From Pat Condell (born 1949), Irish writer, polemicist, and former stand-up comedian, YouTube video “Come on, Ireland” (20 May 2011):
Indeed, if there’s one thing a euro politician despises and fears more than anything it’s the democratic will of the people. And this is because many of those who run Europe today were politicised by sixties pseudo-Marxist utopianism, which they’re still determined to impose on the people – for their own good – regardless of what the people might want. They believe in centralised state control: society as a project – their project. It’s the mentality that ran the old Soviet Union, and it’s the mentality that has driven the European Union forward against the wishes of the European people, imposing a constitution on the whole of Europe that hardly anyone was allowed to vote for, and imposing a single currency on the whole of Europe that’s now falling apart at the seams. But they won’t abandon it because they consider it a vital step on the road to full political union, and the abolition of all European nation-states under a central socialist dictatorship.
Spot on!
These “leaders,” by some LIMITED measure, had “the best of intentions.” After all, the history of Europe is one of a large and repeated slaughterhouse. Given such historical proof it was understood that when, as has been pointed out, “goods” cross borders, armies don’t.
What they forgot is what America has so too forgotten. Concepts such as “goods” and “borders” must be understood in their widest meaning. In such a context the greatest of “goods” is individual freedom. “Border” is mostly an imaginary political construct. Therefore the way to eliminate armies crossing borders is not to possess the political power to impose the creation of an army nor the power to create artificial borders.
Leave others alone as you mind only your own business and you will achieve the elimination of both.
Dave