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"Film Crews Should Not Film Dissent"
"The film crew are employees of the (European) Parliament and they should not be used to film dissent" - Anne-Margrete Wachtmeister, Head of the Audio Visual Unit in the European Parliament, to a freelance journalist.
The hack was interviewing UKIP's Nigel Farage, who was leading a protest against the Lisbon Treaty.
Oddly enough, it was a BBC producer who came to the freelancer's rescue. England Expects has the story, and this:
"The thought that the Parliament even considered this is scary. Remember that the European Commission are planning to vet journalists. The European Parliament is building a TV station over which they have editorial control.
"Recently in the chamber Danny Cohn-Bendit (President of the Greens) has described Eurosceptics as "mentally ill", the leader of the Socialist Group Martin Schulz described Eurosceptics as followers of Adolph Hitler. Graham Watson described Euro sceptics as both Communist and National Socialist in the same sentence.
"The President of Parliament has gifted himself arbritary powers over the rules of procedure.
"Does all this remind anybody of anything?"
Even coming from a man in a chicken suit, this is fine stuff.
