European Union: No Freedom, No Security and No Justice
In order to find out more, I decided to ring Mrs. Malmström's spokesperson, Mr. Michele Cercone. I asked him specifically: “d oes the European Commission take US assertions concerning the nature, extent and origin of terrorism at face value?” Not surprisingly, after first reprimanding me for asking a “broad question,” Mr. Cercone gave me the usual line on “transatlantic cooperation, exchange of information and fight against terrorism.”
I managed to get in another question, namely “how can individual Europeans prevent their private banking data from falling into the hands of the US authorities?” This time, Mr. Cercone referred me vaguely to some procedures for citizens, from which I concluded the situation was as bad as I had suspected. I decided it really makes no sense to try to get a personal interview with Mr. Cercone. Even this underling claimed to have a long waiting list of journalists eager to talk to him. This amazes me: so many colleagues out there eager for getting a fresh load of spin! I will not sign up to the list and listen to clever and not-so clever lies about the fine work Mrs. Malmström is doing.
The Commission, in the person of Mrs. Malmström, has no right selling down the river the very people it claims to be protecting. Instead of European citizens trying to prevent their data from falling into the hands of a rogue state government, it should be the other way around. If Mrs. Malmström and the Commission are so eager to please the band of criminals running the US, they could, for instance, at least have left it to individual European citizens to voluntarily surrender their banking data to US scrutiny. You can always find plenty of naïve individuals who would do such a thing. Mrs. Malström and the European Commission, every single member of it, are traitors who ought to be put on trial.
The best way to find out about the shady doings of the European Commission? Read their documents! Read their programmes and statements. Read, read, read! Do not lose your time listening to the slick rantings of spin “doctors.” Read, think and draw your conclusions. Read and think dialectically. Actually, most of the time, the very opposite of what is being stated is the truth.
Europe an area of freedom, security and justice? Indeed, for the members of the Commission and their servants, there is freedom to travel (of course, at your expense), freedom of speech (because they will not allow anyone of you near them), security (they are well-protected, while you are made to live in a dangerous neighborhood), and justice (not your justice, their own twisted justice).
Europe an area of freedom, security and justice? Not for you that is. For you, it is the very opposite, no freedom, no security and no justice.
Just a small piece of advice: pay in cash as often as you can. This way you will obstruct both the US authorities and the European Commission. The Commission reportedly wants to achieve a cashless society. That way it is even easier to keep tabs on everyone.
