In my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, I discuss the threat posed by transnational governance, particularly with regard to the European Union. Now, Italy appears to be rediscovering its national identity in a growing fight with the Strasbourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ). The court just blocked Italy from enforcing its own immigration laws to combat the flood of undocumented persons in the country. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has called the ruling an attack on national sovereignty.
The case was brought by two Bangladeshi illegal migrants who were being removed from the country and sent to an asylum processing centre in Albania. The EU member states can only determine safe countries for the return of migrants if they provide evidence and allow for judicial review. It found that the relocations by Italy “do not offer sufficient protection to their entire population.”
Former International Criminal Court magistrate Cuno Tarfusser observed that, under the decision, undocumented persons would merely have to declare themselves as being LGBT or a persecuted religious minority, and their removal would easily be blocked.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said:
“This is a development that should concern everyone – including the political forces that today celebrate the ruling – because it further reduces the already limited margins of autonomy for Governments and Parliaments in shaping the normative and administrative direction of the migration phenomenon. The Court’s decision weakens policies aimed at countering mass illegal immigration and defending national borders.”
I have long been a critic of the EU’s expanding efforts to project its power not just across but outside Europe. That includes threatening American companies that they must comply with EU censorship laws or face confiscatory fines.
Articles 34 and 35 of the infamous Digital Services Act require all sites to identify, assess, and mitigate “systemic risks” posed by content, including any threats to “civic discourse”, “electoral processes,” and “public health.” It is up to the EU to define and judge such categories in terms of compliance.
The act bars speech that is viewed as “disinformation” or “incitement.” European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager celebrated its passage by declaring that it is “not a slogan anymore, that what is illegal offline should also be seen and dealt with as illegal online. Now it is a real thing. Democracy’s back.”
Some in this country have turned to the EU to force the censorship of their fellow citizens. After Elon Musk bought Twitter and dismantled most of the company’s censorship program, many on the left went bonkers. That fury only increased when Musk released the “Twitter files,” confirming the long-denied coordination and support by the government in targeting and suppressing speech.
In response, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic figures turned to Europe and called upon them to use their Digital Services Act to force censorship against Americans. (Clinton spoke at the World Forum and lashed out at the failure to control disinformation.)
The EU immediately responded by threatening Musk with confiscatory penalties against not just his company but himself. He would have to resume massive censorship or else face ruin.
At the recent Berlin conference, the World Forum heralded the slogan “A New World Order With European Values.” It was an expression of the globalized model of governance, a move that directly challenges core principles of democracy and national sovereignty. Countries like Italy are now facing the reality of such transnational governance as European courts and legislation negate national priorities and regulations.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
– Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents, 1770
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Communism at its essence is global, with the global “dictatorship of the proletariat” its goal.
Karl Marx was an invalid and an emaciated drunk who hallucinated that the “hired help,” the feckless proletariat, was best suited for the leadership of a nation, nay, the entire world.
Of course, sane people know that leadership is rare and critical; leadership is best left to those with superior capacity and acumen.
The natural and most highly effective ascension to positions of leadership occurs of merit in freedom, free enterprise, free industries, and free markets.
“All men are created equal…”—After creation, all men are on their own, left to their own merit to create their own success.
Communism is forcibly imposing, not “immigration,” but population replacement in order to facilitate the comprehensive subjugation of the entire world.
It is just about there.
It is long past time to wake up and face the direct and mortal enemies of freedom.
It is a sad thing that the evils of socialism/communism are no longer taught in public schools and universities. It has gotten as verboten to condemn the many historically documented failures of communism as it is to point out black on white crime.
Unless we gain control of, and disinfect, our media/education industries we will go down the same tubes as Europe is sliding down currently.
When you consider the finer points, islam is just a militant form of communism in that your freedoms are curtailed by a top-heavy bureaucracy that decides what is good for you. One of the worst combinations for culture is a mix of communism with islam.
“Globalized model of governance” =Beijing’s model of governance.
Voters in Britain, France, Germany, and Spain are primarily to blame for this. If these countries had larger hinterlands like the USA, they would hang the black robes on the ECJ for treason.
