European Union member countries who jail people just for expressing political opinions are not civilized, Andrew Brons MEP told shocked liberals in the EU Parliament yesterday.
Speaking to a meeting of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Mr Brons said that a “common area of Justice is a fine ideal—an area in which Justice prevails throughout.
“However, that does not mean that there should be harmonisation of law or legal systems,” he said.
“Law can vary from country to country, whilst all might achieve Justice by different routes and channels. Furthermore, harmonisation is not a sufficient condition for Justice; it is not a guarantor of Justice.
“However, we cannot be complacent. Countries—and I mean countries in the European Union which that seek to gaol people for expressing political opinions, or which ban political parties that pursue their aims by peaceful means, or which seek to prescribe and proscribe different opinions about what happened in Armenia in 1915, are not civilised countries that subscribe to any ideal of Justice.
“History should be left to historians. The only politicians that impose views of history are totalitarian politicians,” Mr Brons said.
“Before we try to impose a common template on twenty-seven—soon to be twenty-eight—different countries, we must, at the very least ensure that the template is itself just and that the countries, from which the template is drawn, practise justice.
“Attempts to build complementary legal devices, like the European Arrest Warrant, have not served the interests of Justice.
“This device has facilitated people being extradited and gaoled, pending trial, without the court in the extraditing country being able to judge the strength or weakness of the case.
“These attempts to harmonise and make complementary, different legal systems are not motivated by service of Justice but by building EU competence, brick by brick.
“Spending money works wonders for the conscience but it does not guarantee the achievement of Justice, any more than the sale of indulgences, in the Middle Ages, guaranteed the achievement of Virtue.”
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Nice one, Andrew. I sincerely hope what you said did shock listeners, and send ripples through the EU. There is an uncrossable gulf between Justice and Legality. They are two entirely different things. Legality is the State’s organised enforcement of a political ethos. Justice is the victory of the individual who wishes to preserve their individuality against unwelcome pressure from others, whether from muggers or draconian administrators.
Sorry kinsman Andrew, History, especially our amazing history –going back to ancient (temperate) Mesopotamia (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov p144 of JP Mallory’s book “In Search of the Indo Europeans”; Sharon Turner 1799 and George Moore 1861 etc) is far too important to leave to the academics and ‘professionals’.
They have hidden agendas, and sponsors, and appraisers, to bow to. Many are scared for their jobs and losing their gold-plated pensions and means to flee if civil war breaks out. Many are effeminate and have no posterity, so don’t really care about Britain’s future. They have been approving and teaching the absurd religion of Darwinian-Evolution for over a century. None has ever observed one species evolve into another! In BBC-land, if you question “The theory of Evolution” your are dismissed as a nut or a quasi-terrorist! And as for the Global Warmists..!
Our students (and our Telly addicts) are the most brain-washed people on the planet.
Don’t let them rewrite all our good old history books! And how long will our honest revisionist websites like David Irving’s, Kevin MacDonald’s, or Bill Finck’s christogenea, survive?