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 brigade of thought police. As was recently reported in The Daily Telegraph, Brussels is ...

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