Thread: Soros urges EU to forget constitution, challenge U.S.

Soros urges EU to forget constitution, challenge U.S.

Says Bush has brought world into 'disarray,'
'no longer in the position to set the agenda'

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=53090

Posted: November 23, 2006
7:00 p.m. Eastern


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Billionaire financier and political activist George Soros advised a major European Union policy group this week that the EU should scrap its plan to form a constitution and, instead, embrace his vision for a "global open society."

Speaking before the European Policy Center in Brussels, the Hungarian-born U.S. citizen and head of the Open Society Institute praised the EU as an "inspiring" example of an "open society," with none of its members dominating the others and human rights its central tenet, reported the EU Observer.

Citing the 20th-century sociologist, Karl Popper, Soros hailed the development of the EU by the "process of piecemeal social engineering ... directed by a far-sighted, purposeful elite who recognized that perfection is unattainable."

Soros urged the EU to "shelve" its proposed constitution, calling it "an over-ambitious step" in light of its rejection last year in referendums by voters in the Netherlands and France.

"I believe the debate on the constitution should be shelved," he said. "To try and force [the constitution] through people's throats now" would be met with further popular resistance.

Again appealing to Popper, Soros said the lack of a constitution may be "appropriate to an open society because ... our imperfect understanding does not permit permanent and eternally valid definitions of social arrangements."

Soros proposed that the constitution be "unbundled and presented piecemeal," particularly those reforms that would give Europe a "common EU foreign policy" to better challenge the U.S.

"That is the one part of the European constitution that urgently needs to be rescued," he said.

Calling the war on terror "counter-productive," Soros blamed U.S. policies for the world's "disarray."

"The United States used to be the dominant power and set the agenda for the world. But President George W. Bush's war on terror undermined the basic principles of American democracy by expanding executive powers."

The U.S. is "no longer in the position to set the agenda in the world," he said.

Soros called on the Europe to "play a more active role than it did in the past," noting the rising threat from Russia.

"I have bad news on Russia," he said, noting that it "has emerged as an authoritarian state" and was using natural resources to "assert its power."

"Needless to say, a common EU foreign policy should not be anti-American," he said. "Such a posture would be self-defeating, because it would reinforce the division of the international community that the Bush administration has initiated."

Calling the war on terror "counter-productive," Soros blamed U.S. policies for the world's "disarray."

This willingness of the Soros globalists to exclude the Islamic countries is common in the various pieces I've read about them and has me puzzled. I'm thinking that their identity is not national as is an American's and they cannot be of use? They just can't be stripped of their identity by wiping out their border as could happen here. Do they plan to isolate them?

So who are the globalists that disagree with Soros on the Middle East? Why the continuing push to bring "democracy" to the ME by the Bush administration.

How does China fit in here with their desire to bring "democracy" to that area of the world?

The answer lies within the power struggle between the UN dictators vs the American/International globalists.

Soros is a UN man.

American/International globalists are CFR men

The goal is basically the same but who's holding the reins of Power is the question.

Energy, Water and Resources are the key.
** Iraq was to destabilize OPEC giving the Global cabal the upper hand.
{james baker}
Iraq can't destabilize anything but themselves now.

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Popper was just another relativist whose theories lead toward relativism. I think that most of us see where relativism versus absolutism is leading in our educational systems and in society at large. The idea of inalienable rights enunciated in our nation's founding documents, for example, is absolutist. The conditional surrender of those rights, which seems to find more and more conditions for surrender and less and less situations for adherence, is relativist. It doesn't take a genius to sort out that relativism ultimately finds a means for eliminating all absolutes, which means that there are ultimately no protections against the predations of those with the power to describe the exceptions to the absolute rules. In this country, we have seen the exception undermine the rule to the point that the exception is the rule. This is a classic progession in the passage from freedom to tyranny.

Soros is a scourge on our country.