Remember the Polish MEP who commented on unified driver's licences with "Ein Reich, ein Volk, ein Ticket" and referred to refugees as vermin?

The European Parliament slapped a fine of 3060€ on his ass, less than half his monthly wage (not including expenses, etc) as an MEP. That ought to teach him...

It turns out the big guy with the walking stick wasn't just some random guy, he is the brother of a UKIP MEP. I knew there was something fishy about him when I first saw it.

That CNN bloke is rather obnoxious.

As an alternative, check out this raw footage, taken by an Austrian MEP:
http://youtu.be/9IXK7I-6OvU?t=3m57s

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LYRICS:

Only rapper to be called a thief without stealing
Download an MP3 for free, these people hit the ceiling
I'm just a citizen that's teaching you a lesson
for restricting my freedom of expression
How can ideas be possessions when they're freely replicable?
Hence unapplicable property laws are reprehensible
Didn't Jefferson express his opinion on the matter
when he said inventions shouldn't be given a patent
What happened to that thinking, we're stuck in a pattern
where the people with everything are keeping everything from us who haven't
We want it back, look, fed up of adverts, left and right
begging me to buy til there's nothing left of mine
to spend, never mind, who's next in line to testify
that we need laws like these to protect our rights?
Medicine has never been something I'd ever deprive
especially when a life depends on it to survive
Yeah, it takes an incredible effort to develop them right
but putting wealth over health, I said it's never been right

I'm just a citizen that's teaching you a lesson
for restricting my freedom of expression, and I reckon
if old blues themes hadn't been used by Led Zeppelin
we wouldn't ever have any heavy metal then
the history of music would have never even happened
and amusingly there wouldn't even be a Metallica
to tell us that we should hang on the gallows of law
so we wouldn't even need to have a Gallo Report
Oh and by the way the fricking Gallo's support
is made of signatures which have been apparently forged
This shit is sinister, and cannot be allowed to enforce
so tell your ministers and MEPs of how it's been brought about
Although you'll probably get a shallow retort
because the lobbyists have got a grip around all their balls
If I was boss, I'd tell them get the Hell out the door
because I've had enough of corrupt crooks ramming through laws

I'm just a citizen that's teaching you a lesson
for restricting my freedom of expression
Yes, and deep packet inspection? squeeze that up your rectum
If your postman did that to you you'd be having him sectioned
arrested for meddling in your private affairs
But it's only online, right? so why should we care?
Because digital rights should be applicable right
here in real life, and we're not criminals, right?
So this is just why we'll never give up the fight
to be considered innocent until we kick up and die
Giving internet providers responsibility
for the whims of their subscribers infringes privacy
Before the internet, media was a rarity
but how do you expect it to keep its value without scarcity
And that's what scares me, seeing their cons and schemes
to stop their creaking business model being obsolete
What a robbery they pull off so obviously
Don't give a fuck who it affects as long as it's not me
Well I'll keep making copies, see if they can stop me
They'll have to confiscate my PC and take it off me
See there's no problem with taking my property
for creating some lines of binary, blatant hypocrisy
Afraid to face the controversy relating to what we need
Making a profit off it or breaking monopolies

>> ^enoch:
i think burgneil is talking about cap-n-trade and if you look into it...well..seems it will be a new market to exploit but not really deal with the issue of climate change.
maybe im wrong but im SOOO against cap-n-trade.
if you ripped me off,stole my money and ruined my business,why would i ever put you in charge of anything again?
the people who brought you Enron and energy trading?sub-prime mortgages?yep..now they bring us Cap-n-trade.
no thanks.


thanks for the clarification. Cap and Trade on coal plants have been in place in NY for a year and a half, and the general consensus from peers in the scientific community is that they aren't effective enough. I have no opinion of the political aspect because rest assured who ever is doing the speaking has his own agenda and it's almost always a devious one.

>> ^BURGNIEL:
awesome. this is the truth people. Do the research. The planet does need help, but not in the way they want to do it... make it so the banks do not get richer off of our survival!


