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2009-11-23 Europe

Top appointments expose undemocratic nature of EU

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Posted by Fred 2009-11-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 It used to be that Europe's nobility were wealthy noblemen who had earned respect on the battlefield fighting for their king or prince.

Today, the wealthy who aspire to the trappings of nobility are larger varieties of leeches, slugs and nematodes, who having emerged from their tunnels in the polytechnic schools, desire to parasitically attach themselves to the body politic, from which they feed and lay their eggs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-23 09:00|| 2009-11-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Titles have been sold to the highest bidder for at least 500 years. The idea of noblemen who had earned respect on the battlefield fighting for their king or prince is positively medieval.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-11-23 09:28|| 2009-11-23 09:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, just as two 'pro-eminent' french examples, think of dominique galouzeau "de villepin", or valérie giscard "d'estaing". Anyway, buying extinct families nobility titles is a long standing republican tradition in France. The Enlightened Elites looooove nobility titles.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-23 10:11|| 2009-11-23 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Europe was never very democratic. The brief flirtation with it made people nervous and they put themselves back in the serf position.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-11-23 10:49|| 2009-11-23 10:49|| Front Page Top

#5 All a grand reminder why our forefathers either left or were thrown out of the place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-23 13:26|| 2009-11-23 13:26|| Front Page Top

#6 wasnt Harry in Afganastan fighting?

Posted by 746 2009-11-23 14:18|| 2009-11-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Harry's the exception that proves the rule...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2009-11-23 20:51|| 2009-11-23 20:51|| Front Page Top

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