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* Guy Millière: The European Union's 'Woke Stasi Commissars': Europeans Turned into 'Second Class' Citizens
* Lawrence Kadish: Mr. President, Please Enforce the Insurrection Act


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by Guy Millière • January 20, 2026 at 5:00 am
* The EU sanctions have resulted in grotesque consequences for both men. Their bank accounts in the EU have been frozen. They cannot use their credit cards. They have no right to enter EU countries. Baud is subsisting on the food stored in his house in Belgium.... According to one report, "[h]is ability to travel inside the EU was revoked. He cannot even return to his own country."
* The French government, which sanctioned both men while providing no proof of guilt or affording them due process, has asked that the sanctions be extended to all EU member countries.
* While one might disagree with what the two men said and wrote, freedom of speech is, or should be, one of the fundamental principles of a democratic society, which France and the EU purport to be.
* France's request that the EU sanction "propagandists," and the EU's decision to take arbitrary measures without even asking France for any proof of wrongdoing or offering any kind of due process, signals that what is happening in France could easily spread to the rest of Europe. The EU already has in place crippling censorship measures for online media and social networks.
* The DSA [Digital Services Act] decrees that social media and websites must "police what they publish" or risk high fines. It is, of course, the European Commission itself that decides what is "illegal" or "harmful", so it can issue whatever judgments it wants.
* During the 2024 US election campaign, when Elon Musk said he would conduct an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump on X, the social media Musk owns, Thierry Breton, then European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services and the "mastermind" behind the DSA, sent Musk a letter saying that the EU could levy fines against X if the interview contained "illegal content." Musk, replying that he did not accept threats, went ahead with the interview. The EU promptly fined X €120 million (about $140 million) in December 2025 for breaching the DSA. Musk described the EU officials as "woke Stasi commissars" and added, "The EU should be abolished".
* The DSA was written by unelected, unaccountable, untransparent and irremovable senior EU officials, then voted in by the European Parliament, which has no real power and is just an approval body for what the European Commission decides. The DSA was not voted on by the national parliaments of EU member states. All citizens of EU member countries are now faced with a mandated requirement to which they never agreed.
* The European Commission, apparently not content with that, is reportedly planning to go further. It is preparing a new law, "Chat Control", which would allow the "automatic scan[ning] of private content (texts, images, videos) sent through messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, or prompts sent to AI platforms (e.g. ChatGPT) [that] would take place 'client-side,' before its encryption, meaning directly on your phone, tablet or computer." The "Chat Control" software would then "forward any material flagged as prohibited to law enforcement agencies." This would herald potential total control of every online conversation and the impossibility of speaking freely without being monitored.
* Every effort is being made by those in power within the ruling structures of the EU to ensure that parties in favor of national sovereignty and opposed to uncontrolled immigration and the Islamization of Europe are kept out of power, despite the exploding support from voters.
* The fatal vulnerability of all democracies is that politicians are usually more concerned with seeking votes and keeping their jobs than about where their countries are going.
* Undermining freedom of speech, freedom of the media, and freedom of political choice -- as well as treating disagreements on important issues such as foreign policy, immigration, Islamization and national sovereignty as punishable crimes -- has become an integral part of the erosion of European civilization. The idea of ​​democracy was born in Europe, but European countries and the EU are painstakingly throwing it away.

Every effort is being made by those in power within the ruling structures of the European Union to ensure that parties in favor of national sovereignty and opposed to uncontrolled immigration and the Islamization of Europe are kept out of power, despite the exploding support from voters. Pictured: The headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium. (Photo by Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images)

December 15. France. Two men, Jacques Baud and Xavier Moreau, who commented online about the war in Ukraine, discovered that they were among 12 people being sanctioned by the European Union for allegedly spreading propaganda for the Russian government. Some of the 12 people are propagandists, just not them. No evidence so far has proven that they had any ties with either the Russian government or Russian intelligence agencies.

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by Lawrence Kadish • January 20, 2026 at 4:00 am
Because we are a nation too often adrift from our own history, we do not know, or appreciate, that the United States has historically deployed military forces when the freedom of speech has metastasized into riots and street violence. Pictured: An armed man in St. Paul, Minnesota protests against the presence of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the city, on January 18, 2026. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Today's urban tour guides often pause before the stunning castle-like architecture of America's armories, those turn-of-the-last-century landmarks in many of our nation's cities. Once used as the home for local National Guard regiments, they remain dramatically impressive, becoming a new home to passing conventions and exhibits, theatrical productions, and even indoor motor sports.

What is left untold is that these buildings were carefully sited in the center of key locations in those cities for the specific purpose of confronting the political street violence that was prevalent during that era.

While President Donald Trump has recently pulled back from his intent to invoke the Insurrection Act that would send military forces into Minneapolis to confront a situation that threatened to cede control of the streets to a mob, the role of the military in America's urban centers can be found in every one of those "quaint" historic armories.

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