The structure of story of my page :

Romanian institution and legislation
1-st chapter
Authorities of Romania implicated in genocide
Romanian connexions of arms smuggling ( air companies, cargo manifest, airport documents wich prove that ).
2-nd chapter
Private military companies- mercenary of globalization. Documents wich prove the illegal deal of weapons and network.
3-rd chapter
A few cinical covered airlift operations of Romanian arms smuggling documentated by proves by me, during the civil war in Darfur- Sudan. Consequences : a humanitarian disaster. 70.000 people died of famine next six month. My interpelation in Romanian Parliament to minister of Justice and the answer. Sudan was under EU embargo.
4-th chapter
Civil war of Sierra Leone, top secret airport, air companies documents wich proves the procedure of supplies both parts in conflict with weapons, by Romanian authorities. Sierra Leone was under UN embargo. No dangerous good handling licence eliberated by Ro Civil Aviation Autority till 2000 year.
5-th chapter
The setting up of sclavagist Romanian government for hide a smuggling arms failure. Here you can see what`s happen with me during last 10 years and how I am fighting with the system. I thing that is important and many personalities show to the people the name of the “dark forces”. But is important to know the underground actions, how can blocked it. Best regards,

Valentin Vasilescu
Education; scientific degrees
:”Aurel Vlaicu” Air Force Officers’ School ( 1980-1984 );
War College, military science ( 1990-1992 ), National Air Force Academy:
Licences :
military pilot’s licence for supersonic aircraft -1985,
international air traffic controller’s licence/instructor’s training – 1997;
specialisation in airport management and crisis management following terrorist attacks (training course in Dublin – 1998)
Professional activities:
officer, Ministry of National Defence ;MIG-21 pilot;
assistant commander of Int..l Bucharest-Otopeni Airport
deputy of Bucharest, member of the Committee for Defence, Public Order, and National Security/ Chamber of Deputies ( 2000-2004 )

http://www. cdep. ro/pls/parlam/structura. mp?idm=315&cam=2&leg=2000&pag=0&idl=2

Actually, this reminds me of a certain well-known (for a while) Irish blogger who wrote a piece expressing his “concern” (I kid you not) about the numbers of gay people blogging, which he seemed to think was too high. (The most charitable explanation is that he really meant that there were too many leftists for his liking in the Marketplce of Ideas, and he wanted some Guv’imint intervention, but he didn’t mention this explicitly so)

That the individual in question is himself a well-known FOD (as are quite a number of his one-time associates, some of whom found their way to Libertas) was, sadly, par for the course in this particular would-be pundit’s lack of cop-on.

The European Parliament plenary would be wise in dropping the text concerning blogs, possibly in favour of a deeper study of free speech.

Those who tend to call themselves Eurosceptics tend to be UKIP types, and quite frankly, they’re generally about as enlightened as the English star of the above anecdote. Yes, there are perfectly sensible individuals who are skeptical of the EU, but in general those described as Euroskeptics are nationalistic gobshites and idiotic conspiracy theorists. Likewise, there may be plenty of radical students in Gaza who are nice, progressive individuals who believe in pacifism (what could be more radical in Gaza!) but generally when someone talks about a member of a radical group in Gaza, that’s not the kind of individual we picture.

There is an amusing irony here, of course, given the context of the story, of essentially unknown talking heads apparently embroiling themselves in a firestorm of reaction about the views of one essentially unknown MEP.

To illustrate my point and to borrow your idea from the last paragraph, how might most Irish people have reacted to this story if it had have been Irish MEP Dana Scallon making these proposals?

(I appreciate that she is no longer a sitting MEP – I am simply making a point about perception.)

Heh. Given that the “radical high school student from Gaza” is awfully vague, I’m quite surprised that someone could take umbrage for the poor Eurosceptics – a grouping which is generally taken to mean right-wingers (including Nazi- and fascist-affiliated groupings!).