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Irish Daily Mail: Pedophilia and the dark heart of 
the EU’s parliament
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By Mary Ellen Synon
Irish Daily Mail, May 25th, 2009
The following text was printed on page 12 of the Irish Daily Mail newspaper,
Monday the 25th of May 2009:
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The horror at the dark heart of a sordid, arrogant parliament
Here we are, a few words about Brussels and how it feels about child abuse. I’llmove onto the elections for the European parliament in a moment, but given thehorrors of 
the Ryan report
last week, I thought that you ought to know howseriously the euro-elite treat any suggestion of improper behaviour by adultstowards children.In other words I give you
Daniel Cohn Bendit
, an MEP for the
German GreenParty
. He is a self-confessed kiddie-fiddler, but pulling down his trouser zip for tinychildren hasn’t stopped him becoming one of the most influential members of parliament. Here is his story. Keep in mind this man has more power over thelegislation of this country than does any member of the Dail.Mr 
Cohn-Bendit
is better known as
Dany
the red of the 1968 Paris Barricades. Heis a kind of mid-century leftover leftie who was active in squatting, street fighting andagitation before he re-invented himself as a Green and was elected to the Europeanparliament. Last month I went to watch him in a debate with
Declan Ganley
. Thething was standing-room only in a ballroom in a Brussels hotel.
Excuses
Mr 
Ganley
produced a book
Cohn-Bendit
wrote in 1975. He read out Mr 
Cohn-Bendit`
s account of how he had worked in a kindergarten and allowed the childrento pull down the zip on his trousers and touch him intimately. In the book he hadasked them why they wanted to play with him and not with each other, but in theend he ‘caressed’, his word- them too.Mr 
Cohn-Bendit
disputed none of it. Indeed when Mr 
Ganley
finished reading, theformer kindergarten teacher whooped that he had just won €500 because he hadbet someone that Mr 
Ganley
would read out that bit of his auto-biography. When Mr 
Cohn-Bendit’
s supporters in the room did not give him quite give the sound of applause he seemed to be looking for with that reply, he changed tack and insistedthat everything in the book had been discussed in Germany and France years agoand the parents of the children had never raised any concerns. Mr 
Ganley
asked:‘
 And the children, what did they say?’ 
Dany the Red
assured him and the audiencethat years later the children had all said their time at the school was extremelyhappy. And then he went on about how attitudes were different in the 1970s.And if none of those excuses sounds familiar to you - in particular, the excuse abouthow attitudes were different in the 1970s - then you weren’t paying attention lastweek.But let me give you another example of how ’seriously’ the euro-elite take theprotection of children. You may remember the
Marc Dutroux
case in Belgium. Itcould be called the most horrific example of child rape and murder in Europe sincethe war.Known as the beast of Belgium,
Dutroux
is now serving a life sentence for a seriesof child kidnappings, rapes and murders in 1995-96. He kept some of his victimslocked in a dungeon he had built in his basement. Two eight-year-old girls starvedto death there after 
Dutroux
was arrested and served a short prison sentence for car theft: his wife didn’t bother to open the dungeon door to feed the girls.
 
Part of the great mystery and scandal that accompanied the case was the relentlessincompetence of the authorities, at that time led by the Justice Minister,
Melchior Wathelet
. For years, as victims were kidnapped and murdered, police files were fullof reports and tip-offs that
Dutroux
was selling young girls. Yet
Dutroux
stayedfree. In the end Mr 
Wathelet
was forced to resign in disgrace. And his reward for incompetence in the administration of Justice was - to be appointed a judge at theEuropean Court of Justice.That would be like our chief executive of the Financial Regulator,
Patrick Neary
,being appointed head of NAMA. Which would be a joke. But having anyone involvedin any way with the horrors of the bungled
Dutroux
investigation appointed to oneof Europe’s most senior judicial positions is no joke. It is, however, a good measureof the arrogance of the euro-elite towards what might be called the plain people of Europe.
Arrogance
But still back to the elections of the European parliament. And that also takes usback to the arrogance of the euro-elite. Just in case it had slipped past you, thevoters of Europe are supposed to be voting to determine the membership of thenext European parliament which, under existing European law, that is to say, theNice Treaty, will have 736 seats.
But the euro-elites are manoeuvring to makethe voters elect 754 MEPs - that is, to elect an extra 18 politicians to thelushly-paid parliament, even though these politicians will have no seat to fill
.The euro-elite want the 18 to have full salary, full tax-free allowance for every daythey turn up at the European parliament building, full expenses, business-classtravel allowances and all the rest.
The 18 will be given everything except a job
.The excuse given? That the
Lisbon Treaty
allows for the creation of an extra 18seats. So even though the treaty is not yet ratified, the 18 extra politicians ought tobe elected and paid as MEPs until the
Lisbon Treaty
comes into force. Note thatarrogance: the treaty has not yet been ratified, and indeed, may yet come totally off the rails if 
Gordon Brown
is forced to call a general election in the Britain. It maynever become law. Yet the euro-elite intends to ignore that fact. They expect theEuropean voters, sheep that we are all assumed to be (and given the docility of theIrish in accepting a second referendum yet again, we have certainly proved to besheep) to ‘baaaa-baaaa’ their way into the polling booths and deliver 754 MEPs for 736 seats.The extra 18 are supposed to act as observers until the
Lisbon Treaty
comes intoforce, and then they will take their newly-created seats. But for technical reasonsthe earliest that could possibly happen is two years after the European elections. Sowe will have 18 politicians pouring money into their bank accounts for at least twoyears in return for doing no work at all as MEPs.
Remember: any member of theEuropean parliament who plays all the angles can bank €1m over the five-year term of a parliament.
This euro-wheeze makes the scandal of British MPs’expenses look like nothing worse than pilfering Biros from the stationery cupboard.It can be a useful wheeze to us, though. It can remind us of how the idea that we -any of us, any of the voters of Europe - have ever had democratic power over 
Lisbon Treaty
is a lie. The French and Dutch voters rejected the text when it wascalled the
European Constitution
, the Irish voters rejected the text when it wascalled
Lisbon
. The 27 member states have not finished with ratification. And yet theeuro-elite have been proceeding for years as though the treaty were already law.And in their minds, of course, it is law:
for European law is whatever the euro-elitesay it is
. Like
Dutroux
with the young girls, they do not consider that ‘NO’ is anavailable answer.I will remind you of just
a few examples of how the euro-elite have been for years seizing important new powers which were supposed to theirs only after the treaty was made law by the member states
. There is the European SpacePolicy (which is now developing military use for the European Gallileo GPS system),
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