Europe's frog stew

The European Union ought to be a warning to Americans. In fact, it is, to astute observers.

But even if we were all astute, we are no longer the owners of our destiny. That distinction goes to Washington, which seems hell-bent on imposing a supranational government on us. NAFTA, CAFTA and SPP (Security and Prosperity Partnership) are deceitfully touted as mostly economic, security-based undertakings at this incipient stage of encroachment. Arms in the war on terror.

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This is all eerily similar to the way today's revolutionary centralized government, complete with Brussels-based legislature and court, was foisted on unsuspecting Europeans without a shot being fired – drop by drop, like Chinese water torture.

I remember this process well because it was reflected in the patent literature I was assigned to translate. When I first entered the field in the early '70s, each applicant company had recourse only to its national patent bureau, although foreign-language equivalents of the acronym EEC (European Economic Community) appeared in much of the patent literature. It was assumed this organization existed solely to facilitate trade in Western Europe and did not infringe on internal affairs. A few years later, the foreign-language equivalents of the acronym EC (European Community) seemed to be supplanting EEC. The "economic" descriptor had been dropped. I recall wondering why but never guessed the reason. Soon we saw European patents and less and less of the EC acronym as it was replaced by EU (European Union).

Before the frog knew the pot was boiling, it was stew. We now know that what started as an innocent economic agreement has become a supranational government, turning national governments into puppets. The word "harmonization" soon crept in, meaning that national laws had to be adapted to EU law. Dissenting national law could be challenged in the Brussels court. Thus legislators in every nation in Europe are reduced essentially to scribes.

To illustrate how intrusive this was, and what awaits Americans as the shadows of government grow:

• Recently, the EU threatened Poland with sanctions for not forcing Poles to accept a redefinition of marriage and failing to teach moral equivalency between traditional family and alternative gay "families," and

• According to euronews.net, the Brussels Big Brothers passed a resolution that Intelligent Design should not be taught in public schools in Europe. Just like that.

The German language version of the above-cited euronews.net article gives us a glimpse of the quality of European science education, stating:

"Creationists deny that man descended from the ape."

Now, no Darwinist today who is worth his formaldehyde (not even Richard Dawkins) would ever state that man descended from the ape. That quaint notion is long dead, except, I suppose, in the collective mind of the European left – to be expected, since debate on this issue is taboo. As Ben Stein's movie title goes: no intelligence allowed.

But Germany went off track a long time ago education-wise, perhaps when they decided a university education was every citizen's "right" (a right later declared unconstitutional in the early '90s).

As soon as university study was free, the universities went into free-fall. The demand for gut courses and non-descript curricula, such as social sciences and psychology, soared as every Johann Blow laid claim to intellectuality. Natural sciences, once a German forte, were soon displaced by a simplistic form of environmentalism that sprang up as leftist activists invaded academe, triggering a dumbing-down of the universities and consequently a shortfall of several thousand professional workers, mostly in computer-related fields. This led businesses to petition the government to issue more visas to blue-collar candidates abroad.

It's not just Germany. Madame Brasseur, a Luxembourg deputy to the EU Parliamentary Assembly, is quoted by euronews.net in conjunction with last week's anti-ID decision:

"I am very disturbed when I read books in which Darwin is labeled the father of terrorism."

Hmm, I own a lot of books and DVDs authored by creationists such as Ken Hamm, Dr. Don DeYoung and Dr. D. James Kennedy, and nowhere is Darwin juxtaposed with terror. However, Dr. Kennedy does in fact quote Hitler and racist Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as paying homage to Darwin.

It is, however, documented that Columbine High School shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold used "survival of the fittest" to justify their brutality. Harris wore a "natural selection" T-shirt the day of the slayings. Madame Brasseur says she has "serious doubts about" authors like me who point this out.

But the Church of Godlessness, the only religion supported by the EU, brooks no discussion, claiming to seek "values-free knowledge," while in fact seeking knowledge-free values.

America once seemed to hold a moral edge over the Soviet Union, and it was Reagan's aura of moral rectitude that enabled him to face them down.

But today, Russia denounces Western immorality (a recurrent theme of Turgenev's writings in the 1800s), and notwithstanding the EU's bogus charge of an overly "clericized" Russia, conservatives in America cannot help but admire the Russians' resistance to "gay" marriage and in-your-face gay parades (like the one Moscow's mayor broke up a few months ago).

Despite her relative economic and military weakness, Russia stands out today as a formidable moral force.

In a recent guest appearance at the European Parliament, the Russian patriarch denounced Western immorality.

How ironic that historic enemies Poland and Russia now find common ground in one of the most significant issues of our time!

The European community huddles together for security, and the three major players in the New World – the United States, Mexico and Canada – are doing likewise.

And, of course, American military power can be brought to bear against anyone who dares to challenge the West's increasingly immoral worldviews.

But without a solid moral platform for our policies, that is, without God on our side, we will fail just as surely as communism did when the shoe was on the other foot.

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Donald Hank is a technical translator and staff writer for Laigle's Forum.