While they did not make any practical calls to action, the manifesto’s signatories said they “refuse to resign themselves to this looming catastrophe”. They counted themselves among the “too quiet” European patriots who understand that “three-quarters of a century after the defeat of fascism and 30 years after the fall of the Berlin wall, a new battle for civilisation is under way”.
Despite its “mistakes, lapses, and occasional acts of cowardice”, Europe remains “the second home of every free man and woman on the planet”, they say, noting with regret the widely held but mistaken belief of their generation that “the continent would come together on its own, without our labour”.
Pro-Europeans “no longer have a choice”, they say. “We must sound the alarm against the arsonists of soul and spirit that, from Paris to Rome, with stops in Barcelona, Budapest, Dresden, Vienna, or Warsaw, are playing with the fire of our freedoms.”
They talk of themselves as if the people that don't agree with are anti Europe or traitors "arsonists of soul and spirit? These bungholes talk about the people as if they don't matter because they're stupid? And the freedoms they speak of is their freedom to do what they want to the people just like Nazi Fascists of the past.
These people need to meet a rope and a light pole. In short "the rabble must do what they're told to do like it or not because it's for the greater good".