It’s only a MOVIE.

Unless one spends time over at Brussels Journal, I don’t think it’s clear just how radically Europe has been changed by the creation of the European Union. The contempt for popular sovereignty is palpable.

If Switzerland were part of the European Union (EU), the Swiss would no doubt be made to vote again [on banning new mosque minarets] until they give the answer their government wants. That is what some self-declared “democrats” are, indeed, proposing.

- “The Swiss will have to vote again,” Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the Green group in the EU Parliament told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps.

- “But the Swiss people have spoken…,” Le Temps objected.

- “So what?” Mr. Cohn-Bendit said.

Granted this is just a Green Party legislative leader -- “Green” being the new “Red” as we know -- but the approach of the rest of the E.U. is no different on this point. Democracy is to be honored at all times up to the point of its actually being exercised. At which point, the smart set will step in and set things right.

"Switzerland: Last Bulwark against the Judges." By Paul Belien, Brussels Journal, 12/9/09.