More Unwanted EU Meddling
Not content to constantly interfere and meddle in just our lives in this part of the world; the EU has recently taken to interfering in the politics and remit of other international nations.
In August, the EU Commission sent a message to the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, strongly urging him to abolish the death penalty in his state and cease all future executions of those on death row.
The Commission’s note stated that, ‘There is no evidence to suggest that the use of the death penalty serves as a deterrent against violent crime and the irreversibility of the punishment means that miscarriages of justice, which are inevitable in all legal systems, cannot be redressed.’
Apart from there being plenty of evidence to suggest that the death sentence acts as a very good deterrent of violent crime and murder, what exactly has the legal process and laws of a self-governing state such as Texas got to do with the European Union? Not much is the answer.
As it happens, Governor Rick Perry put the Commission in their place with a brilliant response saying that, ‘230 years ago our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we respect our friends in Europe, welcome their investment in our state and appreciate their interest in our laws, Texans are doing just fine governing Texas’.
In Texas citizens can elect politicians to abolish the death penalty if they so chose, but in stark contrast, if the subjugated people of Europe wish to elect politicians to reinstate its use, then they are not allowed to do so as it would directly contravene sacred EU law.
Despite their previous unsuccessful foray into external politics, yesterday, EU Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou, called for China to immediately ban tobacco advertising in time for the Shanghai Formula 1 Grand Prix. This is apparently because although European Union laws on tobacco advertising do not apply in China, images of the cigarette logos on F1 cars will be broadcast on TVs back in ‘European’ homes which, as Mr Kyprianou told China’s Vice Health Minister, ‘In a way undermines and limits the effectiveness of our own legislation in protecting citizens, especially young people, from this kind of tobacco marketing.’
As an unelected and unaccountable Commissioner, Markos Kyprianou will probably have felt right at home in undemocratic Communist China - but that is still no reason for his and the EU Commission’s self-righteous interference. If I were the Chinese, I’d just tell Markos and the EU to fuck right off.
