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Is Nigel Farage Bailing Out The EU One Fine At A Time?
Back in 2010, everyone's favorite truthsayer in Europe - MEP Nigel Farage - opined on who exactly was Herman Van Rompuy - the new EU President. Claiming HvR's charisma approached that of a damp rag, we noted at the time that this was indeed slanderous to all the hard-working damp-rags out there. Well, given the EU's need for cash - by any route possible - it seems they have chosen to start building a mountain of fines. As AP reports, the EU parliament fined Nigel EUR2980 for his self-expression.
Here is the dreadful moment of truth...
Via AP:Lawmaker Fined About $4,000 For Insulting EU Chief
BRUSSELS (AP) — How much does it cost to tell the one of the EU's top officials he has "the charisma of a damp rag?" About €3,000, or close to $4,000, as a European member of Parliament has discovered.
In 2010, Nigel Farage, an anti-European Union member of the EU Parliament, rose following a speech by Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council. As Van Rompuy listened, Farage, a Briton, added that the former Belgian prime minister came from "pretty much a non-country."
The Parliament docked Farage €2,980 — 10 days' expenses. Farage appealed to the European Court of Justice. It ruled this month that he filed his appeal too late and would also have to pay Parliament's legal expenses.
The decision was posted on the court's website on Monday.
which leaves us wondering - as we tweeted earlier:
Does everyone who call @euhvr a "damp rag" get a $4,000 fine?
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 17, 2012
Given Germany's EUR 190bn ESM contribution, we assume that Nigel has 63 million more insults before Europe is fixed
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Hey, gotta find money anyway you can.
Nigel sould have gone all in and called him and Barrosso unelected, fuckin' idiots
Farage should walk up to him at the next meeting and while on video, pay him in gold and silver!
New snorg tees girl!!!!!!
Ah, a brunette with that gap in her thighs just under her pussy. Love that!
<<<< the downvote is over there.
This is the perfect Kickstarter project. We contribute, Farage tells it like it is, he gets fined, Kickstarter pays off, we all get the laugh at those douchebags.
Give me a link I want to contribute.
If we contribute enough euro notes, can Farage insult everyone else in the European parliament? If I give him US dollars, will he take on the US Congress, the Bernank, and the US president?
This could get really fun.
HvR has a pissy look on his face like someone just brought him a basket of french fries but informed him the restaurant is out of mayo
Now this is something I could get behind! +1 for the great idea. A Farage rampage.
Or damp soggy tattered Euro notes....
Or in Zimbabwen notes, or just wait a few years. Checks in the mail!
Farage should go back to Zimbabwe in the North Sea the UK, and leave us Europeans solve our own problems.
Europe is not intrested in Fragae and the UK and Farage not in Europe.
Spot on. Nigel Faradage is a City-of-London creature with but one mission: To attack the enemies of her Majesty's beloved Zimbabwe-in-the-sea (I am loving it!). There is no country as indebted and economically doomed in the western hemisphere as the UK with its overleveraged banking-"industry". Look at the mess they created on this planet. I'd like to hear from Mr. Faraday about how he likes the fact that MFG customers got fucked with rehypothecation schemes exploiting banker-centered UK-legislation. Assange is being watched 24x7x365 while russian mafia oligarchs enjoy their parasitic lifes in the city safe from russian extradition requests. The european "integration process" is a mess and as much as I detest bureaucrats worshiping the city-of-londonstan calf Faradic as an incarnation of freedom and liberty is downright idotic.
This may all be true, but Nigel does what he does quite well. These assholes in Brussels deserve to have their noses rubbed in it. The Brits problems certainly don't improve by making decisions makers evel less local.
And, even then...
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.” -- H.L. Mencken, Minority Report
Sounds logical to me. As logical as to say that GWB did a wonderful job setting up Guantanamo as extrajudicial execution yard or legalizing waterboarding. He did quite well what he did.