The people who actually DO "do the research" have come to the opposite conclusion. You might want to take your own advice before siding with corporations who have absolutely no intention of using research to prove their point.

>> ^BURGNIEL:
make it so the banks do not get richer off of our survival!


Right. What do banks have to do with climate change?
So what if some people get more worthless digits on a screen?

Does it matter who or what causes climate change?
Global cooling or warming or.. exploding is all very bad for us humans.

The point is:
1. - If we caused those problems to occur, we should solve them.
2. - If we didn't cause those problems to occur ..we should still solve them.
3. - Yay! Everyone's happy cause we don't have to worry about the weather! = ]


plus, what's so awful about the green industries?

Oh no!! cheap electricity, innovations and jobs!

MEPs promised to not abuse the system anymore? That's about as credible as Madonna saying she won't buy any more kids.

I always remember Neil Kinnock - he was a twat, and now an MEP - it's nearly always the same, an MPs salary is grossly disproportional to the national average, no wonder that cannot see the financial problems people have!

I don't know for sure how much a swedish MP is paid but I'd be interested to know...

>> ^Pprt:
I watched this not-so-shocking "expose" in the past, and there's surprising here at all.
Those who made innapropriate and outlandish statements were either expelled or dealt with internally. The same would happen with any other BNP member today.

That's hilarious. It's akin to the current government ministers abusing the system of expenses to plump up their salaries and then paying it back, as though that makes it better. As you well know, getting rid of the visible symptoms doesn't hide the illness. It's like throwing away a drug addict's favourite spoon and lighter.

Actually, who am i kidding? It's nowhere near similar, because these people probably still have active roles for the BNP only off the cards. There's ways round everything.

Advocating or perpretrating violence is a noble solution, but these opinions and these individuals are products of their environment.

Oh the naughty child syndrome argument. That's a good one. Right up there with "His heart's in the right place, bless him." Let's forgive everyone everything because they're just a product of their upbringing. I was emotionally abused when i was growing up, i've turned into a law abiding, non-violent, caring person. I know people who were physically, sexually abused growing up, they're also great people now. That excuse works for VERY limited variables.

Imagine that 30 years ago you lived in a nice town where everyone got along nicely and you self safe at night. Today one quarter of the population is Asian, religiously and culturally segregated, heavily unemployed, unfriendly, self-centered and violent. Of course they're mad.
Does anger make violence a noble solution? Never.

Heh, i'll do you one better. THIRTY YEARS AGO nick griffin (the BNP elected MEP) was taking an organisational role in the NF (national front). After having disagreements with the NF (he was too racist), he played a key role in arranging the INF (international third position). Read more about THAT particular racist group here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Third_Position.

So you've exposed your own defence of the BNP as a load of old bollocks without me even having to do it for you. Congratulations.

But regardless of your lying defence of these people, i still respect your right to an opinion. At least now you'll accept that the BNP are racists, are staffed by ex-criminals and ex-neo-nazis. At least now you'll accept that you want a racist government to go along with your racist ideals, and people will have to just accept you as you are. At least now you won't be hiding behind a facade of legitimacy, right?

You can be sure as hell if immigration weren't so mismanaged and had a less gloomy prospect the BNP would not be running on this particularly pressing social issue. Perhaps they'd focus on health care, the elderly, road signage... who knows.

OH MAYBE NOT!!!!!

The British people have a right to demonstrate concerns about the politics of immigration and they have a right to vote for the BNP. If you're averse to that, you're more intolerant that you think they are.

I'm extremely intolerant of intolerancy.

Anyone reading any of these posts, stop around the point where pprt willfully walks into his own debunk, beginning with "these poor guys 30 years ago they had such a peaceful and non-wacist attitude and now these modern politics are just making them angwy!!!!! "

I apologise for the lack of aplomb and delivery which i normally have, i've just woken up and these comments required an immediate reply before anyone gets sucked into his bullshit.