These countries are already headed toward breakdown. Get ready for the flood of EU refugees. Some will deserve asylum. Others will spread the disease. Can Trump filter out the commies? I hope so because if he doesn’t, the Democrats will filter out the freedom lovers for sure.
*. KUDOS ITALY! Yippee
I like Georgia. She has toughness, ability, and great charm. Europe doesn’t know it, but she is their most valuable leader.
I agree.
Merloni is great, but one reason she stands alone is that France and Germany outlaw, ban, arrest and silence anyone that would govern like her in their countries.
I’m surprised at Meloni. She should know that because Italy is a member of the EU, it has lost its sovereignty if the EU thinks it needs to.
The UN was basically created out of guilt because Wilson’s League of Nations wasn’t embraced. And then used by the Rockefeller wing to fool us into thinking that its global governance would stop war. The scam worked until it didn’t. Which is where we are now. I’m for national sovereignty. I look around and see others who tell me they do as well but don’t support Trump. That’s “the tell” to me that they are idiots. If you are for national sovereignty, Trump is your only hope.
“because Italy is a member of the EU, it has lost its sovereignty if the EU thinks it needs to.”
Do you really believe that? The EU has been progressively losing it’s grip on it’s members, with the Ukraine war being the most immediate (but not the only, or the most basic) cause. Some of it’s newer members in Eastern Europe have taken steps in what is nearly open defiance of its stated positions. The only coherence that it ever exhibited was when France and Germany had the power to dictate to the other members. Those days are gone, never to return. If it sufficiently antagonizes members such as Italy to the point that one or more of those members seeks to withdraw, what power do you think it would have to prevent it? I very much doubt that it has the will or the power to oppose such an action militarily. Opposing it economically would only exacerbate the inherent conflicts among the remaining members. My sense is that it is for all intents and purposes a sinking ship, and that it will not survive another decade in anything like its current form.
If the EU is going to be fining U.S. corporations for not censoring customers to the EU’s liking, and even fining individual U.S. citizens for merely expressing opinion online, all of it allegedly in violation of vaguely defined or undefined EU standards, then the U.S. should institute a special tariff against all of the EU to collect back those fines and reimburse the U.S. corporations and citizens, plus perhaps an administrative percentage for providing the service. This should be completely separate from any other tariff or duty and not subject to negotiation. The tariff rate would go up or down based on the dollar amount of the fines that have been assessed by the EU that have not already been collected back by the U.S. and reimbursed to those corporations or citizens.
Second, I don’t understand why any country has to send back illegal immigrants all the way back to their home countries or some supposed ‘safe’ country. The illegals in some cases travelled half-way around the world, or at least through numerous other countries, on their way to their preferred destination. Presumably some of those countries they passed through or around or over were safe enough to stay and apply for asylum there, if they are in fact legitimate refugees (and most are not) rather than just economic migrants. Why can’t they simply be ordered to leave? Let them go back home or to any other place they passed through, as in, we don’t really care where you go just so long as you go.
Who do you think pay those tariffs you want to impose? Or are you so
naive you believe Trump when he tells you the countries pay them?
Dont want to pay for tariffs on imports? Dont buy imports. Buy American. Quite simple.
“Dont want to pay for tariffs on imports? Dont buy imports. Buy American.”
You mean like American made appliances that are manufactured with tariff-laden steel and aluminum? Or perhaps cars manufactured with . . . Do I need to give up tariff-laden bananas, chocolate, coffee, beef, flowers . . .?
Those tariffs, like any tax, have a ripple effect in the economy. Name a single American company that is *not* paying that tax, directly or indirectly.
Naive, like believing that brain dead Biden was fit for even his first four year reign of error, let alone a second term? I bet you fall into that pathetic group of partisans.
How do you think the rest of the world caught up with America?
The global communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) have been redistributing America’s wealth internally, and globally through flagrant foreign tariffs and trade deficits for multiple scores of years.
It’s not Freedom and Self-Reliance…
It’s “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
It’s not the natural dominion of the intelligent and successful, but the compulsory oppression of the obtuse and failed.
It’s not merit, it’s the dictatorship of the sick, lame, and lazy, the proletariat.
