[a href=\'http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn29.html\' target=\'_blank\']Won't Take 'Non' For an answer[/a]
[a href=\'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/09/nve09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/09/ixportaltop.html\' target=\'_blank\']Vote against the EU constitution and risk a new Holocaust[/a]
(Read both links before you dismiss my rant as Amero-centric)
As everyone knows by now, France today voted no on the EU constitution. According to the article, though, the people of France will asked to vote again until they return the result the powers-that-be want.
In the European Union, then, the will of the people means nothing. Apparently, Europe is new to the idea of a plebiscite. When you don't get the result you want, you suck it up and accept the will of the people. You don't condescendingly tell them to rethink their answer and warn them of an impending 'Holocaust' (YES! That's the word one EU official used.) if they don't change their mind.
It's this kind of arrogance on the part of pro-EU people that will make this whole thing impossible. When the people speak, you accept it whether it's good or bad. Europe really needs to get its shit together if it ever wants to 'beat America,' as one Parisian interviewed by a CBC reporter said.
To be honest, I applaud the people of France. You can't meld so many diverse peoples together so quickly and expect 2000 years of language, culture, national identity, and other fundemental differences to be forgotten. It's not like in 1776 when the 13 American states joined to make one country. They were ethnically, historically, and religiously homogenous.
What's so bad about having a France for the French, a Germany for the Germans, an Italy for the Italians, etc? Creating a new level of bureaucracy and government will take away from the voices of the people and make the whole thing more inefficient. Every law and restriction a government passes leaves the people with just that much less freedom. Nation states are not the cause of evil, as some pro-Euros would have you believe. Evl mean (and women, I guess) are the cause of evil. Deal with it. ( i.e. - Germany didn't caused the holocaust, Hitler did.)
Iron Duke,
A Canadian Euro-sceptic
(by the way, as I'm typing this I'm watching a story on the CBC news on how the Swedish ambassador in Ottawa has said 'Canada's environmental policy is useless. You aren't smart like Sweden. We are perfect and you are a flawed country.' I'm slightly pissed off at the Old World arrogance right now...)
[a href=\'http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/09/nve09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/09/ixportaltop.html\' target=\'_blank\']Vote against the EU constitution and risk a new Holocaust[/a]
(Read both links before you dismiss my rant as Amero-centric)
As everyone knows by now, France today voted no on the EU constitution. According to the article, though, the people of France will asked to vote again until they return the result the powers-that-be want.
In the European Union, then, the will of the people means nothing. Apparently, Europe is new to the idea of a plebiscite. When you don't get the result you want, you suck it up and accept the will of the people. You don't condescendingly tell them to rethink their answer and warn them of an impending 'Holocaust' (YES! That's the word one EU official used.) if they don't change their mind.
It's this kind of arrogance on the part of pro-EU people that will make this whole thing impossible. When the people speak, you accept it whether it's good or bad. Europe really needs to get its shit together if it ever wants to 'beat America,' as one Parisian interviewed by a CBC reporter said.
To be honest, I applaud the people of France. You can't meld so many diverse peoples together so quickly and expect 2000 years of language, culture, national identity, and other fundemental differences to be forgotten. It's not like in 1776 when the 13 American states joined to make one country. They were ethnically, historically, and religiously homogenous.
What's so bad about having a France for the French, a Germany for the Germans, an Italy for the Italians, etc? Creating a new level of bureaucracy and government will take away from the voices of the people and make the whole thing more inefficient. Every law and restriction a government passes leaves the people with just that much less freedom. Nation states are not the cause of evil, as some pro-Euros would have you believe. Evl mean (and women, I guess) are the cause of evil. Deal with it. ( i.e. - Germany didn't caused the holocaust, Hitler did.)
Iron Duke,
A Canadian Euro-sceptic
(by the way, as I'm typing this I'm watching a story on the CBC news on how the Swedish ambassador in Ottawa has said 'Canada's environmental policy is useless. You aren't smart like Sweden. We are perfect and you are a flawed country.' I'm slightly pissed off at the Old World arrogance right now...)