Soros Speaks, Europeans Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil

George Soros, one of the world's richest Hungarian-born US citizen-idiots has some "sage" advice for the EU.

"...the EU should "shelve" its planned constitution and instead take concrete steps to effectively promote a "global open society."

There he goes again with the "open society nonsense." It would be truly scary if Soros had his way and all the institutions of western civilization were thrown down and cast out in favor of Soros' utopia which would evolve by "trial and error." I shudder to think of the trials to be suffered due to the anarchy of errors; all brought on by the more intelligent and sophisticated elites such as George Soros. After nearly bankrupting several countries by forcing them to defend their currency which he had attacked, he has now turned his attentions to philanthropic and humanistic ventures such as human rights, gun control and anarchy. The man is a pirate and letting him speak at the European Policy Center is as imbecilic as letting the terrorist, Yasser Arafat address the UN General Assembly. Apparently, Mr. Soros has a problem with constitutions, having previously advocated for doing away with the US Constitution, he has now urged the Euros to trash theirs.

...shelve its proposed constitution, which was rejected in France and the Netherlands in referendums last year.

"The constitution may have been in any case an over-ambitious step," he said, adding that "I believe the debate on the constitution should be shelved."

It's true the EU Constitution is a monstrosity that should never have been born but Soros has ulterior motives.

"The world badly needs a more united Europe committed to a global open society," he stated, adding that the constitutional deadlock of the bloc "should not be used as pretext for inaction".

But, there is one point we can agree with Mr. Soros on and that is the subject of re emergent Russian authoritarianism. He warned the Euros of the dangers of becoming too intertwined with the Russians.

A stronger Europe is also necessary in the face of an authoritarian and power-playing Russia, he warned.

"I have bad news on Russia," he said, explaining that it "has emerged as an authoritarian state" using natural resources to "assert its power" by setting up shady joint ventures in energy with foreign firms.

Moscow "wants to control all institutions of democracy," he said highlighting attempts by the Kremlin to set up "government-organised non-governmental organisations."

"Faced with this, Europe has a problem and there is a reluctance to recognise that," he concluded.

No doubt upon hearing Soros' warning, the Euros adopted a "three monkeys" (see, hear and speak no evil) posture.

hattip: Brussels Journal

George Soros is a very wealthy man and a dangerous loon. Because of his wealth, he is given much more credibility and attention that he should ever deserve. In a sane world, he would be laughed out of a room. He has spent millions of dollars to promote his anarchic agenda.

Here's what I wrote about George Soros in a previous post at Observanda.

George Soros is working toward an "Open Society" where rights of the individual are safe guarded but shared values hold society together. Open society is a middle ground between extremes such as Communism, and nationalism and laissez-faire capitalism. He says that an open society improves the imperfect society by trial and error, insists on freedom of expression and protecting dissent.

An Open Society offers “limitless progress.” Open society must regard it's own shared values as a matter of debate and choice. The concept of “open society” must be the only absolute. Declaration of Independence should be revised so that instead of stating that “we hold these truths to be self-evident” it would acknowledge our fallibility. There is no ultimate truth; our beliefs are expressions of choice.

Laissez-faire incompatible with concept of open society and has effectively banished income or wealth redistribution

We have entered a period of disorder which laissez-faire is incapable of addressing.

Our sense of right and wrong is endangered by our preoccupation with success, as measured by money.

U.S. and UK laissez-faire policies prevented open society development of Russia as well as reform and reconstitution of the United Nations.