I trust "your Europe" includes Portugal, Italy, Eire, Spain, Greece, France - all of whom seem to have problems ENTIRELY CAUSED BY YOUR DETERMINATION TO HAVE THE EUROZONE - "lets bundle-up different speed economies into one Big Happy Family and see what happens!"
Farage is a Eurosceptic. Farage and others were against EMU
Seems Farage and others were right, doesn't it.
As to the Zimbabwe in the North Sea taunt - exactly what has YOUR "European Superhero" Mario Draghi recently agreed to?? Seems like the EU is going to be a FAR better example of "Fiscal Prudence" doesn't it - just waiting for the "entitled set" to start rioting in France, Spain, Italy (already under way nicely in Greece don't you know!)
"Treacherous Cretins" ( Frank Zappa) International Wankers (I mean bankers) are.
Damp Rags!!!
Tyler needs to revise his rating methodology - 5 is no longer sufficient
Let's raise the fine to $10,000 minimum:
"Van Rompuy is a fermented soggy turd farting mercaptan spiced hydrogen sulfite gas that smells rotten egg"
OK Couldn't resist. Soundtrack for the thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNhL4J_S00
Go get 'em Nigel. Fight the power!
LOL
That's what I was going to post!
Perhaps I'm showing my age, but this is what came to mind for me!
Yeah.....and your mother wears Army SEAL Team Six boots too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group
Can't wait to see what Nigel has to say, should be fun!
mumble mumble mutter blub blurt phhhhhhhhhhhhht
Obviously not only do they have no respect for sovereign nations-states but none for free speech, either...
That's because as good welfare-statists the "Government is the only thing we all belong to"
Opppsss sorry!
That was Yomomma herveryownself referring to the American Peasantry.
(and grammatical proof the war on stupidity has been lost)
Yeah, as opposed to humanity. Responsible people shouldn't belong to that.
I'll help pay Nigel's fines to keep the truthiness coming. That is great political theatre!
As I understand, truth is a defense in the US against slander and libel charges. So Nigel should have called Herman as a witness for the defense. Alas this is Europe where logic has no sway.
I thought the truth was that the degree of someone's 'charisma' is entirely subject to a different individual's opinion of that person, and not a matter of fact; unlike the clear cut definitions of words like 'liar', 'thief', or 'unclefucker'.
Geez.. HvR makes my bucket of damp rags look like Don Rickles.
But those guys are ringers.. they don't display the same "charisma" but they have the same ultimate agenda of a certain mustached European leader of the 1930's.
Yeah, they have to cycle through the various flavors looking for one that "works" within the facade du jour.
Damn he better be careful flying...his plane might experience "mechanical difficulties".
Wasn't that just a couple weeks after he gave that speech???
They already tried that and he survived.
Suicide with multiple rifle rounds to the back of the head, if no polonium is available.
Already happened...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/8173447/Nigel-Farage-plane-crash-pilot-charged-with-threatening-to-kill-Ukip-leader.html
The price for freedom of speech is getting increasingly higher. Any day now you will have to be an oligarch to be able to afford it.
"Free for those who can afford it. Very expensive for those who can't"-R Grant.
so what happens if you call them a stinking wet shit soaked rag? bonus fine?
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
That was brilliant! If I any one tried to call Bernanke out they would end up in Guantanimo. I think we need more insults flying in Congress. Pepole might pay attention then.
Allahu Rumpoy!! Damp Raghead Fatwa!! I call for every follower of the EU prophet to do his duty! Stone him! Fines are too kind for the infidel!
Van Rump Boy for bankster trash
Great clip...of course it could be a touch better if he sang it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpYIKF1wuyE&list=SP736C3116AD309B58&index=4&feature=plpp_video
Those guys are awesome.
Indeed! The truth is stronger!
Scathing truthfulness is always scorned and belittled.
Stay safe Nigel. We need your voice. No more plane rides!
Gee, permanently struck down ... until the Criminal in Chief objects.
