Socialism, Sensationalism, and Scaremongering

The socialists have done it again! Mr. José Manuel Durão Barroso, the President of the European Commission (i.e. the EU Politburo), has announced that there will be an investigation and "emergency talks" about the volcanic ash cloud over Europe, which at present is hampering air travel all around the continent. This is of course just a bunch of nonsense and another way to take our money and put it to their ridiculous uses. The EU have to be seen doing something about everything, a tactic well employed by Communist regimes in the former Eastern Block as well as Fascist governments (Mussolini famously declared "battle" and "war" on every problem he attempted to solve). Thus they try to keep us all scared. First of Global Warming (now rebranded "climate change" - since there is no warming...), then Swine Flu (the UK government wasted billions of pounds on unused flu shots), now - THE VOLCANIC CLOUD! The Earth attacks! Fire, ruin, airplanes falling out of the sky at will of the mighty beast! The truth is that over 99% of the cloud is water vapour from the melting glacier and the particles thrown up by the eruption, although some can be harmful to jet engines, are mostly miniscule and not dangerous at all. However, when I watched the BBC News last night I got the impression that the end of air travel in Europe was imminenet and that any airplane would crash minutes after take-off after being overwhelemed by dangerous fumes. If that is the case, then how come the airport in Reykjavík, the capital city of ICELAND(!), is functioning normally? Also, Ireland, the country closest to the eruption (aside from Iceland itself) has ceased all restrictions on air travel. I find this whole business highly reminiscient of the previous scares which proved to be hoaxes. The governments (both EU and national) have to be seen as protecting people. Meanwhile, they are causing massive damage to the economy - what a time to be doing that!

There is no better time than this to remind ourselves of a great saying by a famous man, Stefan Kisielewski - "Socialism is the system under which people bravely combat problems not present under any other system!" (My own transaltion) He couldn't be more right! Ash cloud or not, we need to be fighting something, eh Comrades? And I thought Don Quixote was a fool to battle windmills!