Re: Police to destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people
- From: MM <kylix_is@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 23:59:41 +0100
On Sun, 3 May 2009 06:45:29 -0700 (PDT), Mel Rowing
<mel.rowing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Although I would wish them no harm, do I have the same empathy with
the people of Poland or Estonia as I would have with say the peoples
of Cornwall or Cumbria? Of course I don't.
Well, you see, I do! I see absolutely no difference between any of us.
We are human beings. You need make no other distinction.
The people of Cornwall and
Cumbria can first of all talk to me and me with them.
The people of most of Europe can talk to English-speaking people
because they have taken the trouble to learn English. We could take
the trouble to learn other languages and then talk to other nations.
However, our indoctrinated hubris has led us to believe that we don't
need to bother our arrogant heads with that foreign lingo, eh?
When we do talk
we find, on the whole we have much in common.
"When we do talk..." when is that? How many Britons spend their summer
holiday in Rheinland-Pfalz? Or in a village off the beaten track in
Lithuania? Or camping in Normandy? Surely the first thing we Brits do
when on holiday in that strange place called "abroad" is seek out the
local English bar that serves all-day-breakfasts 24/7?
Similar considerations
apply throughout Europe. There is no European identity as such.
Further a supra-national identity is not something that can be imposed
from above or even engendered.
Would I die for my country? Honestly I don't know until it came to the
test. Would I die for Europe? I know the answer to that one and it is
"Most definitely not!"
Further do not delude yourself that by involving yourself with a
larger and ever growing group you empower yourself. The reverse is the
case the further you are from the decision making process, then the
lesser your influence on that decision. That of course assumes the EU
to be the democratic entity that it clearly is not.
So will you be voting on 4th June?
Finally we must look to those countries from whom we wish to learn
e.g. Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, the former Yugoslav
republics, the former soviet block. Taking the lifetime of anyone
alive today as a time frame, where is the tradition for freedom and
democracy in these countries? What have they got to show us in these
respects?
Huh, you're comparing our wonderful freedom and democracy with other
countries, believing we come out on top? !!
MM
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