Posted on 11/11/2013 7:36:57 PM PST by Olog-hai
While European leaders are busy expressing public indignation over reports of American espionage operations in the European Union, the European Parliament is quietly considering a proposal that calls for the direct surveillance of any EU citizen suspected of being “intolerant.”
Critics say the measure—which seeks to force the national governments of all 28 EU member states to establish “special administrative units” to monitor any individual or group expressing views that the self-appointed guardians of European multiculturalism deem to be “intolerant”—represents an unparalleled threat to free speech in a Europe where citizens are already regularly punished for expressing the “wrong” opinions, especially about Islam. …
When viewed in the broader context of the ETD, the ECTR document is so audacious in scope, while at the same time so vague in defining its terminology, that critics say the proposal, if implemented, would open a Pandora’s Box of abuse, thereby effectively shutting down the right to free speech in Europe. …
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I’m sure he already got such ideas from his former “buds” over in Europe. After all, the BND and NSA worked very closely together for a long time before the big blowup . . .
Dang...ANOTHER list to get on.
While European leaders are busy expressing public indignation over reports of American espionage operations in the European Union, the European Parliament is quietly considering a proposal that calls for the direct surveillance of any EU citizen...Intolerant behavior includes (at #1) Euroskepticism...
“...thereby effectively shutting down the right to free speech in Europe. …”
Surprise, surprise, European countries have no “Bill of Rights” given to them by a creator. God was busy that day so the European governments gave out rights, very stingily I might add. It’s a real b!tch living in Third World countries without rights.
Amazing the amount of wannabe dictators out there.
Some Europeans have expressed concern with the Islamacist invasion that is threatening to take over their countries.
This isn’t an expression of that, though.
That “intolerance” will surely include quoting what the bible has to say about homosexuality and other perversions and I believe that is their point.
“QUIT GIVING HIM IDEAS!!”
Are we talking about Moochelle or Hildabeast? Those two are much more masculine than Bathouse Barry.
# the New Nazis.
Sounds like they should have just let Hitler win back in 1945. The results is the same, almost total loss of freedom.Coming here soon.
Positively Orwellian.
And how long before this notion crosses the Atlantic - or has it crossed already....
They are just formalizing in law the long-term trend.
During the Libyan civil war, the Libyans showed the world how to treat elite fascists - hang the bureaucrats and mercenary army from lampposts and execute the elitist leadership on the hoods of SUVs.
Hitler would have gotten nukes back in the mid-40s if we hadn’t stopped him. Saying such a thing is to say that totalitarianism is inevitable, but it’s not; it’s a good thing that the generation of those days at least were more morally formidable.
“...just formalizing in law the long-term trend.”
Isn’t that what they said of Hitler in 1933?
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