N.O. Pundit

Neoeurofascism Anyone?

This post is left as a comment at The Nice Doggie's site. Go there to get up to speed.

While there is a lot to laugh at here, I believe there is much more to be quite alarmed at. Couple the above article with this post by Melanie Phillips (a must read for every Anglophile), and the Euro picture is distressing indeed:

Europe's intervention in what has become a major issue in the election campaign took Westminster aback. MPs and officials were unaware of how much national sovereignty on immigration and asylum had been transferred to Brussels.The Conservative leadership responded by saying that a Tory government would immediately opt out of the new rules. If that were blocked, it would insist on renegotiation to allow Britain to determine its own asylum and immigration policies.

It's not just the Sheeple with their heads up their asses.

There is a reason why a Hitler did not, has not ever, and will not ever, rise to power in the United States: the US Constitution. The Constitution recognizes (it does not bestow or grant) our sovereignty as individuals and our inalienable rights. As an aside, in my opinion John Kerry's biggest (and most telling) blunder in the debates was when he said that our Constitution "affords" us our rights. Wrong! This is NOT a case of semantics!

I have no intention of wading through the EU Constitution, but I'll bet that there is not one word on sovereign individuals and inalienable rights. All rights the EU citizen has are revokable by the Brussel Sprouts.

So, why should this alarm Americans? From the Wikipedia:

[F]ascism is described as a system in which "The State not only is authority which governs and molds individual wills with laws and values of spiritual life, but it is also power which makes its will prevail abroad.... For the Fascist, everything is within the State and... neither individuals nor groups are outside the State.... For Fascism, the State is an absolute, before which individuals or groups are only relative....

Mussolini, in a speech delivered on October 28, 1925, stated the following maxim that encapsulates the fascist philosophy: "Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato." ("Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State".) Therefore, he reasoned, all individuals' business is the state's business, and the state's existence is the sole duty of the individual.

What will Europe look like in 5, 10, 20 years? Will it be a increasing global threat, an economically ruined nuisance, or something else altogether? I don't know, but in my opinion this is not a situation for benign ignorance on the part of Americans.

Posted by nopundit at January 29, 2005 08:12 AM