Posted on 05/30/2005 2:27:08 PM PDT by quidnunc
The Eurofetishists can't seem to agree their line on this referendum business. On the one hand, the Guardian's headline writer was packing up and heading for the hills — "Europe is plunged into crisis" — and EU leaders warned that "Europe" might cease to function.
Oh, come on. We won't get that lucky.
On balance, Jean-Claude Juncker, the "president" of "Europe", seems closer to the mark in his now famous dismissal of the will of the people: "If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'."
And if it's a Neither of the Above, he will say "we move forward". You get the idea. Confronted by the voice of the people, "President" Juncker covers his ears and says: "Nya, nya, nya, can't hear you!" There are several lessons worth learning from the French vote. The first is that the Junckers are a big part of the problem.
Only in totalitarian dictatorships does the ballot come with a pre-ordained correct answer. Yet President Juncker distilled the great flaw at the heart of the EU constitution into one straightforward sentence that cut through all the thickets of Giscard's unreadable verbiage. The American constitution begins with the words "We the people". The starting point for the EU constitution is: "We know better than the people."
After that, the rest doesn't matter: you can't do trickle-down nation-building. The British, who've written more constitutions for more real nations than anybody in history and therefore can't plead the same ignorance as President Juncker, should be especially ashamed of going along with this farrago of a travesty of a charade.
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How do we do that?
Steyn Bump.
Triply Damning Bump!
"...this farrago of a travesty of a charade."
Europe is a dead end as far world influence is concerned. It is a family of bickering neighbors, old worn out shoes, stifling attitudes to their own future, the last of the Old World and they can't rationalize their minor differences from country to country. They will become the next Third World Nation. Thank you, France.
Start listening to Tancredo and Ron Paul would be a start.
<< the EU .... clinging to the theory that if you merge enough weak economies they add up to one global superpower .... mired itself in the creation of a centralised pseudo-state .... fallen behind America in every important long-term indicator ..... an indulgence .... Europe can't afford. The followers recognise that, even if the leaders don't. >>
One Soviet Union was quite clearly not enough of a lesson for these "leaders." For these feckless "creators" of Brussels/Strasbourg's Neo-Soviet!
Thanks for the post and the ping, Pokes.
I wonder if anyone over there listens to Mark. I know they carry his columns on a regular basis, but is anyone over there reading this wonderful stuff and nodding their heads?
"You get the idea. Confronted by the voice of the people, "President" Juncker covers his ears and says: "Nya, nya, nya, can't hear you!"
The reason the people - rather, the sheep - of Europe are under the thumb of twits like Juncker is becasue they have been disarmed - emasculated, so to speak.
I say, may God bless the 2nd amendment and the NRA.
Great Steyn!
Before we break out the champagne over the French rejection ... it's well to remember that they voted against it because 1)They're beginning to hate Chirac and 2) It's generally felt that the EU Constitution pays too much attention to capitalist enterprise, and not enough to social programs.
http://cuppapolitics.blogspot.com/2005/05/non-not-surprise-in-france.html
Thanks.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Another winner!
> Europe is a dead end as far world influence is concerned.
France and Britain are nukes, and that is power. Period.
The French rejected the Constitution because the original 11 members of the Union has expanded to 23. With the resultant loss of prestige and influence and the fact that they are dead set against Turkey's admission to the Union - where else could they go? Overall, it's good for the US. Now all we have to do is prevent those lefty feaks from regaining power in the USA and lend our support to the new Europe.
Bumpity.
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