Is There A Parallel With Nazi Germany And What The Eu Are Currently Attempting?

[ToraToraTora]

All be it by peaceful means...so far. The recent sensoring/complaints about my avatar have inspired this post. Thanks I'm off to find a fluffy bunny.

[jeffa]

What is the EU currently attempting?

[jno]

what are the EU currently attempting?

If it doesn't involve genocide or invading Poland, then probably no.

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, today straight bananas, tomorrow the eradication of a whole race of people! I can see the link there, clear as day.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect the suggestion is regarding political control of Europe, thus the, "by peaceful means", statement.

[jim360]

Godwin's law at post number zero? Impressive

[jno]

oh, you think the Nazis tried to enslave Europeans by ordering them all to pass legislation protecting human rights? That is quite a new way of looking at it.

[joggerjayne]

The idea that the Human Rights legislation has, in reality, protected any human rights is also quite a new way of looking at it.

However, if I drink myself into oblivion, and then get in my car and kill someone you know, the Human Rights legislation will ensure that I am given a telly in prison, and access to a computer, and if I conspire to bomb your family it will ensure that I am not told to leave the country.

The Human Rights Act ... the crowning achievement (surely laughing stock) of the European Community.

[Zeuhl]

There is obviously a parallel

Since 1870, european history has revolved around the accommodation of the German state by other european countries.

That resulted in WW1
And Part Two; WW2

The German state is now reunited within the EU and the ensuing economic jostling - and presumed dominance of Germany - is just the most recent phase.

What are the alternatives?

Adopt the format for Parts One or Two? I reckon they were much more expensive for the UK than today's EU payments

Or we could do a 'Neville Chamberlain': bail out, stay neutral, and hope we're not picked off by the winner some time in the future.

[Fitzer]

But JJ, you won't be able to do so as someone will have dobbed you in for DD

[ummmm]

Lol...this avatar really suits you..

[ToraToraTora]

Human Rights? what a good Idea, can we swap our current "criminal low life scum rights" for some of those instead?

[Zeuhl]

jayne

The ECHR has nothing to do with the EU and predates it by many years

/The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms) is an international treaty to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms in Europe. Drafted in 1950 by the then newly formed Council of Europe,[1] the convention entered into force on 3 September 1953. All Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention and new members are expected to ratify the convention at the earliest opportunity.[2]

The Convention established the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)./

[joggerjayne]

LOL at Tora's fluffy bunny avatar.

That's not taking the p at all.

[jno]

I was just teasing about the human rights legislation. Britain pressed it on Europe, Europe didn't press it on Britain.

It is the crowning achievement of Britain. Ask the North Koreans or Belarusans if they'd like some.

[Brenden]

Cherie Blare is laughing all the way to the bank jno have you seen the portfolio of property they have acquired. Why not ask the UK if they want it.

[B00]

Oh who cares?

I like this avatar! Keep it! I dunno what your other one was, but I like this one.

[sp1814]

What is the EU currently attempting?

Are you talking about the EU as a whole, or just a section of it?

[jake-the-peg]

Perhaps we should look at a comparison between the UK and Nazi Germany

Imprisonment without trial

Invading other countries

Spying on its citizens

I would suggest that the comparison between the UK and Nazi Germany is at least as good as that between the EU and Nazi Germany!

Which is not very good at all!

I'm kind of surprised nobody played the 'Unelected card' - Always find that funny from British citizens with an unelected upper house and a head of state nobody ever voted for!

[FredPuli43]

Since the European Convention on Human Rights is based on the common and statutory rights of Brititish people in 1950, which were adopted for universal application by the many countries to which these concepts ere unfamiliar or unknown, it would be a little odd to complain about its creation.

[humbersloop]

//The recent sensoring/complaints about my avatar have inspired this post.//

Really?? Right then, all the sensible people posting in News talk tactics and I'll nip over to CB and get them to form orderly lines - what time are we invading Poland?