These tyrants mean well. Their totalitarianism is for your own good.

I posted this on Dan Hannan's blog. It may not be up yet.

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We are granting our unelected (sic) government (sic) a dangerous degree of power through the Lisbon Treaty. They have extracted from the free peoples of Europe, with the help (why?) of our own elected representatives, carte blanche to rule us as they decide without further consultation or permission. We will henceforth be unheard by our de facto rulers. National parliaments will enact what the Lisbon-empowered elite dictates. We are told that this elite is benevolent and nothing at all like the nomenklatura of the USSR. Let us assume for the sake of argument that (and hope and pray that in actuality) this is true - but let also acknowledge that their vast powers could at some future time empower the malevolent, exactly as happened in the USSR and the Weimar Germany in which Adolf Hitler came to power by using legitimate democratic processes. The millions of unsuspecting little people who put Hitler and Stalin in power did so willingly and paid with lives under oppression, famine, exile, cruelty, war and death inflicted mostly by officials and bureaucrats of whom, doubtless, many ‘meant well’. But it couldn’t happen here, to us, could it? No? Look at the contempt with which a dissenter is treated in the corridors of power, the outline of which Daniel Hannan provides here. Remember how Daniel Cohn-Bendit MEP shouted in President Klaus's face, in his own seat of government, that his opinion was contemptible in the eyes of the rulers of Europe and was to be disregarded. Now imagine yourself, without even the slight protection of elected high office in your own country - just a citizen - being treated this way by the officials of the new European state of which Mr Cohn-Bendit is among the nomenklatura - the benevolent Mr Cohn-Bendit who, leaning back on one arm, secure and comfortable in his political superiority, openly laughs contemptuously at MEPs who, sharing Mr Hannan's opinions, speak on behalf of their electors in the 'European Parliament'. Imagine yourself on the receiving end of Mr Cohn-Bendit's contempt and that of people less 'benevolent' than this odious totalitarian bully whose personal political journey since the 1960s tells an appalling story of seeking totalitarian power disguised as an earnest genial ‘green’ imploring us all to come over to the side of the angels. Unless you are the President or a citizen of a small, dissident country trying to face down the tyranny of the Cohn-Bendit faction. Remember that the Lisbon Treaty empowers the EU elite to amend enforceable law against your will and against the will of those you elect in your own nation to protect you from tyranny. Tell yourself that everything will be all right because the elite are decent people who mean well. That this is all for our good.