February 05, 2007
Could there be anything more retarded? We're really not sure who this is going to inspire, but it seems to be par for the course when it comes to the EU. From the article:
Tired of its staid image, the 106-strong group has spent £25,000 printing 40,000 copies of Operation Red Dragon, a cartoon storybook depicting the glamorous and daring life of "Elisa Correr", the personification of the "new breed" of "exciting" Liberal Euro-MP. While real parliamentarians fret about whether an amendment to the latest European Union directive might offend the committee chairman, the fictitious Miss Correr is ready to torpedo inter-continental trade deals or take on hit men for the sake of her principles.A politician dating a journalist. No conflicts of interest there! Oh wait...Cosy compromises are just not her style, especially when her boyfriend Tony, a British photo-journalist, is being held prisoner by a renegade oriental general.
In one sequence of the 38-page giveaway, a scantily-clad Elisa is taken aback to find her boyfriend hiding in the wardrobe of her hotel room during a trade mission to "Dong Fang", a country easily recognisable as China. "I had to see you, Elisa, but in private," he says, passing her photographs proving that an EU arms embargo is being flouted.That's right dammit. And it takes principles to use your power as a politician to take your own country's trade agreements and barter for the release of your boyfriend with a country that apparently has no problem detaining people or attempting murder. Oh, and we forgot, that country was also "flouting" an arms embargo too. But yet, principles allows the EU (in theory, of course) and it's fictional character, to somehow honor those trade agreements."Come back with me!" she pleads. "They won't let me leave," he replies, "I'll have to chance my luck." The two depart after a lingering kiss.
After threatening to scupper the trade deal - and fighting off an assassination attempt - she forces her boyfriend's release, winning the praise of a Dong Fang counterpart who marvels at her courage. "It's not courage, Mr Li. Just a few principles," she responds.
Yet, in real life, who is the real "villain" the EU is persuing?
The closest the Liberal group has to a real-life Elisa Correr is said to be Sophia in t'Veld, the glamorous 43-year-old Dutch Euro-MP known for her tenacious pursuit of a civil liberties agenda.The USA.But how do the 12 British members of the group match up to the new James Bond image? Group leader Graham Watson says that Baroness Ludford, "while not quite as young", is probably the most dynamic. The 55-year-old has been a key mover in the parliament's fight for the US to recognise its CIA "rendition" flights over Europe.
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