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Dutch Told To Return Land They Won From The Sea (230 Years Ago)
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-27-2006 | David Rennie

Posted on 05/26/2006 6:34:01 PM PDT by blam

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1 posted on 05/26/2006 6:34:03 PM PDT by blam
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The re-flooding has been imposed by the EU Habitats directive, and the EU Birds directive.

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Perhaps appropriate, being as the EU is one of the more bird-brained inventions of last century.


2 posted on 05/26/2006 6:36:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - "The Road to Peace in the Middle East runs thru Damascus.")
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To: blam

Nothing much angers me more than reports like this.

Little do-gooders have way too much time on their hands, and international agencies should be told to go " " off!


3 posted on 05/26/2006 6:37:19 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Botulism: Doing the same thing over and over and over, yet expecting a different outcome.)
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The bureaucrats who engineer this crap are safe. If they weren't safe, this crap would go away.


4 posted on 05/26/2006 6:38:43 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: blam

The EU is charging onward toward oblivion and taking a lot of innocent people with it.


5 posted on 05/26/2006 6:39:05 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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To: blam

Who is John Galt?


6 posted on 05/26/2006 6:39:16 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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They do not rail against the EU, instead blaming "environmental extremists".

Then they are stupid leftist sheep.

7 posted on 05/26/2006 6:40:20 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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Where is Henry Bowman?


8 posted on 05/26/2006 6:40:29 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: blam

Insanity.


9 posted on 05/26/2006 6:40:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: NormsRevenge

Outrageous.

This goes against instinct for those Dutch people. Holland doesn't have much land to begin with. Perhaps Brussells Grand Square or wherever the EU rat's nest is currently located, should be flooded. It would clean it out.

Aah, the virtues of having joined the EU and their PolitiK and Group Think.


10 posted on 05/26/2006 6:41:01 PM PDT by bwteim (If the root cause of illegal immigration is employment, help move Lindsey Graham to Mexico.)
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To: NormsRevenge
This is what happens when a nation makes the mistake of surrendering sovereignty.
11 posted on 05/26/2006 6:41:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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They do not rail against the EU, instead blaming "environmental extremists". Arguably, their foes are the shoppers of Holland and Belgium, with their appetite for cheap goods from the Far East.

In order to allow ever bigger container ships into Antwerp harbour, a deeper channel is to be dredged that will speed up erosion of the banks.

It is that loss of habitat that must be compensated for.


12 posted on 05/26/2006 6:41:39 PM PDT by dennisw
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If they weren't safe,

I throw an approving EWG in your direction.

L

13 posted on 05/26/2006 6:41:48 PM PDT by Lurker (Real conservatives oppose the Presidents amnesty proposal. Help make sure it dies in the House.)
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To: NormsRevenge
The re-flooding has been imposed by the EU Habitats directive, and the EU Birds directive.

They're trying to catch up with all the damage caused by Rachel Carlson and the ban on DDT.

14 posted on 05/26/2006 6:42:16 PM PDT by capt. norm (W.C. Fields: "Hollywood is the gold cap on a tooth that should have been pulled out years ago.")
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They need to come up with an endangered animal species of mammal.


15 posted on 05/26/2006 6:42:24 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Wolfie

You're undeniably right.


16 posted on 05/26/2006 6:42:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the U.S. Senate were a sewage plant, they'd have to shut the thing down to clean up the place.)
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Simply, absolutly, absurd! I live in a Dutch Colony, and this is enimical to telling an American that we are going to demolish your home and give the land back to the Indians because 200 years ago it was part of a tribal homeland.

It goes counter to everything which makes up Dutch thinking. Only a EU Commission could think up somthing like this.


17 posted on 05/26/2006 6:43:00 PM PDT by Swiftsure
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Arguably, their foes are the shoppers of Holland and Belgium, with their appetite for cheap goods from the Far East.

In order to allow ever bigger container ships into Antwerp harbour, a deeper channel is to be dredged that will speed up erosion of the banks.


What an absurd ending to this article.
18 posted on 05/26/2006 6:44:02 PM PDT by Jaysun (Cold showers turn me on.)
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"Where is Henry Bowman?"

He lives in my basement. I'm having a hard time finding space for all that 20mm ammo though.


19 posted on 05/26/2006 6:45:37 PM PDT by dljordan
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They do not rail against the EU, instead blaming "environmental extremists". Arguably, their foes are the shoppers of Holland and Belgium, with their appetite for cheap goods from the Far East.

Arguably, somebody is an idiot here.

20 posted on 05/26/2006 6:47:38 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Faster than a speeding building; able to leap tall bullets at a single bound!)
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