Are Chinese companies simply going to close their plants, once tariffs make their prices unacceptable?
Or will they eat some or all of the tariffs, hoping to drive production costa down?
Like they “ate” the costs of their incoherent “ghost cities”?
No private developer would have undertaken that nonviable enterprise.
Free investors pay attention to realized EPS, not “fake” communist “economics.”
Too-fu buildings.
Tunnel vision leaves you in a losing position, but then again, you sound like one of the anonymous trolls.
“Freedom from Speech” or “Free from Speech”
That is the question.
Quite a novel approach I’d say. If Joseph Goebbels had the EU of today, the Germans would not have just outlawed listening to foreign broadcasts applicable to their own population, they would have sued the BBC, and the American media for violations of Freedom from Speech. Which is essentially what the EU has devised here. “Freedom from Speech.”
To wit; the right to remain safe and security in ones own held values and beliefs without having to fear or suffer harmful psychological effects arising from potential conflicts of self doubt or uncertainty, which may result from exposure to any speech containing values and beliefs which are contradictory to what one’s own held values and beliefs may be.
Particularly useful in protecting governmental officials who’s values and beliefs are in opposition to the populace they rule over.
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-Oddball
“Take it easy Big Joe, some of these people got sensitive feelings.”
In Europe, government has more layers than a slice of baklava, and it’s just as flaky.
In the beginning, the EU said it was formed to keep Europe (and the World it interacts with) a place of Peace, a safer place where people of every European nation are treated fairly and their laws are respected, where all Europeans are equal and their rights are respected. Respect. How does DISrespecting the laws of Italy re: Illegal Migration fit into this? ..sure sounds like soros-et-al has gotten to this EU Court finally.. money talks. follow the money… Giorgia Meloni needs to be supported 100% for standing up to this tyranny.
“A New World Order With European Values.”
You don’t say. Well, I would suggest President Trump respond with a measurable “values-based” system that imposes tariff rates that will go up or down respective of alignment with our Bill of Rights.
Of course federal funding to states should be in the crosshairs as well.
“. . . that imposes tariff rates . . .”
Why do you want to punish Americans for the sins of Europeans?
Meloni should walk away from the EU and follow the path of the Swiss.
Margot,
Is that in reference to the French immigrant problem the Swiss were having at public pools where the immigrants were sexually assaulting young girls, starting fights when confronted, the police were called sometimes two or three times in the same hour? The Swiss solution: They banned any and all foreigners from the public pools. The problems stopped. Much to the locals relief.
Has a massive influx of second and third world refugees ever been successful? These people are largely illiterate with no useful skills. They have no interest or incentive in assimilating into their new country. In fact, they have every reason not to assimilate.
“A DISCORDANT INTERMIXTURE MUST HAVE AN INJURIOUS TENDENCY”
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“Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom? If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.”
– Thomas Jefferson
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“The influx of foreigners must, therefore, tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities. In the composition of society, the harmony of the ingredients is all-important, and whatever tends to a discordant intermixture must have an injurious tendency.”
– Alexander Hamilton
The Swiss have a list of a dozen or so countries whose nationals are not allowed to own firearms in Switzerland.
And your point is?
You probably wouldn’t be allowed to have a firearm in Switzerland?
The answer will never be realized via a computer keyboard generated social media complaint or post. It will only come from massive, passionate civil disobedience. Do Not Comply! Do Not Obey! Speak Out! Act Like Free People!
The UN should be re-located. Any suggestions for a suitable location?
The moon? With no space suits.
Gaza
Hell
Wait, you think the Devil wants to deal with these loons…
A nice abode along the Styx river? Given the efficiency and results of that organization, maybe it should serve those who created it.
The South Pole
Haiti.
American participation in the U.N. is anti-American, anti-Constitutional, and unconstitutional.
The Constitution aptly, adequately, and conclusively describes the entirety of governance in the United States of America.
The Constitution does not mandate or allow America to be in alliance with or “subject to the jurisdiction” of the collective of global nations.
U.S. participation in the U.N. must have been struck down by the Supreme Court.
Apparently, the Supreme Court is full of communist apologists.
Every tech fine for not censoring, increase tariffs 5% and send Israel more weapons with the proceeds.
