Comments on: Europe’s day of reckoning

By: Baklava

Baklava — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:11:14 +0000

Rickl,

I wanted to add this from Atlas Shrugs:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/11/criminalizing-free-speech-the-kafkaesque-persecution-of-ilya-sobolevskiy.html

It is happening in the U.S.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:05:39 +0000

oops. I only meant to bold the word Neo.

By: Baklava

Baklava — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:05:16 +0000

Danny, Nope.

Rickl, In her speech was this nugget:

We are systematically being silenced.

I admire the provisions of the First Amendment that all Americans enjoy as their birthright. Its free speech provisions will make the imposition of sharia that much more difficult in the United States.

But here in Europe we are not so well-protected. Our constitutions and the rules imposed upon us by the EU allow certain exceptions to the right to speak freely, and those little rips in the fabric of our rights are enough to tear the entire structure to pieces.

We desperately need our own version of the First Amendment. We need leaders who are wise and courageous enough to compose and implement legal instruments that affirm the same fundamental rights that are guaranteed to all citizens by the United States Constitution.

And here we type…

Neo, One more thing to consider. As we weaken the dollar that helps the Euro. Time may be on their side as long as we continue the path also.

Nothing will change in 10 minutes is something I say often in person.

By: Danny Lemieux

Danny Lemieux — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:42:43 +0000

Substitute “California” and “Illinois” for Greece and Ireland and we really aren’t all that different, are we?

By: Wolla Dalbo

Wolla Dalbo — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:30:51 +0000

One wonders what has and will happen to all those Brits who were so delighted to decamp to a villa in Spain or France, Majorca, or Lisbon.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:01:00 +0000

Knowing Things about History is Useful.

It certainly is. I fully agree.

Maybe if the United States hadn’t intervened in World War I (under the Progressive President Wilson), Germany would have won. France was on the brink of collapse in 1917, and her front-line troops were mutinying. With the resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, Britain would have capitulated eventually.

Bottom line, a German victory in WWI might have precluded WWII and the Holocaust.

Maybe the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia could have been averted, though that’s a bit of a stretch. But if it had been averted, then maybe it wouldn’t have inspired other Communist revolutions around the globe.

Any way you look at it, if America hadn’t gotten involved in WWI, the world of 2010 would look very different indeed.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:38:41 +0000

Presumably the wholesale immigration of Third World Muslims, and the native European population being told to shut up about it, are additional footnotes.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

By: Knowing Things about History is Useful

Knowing Things about History is Useful — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:26:05 +0000

The goal of the European Coal and Steel Community was to link the economies of Germany and France so closely together that another war between them would be unthinkable and materially impossible. In this, it was an overwhelming success. All else–from EURATOM to the EEC to the European Union–is a footnote to this success.

By: rickl

rickl — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:08:35 +0000

Here is the text of a speech given today in Copenhagen by Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, who is on trial for hate speech against a certain religion. (Any guesses?) The Time That is Given Us Sounds like the collapse of the EU can't come a moment too soon.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:44:33 +0000

The Bamster and the Dhimmis cry, “Why can’t we be more like the Euros?” Bankruptcy included.

Artfldgr’s quote is from Sarah Palin, noting the gaffes of the Bamster.

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=463364218434