‘EU Is Not a Nation’: Rees-Mogg, Farage Defend Turning Backs on Euro Anthem

British MEPs Brexit Party turn their backs during the European anthem ahead of the inaugural session at the European Parliament on July 2 , 2019 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP)
Brexit Party MEPs have defended turning their backs on the European Parliament chamber during the playing of the EU’s ‘national’ anthem because they say the bloc should not be treated as a country.

The opening of the parliament in Strasbourg, France, was marked by protest, with pro-Catalan separatists demonstrating outside the building over former Catalonia president Carles Puigdemont and colleague Toni Comin being barred from taking their seats in the EU parliament.

The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats led their own protest inside the chamber, wearing yellow t-shirts with “stop Brexit” on the front and “Bollocks to Brexit” on the back of some — in reference to one of their May 2019 European Parliament campaign slogans.

It was the Brexit Party’s demonstration against the globalist bloc that garnered the most disapproval from establishment politicians and negative attention in the mainstream media, however, when the eurosceptic MEPs turned their backs to the chamber during the rendition of the European Union’s ‘national’ anthem, Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”, with Europhiles and the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani branding the move disrespectful.

Speaking on Sky News after the opening ceremony, Ms Rees-Mogg — the sister of Conservative Party MP and Brexiteer Jacob Rees-Mogg — said that she took part in the protest as she objected to the piece being referred to as “the nation’s song”.

“I would never, ever do that for any country’s national song, but you have to remember that the EU is not a nation. It should not have an anthem, it should not be arranged in that way. It doesn’t have a united peoples and Britain should have left it months ago,” Ms Rees-Mogg said of the bloc that is pushing for an EU army, a single budget, and a bloc-wide immigration and refugee policy.

Asked by anchorman Adam Boulton if she thought it was “rude” to turn her back during the EU’s anthem, the Brexit Party Member of European Parliament said: “I think it was rude to claim that the British people are part of a nation other than their own.”

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage also weighed in on criticism that their protest was ‘disrespectful’, telling the news broadcaster: “What is disrespectful is to take the ancient states of Europe and without asking anybody’s permission turning [a union of them] into a country — because that’s what the president of the parliament called it this morning.

“I think that’s really disgraceful and I’m really not going to stand to attention for this anthem. No way. I’ll show respect for any anthem for any other country in the world but not a false creation like this. I think we did the right thing.”

Breitbart London spoke to Brexit Party lawmakers at the parliament on Tuesday, with Jake Pugh MEP saying: “[European Parliament President] Antonio Tajani said you respect the anthem of another country, but the European Union isn’t a country! We’d absolutely respect other anthems, but presenting the European Union as a country disrespects us, and disrespects the other European member states.”

France Is on a Mission to Kill Free Speech Online

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France, still run by embattled globalist president Emmanuel Macron, is debating a draconian new law that would impose massive fines on social media and search engine companies if they fail to take down “hate speech” within 24 hours.
Company officials at Facebook and other social media platforms could face up to a year in prison in France if they fail to remove so-called hate speech under the proposed law. The companies themselves could face fines of up to 4 percent of their global revenues — a colossal sum — for repeated violations.

Individual users who abuse the “report” function on social media platforms could also face fines and jail time.

Via NYT:

If platforms refuse to remove such content, they could face fines of 1.25 million euros, or about $1.4 million. Company officials could face a year in prison and fines of up to €250,000.

Repeated violations could prompt France’s media watchdog to impose fines of up to 4 percent of the company’s global revenue — meaning, potentially, tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

The bill also creates penalties — a €15,000 fine and up to a year in prison — for individuals who abuse reporting mechanisms.

France is following the lead of Germany in this regard. The pro-censorship, pro-mass migrant regime of Angela Merkel passed a law last year imposing fines of 50 million euros ($62 million) on companies that fail to remove hate speech within 24 hours.

It’s another sign that western governments are increasingly behaving like China, where the government leans on private corporations to enact censorship and protect the ruling regime.

Writing on The Hill, law professor Jonathan Turley notes that these European laws could accelerate social media censorship in the United States:

The move by the Europeans hits in the blind spot of the United States Constitution. The First Amendment does an excellent job of preventing government action against free speech, and most of the laws curtailing free speech in Europe would be unconstitutional in the United States. However, although protected against Big Brother, we are left completely vulnerable to Little Brother, made up of the private companies that have wide discretion on curtailing and controlling speech around the world.

Europeans know these companies are quite unlikely to surgically remove content for individual countries. The effect will be similar to the “California Exception.” All states are subject to uniform vehicle emissions standards under the Clean Air Act, but California was given an exception to establish more stringent standards. Rather than create special cars for California, the more stringent standards tend to drive car designs. When it comes to speech controls, Europeans know they can limit speech not only in their countries but practically limit speech in the United States and elsewhere.

Thanks to leaked documents obtained and published by Breitbart News last year, its known that Google’s own researchers admit that the company and other Silicon Valley tech giants are “shifting toward censorship.” The leaked documents also note that one of the factors driving this change in policy is pressure from foreign countries.

But it seems those foreign countries aren’t just the usual suspects (Turkey, Russia, Pakistan, China, etc.). In Europe too, the very birthplace of liberalism and the enlightenment, powerful forces are moving to crush online free speech.

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