Europe must first learn to stand up to her own EU Council of Members to
make sure we are all not enslaved by their encompassing and controlling
policies, before advocating standing up to imagined friend or foe!
James Henry Graf wrote:
> "YellowStars" <europhile_american@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:8mYlg.8651$o4.263@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > "Europe must keep standing.and standing up to America!"
> > YellowStars blog
> > Posted by ESLa****te
> > 20 June 2006
> >
http://yellow-stars.com/blog/2006/06/europe_must_keep_standingand_s.html
> >
> > What we must look for and cheer on is the conduct and progress of the
> > EU-US summit that favors a more vigorous and forceful Europe when
dealing
> > with the US. One of the things we should hope for is a more forceful
> > Europe that acts more vigorously in the global community. Europe has
the
> > right to assert itself, protect its rights from America, and advance
its
> > policy goals. Europe has the right to its self-determination and its
own
> > security without American interference. Europe must stand up to
America in
> > such areas as data transfers - and stop backing down, rolling over -
and
> > dying! It would be an encouragement also if American soldiers, private
> > contractors and diplomats were told that they could no longer travel
> > through the European nations. This is a start in standing up to
American
> > bullying and arrogance, and Europe must stop rolling over!
> >
> > To do this, Europe must be prepared to free itself from all dependence
> > (military, psychological) on America. The continuance of dependence
upon
> > America by Europe opens Europe up to the revenge foreign policy of the
> > Bush Administration. The rest of the world can plainly see that for
every
> > counter against the Bush Administration's conduct in the world - the
Bush
> > Administration takes revenge on that nation or organization. This kind
of
> > bullying and arrogant action of revenge is not tolerated in the
> > international community, which operates on largely mutual respect and
> > cooperation. The foreign policy of revenge and arrogance is one of the
> > things that have caused America to be isolated in the world. We must
cheer
> > Europe on, and encourage Europe to develop alternatives to American
> > dependence, which sometimes resembles alcoholism!
> >
> > Europe must speak out against more than the CIA flights and the
Guantanamo
> > prison camp. American society is one of absolute inhumanity and
depravity,
> > and a future European vocation should be to speak out against its
> > continued existence as such. Europe must stand up on the issues of
human
> > rights, the rule of law and human dignity for American people in
America,
> > and not just for black-Americans. We should hope for a future European
> > denunciation of American society as dehumanizing, demoralizing, and
> > mean-spirited - and a violation of basic human rights. America is a
> > failing nation, and the more that America sinks into the abyss of a
failed
> > nation, the more that Europe and the rest of the international
community
> > should offer to step in to help. Europe must eventually Europeanize
> > America too.
> >
> > European security should be free from American constraints and
pressures.
> > Europe has and is establi****ng, as advocated and practiced in the
European
> > Security Strategy, a spreading of stability and security, as well as
human
> > rights. The efforts that Europeans have made to being peace and
humanity
> > back to diverse places like the Congo and Palestine are productive.
The
> > failing nation of the United States will need this aid
eventually...The
> > non-threatening, non-military engagement of Europe in crisis in Iran
and
> > the Sudan, including Europe's outreaches to Latin America and Africa,
have
> > not cost a single European soldier. Europe's form of security and its
> > global avocation in the area of human rights and dignity should be an
> > encouragement for those of us who continue to be oppressed around the
> > world. Europe must stand up and keep standing tall for all of us
around
> > the world!
> >
> >
>
> Europe must also stop discriminating against refugees from America.
> Pretending that nobody from this country can possibly have a
well-founded
> fear of persecution, particularly on the basis of political beliefs, is
> absurd on its face, brutally dishonest, and profoundly insulting.
>
> "For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For the want of a shoe, the
> horse was lost. For the want of a horse, the rider was lost. For the
want of
> a rider, the battle was lost. For the want of a battle, the kingdom was
> lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail!" -- Benjamin Franklin.
>
> As a persecuted human rights defender, whistleblower, and federal civil
> rights complainant, a "non-person" whose rights nobody will sup****t, I
am
> tired, straitened, and more than a mite bitter.
>
> For more than two decades, persons and agencies associated with my
former
> employer, the State of New York, have, with utter impunity, subjected me
> personally to egregious extrajudicial violation of my privacy and
dignity,
> frequent unwarranted, unreasonable searches and seizures, criminal
stalking,
> attacks on my computer, and other violations of my human rights. In the
face
> of this political persecution, I have never succeeded in obtaining
effective
> advocacy or the equal protection of my country's laws. Three European
> countries have arbitrarily denied me political asylum and coerced my
return
> to these shores, where I am now trapped, unable ever again to attempt
> escape.
>
> I must sadly opine that if somebody had defended my human rights twenty
> years ago, if the Netherlands had given me refuge fifteen years ago and
> acknowledged the atrocity my country has committed against some of its
> citizens, the current crop of torturers and murderers in high places
might
> not have come to power. For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost ...
>
> James Henry Graf
>
> Please Make UN Treaty-Based Committees Do Their Jobs
> (my personal appeal)
> http://www.angelfire.com/nj/jhgraf/makeun.html
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