This is why I say that it's too late

For those watching the decline of Europe here are some things worth thinking about, via The Brussels Journal:

A quote from The Financial Times, 15 June 2007:

Tony Blair, the British prime minister, could end up swapping Downing Street for a job as the first full-time European Union president, under a plan being actively touted by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.

Mr Sarkozy is understood to have discussed the idea with other EU leaders ahead of next week’s European summit, Mr Blair’s last major international event as prime minister.

This seems to be a payoff for:

A quote from The Daily Express, 15 June 2007:

Tony Blair wants to hand the European Union radical new powers in his last act as Prime Minister, it emerged today.

The Prime Minister has welcomed controversial plans to bring back the troubled EU constitution by the back door – totally bypassing the need for public referendums on sweeping new powers for Brussels. [...] Britain’s voting rights would be reduced by a third under the scheme and our hard-won veto on European directives would be torn up. Britain could also lose the right to impose quotas on immigration.

And here's the best one:

According to the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, a former Communist hardliner, Eurosceptics are “psychological terrorists” because they suggest that there is a growing “European superstate.” Napolitano said this when he and Horst Köhler, the President of Germany, addressed a group of students at the University of Siena. The EU is not a European superstate, Napolitano said, it is a “a new form of democracy.”

What Mr Napolitano apparently means is that EU decisions are made without reference to the population, indeed against the wishes of a majority of the population in many cases. This is the current comprehension of democracy within the elites that have the temerity to believe they act in our name. It is in fact “post democracy.”

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I especially like the last part about how doing things against the will of the people is just "a new form of democracy" It would seem that the US Senate has been reading the same political science textbooks as this "former" communist hardliner.

I just love that kind of reasoning. I've heard something like it before. Now how did it go? Oh yes:

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength

This is why I say that it's too late for Europe. By the time enough of them pull their heads out of the sand and find the will to pry their lips off of the government tit their ability to act will be nil.