tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post2031830086291123754..comments2024-01-16T08:40:53.682+00:00Comments on <a href="http://www.openeurope.org.uk">Open Europe</a>: A symbolic voteOEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00556463374230498875noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-15020320245616737822008-10-13T00:47:00.000+01:002008-10-13T00:47:00.000+01:00Flying the English flag is said to offend the mino...Flying the English flag is said to offend the minority (who shouldn't be here if they feel that way), I would like it known that flying the EU flag would offend me!<BR/>I will never sing an EU anthem.<BR/>And the motto means nothing to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-77743732666138710352008-10-10T16:54:00.000+01:002008-10-10T16:54:00.000+01:00You can still vote YES to Free Europe at www.FreeE...You can still vote YES to Free Europe at www.FreeEurope.info !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36227136.post-81266479884735634742008-10-09T21:12:00.000+01:002008-10-09T21:12:00.000+01:00If I recall correctly, Beethoven called the song "...If I recall correctly, Beethoven called the song "Ode to Joy" because he wanted to call it "ode to Freedom" but freedom was a forbidden word in Prussia at the time. German for freedom is frieden and joy is freude in German, so the words sound similar.<BR/><BR/>Does this make the anthem totally inappropriate because it's about freedom, when we are denied it. Or is it nicely ironic, given that our freedom like Beethoven's is being curtailed?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com