Havel, demokracia a habsburgská monarchia

Like so many others these days, Mr. Havel seems to believe that the member states of the European Union and NATO are democracies, where freedom and human rights are well protected. This is an absolute fallacy. On the basis of this fallacy Mr. Havel, whose country has only recently joined both NATO and the EU, contemplates the world around him and inevitably comes to the self-congratulating conclusion that human rights and democracy scarcely exist outside “the West”.

Precisely all over the West, however, human rights have been dismantled systematically in the interest of state security. Government spy agencies listen in on telephone conversations, read e-mails and keep track of what internet sites are being visited and by whom. Carrying an ID-card has become mandatory or on the verge of becoming so, just as in the days when Hitler's armies were occupying most of Europe. Just like the Gestapo, the SS and the Grüne Polizei once did, European policemen and customs officials today can willfully stop any person on the street and request to see his papers.

On a more general level, today there is not one single member state of the EU or NATO that can be called a democracy. Governments do as they please, supported by a supine press and spineless media. Moreover, in the EU, 80% of legislation is imposed by the European Commission at Brussels, an entity that can best be compared to the Politbureau of the former Soviet Union. There is no measure of parliamentary control on the commission whatsoever. The European Parliament at Strasbourg is devoid of any real power and cannot depose the commission. Many of its members are corrupt, third-rate, and sidelined politicians who do little more than pocketing their lavish allowances.

Mr. Havel is a subject of the Habsburg empire come back to life, a leftover from an ideology long believed to be dead and buried ! I just never realized the Habsburg legacy would still be so strong today. Poor Mr. Havel.

Článok:english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/106783-0/

07.12.2008

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