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White House demands military prisons for Americans under NDAA
Published: 17 September, 2012, 19:41
The White House has asked the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals to place an emergency stay on a ruling made last week by a federal judge so that the president’s power to indefinitely detain Americans without charge is reaffirmed immediately.
On Wednesday, September 12, US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest made permanent a temporary injunction she issued in May that bars the federal government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, or NDAA. Judge Forrest ruled that a clause that gives the government the power to arrest US citizens suspected of maintaining alliances with terrorists and hold them without due process violated the Constitution and that the White House would be stripped of that ability immediately.
Only hours after Judge Forrest issued last week’s ruling, the Obama administration threatened to appeal the decision, and on Monday morning they followed through.
At around 9 a.m. Monday, September 17, the White House filed an emergency stay in federal appeals court in an effort to have the Second Circuit strip away Judge Forrest’s ruling from the week earlier.
[more... read it!]
http://rt.com/usa/news/ndaa-hedges-appeal-obama-339/
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Obama, you low life murdering crook, get the hell out of the oval office, you're a complete disgrace.
Just fucking lovely!
If the sheeple had 1 whit of sense, the fact that Daniel Ellsberg is also a plaintiff should give them a clue. That is assuming they know who he is & his history. I fear for Judge Forrest.
Well, not exactly unexpected is it!
Expecting Judge Forrest to be involved in "some unfortunate car / domestic / transport / medical / holiday incident" over the next few weeks or months (probably months, to reduce the sheeple's ability to recall her last stand for Civil Rights).
Sends a clear message out - "We are your RULERS and you don't mess with OUR plans for your enslavement".
It gets worse:
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Stazi state? ... nah!
NEVER let any govt thugs inside your house if they don't have a search warrant.
Speak to them through the screen door, go outside and talk on the stoop, porch, walk, or whatever, but do not let them into your home.
As if these sweet guys didn't have better things to do.... I wonder, have they gone to have a chat with Blankfein, Dimon, Perle, Wolfowitz, Silverstein, Soros, Emanuel, or Bloomberg?
You get my point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yZB55fuk_DE#t=108s
"Charisma of a damp rag,"
How could he say this? Apparently he's never seen one of Mr.Van Rompuy's staple awe inspiring, and charismatic speeches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1XspeULYfc
Almost 700 views on youtube and 6 likes!
comments from youtubers like:
"Vermin Rompuy, Rats normally leave the sinking ship first. You‘re staying on board the sinking? ship as long as you can to fool us," from Wh47n0w1517,
or
"Unelected, old fraud, i`ll shit on your grave you parasitic wanker," from no1frogy,
demonstrate the effectiveness of his speeches in inspiring super-national EU Pride.
Rompuy is a FUCKING CUNT.
God be with the days of 2 Hail Marys and 1 our Father.
Now they have monetized sin.
(THE Catholics of Belgium are even stranger then the Irish)
We have got to get out this place.............
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQYbWf4yUyY
If its the last thing we ever do.
And again I am thinking of (another) expatriation. Anyone with objective inf. on Iceland? Is there enough space to live, for all the expats to follow? Or will that european democrazy follow and strangle Iceland, too?
I'd be willing to donate to a fund so Nigel can keep speaking for me, unabated. If they'll do this to Nigel Farage to try and make an example to chill free speech there is nothing inhibiting these leeches.
"donate to a fund so Nigel can keep speaking. . ."
Good idea. Anybody with experience in setting up such a fund?
Nigel Farage has great big shiny awesome balls of brass. Consider that fine a badge of courage and honor, Mr. Farage.
Clearly it is now time to massprint Damp rag stickers and T-shirts.
A Damp rag movement perhaps?
Oh don't worry folks. You wont have to worry about a speech tax here in the good ole' USSA. They would never do that to us right? Move along, nothing to see here. If I were Farage, I would have probably already blew up at these people in a fit of rage and indignation and they would genuinely walk around for some time looking over their shoulders....question is does Farage have any balls to take this bullshit to the next level?
