Orwell and the EU. (Insider Report).

The February 18th London Daily Telegraph warned that under the European Union's laws dealing with "xenophobia" and "racism," citizens of Great Britain could be extradited to stand trial before foreign courts. "Legislation now before Parliament will make 'xenophobia and racism' one of 32 crimes for which the European arrest warrant can be issued without the existing safeguard of dual criminality," noted the British paper. "This requires that an extraditable offense must also be a crime in the UK. Alongside the arrest warrant, EU ministers are negotiating a new directive to establish a common set of offences to criminalize xenophobia and racism."

The first target of the EU's anti-racism laws is the Holocaust denial movement, which has a large and thriving presence on the Internet. Under the measures described above, English judges could extradite British Holocaust deniers to Germany, where expressing such opinions is considered a crime. Furthermore, the same laws will inevitably serve to silence other proscribed opinions regarding such issues as immigration and, quite possibly, the legitimacy of the EU itself.