Piques at EU Polls

The Washington Times ^ | May 30, 2005 | Mark Steyn

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Piques at EU's polls By Mark Steyn Following yesterday's vote in France, Dutch voters Wednesday get to express their opinion on the proposed "European Constitution." Heartening to see democracy in action, notwithstanding the European elite's hysterical warnings that, without the constitution, the Continent will be set back on the path to Auschwitz. I haven't seen the official ballot, but the choice seems to be: "Check Box A to support the new constitution; check Box B for genocide and conflagration." Alas, this tactic doesn't seem to have worked. So, a couple of days before the first referendum, Jean-Claude Juncker, the "president" of the European Union, let French and Dutch voters know how much he values their opinion: "If at the end of the ratification process, we do not manage to solve the problems, the countries that would have said No, would have to ask themselves the question again," "President" Juncker told the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. Got that? You have the right to vote, but only if you give the answer your rulers want you to give. But don't worry, if you don't, we'll treat you like a particularly backward nursery school and keep asking the question until you get the answer right. Even America's bossiest nanny-state Democrats don't usually express their contempt for the people's will quite so crudely. Mr. Juncker is from Luxembourg, a country two-thirds the size of your rec room, and, under the agreeably clubby EU arrangements, he gets to serve as "president" without anything so tiresome as having to be voted into the job by "ordinary people." His remarks capture precisely the difference between the new Europe and the American republic. Sick in bed a couple of months back, I started reading "A Declaration of

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Mocking European statism and socialism, along with the elitist attitudes by much of their leadership is among that which Steyn does best. This column makes those points and more. Enjoy it.

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''...on the road to Auschwitz.''?

Well, if the folks in the railroad cars THIS time can just be assorted Eurocrats and other EUnuchs, how bad can this result really be?

Steyn is just SO fine!