James Lewis: The EU Reich versus Britain

American Thinker ^ | James Lewis

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Europe has a neurotic compulsion to repeat the past. This is bad news, because nobody wants to repeat five (count 'em!) East-West wars exploding out of Europe over the last two centuries.

But – the E.U. now has a better idea.

It wants European nations to surrender to the German-French axis without a shot being fired. "Countries must give up their sovereignty and join the one-world government," German chancellor Angela Merkel remarked generously the other day. The E.U. Times, of all places, remarked that "[n]o, this isn't something Adolf Hitler said many years ago."

Everybody in that part of the world knows who runs the E.U.: the Germans, fronted by the French. So when the charming Frau Merkel said that, most of her listeners filled in the rest of the story. But the Brits were not laughing.

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And now we have Reich Number Six, called the "European Union." But the only "union" in the E.U. is the unelected ruling caste, which rules with an iron hand, while the left-out voters are getting sick and tired of the scam.

This may be why Emmanuel Macron, the German vassal in Paris, just called for an E.U. army – to use against NATO, of course. These little voters can't be allowed to resist Das Sechtse Reich (the sixth! in 200 years!), so we gotta get an army, now. Because both the U.K. and France have nuclear weapons, the E.U. army is bound to inherit nukes.

The European Union arose by pure bureaucratic mendacity, unrelieved autocracy and endless expansionism, taxation without representation, mercantile protectionism, and 17,000 top-down directives without a single popular vote.

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But the only "union" in the E.U. is the unelected ruling caste, which rules with an iron hand...

I don't think the historical parallel is with Hitler at all, I think it's with the dynasties, in particular the Habsburg one. Consider the EU's ambitions and their resemblance to the late Austro-Hungarian Empire: polyglot, multinational, autocratic, ruled by an insular elite (so tightly controlled that the Spanish branch of the ruling family turned into inbred freaks), heavily taxed, fissiparous, and when it finally did disintegrate in a haze of mud and poison gas it took the continent with it. It is not quite true that Europe wants its aristocracy back; the only Europeans who do are the would-be aristocrats. As usual.

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Not as absurd as you might think. My State in Australia put forward a proposal to tax water collected off your own roof. There reason was if you capture it then it is prevented from going into the aquifer. Water from the aquifer is pumped up by farmers and taxed. There was an uproar at the time but give it another 20 years and it will seem reasonable to the climate change generation.

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Not as absurd as you might think. My State in Australia put forward a proposal to tax water collected off your own roof. There reason was if you capture it then it is prevented from going into the aquifer. Water from the aquifer is pumped up by farmers and taxed. There was an uproar at the time but give it another 20 years and it will seem reasonable to the climate change generation.

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I know it’s not, when you understand how statists & socialists think.

If there is ever a famine, and you are able to grow your own food, they will surely tax you for it, or requisition it from you, even though finding a way to be less of a burden on society should be a good thing. After all, you utilized minerals and nutrients in the earth, and water, and sunlight. Those things don’t belong to you. Any time anyone is able to do something for themselves without having to pay a tax, it diminishes government’s power.

People think a property deed means ownership. Hah! It’s a rental contract to permanently pay taxes on.