Re: Free speech: Perpetually at risk

Neil Stevens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.cafe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On Thursday June 26, 2003 04:42, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:37:52PM -0700, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Wouldn't leaving the EU require backbone or leadership?  I've yet to
> > see any over in The Hague.  Oh, our military does something stupid? 
> > Let's all quit and have a new election.  We can't get anything done? 
> > Let's have a new election, and take months before resolving it.
>
> It requires people. I know Dutch people and I know 'em well enough that
> what Andreas is linking to is not going to happen.
>
> > I think it's a safe bet that if the EU did something that the people
> > didn't like, there would have to be another election before the
> > government even considered doing something about it.
>
> So we kill another politician. Don't mess with the pot-smoking,
> chick-fucking, beer-drinking Dutch people!

Uh huh.  There you go.  As soon as someone in office or running for office 
takes leadership of the anti-superstate drive, a pro-EU person wil just 
have to kill him and then the Dutch will meekly vote for the status quo 
again.

> Seriously, it's not going to happen.

Honestly, I doubt it, too.  But I doubt the will of the average European to 
fight it, were it to happen.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - [email protected]

"I'll believe it when I see it." -- George Walker Bush
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