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Standing Up for the Irish

Although the European Parliament is dominated by the sort of Eurocrats who spent wildly and applied endless pressure on the Irish to approve the so-called Lisbon Treaty, which expands the authority of the European Union, it does include a few naysayers, particuiarly members of the United Kingdom Independence Party.  In this video one of them, Nigel Farage, denounces the "bully-boys" who did so much to suppress independent thought in Ireland.

About the Author

Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/10/09/standing-up-for-the-irish

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