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European superstate in the making: over the course of half a century, the architects of the European Union's various incarnations have lied to conceal their true goal of a socialist regional superstate. (Cover Story: Regional Government).(Brief Article)

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| May 06, 2002 | Jasper, William F. | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By all counts, Steven Thoburn is not a dangerous criminal. He threw no bombs, threatened no one, harmed no one. He has no prior criminal record. He is a greengrocer in Sunderland, England, a small shopowner who sells fresh fruits and vegetables to support his family and pay his taxes. Yet, the full weight of the European Union (EU) has crashed down on him like a sledgehammer on a fruit fly. Thoburn's crime? He sold a pound of bananas. Really, that is his crime. Nothing was wrong with the bananas; Thoburn's crime was in selling them by the pound, using scales that measured in the traditional imperial units rather than the EU-mandated metric units.

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