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THE Q WORD

As painful as it is for me to write this, I'm afraid the facts on the ground force my hands. I can no longer ignore reality. For too long now, the facts we have been led to believe by the press and various officials no longer square with what is obviously actually taking place in the hearts and minds of the people most impacted by policies authored from far away. One section of the populace is particularly lost; there now seems no way to win them over.

The grand scheme concocted by a very few, very smart people seems to have run aground. And those people at the center of the plan seem oblivious to the fact that their house of cards is threatened by a menacing breeze. Yet those same people are set to foist on their unwilling people an unpopular new set of laws--laws that their people have had no role in drafting and no say in implementation. These arrogant leaders must be stopped. They're ignoring their own people, who by a slim majority now oppose their master plan...

...to unite Europe in a commonwealth of states.

The effort to build a United States of Europe, intended by its architects to be a counterbalance to the actual United States, has become nothing more than a sad quagmire. Just 48 percent of Europeans now view membership in the EU as a good thing, down from 54 percent just a few months ago. And the British are particularly hostile to the EU--just 28 percent support EU membership.

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That it has happened so quickly is interesting, but just remeber that the United States of America has a historical precident of member states divided by an issue being so unhappy that they left the Union. Maybe they will patch things up, maybe they will fracture back apart. I’m sure there are multiple historical scenarios to support each. Just for the heck of it lets make a very, very general comparison to one issue in the article. The problem with Belgium illegally helping its farmers has a few parallels to be drawn to Shay’s rebellion. At least things in the EU should only happen on an economic level rather than military. But once again, who knows? I think right now, these countries are having the same feelings about the EU that we have about the UN; they seek to remove some of the perks of sovereignty. My personal feeling is that if the EU keeps it up with the arguments, there will be trade wars and restrictions between the members that ruin their Union. Government isn’t known for doing things quickly but the people over there will only take the bickering for so long.

Posted by Kyle B on December 9, 2003 2:13 AM

I don’t have a problem with the concept, since I’m pretty pleased with the US that I live in. But the idea behind it seems stupid, short-sighted and a cause for the eventual failure of such an idea. One does not destroy the way of life of several hundred million people just to one up a rival. Inane. Utterly inane.

I’ve been watching the Scottish Independence movement for some time, and it amazes me that the same people who castigate London and want to break off of the UK are gung-ho for the EU. I cannot, in my wildest dreams, imagine Brussels being more responsive to Scotland than London is now. The EU looks to be a beurocrat’s dream. Diffused responsibility, endless reams of forms and paper work, and regulations galore.

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