimination" against minors, according to its supporters.

Currently the voting threshold in Germany is 18, with an exception in some states, where 16-year-olds are allowed to cast a ballot.

But that does not go far enough for the new law's backers, who want to ensure voting rights from cradle to grave.

First of all, am I being Punk'd? That is the only way this makes sense. I will beat the living snot out of you, Ashton, if you're behind this.

Hmmm...if German toddlers are eligible to vote...does that mean they are eligible for the draft? Holy s%$#, watch out, Poland!!

Seriously though (if it is even possible to get serious on this cracker-jack piece of legislation), how is it physically possible for an infant to vote. If he spits up once, he prefers the Christian Democratic Union candidate, and if he spits up twice, he is a Social Democratic Party supporter?

Has anyone even asked German children if they want to vote this early? If I were them I would rather be able to rent a porno or smoke a cigarette at age 12.

I suppose that if a political system was going to be held hostage, I would prefer the culprit to be Big Diapers in Germany to Big Oil and Big Tobacco in the United States.

You're not pro-choice. You're a freackin' baby!