Zen Master: St. Petersburg had 32,000 homeless Roma street children...they were not Russians...Two days later my hostess and I were walking downtown and passed two tourists, pressed backs against a brick wall. They were facing about a dozen Roma boys...Russia has serious problems with this large group of children from Romania.

This is reminiscent of Brazil's problem with street children and tourism. While curfews and machine gunning seemed to work for Sao Paulo, Moscow will have to tread more carefully given the increasing prominence of human rights NGOs.

Hopefully the BJ and other freedom loving publications will make the more sheep- like citizens be aware that they are losing their freedom. It is so easy to not notice when ‘small changes’ reduce your freedoms. The average citizen tends to worry more about ‘day-to-day’ problems and forgets to worry about personal freedoms being reduced.

The EU elites want to slowly take more control of the peoples lives. Soon they will be close to having a ‘Soviet Lite’ Marxist state for people who no longer have the courage to speak out and demand changes. The EU elites regard themselves as being superior to the sheep who foolishly follow their advice or remain silent.

Since my former comment is closely related to this subject as well, I post it here again.

I have considered two quotes below from
A quote from Open Europe’s Press Summary, 21 December 2007

German police warn Schengen extension will bring crime wave  

Cite 1: "AFP reports that on a visit to Estonia Commission President Jose Barroso said, “The extension of the Schengen Treaty on Friday, is the best day of my life.”

Cite 2: "AFP reports that German police have warned that the extension of the Schengen passport-free zone from today will bring a crime wave.  The head of Germany’s police union GdP Josef Scheuring said that the lifting of border controls on Germany's borders with Poland and the Czech Republic in particular was "an invitation to criminals.” He added that Europe's citizens will "suffer a considerable loss in terms of security" when the border controls are lifted on Friday. He said, "Measures need to be taken to ensure that the lifting of border controls does not mean that it will be easier for criminals to carry out reprehensible deeds in other countries."

So, if we put the EU-puzzle together on the basis of the above, this is what we get :

1. The EU empire-leaders intentionally and forcefully mix people of different countries and call such a mix the "highly desirable and beneficial enlargement and integration of Europe."

2. Then - also forcefully - the Empire-leaders establish a centralized rule over the countries involved in "the desirable and beneficial enlargement of Europe."

3. Then the EU empire-leaders justify the need of a strict dictatorial rule by the alleged threats of international security: a threat that has been created by themselves under point 1.

Isn't this what is called a self-contradictory circular reasoning?

The question is: why do the EU-elite initiate and force something called "desirable" if it is so undesirable? To justify the need for their dictatorial lead?

This is why I strongly believe that we, citizens of all Europe should ask our national governments to immediately stop the ratification of the shameful Lisbon Treaty. It is blatantly obvious how immense threat this current EU-leadership imposes on us all: a federation which uses all dictatorial means to enforce its power will be capable of using all means to abuse the power once they will seize it, that is, once the Lisbon Treaty will ever take effect.

It is pure fact that The EU Constitution (Lisbon Treaty) eliminates national sovereignty and transfers all EU countries' independence into the hands of a group of deceitful politicians (most of them are from foreign countries!), who even lied about the very essence of this constitutional contract.

At this point even demanding referendum makes no sense any more, because the current EU-leadership has lost credibility and lost democratic legitimacy altogether. Furthermore: the people of Europe can be easily deceived by the EU's deceitful campaign around the Lisbon Treaty. Instead of referendum, all European governments -those who claim to be truly democratic- should defy such an abusive leadership and should demand to profoundly revise the entire concept of EU and the role of each country in it.

Europe's freedom and democratic future is at stake!

Consider this as well from BBC:

"UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage said he spoke to Foreign Secretary David Miliband in Lisbon just moments before he signed the treaty and repeated his demand for a referendum, receiving only "a hollow laugh" in reply."
"Mr Farage said: "This is just about the most thoroughly dishonest political process I have ever been witness to. This is a constitutional treaty with profound, far-reaching implications and for the British Government to pretend it is something it isn't and deny us a referendum is monstrous."

(Source: Brown belatedly signs EU treaty)

I visited St. Petersburg two years ago. I try not to look too much like a tourist, but my clothes look like they came from America. I had a digital camera in a shoulder pouch. While crossing a busy street I felt someone touching my back, many light touches. Lucky for me, I have had good police training and I knew enough to ‘separate’ myself from the person behind me. I took two quick large steps forward, stopped and turned around facing them.

Three ‘Roma’ boys were behind me looking surprised. They wore distinctive clothes, worn hoodies with long stretched sleeves. They all looked like those garden figures, but looking weathered bronze and undersized. They wanted my camera. They didn’t like the way I looked prepared to meet them and they ran off leaving a torrent of abuse all in English. When I mentioned this encounter to my Russian hostess she said St. Petersburg had 32,000 homeless Roma street children. She carefully said they were not Russians.

Two days later my hostess and I were walking downtown and passed two tourists, pressed backs against a brick wall. They were facing about a dozen Roma boys. The tourists looked German and they looked worried. The Roma all had their backs toward me and I am much larger than any of them.

I paused to look at my chances of pushing the small boys aside and taking the tourists into a nearby store. My hostess knew I was planning something that might later involve talking to the police and she pulled my arm and said ‘Nooo, don’t.’ So we walked on, just like all the Russians who ignored this street crime. Not that I am so brave, but I served in the military police and have been in two riots [American troops fighting] and broken- up dozens of bar fights. To me those small Roma boys did not look difficult. Russia has serious problems with this large group of children from Romania.

With the Schengen enlargement on December 21st, our problems are going to redouble. In Denmark we have resurgent problems with brutal mafia, as well as human and drug trafficking.

Some commentators, and in particular Dansk Folkeparti are calling for the permanent border control to be reestablished. This won't impact the free movement of legit goods and persons, but will give us a very nice checkpoint against mafia traffic.

Or how slowly, slowly it dawns even if not completely.