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Originally Posted by Respenus
I have spent the last hour searching for an article on EUObserver I remember reading a while ago. It reported on an internal document in the European Parliament that stated something similar to Skybird's comment. I am not talking about the "political guidelines for the institutional information and communication campaign" and fighting negative reporting in the media and especially the internet, but about another thing altogether, although it was closely linked to the media issue.
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I am not running a private archive. I read a news, if it interests me, I do some search for more confirmation or the original material linked to in that news, or not - depends on the quality of the original news as I perceive it. I store it in mind. Period. In doing so, I am not any different than probably everybody else here. Only some pieces and articles land in a link archive, mostly essays of longer length and something in them that I really appreciated.
Both the EU commission and the EU parklimant had internal plans leaked, given, revealed or whatever over the past three years or so that indicate that a growing number of people sympathize with the idea to react to the decline in Eu enthusiasm by forcing people to nevertheless like it. One commissioner was stupid enough to openly say that the EU should mull legislation that can legally pursue criticism of the EU that the EU does not see as fair or balanced. The thing to note is that the EU is the instance to judge what is fair and balanced - one can easily imagine where this aims to end at. Additionally, in the same period of time I recall to have read short mentionings in the news about three or four members of EU parliament who also expressed disgust at EU critics, that expressing unbalanced views of the EU should see the opinion holder being held legally responsible, and that for repeated offenders even prison terms appear to be justified.
Well. Of course, "
nobody plans to build a wall"... But the EU is a record holder in braking its own treaties, laws, and rules, especially regarding the Euro. I would also argue that when considering the national state, the democratic government, and the very obvious tendency towards a centralised, non-legitimated, planned-economy-run socialist superstate, and when even further considering my recent quotings and references to Murray Rothbard and H.-H. Hoppe (and others), when all this gets considered, then it should become clear that demanding critics of the EU project being silenced, by anonymous group pressure, by political correctness, by enforced opinion conformity and media with hunts and finally by legal oppression, is not just a scenario possible, but asppears to be the logical next stage of development. And I cannot say how often I read some small news on some minor detail everyday issue that just adds another small piece to the overall picture than shows this scenario becoming reality, slowly but surely.
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BTW, the link in the first posting is about Pat Condell's second volume with transcripts of his infamous youtube monologues.
Just in case people have not noted.
