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“Democracy” in the EU – lol
June 26, 2012 — xanthippaOne would laugh, if this were not so tragic!
EU bureaucrats are openly over-ruling the will of its member states!
Some European nation states have already passed national law that make ACTA and ACTA-like monstrosities illegal in their countries.
EU bureaucrats say that’s too bad, they trump any national laws…
And, if the EU courts decide that ACTA is illegal, they’ll find some way to change the laws.
This is a very, very dangerous precedent!
From TechDirt:
‘In other words, De Gucht won’t accept the idea that the European electorate, through their representatives in the European Parliament, might possibly want to reject something they were not allowed to know about until late in the negotiating process, and to which they were unable to provide any meaningful input. In his view, ACTA must be passed, and ACTA will be passed — whatever anyone else thinks about it.’
And don’t forget, the EU is UN’s mini-me. As at the EU, so in the UN.
We will see this, more and more: bureaucrat-crafted ‘international agreements’ will be forced as laws on member nation states, whether they like it or not. In the EU and UN both!
Remember, the UN, chock-full of dictators and tyrants, is not big on Western values and civil liberties – and its laws/treaties reflect this. Even its Universal Declaration of Human Rights states clearly that human rights may only be enjoyed to the degree that local laws deem appropriate!!!
If you think this should not scare you, because you don’t live in the EU – don’t be so sure. The UN is just using the EU to work out some of the ‘how to’ kinks on its way to regulating humanity into virtual extinction!
UKIP Nigel Farage on Spanish Bailout- The genius of Mutual indebtedness – June 2012
June 14, 2012 — xanthippaSure, I like the cheaper gas – but the reason for the price drop is, at best, troubling…
España; te mereces más
June 13, 2012 — xanthippaDaniel Hannan: Tax is not the answer
June 8, 2012 — xanthippaHe mentioned Regan and Thatcher and lowering taxes in ‘the big EU room’: I suspect that the only reason he did not get lynched by the socialists there is because the room was, as usual, almost empty!
Dan Hannan: Common law, not EU law
March 20, 2012 — xanthippaThis is something very important – something we do not pay sufficient attention to: common law.
It is the basis of our freedoms: the legislature with all its lawmakers are not the source of our rights and freedoms – they do not grant them to us from above. Rather, core rights and freedoms are something we are born with, not something that comes from the state.
Yes, we recognize that in order to co-exist with others, we may agree to put some restrictions on our freedoms: that is the role of our elected representatives.
In common law, there is the explicit recognition that rights come from within each individual and that governments – all governments – are there to restrict these freedoms. The less (smaller) the government, the fewer restrictions on our rights and the more free we will be. The bigger th government, the more restrictions and the fewer freedoms….
This is a philosophy which views each human being as an individual, full of potential and free to fulfill this potential or not.
It is in sharp contrast to the view that every person is born as a cog in a machine, a member of a society which has the ultimate power over her or him. Under this philosophy, it is the society which is the source of right in as much as it permits each member of the society to fulfil a role it deems most beneficial for the society. In this type of a set up, one only has the options that the society opens for them, no freedoms to choose things or actions outside of what the group would benefit from. This is called the civil law…
We must never forget the distinction between the two – and we must never give up our heritage of freedom for the gilded cage of civil law.
Just last night, I was reading to my son a 19th century traveller’s description of the Magna Carta Island – and the writer had permitted his imagination to float back across the centuries to that unforgettable June morning in 1215 when King John was brought there and forced to acknowledge this principle – already old then, but in danger of being eroded…
Sure, the Magna Carta is an imperfect document – as all human products are. But, it is the source of – and vastly superior to – all further re-tellings of it, from the US Constitution to the Canadian one, and so on. Along the way, the documents have become more and more cumbersome and less and less perfected…so we can trace just how much of our birthright we are permitting ourselves to give up in order to live in ‘civilized’ society.
But, do not lose heart!
Precisely because from Magna Carta on, all these documents are mere affirmations of our pre-existing rights, it is our rights that are supreme should there ever be a disagreement. Precisely because it was the rights that were pre-existing!
Now, if we could only have judges who see it as clearly as this!
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