A outra ditadura que está a ser construída:

As described to me by someone present, President Klaus greeted the MEPs with his usual genial courtesy. Whatever his own views, he assured them, his countrymen would conduct their presidency in fully “communautaire” fashion. Cohn-Bendit then staged his ambush. Brusquely plonking down his EU flag., which he observed sarcastically was so much in evidence around the palace, he warned that the Czechs would be expected to put through the EU’s “climate change package” without interference.

“You can believe what you want,” he scornfully told the president, “but I don’t believe, I know that global warming is a reality.” He added, “my view is based on scientific views and the majority approval of the EU Parliament”.

He then moved on to the Lisbon Treaty. “I don’t care about your opinions on it,” he said. If the Czech Parliament approves the treaty in February, he demanded, “Will you respect the will of the representatives of the people?”

He then reprimanded the president for his recent meeting in Ireland with Declan Ganley, the millionaire leader of the “No” campaign in the Irish referendum, claiming that it was improper for Klaus to have talked to someone whose “finances come from problematic sources”.

Visibly taken aback by this onslaught, Klaus observed: “I must say that no one has talked to me in such a style and tone in the past six years. You are not on the barricades in Paris here. I thought that such manners ended for us 19 years ago” (ie when Communism fell). When Klaus suggested to Hans-Gert Pöttering, the president of the EU Parliament, that perhaps it was time for someone else to take the floor, Pöttering replied that “anyone from the members of the Parliament can ask you what he likes”, and invited Cohn-Bendit to continue.

“This is incredible’, said Klaus. “I have never experienced anything like this before.”

After a further exchange, in which Cohn-Bendit compared Klaus unfavourably with his predecessor, President Havel, he gave way to an Irish MEP, Brian Crowley, who began by saying “all his life my father fought against the British domination [of Ireland]… That is why I dare to say that the Irish wish for the Lisbon Treaty. It was an insult, Mr President, to me and the Irish people what you said during your state visit to Ireland.” Klaus repeated that he had not experienced anything like this for19 years and that it seemed we were no longer living in a democracy, but that it was “post-democracy which rules the EU”.

Sem um Estado com funções de segurança, de justiça e mais algumas, que me impedia de lhe dar um tiro?
E como poderia eu dormir descansado sabendo que todos os que me rodeiam me podiam dar um tiro?
E os seus filhos, como cresceriam?
Você acha-se o mais forte? O mais apto?
POis tenho uma notícia para si: há sempre um peixe maior.
E se não há peixe maior, há peixes pequenos que se organizam, arranjam um estado e dão facilmente cabo do peixe maior.

Algures entre nenhum estado e estado totalitário, está a virtude. Eu acho que está mais perto do 1º termo ( a virtude), e que a actual situação deriva de estarmos muito perto do 2º termo.