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May 16, 2008
Eurocrats Go After Car Ads
While their chauffeurs sit out front in oversized limos with the engines running so they can keep the heat going in the winter and the AC in the summer, Brussels Eurocrats have been dreaming up ways to prevent commoners from soiling Gaia by driving the wrong automobiles.
Soon all car ads in Europe will have to highlight gas mileage and allegedly harmful CO2 emission in large type. References to sportiness are to be "frowned up." With typical grandiose arrogance, Euroweenies announce they will be "rebuilding society" and "changing habits in consumption and production" by dictating the content of car ads.
As usual when it comes to bureaucratic moonbattery, the French come out on top, as they tend to make wobbly little death traps with high mileage and low sportiness. German manufacturers, which produce cars that people actually want to drive, are getting the short end.
Even the libs at Der Spiegel are fed up:
From breakfast cereal to Coca-Cola, everything is being classified as being either good or bad for citizens, who apparently have lost the ability to make that judgment on their own. Brussels, says advertising executive [Volker] Nickel, is staging "a gigantic reeducation program for consumers and producers."
Last summer, for example, complex rules were introduced to regulate the way food producers advertise their products. A central register with officially-sanctioned phrases is even in development for language that includes health claims, such as "Builds Immunity" or "Keeps you in Good Shape." Once the register is complete, alternative expressions will no longer be allowed.
Wernhard Möschel, a law professor at the University of Tübingen in southwest Germany, is incensed over the way the EU's producers of rules and regulations treat the consumer "as a pathological idiot in need of supervision, as someone who can't tell the difference between red and white wine."
Get used to it, Herr Möschel. The forced infantilization of Europe is well underway.
On a tip from Oiao.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 16, 2008 7:54 AM
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It ain't a surprise to any person educated in history that as power has been concentrated, in places like the EU and UN, it is being used to coerce and manipulate the population and get the peasants in line. Seriously, that is the whole history of human civilization, since the cavemen, in a nutshell.
What is a surprise is that people are not only letting it happen, but voting for it and supporting it. In Europe, increasingly in the US too. All those wars fought for freedom, all those grand principles of liberty developed at such huge cost, and people are willing to flush it all down the toilet to ..... reduce CO2 or help people live forever or whatever the hysterical fad of the day is.
I think we will have many more years of increasingly rabid tales of societal infantalization in the years ahead. At least it gives us something to talk about here!
Posted by: mega at May 16, 2008 8:40 AM
The Socialist Union of the Netherlands have been using their system of taxation, for years now, as a means to "control what the Dutch citizens drive". The Dutch pay taxes according to "weight" of their cars, which explains why you can walk down the streets of Amsterdam, pick up a vehicle parked at the curb, and use it for a "keyring bobble". This horse manure, while not surprising, it is upsetting. People around the world truly must be yearning for freedom.
Posted by: RacistFascistArmyMom at May 16, 2008 8:42 AM
You will drive what we approve for you to drive and you laugh at the comics we approve for you to laugh at:
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3257
Dutch police arrested a cartoonist.
Posted by: mandy at May 16, 2008 8:47 AM
Hitler could only dream of doing the things Euroweenies get to do.
Posted by: conservativeteen at May 16, 2008 10:47 AM
"...EU's producers of rules and regulations treat the consumer 'as a pathological idiot in need of supervision, as someone who can't tell the difference between red and white wine.'"
The solution to the red/white wine problem will be to ban them both, then nobody will have to worry about the difference.
Seriously though, "reeducation program" has got to be one of the most most chilling phrases ever uttered.
Posted by: forest at May 16, 2008 11:55 AM
Kind of puts you in mind of that great liberal humanitarian, Josef Stalin doesn't it forest???
Simply amazing how many libtards aren't smart enough to look back at history and see the end result before taking their misguided actions.
Wasn't it Einstien that defined stupidity as doing the same thing and expecting different results? I bet he was thinking of a know-it-all, ignorant liberal who wouldn't look to history to "learn sumpin".
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at May 16, 2008 2:58 PM
Get used to it, Herr Möschel. The forced infantilization of Europe is well underway.
Yup and after NOV 08 it will be underway here also.
Posted by: Oldcrow at May 16, 2008 3:00 PM
"Wasn't it Einstien that defined stupidity as doing the same thing and expecting different results?"
I believe he was talking about INSANITY, ArmyMom, but it pretty much discribes both.
Posted by: KHarn at May 17, 2008 10:58 AM
Yeah, you are right on both counts KHarn!!! LOL!!!
Posted by: RacistFascistArmyMom at May 18, 2008 7:10 PM
