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Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson compares the EU to Hitler
Associated Press ^
| May 15, 2016 7:39 AM EDT
| Danica Kirka
Posted on 05/15/2016 4:53:17 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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posted on
05/15/2016 4:53:18 AM PDT
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Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I admit I know not much about London politics or political figures but I think this guy sees exactly what is going on in Europe. Best advice I can give the Brits: flood the chunnel.
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posted on
05/15/2016 4:56:07 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws maintain the status quo now.)
To: Olog-hai
So, Napoleon is respectable but Hitler is not?
The citing of these two precedents places the EU in a different light. The means become suspect, clouding the ends.
It would seem the current culprit is a consensus of Social Democrats
rather than the undefined mass mind described by Tolstoy in War and Peace.
The concept is interesting and should not be rejected out of hand
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:04:38 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: bert
Better get in line Mayor
Obama said there would be consequences
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT
by
scooby321
(o even lower)
To: bert
Well, if Social Democrats, don’t forget that Lenin’s CPSU started as the Social Democratic Labor Party of Russia.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:09:03 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
It’s possible they already have
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:10:10 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
To: Olog-hai
In before Godwin’s Law is mentioned.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:11:30 AM PDT
by
xp38
To: Olog-hai
In other words he is saying that the EU is acting like Barack Obama.
Heavy handed and tyrannical.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:15:30 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Islam is Islam. Democracy is the train we ride to our ultimate victory. (Recep Erdogan))
To: Olog-hai
Very good assessment of the EU.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:17:29 AM PDT
by
Lent
To: Iron Munro
Could be a chicken-egg conundrum there, given what Obama
said back in 2009.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:25:15 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
I said several years past that Hitler’s mistake was using tanks instead of banks to conquer Europe.
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posted on
05/15/2016 5:30:20 AM PDT
by
hoosierham
(Freedom isn't free)
To: hoosierham
To: Olog-hai
I’d be more inclined to say Stalin (or Mao) than Hitler.
To: Mouton
Best advice I can give the Brits: flood the chunnel.
Funny you should mention that.
I recall a story back when the UK was taking bids on building the chunnel, huge, massive bids in the billions, but the low bid was from a pair of Irish construction lads, the O'Malley Brothers. They bid the equivalent of $300,000 for the whole job.
The O'Malleys were called in to explain how they proposed to build the chunnel for such a low bid. Ian O'Malley smiled and explained "it's easy, me brother will sail over to the French side, I'll stay here on British soil, and we'll both start digging with these brand new shovels we got, and we'll meet in the middle under the channel, job completed!!"
The inevitable question: "that sounds all well and good, but what if perchance you and your brother happen to MISS each other under the channel?"
Ian O'Malley beams and says "ahhh our misfortune is your gain, you'll get TWO tunnels for the price of one!"
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:23:30 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
(The choice is Donald Trump, or Hillary Rotten Criminal. It's a no-brainer!!)
To: Olog-hai
So, it’s ok for Boris to ‘build a wall’ against Europe but not ok for The Donald.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:35:04 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
To: mkjessup
They sound like the Irish builder on Fawlty Tower who always said “Ah, Mr. Fawlty, if God wanted us to worry, he’d give us something to worry about!”
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:37:03 AM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
To: bert
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:53:58 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: xp38
Or the Godwin equivalent for Napoleon. If there is one.
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posted on
05/15/2016 6:55:31 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Olog-hai
It was in fact the plan of Hitler’s economic advisors to unite Europe under a common currency and common market, under the aegis of Germany, of course. So Boris is just reminding the UK of that.
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posted on
05/15/2016 7:50:46 AM PDT
by
RAldrich
To: Olog-hai
He’s right. Its really a push towards the very old lord/serf feudal model and its being accomplished on two fronts one economically through the consolidation of wealth upward and the other through consolidation of power in federal bureaucracies. The result is the same as if the world was invaded by Germany and subdued the only difference with bodies like the EU and the UN the subduing occurred without a shot. We have the same problem here in the US with the federal power far exceeding its constitutional limits whereas the key problem that Europe has is that in many cases it didn’t have any real limits at all to the reach of EU power. so the bureaucrats in Brussels don’t even have to pretend to conform to a dead constitution as ours do. They of course are pretending less and less.
We have seen now the result of federal central governments in that they are doomed to regress to the feudal model. You can not have liberty married to socialism and not end up with a dependent doe eye sheepdom.
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posted on
05/15/2016 8:20:46 AM PDT
by
Maelstorm
(Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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