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Freedom is an entitlement, not a right in the EU

Norman Tebbit hits the nail on the head in his post Britain and the EU: time for a divorce. Maybe the Conservative Party could try listening to this very experienced politician. The Telegraph January 22nd 2010

Here are a few extracts

The English are, of course, a European nation, but we are different by virtue of our history from the others.

The right of a German or Frenchman to free speech is a grant by law - essentially an entitlement rather than a right. Here, it requires a law to set limits upon that right, which in this Kingdom is (I'm sorry Professor Dawkins) the God-given right of an Englishman or woman from birth.

Geert Wilders fight for freedom of speech

From Europe News, we get the full transcript of Gert Wilders Speech in his trial.

Geert Wilders, was the little-known (outside of the Netherlands) leader of a very small party, PVV, the Party for Freedom. As Diana West of Europe News reminds us:

"Only a year and a half later, Wilders is the most famous Dutchman in the world, and his party rivals the current ruling party in popularity. Wilders is also now on trial for his political life and liberty -- hardly a coincidence."

Notable highlights are:

Yet one more - Garry Mann loses Portuguese extradition battle

Yet a senior judge said he had been the victim of a "serious injustice" (Daily Telegraph Jan 19th, 2010). How many more people, rotting in continental jails, who are victims of "serious injustice" will it take before anything is done about this obnoxious European Arrest Warrant (EAW). Yet Lord West, who has responsibility for extraditions, said in December 2009:

"The Government is satisfied that the EAW is working well"

Let's not forget that Andrew Symeou has now be in a Greek jail, in squalid conditions, for over six months, refused bail and with no sign of a trial date. As Private Eye noted in December (copy 1252 page 32)

Evidence in the case, seen by the Eye, suggests that some of it was fabricated or obtained by violent intimidation of witnesses.

Andrew Symeou, Greek Embassy Protest

A crowd gathered on Saturday, Jan 9th, outside the Greek Embassy, to protest and remember that Andrew Symeou has now been in a Greek prison, unnecessarily, for six months. The crowd was well behaved and orderly and included London MEPS UK Independence Party Gerald Batten and Liberal Democrat Baroness Sarah Ludford. The protest tried to stay non political, focused on Andrew's release, and after many chants demanding release of Andrew now, posted a petition of protest through the Embassy's letter box.

"Andrew Symeou, 21, from Enfield, was returned to Greece in July 2009 on a controversial charge related to the death of a fellow young Briton in a Greek nightclub. He has been denied bail and his lawyers maintain there have been brutal police tactics, fabrication of evidence and even torture of witnesses." Baroness Ludford, January 8th, 2010

Andrew Symeou - BBC news item

Watch and wonder about the moral backbone of our leaders. (YouTube)

From Fair Trials International, Nov 24th, 2009.

Greek police fabricated evidence and lied under oath in order to frame Andrew Symeou, according to a criminal complaint being filed by Andrew's lawyer in Greece. Andrew, a 20 year old British man from Enfield, is accused of involvement in the tragic death of another young British man in a nightclub in Zante, Greece in 2007.

A deeply troubling time for science in general

Hat-tip The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

The most troubling aspect is that politicians have been:

1. not only taken in by this, but they have
2. bought into it wholescale and have then
3. found it to be a powerful tool to manipulate, scare and tax their subjects
4. hiding behind the new found power of so called "Expert Groups"

[See Climategate on YouTube]

When Andrew Neil notices, the Warmists must begin to worry

... and with only 40 days left for saving the world!

The BBC has maintained a united Global Warming front, in all its news stories, until recently, but the cracks are beginning to show. It started with its scientific correspondent, Paul Hudson, on 9 October 2009 saying What happened to global warming?

"This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise."

Common decency demands that the European Arrest Warrant be thrown out

David Birkinshaw and Matthew Neale were enjoying a stag weekend in Riga, when they found themselves accused of assaulting a policeman. There is no doubt that a scuffle of some kind took place, and a Latvian policeman claimed to have been hurt, although his injuries were described as "minor". It was never clear that the two Derby men had any part at all in the fracas.

Initially they came home to Derby, where David Birkinshaw was planning to marry his long-time fiancée, and mother of his child, Rachel Gee. But both men were sent back to Latvia under the European Arrest Warrant, where they spent ten weeks in a Stalin-era prison described by Latvia's own President as "not fit for animals". This was a time of appalling uncertainty. For a long time they had no details of charges, no assurance of a trial date, no assurance that adequate translation would be provided - and the looming possibility that they might be found guilty, and imprisoned in dreadful conditions for a lengthy period.

[Photo. Andrew Symeou]