“Proclamations about freedom of expression are a bit like the word ‘democratic’ in the title of a state. It appears most prominently in the titles of states in which it is suppressed most obviously,” Andrew Brons MEP said last week in the European Parliament.
Speaking during a debate on the EU’s Accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, Mr Brons said that “both the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights provide that people have or should have freedom of expression.
“In several EU countries and signatories of the Convention, people can be, and are, gaoled for heretical opinions on academic subjects and for political opinions that are disapproved of by the Political Class.
“Perhaps the worst example is the country in which we are now, France,” he continued.
“France, only this year, passed a law prescribing a description of the killing of Armenians in 1915 backed up by criminal penalties.
“Furthermore, people have been prosecuted for the careless use of a word such as ‘debate’ to refer to an historical event,” Mr Brons added, referring to a leading French Front National figure, Bruno Gollnisch, who made that remark about the Holocaust.
“It really doesn’t matter whether or not one dishonest document is judged by the standards of another dishonest document,” Mr Brons continued, referring to the European Union with its document, the Charter of Fundamental Rights: and the Council of Europe with its document, the European Convention on Human Rights.
Speaking later, Mr Brons explained further: “The issue here is whether or not one organisation, the European Union, complies with its obligation under Article 6 of the Lisbon Treaty, and becomes a member of the second organisation, the Council of Europe, and thereby signs up to the Council of Europe’s document, the European Convention on Human Rights.
“When the European Union signs up to the Council of Europe and to its European Convention on Human Rights, there might be a succession of ‘compatibility’ court rulings.
“It might have to be decided whether the national law of a member country is consistent with EU law (if the national law is within an area of EU competence); or it might have to be decided (ultimately by the EU’s Court of Justice) whether the EU law is consistent with the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights.
“It might hen have to be decided whether the judgment of the EU’s Court of Justice and the (EU’s) Charter of Fundamental Rights are consistent with the Council of Europe’s European Convention on Human Rights,” Mr Brons said, pointing out that it was all very confusing.
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It is a very good thing that Andrew Brons was elected to take truth into the EU and expose the thriving attempts by the European ruling class to manipulate legislature into Orwellian mass population mind-control.
At every turn, we see the democratic freedoms, social patterns, financial sensibilities and the right to freely hold, express and openly discuss personal opinions and unpalatable facts removed piecemeal by the Euro State and its local administrative sub-committees such as the Westminster parliament. And all done without reference to the voting population.
Andrew Brons deserves a medal for chosing to be one of the few speakers of open truths amongst an elite conclave of Eurocratic commisars dedicated to using Human Rights laws to eradicate all normal human rights; the European Court of Justice to eliminate all proper Justice; the European Parliament to undermine and eventually commandeer properly elected national parliaments (Italy & Greece have had “technocrat” presidents imposed upon them without any voting involved, other countries will surely follow); and desperately supporting the terminally sick European Single Currency with measures that ensure an increasing multitude of ordinary people are reduced to starving peasants without the ability to feed themselves or their families, with evaporating jobs, vanishing pensions, melting incomes, and – in this Glorious European Superstate – no normal democratic electoral right to vote their country safely out of the belly of the beast!
Europe is drowning, and European Law ensures its people are denied the right to man the pumps.
Thank God for people like Andrew Brons. We need many more such. Until British Nationalism gets its act together, it seems unlikely we shall get them.
Very true. One thinks of the former East German ‘Democratic Republic’ (GDR), as a classic case, with its Stasi secret police encouraging the citizenery to spy on each other and betray a neighbour guilty of dissident thought and behaviour. We find many parallels in our own country today. Does Mr Brons feel the same about political parties with ‘Democratic’ in the title? One thinks of British ‘Democratic’ Party, for example. There have been various nationalist parties from the past that have incorporated ‘Democratic’ in their name. All have floundered of course. Is it time to even ditch ‘British’ or ‘National’ from the title. Too strident, when perhaps more subtlety is required? The quality of ‘understatement’ is actually a very English, if not ‘British’ one. ‘British Nationalism’ is in need of a whole new re-branding exercise, to nuance and fine tune the whole presentation of policy and principles.