Europeans Plan to Press for Tariffs Against U.S.

The New York Times ^ | December 6, 2003 | ALAN COWELL

[Broadside Joe]

"The Europeans are overplaying their hand."

Yes that is why they need to be slapped until they bleed. Enough is enough I'm all for getting out of the WTO.

[Broadside Joe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1035065/posts

This is why I say that the UN would be the best place to start.

[blanknoone]

Europe needs to get "punched its weight" in the nose.

What is the appropriate response? I am a free trader...I don't want to burden Americans with higher prices, but this certainly demands a response. First and foremost it means we MUST get our troops out of Europe, including the Balkans. There are bases all across America closing that would love that contingent.

Second, I think we should seriously consider pulling out of NATO if members, including france and Germany don't assist, including with the deployment of troops, in Iraq.

I think we should also consider imposing technology export restrictions to Europe. They are now the enemy.

I think we should also try to instigate an eastern european trade block centered on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

We should also consider claiming 51 represntatives and votes at the next international conference until such time as the EU sends a single rep.

I think we should start doing what we have been accused of and our european 'friends' have been doing for quite some time...industrial espianoge by the state.

If things get much worse, I think we should point out to the Islamic extremists that france is the low hanging fruit.

Last and certainly not least, America should focus on creating an international group that represents, rather than falsely proclaims, our values. As such, it is pretty clearly the english-language world with a few others like potentially Japan. We don't need to get out of the UN, but we do need to make it irrelevant.

What did I miss?

[Cacophonous]

Yeah, I've read that. It's sickening, and pure treason on the parts of our leaders. Actually, their executions would be the first priority...

[Cacophonous]

Your proposals are fine except for your faith in the international groups. We should get out of them completely, and then act in our interests and our interests alone.

[kaylar]

I agree with you and the others here who call for retaliatory tariffs against the euroscum. Frankly, the Islamothugs infesting the EU cannot go on a rampage to force Islamic conversion, sharia, and slavery on that continent soon enough for me.

[Broadside Joe]

They are all acting so very umm...French. Eastern Europe grab your billfolds and run for your life.

[blanknoone]

then act in our interests and our interests alone. You are right that we should act in our interests, but you should also recognize that international organizations can also be used to further our interests.

[gcruse]

"There's obviously a very strong feeling in the industry that we were used..."

Yeah, like a prostitute is 'used' by paying her up front, only to have her withhold the bought-and-paid-for client servicing.  You got your money, guys, where were the votes? 

[gcruse]

And we have 260 million consumers with a lot of money.

They won't have much money left after your tariffs drive prices up 25%.

[gcruse]

The EU is acting like a rouge terrorist group.

LOL  A jihad of hookers, I guess.

[Always Right]

LOL A jihad of hookers, I guess.

Well, you know how the French operate.

[gcruse]

I am channeling a cover picture on a Rupert Murdoch publication that went on sale in Paris. Something about a Chirac as a prostitute...it was met with outrage. Outrage, I tell ya.

[Always Right]

I am outraged too. I know lots of prostitues, and they were offended at being compared to Chirac.

[Cacophonous]

How little faith you have in the American manufacturer. (I should add that tariffs should be enacted with tax cuts and an easing of regulatory burden of OSHA, EPA, etc., and of the unions, if possible).

[kaylar]

Make sure you see this new thread : It's somewhat related.

[DeepDish]

Lamy and company have made no bones that the tariffs the EUs threatened on the US were targeted at what are considered key states in the 2004 elections. In other words it was a clear attempt to interfere with the leadership and governance of the United States. To make it plain, they feel better qualified to appoint Americas leadership than the people themselves. Their actions by any rational measure present a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the United States and as such are a cassus beli (cause for war).

[gcruse]

I don't know what it's like over at DU, but it's getting hip deep around here.