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More EU authoritarianism...
1 posted on 02/05/2009 8:32:44 AM PST by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480

Some ships need to sink.


2 posted on 02/05/2009 8:34:23 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..

Catholic and pro-life ping!


3 posted on 02/05/2009 8:35:28 AM PST by Pyro7480 (This Papist asks everyone to continue to pray the Rosary for our country!)
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Who needs sovereignty? Doesn’t everyone long to be governed by people faraway who speak a different language? No?


4 posted on 02/05/2009 8:38:03 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Pyro7480
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the Portuguese government broke the law in preventing...
...Rebecca Gomperts, said she is delighted with the finding. "We shall use the judgment for new campaigns outside Europe," she said.

Outside Europe, huh?

I hope that there are knowledegeable people on this thread who can answer a few obvious questions:

Broke what law, specifically?
Whose law is it?
Sovereign countries actually signed away their sovereignty to an administrative body exactly where?
What is the enforcement mechanism of the "court" which issued this decision? Is it a self appointed group of lunatics in Belgium again?

Can the "law" or the applicable agreement be viewed somewhere and, if there are voluntary signatories, are they free to withdraw without cause?

So many questions, so many moonbats celebrating...

5 posted on 02/05/2009 8:41:13 AM PST by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Pyro7480
There is something eerily apocalyptic about this whole story.

I mean beyond the fact that a death ship is circulating the globe in search of children to kill and the abortionist and foundress is delighted with the finding.

6 posted on 02/05/2009 8:44:50 AM PST by Never on my watch ( We need people in office who make their reputation by earning money - not spending it.)
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To: Pyro7480

Where are the Somali pirates when you need them?


7 posted on 02/05/2009 8:44:54 AM PST by spoolmak
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The Court unanimously decided that there was a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

You can't get more oxymoronic than that - we need to recognise the killing of innocent, defenseless humans as a human rights issue.

8 posted on 02/05/2009 8:44:54 AM PST by torchthemummy (My apologies if this post retreads on ground already covered!)
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Some country should fire on this murder ship.


9 posted on 02/05/2009 8:55:14 AM PST by Arthur McGowan
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The Court unanimously decided that there was a breach of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The court ruled that in seeking to prevent disorder and protect public health, the Portuguese authorities could have resorted to other means that were less restrictive of "Women on Waves'' human rights. Article 10 is the section of the Convention dealing with "expression".

A nice lawyerly way of saying that the rights of the folks on the death ship to "express" themselves, trump Portugal's right to determine which vessels enter its waters. They've used a kind of "free speech" loophole, here. They're effectively saying that Portugal has stymied the supposed rights to "free speech" of the ladies on the death ship.

Ridiculous, really but we know how the game is played by now, don't we?

Let's say I wanted to sail a ship into Dutch or Belgian territorial waters which broadcast the message that homosexual acts were offensive to God. How far would that ship get, I wonder? If it wasn't sunk on sight, I think I'm safe in saying that it would receive zero help from the European Court of Human Rights. In fact, I'm willing to bet that they'd actually prosecute me for hate speech. You see, rights of ....."expression" only extend so far in today's Europe. They're bestowed upon abortionists but not Christians.

I say let the Moslems have at it. Let them overrun this European cess pit and lynch every liberal, abortion-peddling, homosexuality-promoting secular humanist they can find. Most of the remaining Christians will already have been forced into exile by that stage, anyway.

11 posted on 02/05/2009 9:06:29 AM PST by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future"- Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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Is this when the old metaphor is used?

Loose lips sink ships!

15 posted on 02/05/2009 10:23:45 AM PST by jws3sticks (Hillary can take a very long walk on a very short pier, anytime, and the sooner the better!)
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whatever happened to national soveriegnty?? oh right, national socialism


16 posted on 02/05/2009 11:34:28 AM PST by GeronL (Had the flu. Not well yet.)
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Abortion and euthanasia are thus crimes which no human law can claim to legitimize. There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead there is a grave and clear obligation to oppose them by conscientious objection.

Evangelium Vitae



Torpedo Testing

17 posted on 02/05/2009 12:03:52 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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Pinged from Terri Dailies


18 posted on 02/05/2009 12:07:42 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like the ship was killing whales.
19 posted on 02/05/2009 12:25:53 PM PST by InterestedQuestioner (Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you and your household will be saved.)
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Why doesn’t Portugal simply say “FU, we are a sovereign nation and will obey our laws!”. I can’t understand why anyone would listen to a world court!


22 posted on 02/05/2009 12:44:58 PM PST by calex59
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