There's no such thing as throwing your voice. The art of ventriloquism is much like magic. It is the ability to create an illusion through distraction and deception.

To create the illusion of throwing your voice a ventriloquist must be able to do two things: He must speak in another voice without moving his lips. And, he must direct the attention of his audience away from himself to the place where he wants the voice to appear to come from.

When I was growing up there was no one who could create this illusion better than Paul Winchell. His goofy sidekick was Jerry Mahony. Mahony, of course, was just a dummy. But when Winchell began to talk without moving his lips, and at the same time that dummy began to open and close its mouth, you would believe that the sound was coming from the dummy. But, it wasn't. It was still coming from Winchell. It just looked like it was coming from the dummy. How do I know? Because I read Paul Winchell’s book about how to become a ventriloquist.

Sometimes I think to be a successful politician in a European Union nation today you have to be a good ventriloquist. You have to be able to tell the citizens of your country that you have decided that they have to surrender some of their sovereign rights as a nation to a group of EU bureaucrats in Brussels, but you have to make it look like someone else is talking. 

Perhaps the best example of a European politician who has this magical ability is British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair is soon expected to sign Britain on to the new EU-wide arrest warrant agreement. The 15 head’s-of-state have decided that this bill is necessary in the EU’s effort to help America fight terrorism. 

This means, for the first time in centuries, British citizens could actually be subject to the laws of foreign governments. Not only could they be arrested for braking these foreign laws, but also after being arrested, they would be subject to the legal system of the country in which law they broke. 

In other words, all the legal rights the British people have fought hard and long for to protect themselves from powerful governments over the last hundreds of years could go right down the drain with the stroke of Blair’s pen. 

Yet, Tony Blair is still popular in Britain – very popular. Why? I believe it’s because he’s a good ventriloquist. While he is telling the British people that he is gradually signing away their sovereignty as a nation, he’s able to make it look like someone else is talking. 

It’s not his fault, he says. It’s the fault of those EU bureaucrats in Brussels. Since they are creating a new super Europe with, or without Britain, the only choice he has is to become a part of it and try to shape it in a way that will be good for Britain. 

The problem with his reasoning is that Tony Blair is one of the 15 heads of state in the European Council who tells those bureaucrats in Brussels what to do. 

Blair’s next move is anticipated to be the signing away of the British Pound and the entering of Britain into Euroland. Currently only 12 of the 15 EU nations use the new single European currency called the Euro. Soon Britain will be using the Euro also. 

When asked how he could sign away Britain’s beloved Pound and subject the British economy to Brussels, Blair once again says that, since they are creating Euroland anyway, he has no choice but to try and shape it in a way that will be good for Britain. 

And, amazingly, he can say it without moving his lips.