A quote from Daniel Hannan MEP at his blog, 17 January 2008

MEPs [Members of the European Parliament] have two rights that not even the Speaker can infringe. We can demand that a vote be held electronically rather than by show of hands – a slightly slower procedure, but one that guarantees accuracy and allows everyone to see how individual MEPs vote. And, when the vote is over, we have the right to state, in not more than a minute, why we voted as we did. […] [This week] even this was too much for the parliamentary authorities. With brazen disregard for their own rulebook, they disallowed [the] requests [from MEPs opposing the Lisbon Treaty] for explanations of how members voted and suspended the session. […] [The Speaker] simply announced that “this house is sovereign” and that a minority could not stand in the way of the majority. […]

The authorities are now threatening – almost unbelievably – to disallow requests for electronic votes, […] [T]heir latest suggestion [is] that MEPs who protest in the chamber should – angels and ministers of grace defend us! – have their allowances docked.

Karel De Gucht, the Belgian interim minister of Foreign Affairs, has urged all Belgium’s ambassadors abroad to “take initiatives to promote a positive image of Belgium.” In a confidential memo Mr. De Gucht urges the ambassadors to take “informal” and “discrete” initiatives which must “result in positive radio and television broadcasts or newspaper articles” in the foreign media. He emphasized, however, that the ambassadors should avoid press conferences – one never knows what journalists might ask – and other “spectacular initiatives” because these might have “the opposite effect.”

The memo instructs the ambassadors to counter the negative image created by the political crisis in Belgium. They are to assure their foreign contacts that it is not unusual for Belgian politicians to take a very long time to put together a government coalition. The ambassadors are also to persuade the international media that the political crisis in Belgium will not affect the country’s international obligations and economic stability.

A quote from a comment at Dhimmi Watch, 16 January 2008

That's the conundrum of living in a free, civil society. A civil society requires the overwhelming majority live by generally agreed upon rules which attempt to balance individual freedoms and responsibilities. We agree to settle our disputes within a legal framework of nonviolent negotiation and arbitration. We agree to surrender the tactics of organized violence to the state, not only to ensure our domestic peace, but also the coherence and effectiveness of state sanctioned violence against enemies when it becomes necessary.

This information was brought to my attention by the blog Snaphanen. As a part of the deliberate merger of Europe and the Islamic world that is the policy of the European Union at the highest levels, yet almost never debated in European media, 2008 will be a "Year of Intercultural Dialogue," which means that Europeans will be bombarded with propaganda about how good it will be to submit to Islamic rule, and some veiled threats about what happens if we don't. The visiting Grand Mufti of Syria threatened Europeans over the "misuse" of free speech to criticize Islam. This has been carefully left out of the official EU reports from his speech at the EU Parliament.

When Karl Kraus tried to express his hatred for Hitler, he began his book, Die dritte Walpurgisnacht, with the startling sentence, “Zu Hitler fällt mir nichts ein” (“I cannot think of anything to say about Hitler.”) He meant that Hitler’s hatefulness was simply inexpressible. One has the same problem when trying to write about Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister who reappeared in the headlines last week after he addressed Nicolas Sarkozy’s UMP party in what appears to be a bid for the future post of President of Europe, having just signed up to be a consultant for J P Morgan with a salary of £10,000 per week.

Last November, 15-year old Mouhsin and 16-year old Lakamy were killed in Villiers-le-Bel, an immigrant suburb of Paris. The boys, joyriding on a stolen motorbike. collided at high speed with a police vehicle which happened to be passing in a neighborhood where the police normally do not venture.
 
Though Moushin and Lakamy were French-born and of French nationality, their families had them buried in Morocco and Senegal – the countries of their ethnic origin. The self-imposed segregation extends even beyond death. Muslims, who claim that France does not have enough separate Islamic cemeteries, do not want to be buried near Christians or Jews.

A quote from The Daily Telegraph, 15 January 2008

A police officer has been forced into resigning after he gave a Muslim colleague a pack of bacon and a bottle of wine as a joke present during a Christmas Day party. [...] Even though the Muslim officer did not complain and thought the present funny, senior officers in the Bedfordshire force were not amused. [...]

A quote from the Canadian lawyer Ezra Levant at his blog, 13 January 2008

Here is an exchange between me and ["human rights officer", Shirlene McGovern]. I talked about the chilling effect that human rights complaints have not just on the victims – e.g. the people and companies named in the complaints, like we were [because we published the Danish cartoons] – but on other media who see what could happen to them if they dare upset thin-skinned whiners. It's similar to the phenomenon of libel chill, except it's worse. Libel chill is when reporters are worried about writing a story for fear of being sued. But that's not much more than a healthy fear – if a story's facts are true, it's defensible in defamation law. More than that, any would-be plaintiff would have to finance his own lawsuit, be subject to well-known rules of court, and have to pay the costs of any failed nuisance suits. None of those restraints are checks against "human rights commission chill": truth is not a defence; plaintiffs complain for free; taxpayers pay for the prosecuting lawyers; rules are arbitrary; legal precedents are not applied consistently; and instead of judges, tribunals are stacked with activists, many not even lawyers.

The BIG news of the day is that Nicolas and Carla MAY be married already, but no one knows for sure, and the president's spokesman said that he cannot comment on Mr. Sarkozy's personal life. Rumor has it that the couple were married on Thursday at Elysée Palace. Another totally unconfirmed rumor is that she is pregnant. These rumors have spread like wildfire throughout the blogosphere, but as of this moment, there is no proof of anything.

A quote from the Tundra Tabloid blog, 14 January 2008

The blogger TomaShot, who operated the now defunct Uutisia Suomesta website, a catalogue for various news stories and articles that dealt with immigration, Political Correctness and other Eurabia related issues, was dealt a serious blow by Finland’s judicial system today.