I am tired of this.
Interesting development. I did not know that the Europeans had values. The seemed to have missed the entire meaning of the enlightenment. Many wrote about the enlightenment but few ever grasped the entire scope of what it meant especially on a national government scale. At various times the UK came close but then would backslide. As imperfect as we may be, this country seemed to have grasped much more clearly the greater meaning of the enlightenment in its totality and function in a nation state even as we strive to improve ourselves. The European Union is literally an Autocratic Superstate that has no grasp of the fundamental and god given rights of individuals. They wish to constrain both your financial and political freedoms. Democracy in all it’s forms are in retreat in that superstate.
Thank you for this admission of stupidity.
“I did not know that the Europeans had values.”
“Thank you for this admission of stupidity.”
Sure, laziness, grifting, slacking are all modern European values.
Anonymous the stupid 11:15AM-His typical troll answer. Stupidity must be his new word for the last 5 years and he still has not got it right.
On the other Hand he proclaims his own stupidity, lack of discernable values and shallow intellect for all to see.
“. . . this country seemed to have grasped much more clearly the greater meaning of the enlightenment . . .”
*That* is a critical point.
It is why America has been called “The Nation of the Enlightenment” — a country built explicitly on the values of reason and individualism.
And you’re right about Europe. England and France dated the Enlightenment, but never married. Germany dated, then married then anti-Enlightenment.
GEB,
I think the commoners do have European Vales. It is their so called betters, the elites, the WEF, Hillary Clinton, et al., that think they should be the ones to determine what European Values are. Sweden was once the very model of what European Values were. Then they went all in on the immigration thing. Now, they are one of the most dangerous countries in the EU to immigration gang violence: Sweden: 30 attacks with explosives this year alreadySweden: 30 attacks with explosives this year already
https://nordicreporter.com/2025/01/sweden-30-attacks-with-explosives-this-year-already/
European Values are the core to some of the newly emerging political groups or already established groups as they push back against the elites and their version of what they call European Values which amounts to censorship, the banning of any opposition, declaring democrat elections null and void if they do not like the outcome.
Upstate Farmer-I’m not so sure. The commoners keep electing these elitist idiots. Well we had the winners of the recent German Election immediately turn their back on their promises on immigration control and the response to that betrayal was very muted if any. I don’t say that people have to storm the Reichstag Bldg but there should have been demonstrations in Berlin and all around the nation. Maybe the people should start a movement demanding something like a 2nd amendment to send a message. Maybe that would wake some people up. The authorities cannot arrest everyone for thought crimes and suggestions on policy.
Upstate, I think of entropy. We have a unique system that works. Most others try and fail, or at best, drift toward the average. But average isn’t very good. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to keep us free and prosperous.
The Europeans are a bunch of nut jobs! They must want a nuke at their front door?
It is an attack on National sovereignty, just as is the UN and all its accompanying organizations and we should realize that membership in such organizations has rarely been helpful other than during WWII and that was just a temporary alliance out of necessity and was erroneously forged into the world cabals that we see now.
Only those nations that have attempted to maintain their original national culture and heritage are going to survive. France, Britain and such are already too far gone to save themselves short of another revolution at home. We are on the brink with such fools as mamdani and company attempting to herd together the aimless minds of the young with promises of a utopia of free stuff. I have my doubts whether we can overcome the promise of heaven-on-earth that is being proffered to the ignorant.
I would hope that we are kept aware by our media as to the progress, or not, of Italy in attempting to regain control of their nation.
Transnational injunctions.
I think this is straight out of “Art of the Deal”
“Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Or was it how to make friends and influence people.
A million times better than paying to have a dossier of “manufactured intelligence” made up, approve it at the highest levels, get the FBI in on it to promote and “leek” falsehoods to a compliant MSM, all in order dupe the American people in an election.
At least you know where Trump stands. Cannot say that about Obama, Clinton, Biden, Brenner, Clapper, Comey etc.
“A million times better”
Yes, and better than bribery and prostitution. The Democrats have chosen a dark road.
“Hello Darkness my old friend”. A good time for people to pay attention to the lyrics of the The Sound of Silence
🙂 🙂 🙂