EU Hypocrisy on Death Penalty

The European Union once again proved its hypocrisy again when the EU Presidency held I am ashamed to say by Finland the country of my ancestry, the country my great grand parents came from and a nation I greatly admire condemened the US backed Iraqi High Tribunal for condemning Saddam an evil and vicious thug to the fate he so richly deserves to hang to death.
"The EU opposes capital punishment in all cases and under all circumstances, and it should not be carried out in this case either," the EU Presidency held by Finald told the international press.
Ignorant American intellectuals might think this arrogant and self righteous statement represents European opionion. It doesn't. Public opinion in most European country indicates that most Europeans have no problem with the death penalty and a great many of them support the concept. The only group in Europe that opposes capital punishment is a small intellectual elite that unfortunately controls the EU's institutions. In nations such as Poland, polls indicate that most citizens support capital punishment.
Instead of accepting such insults from Europe's intellectuals the US should simply demand one thing of the European Union: a Europe wide referendum on the death penalty. Not a survey of newspaper editorials but a real vote. The intellectual bureaucrats who run the EU would oppose this because they know what the result be.
The average people of Europe would vote in support of the death penalty they would see nothing wrong with it and vote for it. The street car driver in Dresden, the factory worker in the English Midlands, the dealer at Monte Carlo, they'd all say gee why should our tax money be wasted to keep murderers and terrorists alive. The rebuke to Europe's self proclaimed leaders would be tremendous average people don't believe in the Euro elite's values.
The Euro elite would rather stick by it's values than trust in democracy, they'd rather condemn America and its allies than trust in the good judgement of average Europeans. These fools would rather go down with the ship than try to understand its crew. They'll be screaming about European values while the average citizen is voting for some Moslem Iman who says elect me and my party and the day after we get elected you'll see a hundred criminals hanging from the scaffold outside the parliament building. If we see the Islamic Law party elected in Germany or the Netherlands on the hang the gang members ticket it'll be voted in by elderly Germans or Dutch who are sick and tired of being mugged outside their apartment buildings.
The European Union then doesn't represent Europe it represents a small class of intellectuals. Americans should ignore this structure of hypocrisy and pray it goes down in flames and gets replaced by somethign that represents Europe's people rather than the arrogant fools who populate the cafes of Brussels of Paris. We should also pray that some generation of young Americans doesn't find itself drafted into a war to defend the Euro elite from the lynch mobs of angry citizens determined to put an end to their leaders' hypocrisy.
America's leaders should call Europe on its hypocrisy, we should demand that every policy of the European Union should be put the popular vote in everu European country. Nothing would kill United Europe and its poisonous influence in our world fast enough.