Notes & CommentsMay 2002 The new Gleichschaltung On the thought police in Brussels Last month, we reported in this space on the European Union’s so-called “document police.” This new-age constabulary can walk without warning, and without a warrant, into any business in search of evidence of “price fixing and abuse of market power.” As if this proto-totalitarian policy were not bad enough, the EU’s anti-trust investigators are seeking to expand their powers. For example, they want to be able to search—again without warning or a warrant—the homes of business executives suspected of malfeasance and to question employees without granting them the right to remain silent or the right to an attorney. This is hardly the only ominous news coming out of Brussels these days. If the unelected bureaucrats running the EU get their way, the document police will soon be joined by a br ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 20 May 2002, on page 1 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/eu-notes-1958
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