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Old 12-09-10, 09:17 PM   #1
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One of my favourite cases was: A prisoner escapes from a Utah prison. After he is caught, he tries to sue Utah for the mental anguish and injuries he received when he was fleeing and hiding from the police.

He told the court that he felt like a hunted animal.

Nor surprisingly the Utah courts did not rule in his favour.

Some people's kids.
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Old 12-10-10, 06:09 AM   #2
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Respenus,

you are right in so far that the European polit-operetta has established THREE different political entities all called "European commission" or "Commission of Europe", and only two of these are directly linked to and established by the organisation called the European Union. However, all these three bodies, independent from the EU or not, and although on paper serving different purposes (too many different purporses for to many actors, if you ask me), together with the EU, all have the same idea about what Europe should become, and by what means. That's why I tend to throw them all into the same drawer, because in practice they all help the vision the EU has drawn for the European superstate. And what I think of this damn thing, you probably know by now.

So, formally you are right, but in practice I do not see it making much of a difference to the EU. The European project has been derailed and politically and ideologically infested so heavily that to me it all is the same rubbish. Or in short: it all is "the EU".

Wikileaks, thanks to them, has revealed what American diplomats think about the European narcissism and operetta-style wannabe-great-leaders craving for Obama's attention. The EU alone confronts the Americans with at least four different diplomatic titles/entities/bodies, plus the individual national leaders. No wonder that Obama has reperateedly shown total desinterest to engage with this Kindergarten and left them standing in the rain, while his diplomatc cooly calculate how to play the individual European kids best against each other:

USA spotten über Zwergenmacht Europa
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