Sunday, February 24, 2008

Victory OVER Democracy

You cannot create democracy by increasing the powers of the European Parliament. Just like you cannot create a green meadows by pouring more water on a concrete parking lot.


Big Brother at the Borders

"Taken separately, each of Frattini's ideas serves a defensible purpose: the obligation of government to protect its citizens from harm.

Yet once this multitude of external border-related databases and surveillance capabilities is in place, the risk of an emergent Big Brother society will rise from a near-irresistible temptation to link them to internal pan-EU security and law enforcement databases."

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