"Draghi Euro Humbles Thought Leaders Seeing End of Union"
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-17/draghi-euro-humbles-thought-leaders-seeing-end-of-union-1-.html
The euro survives. I know from one person here on ZH who predicted that time and time again.
Water damp, or kerosene damp?
I thought I would share this on here because some of the worldwide readers may not be aware of who Ian Tomlinson is and just how despicable this event is. I started this post this morning and updated it earlier after the events.
Forgive me hijacking this post:
When did it become normal for public servants to retire multi millionaires upon taxpayers dime?
http://scoinsandbullion.com/blog/471-how-do-police-pensions-make-million...
Indeed a business model that ZeroHedge should consider. $4,000 per down vote. If ZH goes public, then I could buy shares and then subject myself to self-imposed down votes thereby sacrificing my own credibility in exchange for more fiat.... a proven profit motive no doubt when "things get serious"... technically referred to as "self-Junckering" in the B-school texts.
www.tradewithdave.com
if nigel farage had lied through his back teeth and said rumpy pumpy was a first class popular european wunderkind would he be in line for a $4000 bonus?
Issue a bond to pay the fine Nigel.
Now they are really pissed at you.
Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!
Put out to fertilize the grass instead of in the grass. Yeah Nigel although England might not like the old German illuminati taking over the European world he is certainly right that the banksters have invaded the countries of Europe and have nearly removed all the sovereign nations citizens rights and given them to the banksters. They will soon have their armed drones in the air and it will be a done deal. Until of course the revolution renders Europe to a pile of dust -- again. As I remember 1776 in the US wasn't nearly as bad as the civil war so maybe here we can roust them out here a little easier.
Isn't Rompuy that SS agent that starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Looks just like him.
I will gladly pay his next fine if he calls this
Rompuy creature by his real name;Gollum.
Here is where Farage walks his talk. If he pays the fine, then contrary to his speech, he recognizes the legitimacy of the European Parliament and is nothing more than a barking jester. The only way to demonstrate real contempt for that body -- short of pulling a 'Guy Fawkes' (Heaven forbid) -- is to pick up your wallet and your nation's purse and simply walk away. As Martha Stewart would say, "It's a good thing!"
Maybe he can make just one offensive comment and offend 63 million people.
I'm sure Nigel's fans would be happy to pitch in and pay his fines.
I would fine Rumpboy 4K for having that "Ridiculous" hairdoo.
Reminds me of the old definition of Nazis: Thugs with bad haircuts and ill-fitting trousers. Well, you cant really see HvR's trousers during that dressing down, but the rest fits
Till our Nigel gets a hold of herman the van rumpoy and kicks the fucking living daylights out of him on air, he is just paid hot air. To give simple folk a bit of hope that someone, somewhere is opposed to what the fuck is going on in the EU.
Come on then Nigel, give this non-descript cunt a good fucking kicking on live air and we may just believe you son. Or ask someone like me. And I will gladly do it for free, as well as barrosso and martin schultz.
Get in touch if you need me boys...
;-)
Komedy Klassic. HvR not giving a shit as usual.
Is there only one Nigel complaining?
Aren't there others?
Or have all others joined the compliant plant pussies?
Apart from the "ad hominem" he's right about Belgium being a non-country and the quiet assasin of the european democracy is sitting there. This from 2010. As relevant now as before. Of course Farange was testing the water (throwing a stone in it). He's a populist, but at least half of what he says is true. For the other (U.K.) part of the madness I'd consult this bloke. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv7kUqCigHA ;-)
New boss (ESM), new rules. Like someone tunnelled underneath a castle; no action being taken, and the castle breached. "I care not who makes the laws.. etc.."
What's the function of mr. Farange? In what way can someone, anyone in his function be put before a court? Which court? How is the court put together? (elected or put into place like the object of this ridicule?). Whááát?!
This EU thing is getting funnier and funnier by the day. Like a horror clown show. :-S