<< THE European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that the European Union can
lawfully suppress political criticism of its institutions and of leading
figures, sweeping aside English Common Law and 50 years of European
precedents on civil liberties. >>
This is reminiscent of the Alien and Sedition Act enacted by the Federalists
during John Adams' administration as the central government of the United
States made its first attempt to usurp the authority of the various States.
Several men were arrested, jailed, put on trial, found guilty and sentenced
to imprisonment for speaking out on the tactics used by Adams, and
complaining about the "management style" of his Administration.
This law triggered the Virginia and Kentucky Resolves, and drove a wedge
between Adams and Thomas Jefferson, his vice president. Jefferson and James
Madison argued in the Resolves that States are not obligated to observe
federal laws which violate the tenets of the Constitution.
But moreso, the Alien and Sedition Act ended, for all time, the ability
of ANY federalst to get elected to public office in the United States.
When John Quincy Adams [who was the Bill Clinton of that time] ran
against James Monroe he attempted to conceal his federalist ideology behind a
smoke screen. He lost in the biggest political upset in history. Adams got
one electoral vote.
Since the European Union does not officially become the central
government of Europe until it absorbs the currencies of the European nations
on July 1, 2004, the EU might discover they made the same type of error Adams
made at the turn of the 19th century.
The purpose of the law, of course, is to silence the globalphobes who are
raising the question why the various nations of Europe are so easily
surrendering sovereignty to the industrialists behind the EU.
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