I Was Paid To Read

As Someone Who Lived Under Communism For Most Of My Life I Feel Obliged To Say That The Biggest Threat To Freedom, Democracy, The Market Economy And Prosperity At The Beginning Of The 21st Century Is Not Communism Or Its Various Softer Variants. Communism Was Replaced By The Threat Of Ambitious Environmentalism.

Common Foreign Policy Is Completely Unnecessary. The Various European Countries Have Widely Differing Priorities, Goals And Prejudices. It Would Be Wrong To Force Them All To Follow The Same Course.

The Development Of European Integration Can Be Divided Into Two Phases. The First Era Ended With The Maastricht Treaty. It Was A Liberalization Phase, With The Main Goal Of European Integration At The Time Being The Removal Of Various Barriers And Borders In Europe. The Second Phase Is A Homogenization Or Standardization Phase, One That Involves Regulation From The Top And Growing Control Over Our Lives. This No Longer Has Anything To Do With Freedom And Democracy.

This Is Crossing The Rubicon, After Which There Will Be No More Sovereign States In Europe With Fully-fledged Governments And Parliaments Which Represent Legitimate Interests Of Their Citizens, But Only One State Will Remain. Basic Things Will Be Decided By A Remote 'federal Government' In Brussels And, For Example, Czech Citizens Will Be Only A Tiny Particle Whose Voice And Influence Will Be Almost Zero. ... We Are Against A European Superstate.

Other Top-level Politicians Do Not Express Their Global Warming Doubts Because A Whip Of Political Correctness Strangles Their Voice.