Gatestone Inst:
by Douglas Murray
October 23, 2012 at 4:30 am
The distinctly non-democratic Nobel committee has chosen to reward a project which began by merely subverting democracy but which now appears to be going about the job of ending it.
Many of us can, I am sure, remember where we were when we realized that the resplendence of the Nobel Prize had diminished. For some this realization can be traced to the news that Yasser Arafat had become joint recipient of the Peace Prize (an award of which he was never stripped). For others it will have been the announcement earlier this month that the award had been given to the EU.
The thinking behind this latest award appears to be the one you can hear among the political elite of Europe and which I was recently fortunate enough to hear pronounced by a British MP. It usually goes something like this: that without the EU the people of Europe would have spent the last seventy years happily massacring each other as they did throughout their past.
To believe this you have to believe a number of things. First you must believe that Europe’s past was a particular aberration and peculiar to our continent. Second, your historical knowledge must be limited to some broad ideas about the twentieth century. Third, you must ignore the 1990s. Fourth, and finally, you must believe that this unique and innate viciousness of Europeans can best be solved by abandoning democracy.
You must believe, for instance, that you go to the people for their opinions as infrequently as possible, and only then to ask for more powers. You might do this by offering placebo referenda, the catch being that if people vote against awarding more powers to the elite (as they did in Ireland, France and Holland), then the people will be made to vote again until they come up with the right answer.
This may be the end of democracy in Europe, and possibly the end of freedom and liberty all around the world.
The Nobel Peace Prize was turned, as said by Andrew McCarthy in his book “The Grand Jihad”, into a sick joke, a punchline, when they awarded it to that murderous little toad, Yasser Arafat.
That sick joke made utterly laughable when the awarded it to the muslim in chief, Barack Hussein Obama.
Nothing after that surprises me……nothing…..
Regards, Don Laird
Edson, Alberta, Canada
Many of us can, I am sure, remember where we were when we realized that the resplendence of the Nobel Prize had diminished. For some this realization can be traced to the news that Yasser Arafat had become joint recipient of the Peace Prize (an award of which he was never stripped).
For me personally it was when that dog Henry Kissinger was given it,