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2007-03-02 Europe

EU launches new Fundamental Rights Agency

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Posted by Steve White 2007-03-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 EUSSR making progress.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-03-02 04:57|| 2007-03-02 04:57|| Front Page Top

#2 "We hold these rights to be unquestionable. Perhaps even unmentionable, undiscussable, and certainly, unvotable. So don't even try."

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-03-02 10:08|| 2007-03-02 10:08|| Front Page Top

#3 The result of long negotiations started in 2003 by the 25 EU members and concluded in December, the agency, with its 80 to 100 staff, will have limited powers and lack the authority to file suits against states or examine individual complaints.

Sounds like the perfect EU organization. Good jobs at good wages, no heavy lifting, accomplishes pretty much nothing

Posted by tu3031 2007-03-02 11:47|| 2007-03-02 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 I did some research on this agency for a friend, and actually read some of the EUMC's "reports."

Like all EU documents, they make the Internal Revenue Code seem like light, leisurely reading. This is deliberate; 99.9% of the population would rather stick pins in their eyes than actually plow through them line by line, so no one does, and the illusion that there's nothing to worry about is perpetuated.

So just for the heck of it, I downloaded the PDF of their most recent annual report, read most of it, then ran searches for Islamophobia/ism and anti-Semitic/ism. I'm sure you could guess the ratio of hits. These people disgust me.

Posted by exJAG 2007-03-02 11:57|| 2007-03-02 11:57|| Front Page Top

#5 tu, unfortunately, it does accomplish something. The EUMC, founded in 1997, was not an EU institution, and its recommendations had no legal effect. Now that it's an official EU agency, the EU Commission (the EU's Politburo) can basically dictate to national governments what laws they must pass, or impose "federal" law and regulate these matters directly.

Creepy, especially where it's already more or less illegal to own guns, stockpile much of anything, or homeschool your kids.

In sum, Europe keeps driving out its smart, independent folks, while the dumb, tyrannical ones stay behind and keep doing this to their subjects. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by exJAG 2007-03-02 12:17|| 2007-03-02 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess the name Ministry of Public Opression was already taken.

Posted by SteveS 2007-03-02 16:36|| 2007-03-02 16:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Any coincidence that this new agency was stood up following the announcement from Airbus concerning the loss of ~10k jobs??? I think not....after all, in the EU, getting paid for not working is after all, fundamental.

Posted by USN, ret. 2007-03-02 20:52|| 2007-03-02 20:52|| Front Page Top

#8 Why am I thinking '1984' and the 'Ministry of Truth'?

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-03-02 21:19|| 2007-03-02 21:19|| Front Page Top

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