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Saturday, December 6, 2008 at 06:42PM Here is a remarkable exhange between Václav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, and members of the Conference of the Presidents of the European Parliament, Friday 5 December 2008, Prague Castle. Read it and weep.
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"All his life my father fought against the British domination. Many of my relatives lost their lives. That is why I dare to say that the Irish wish for the Lisbon Treaty."(Brian Crowley)
"If Mr. Crowley speaks of an insult to the Irish people, then I must say that the biggest insult to the Irish people is not to accept the result of the Irish referendum. In Ireland I met somebody who represents a majority in his country. You, Mr. Crowley, represent a view which is in minority in Ireland. That is a tangible result of the referendum." (Václav Klaus)
"With all respect, Mr. President, you will not tell me what the Irish think. As an Irishman, I know it best."(Brian Crowley)
Who the hell does Crowley think he is !!!!!
I don't know whether to laugh or cry reading David, your thoughts?
Many of my relatives lost their lives. That is why I dare to say that the Irish wish for the Lisbon Treaty
Eh... someone should tell Crowley that the referendum reslult strongly suggests the Irish don't wish for the Lisbon Treaty!
That is an astounding exchange! The EU Pres acted like a school master to a naughty child.
The EU Pres acted like a school master to a naughty child.
Charles, I don't know which of the two scoundrels is the worst!
Cowen is acting out of all explanations by citing irrlevant Patriotism. If it served Brian's purposes, he would call himself British, tomorrow morning.
Shameful behaviour.
>>"All his life my father fought against the British domination. Many of my relatives lost their lives. That is why I dare to say that the Irish wish for the Lisbon Treaty."(Brian Crowley)<<
Is that eegit off his rocker?
For those of you who may not know, let me tell you that Crowley was born in 1964 and his father was born in 1934, more than a decade after the British departed Southern Ireland, which AFAIK Crowley Snr. never left. He certainly didnt fight the British in NI or elsewhere, but was instead your typical Corkonian gombeen man, an auctioneer and slieveen, a perfect Haughey lackey and a small-time Fianna Fail member all his life.
Like many of his class, he did play Rugby, so maybe it was fighting British domination of the playing field that he spent "all his life fighting"!
The "Many of my relatives lost their lives" comment is beyond a joke.
Unbelievable? No. This is how our government operates behind doors.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit - 'Danny the Red' - was a leader of the 1968 Paris uprising, and he is a communist. He has no interest in freedom and none in democracy, yet he's typical of far more MEPs than than we think.
Look especially at the French and German contingent and it's stuffed with left Wing filth, and that's without the considering the 'Greens' which, of course, are extreme leftists.
Klaus didn't say it but he should have - another Soviet Union is being built. And of course the MSM won't report this exchange. They're too busy looking at the frightening BNP.
<I>Is that eegit off his rocker?
I do believe he is. I've sent him an email about what he said since reading the transcript David link to.
Wait there is a section of my post missing! LOL where?
What I said was, these shites are not above this type of false Patriotism.
Cowen uses the same tactic in the Dailwhen arguing with the Shinners- I watched him on the telly one day telling O Caolaoin (sp?) to sit down, the shinners were not real republicans but Fianna Fail are.
Pete,
"Klaus didn't say it but he should have - another Soviet Union is being built. "
He did pretty much say it but he hadn't the guts to admit it when pressed.
I wonder if those on the right who (rightly) criticised AI for calling Gitmo 'the gulag of our times' will comment consistently on the equally ridiculous comparison of the EU to the USSR? Unlikely.
Frank - I agree the EU - USSR comparison is ridiculous and in fact quite insulting to the people who lived under under the tyranny of the latter.
Frank O'Dwyer -
When considering the nature of not just the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but any Union Of Socialist Republics, it is natural maybe that astonishing and inevitable barbarity will come to mind.
But that wasn;t my point. The administrative slient-state arrangements were what came to my mind.
Look at how a mere French MEP spoke to the President of the Czech Republic.
Go again and look at how contemptuous the elected Pesident of the sovereign people of the Czech Republic was treated by the super-confident French, 'Green' MEP.
Then consider the relationship between any lickspittle member of the Moscow Soviet and supposedly autonomous Soviet republics.
A better analogy is with the Holy Roman Empire. The EU has serious designs on replacing the Habsburgs, only in a more centralised form.
Great transcript it shows the true heart of the dictatorial beaurocrats that run the EU
The EU is not like the Soviet Union but we should be on our guard to make sure it doesn't go that way.
it already has Colm
The Marxist toad Daniel Cohn-Bendit in the same debate....what a total eejit he is, as well as Crowley !!
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I read the whole transcript somewhere else. I couldn't believe Biffo going on about how the Irish want the Lisbon Treaty - is he deluded? Can he not count?
As for that Danny the Red - a communist agitor & it's a disgrace that someone of his ilk is eligible to become an MEP.
As to comparisons between the EU & the USRR - not very much difference unfortunately. The EU bureaucrats are determined that all member states will obey their laws - without any voting & without any democracy. Did you know that the EU has brought in the death penalty - for dissension against the state I think it is. Originally the EU was meant to be merely a trading Common Market, not handing over sovereignty to them. There's a saying in the UK that the EU is determined to achieve what Hitler was unable to achieve in 1945 & that a job in the EU is the career path for failed British politicians.
Did you know that the EU has brought in the death penalty - for dissension against the state I think it is
LMAO
Great comment John Connolly
Something missing from Cohn-Bendit's CV is his notoriety as a 'kiddy-fiddler' from his time as a kindergarden 'teacher' in the '70s - which he unconvincingly tries to rationalise in his self-serving autobiography.
Let's hope there is video of these exchanges between President Klaus and the EU bullies, and that someone posts them on YT for all to see!
>>There's a saying in the UK that the EU is determined to achieve what Hitler was unable to achieve in 1945<<
Yes, but another UK saying is:
"If electricity comes from electrons, then morality must come from morons"
Noel: hahaha.
I cannot understand why a politician such as Brian Crowley would say something so demonstrably false. Does he not realise that his words could be checked and shown for the nonsense that they are? Perhaps he thought that, as with all politicians' lies, he could get away with it.
Allan,
"I cannot understand why a politician such as Brian Crowley would say something so demonstrably false. Does he not realise that his words could be checked and shown for the nonsense that they are?"
Something to bear in mind for your next post.
No it hasn't Troll. For someone who has said he does not comment on things he is not knowledgeable of and hasn't experienced ,I'm guessing that comment of yours is the exception that should lead you back to sticking to your rule.