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2007-01-01 Europe

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-01 11:06|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The total number of sets of regulations to which British citizens are subject as the result of E.U. membership may be in excess of 200,000, with an average 2,500 new sets of regulations being added each year.

The mind boggles. It simply boggles.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-01 12:56|| 2007-01-01 12:56|| Front Page Top

#2 IIRC, about 75-80% of all laws passed in member States are in fact EU regulations (originated from the non-elected Commission) transposed into national legislation.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-01 13:06|| 2007-01-01 13:06|| Front Page Top

#3 What in the world is driving this, anyway? Is it an urge to some sort of vague "orderliness"? And obsession with abstract notions of "fairness"? A neurotic need for security or certainty? Laziness? Fear that if not tied down in masses of red tape, the Hun might go berzerkers again?

All of the above?

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-01 13:15|| 2007-01-01 13:15|| Front Page Top

#4 It is a plot by the EU leaders and elite to wear down and make slaves of the member state's population. Simple, but effective if cloaked in PC speak and "earth friendly" talk.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-01 13:21|| 2007-01-01 13:21|| Front Page Top

#5 What in the world is driving this, anyway?

Governement of the bureaucrats/technocracy by the bureaucrats/technocracy for the bureaucrats/technocracy.

This is part of the trend born between WWI and WWII and which has come into full existence after 1945, an (essentially socialist/social-democrat) ideology whose nature is post-democratic, the people seen as dangerous because they elect populists who go to war, and post-nationalistic (the new identity being the "European man", nationalism being seen as the root of the 1870-1945 european civil war).

Thus, importants things are left to the Enlightened Elites, outside the democratic frame, and outside the traditional western frame of Nation-State, an "obselete" institution eaten away from the top by the EE, and from below by migrants who don't identify with it.
Again, see Fonte for the brilliant definition of "Transnational progressism".

But, being technocrats, they can only produce what they know to produce, in order to justify their "sovereignty", IE administrative complexity, anal-retentive nanny-State regulations, commissions, rapports,...

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-01 14:33|| 2007-01-01 14:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship The Brussels Journal

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-01 14:35|| 2007-01-01 14:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Thanks for the links, A5089; I had read Fonte's essay before, but it's well worth re-reading. I hadn't seen the article about Bukovsky. Looks interesting.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-01 15:03|| 2007-01-01 15:03|| Front Page Top

#8 What in the world is driving this, anyway? Is it an urge to some sort of vague "orderliness"? And obsession with abstract notions of "fairness"? A neurotic need for security or certainty? Laziness? Fear that if not tied down in masses of red tape, the Hun might go berzerkers again?

Simpler than that, job security, revenge and maybe it's just plain fun to destroy things you don't understand.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-01 15:41|| 2007-01-01 15:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Nuther reason why the anti-US Lefts won't $$$ support the Anarchist, Alternatist, or "Liberal/Libertarian" agendas, etc. anymore, regardless of PC rhetoric to the contrary.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-01 23:03|| 2007-01-01 23:03|| Front Page Top

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