Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 03, 2014, 08:51:31 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 02, 2014, 05:20:49 PM

Ban Ki-Moon is also the secretary general of the United Nations. He represents all the countries in the world. Where are your sources that Tymoshenko is corupt?

I don't care what he is. He is still biased.

Here is one:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Ukraine_seeks_Tymoshenko_funds.html?cid=37361918

Ban Ki-Moon may be biased, but I'm really struggling to see the trial of Tymoshenko as anything more than a power struggle between eastern and western Ukraine. If you wanted to get rid of corruption in Ukraine you would probably have to convict the vast majority of politicians.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 03, 2014, 08:51:31 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 02, 2014, 05:20:49 PM

It's not only the Cypriots who are getting their money taken away, but everyone holding fiat. Besides, Cyprus was bankrupt, should they have let the banks collapse so that everyone lost all their money?

The Cypriot crisis was solely caused by useless EU regulations.

Explain.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on January 03, 2014, 08:51:31 AM

Quote from: jinni on January 02, 2014, 05:20:49 PM

Facepalm. Legalizing things is a good thing. In those cases where they are doing that they are doing the people of the EU a favor and saving them from being done over by their own governments.

This is what I exactly meant. If 90% of the population from a particular country doesn't want a particular law, then the EU has no right to impose it on them. No matter whether you think it will be a good thing or a bad thing. It is up for the citizens of a nations to decide it. You have no voice there. Period.

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So you are saying the tyrrany of the majority in the EU is worse than the tyrrany of the majority within an individual member state? In the same way you think the EU has no right to impose such and such laws on Poland. I however, say that Poland has no right to impose such and such laws on it's own people.

In fact, almost all places you could live draconian and unjust laws will be forced upon you. I don't think those laws will be less draconian and more just in Russia than in the EU.