The shame of the Lisbon Treaty One Year Onwards

The destruction of the wealth of the people of the 27 former nations which comprise the EU continues apace one year on from the entering into force of the hated Lisbon Treaty. Democracy has gone, corruption continues unabated and deceit and double-dealing remain the order of the day in the still inaudited EU today with another layer of bloated bureaucrats in the vastly expensive and redundant EEAS.

I can best just repeat the posting from this blog of one year ago, which today rings truer than ever:

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Monday, November 30, 2009

A new era of evil opens tomorrow across Europe.

Tomorrow the non-democratic, almost pan-European Constitution, which ends government by parliamentary consent for 27 once Sovereign and independent nations, enters into force. Every once in a while, all that is worst in mankind seems to gain control within Europe, now , once again, we must face such a moment!

The efforts of this writer, begun in the early nineteen-nineties, when the true direction of this monstrous conspiracy first became clear to him, have all failed.

A new Dark Age opens in Europe from tomorrow. If any glimmer of hope for rescue becomes discernible, I will blog about it here again. Meantime, "Good Luck" to all my readers, especially those now under the control of the European Union!

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Eamon, things are not all right in Dublin!

Last night I reminded older readers of a bit of Python, read here, unhappily this morning as long expected there is absolutely no chance of a Constitutional settlement for Ireland, let me explain:

1. The mainly Anglo Irish Bank debts just announced are presently estimated at 34 billion euros, read here.
2. The Irish Government previously provided an open ended guarantee to meet these debts to save the assets of mostly foreign debt holders. Presumably for reasons of EU solidarity (hahahahahahahahehehehehe!!!!!).
3. The Irish Constitution is over-ridden by the Lisbon Treaty, formerly the EU Reform Treaty and before that the EU Constitutional Treaty. Like every other EU member Ireland now has no constitution of its own.
4. The Lisbon Treaty has no rescue mechanism or emergency support programme for member states in such difficulties as it is a non-transfer union as defined under the Maastricht Treaty under the terms of the Growth and Stability pact that was blown out of the water by France and Germany in 2003. (One post of many on Ironies on this topic is linked here scroll to 12th September 2003).
5. Ireland has thus bankrupted itself to aid the larger banks of the bigger member states and can now do nothing to either pay the debts or like Iceland, restore its competitiveness through devaluation.

A new Constitution for the Irish Nation outside the EU and withdrawal from the Euro seems its best hope, unless we see an extraordinary display of EU solidarity from Germany in the very near future which would finally seal the fate of the EU once and for all with the German electorate!

A new era of evil opens tomorrow across Europe.

Tomorrow the non-democratic, almost pan-European Constitution, which ends government by parliamentary consent for 27 once Sovereign and independent nations, enters into force. Every once in a while, all that is worst in mankind seems to gain control within Europe, now , once again, we must face such a moment!

The efforts of this writer, begun in the early nineteen-nineties, when the true direction of this monstrous conspiracy first became clear to him, have all failed.

A new Dark Age opens in Europe from tomorrow. If any glimmer of hope for rescue becomes discernible, I will blog about it here again. Meantime, "Good Luck" to all my readers, especially those now under the control of the European Union!

Reflections post -Armistice Day 2009

The Daily Mail did a well illustrated report, linked here, on the service in Westminster Abbey yesterday, well illustrated with pictures of our leaders, who having sold out their country, had the gall to attend, my comment for the Mail's column was the following:

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A fitting day of remembrance on the proper day, too often not the case in the recent past!

We must be grateful that the three surviving Great War veterans, present at these ceremonies last year, at least were spared surviving to see the Lisbon Treaty come into force on the first day of next month.

How would these men have felt to witness everything of value and worth, for which their generation made such incredible sacrifices, trashed in such a manner. Not only the democracy for which their womenfolk were then still striving, but the very independence of their then Great Nation - now thrown away for nothing.

Worse still, to have witnessed the culprits, their once rulers, on this Armistice Day, gathered together in mocking feigned respect, knowing full well that it was they who had jointly plotted and conspired with other leaders across Europe to impose this new Popperian tyranny.

- Martin Cole, 11/11/2009 20:41

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Picking EU leaders without democracy

The Times this morning has prepared an interesting graphic illustrating the totally sick state of EU politics, operating in a democracy free zone, just as our elected national leaders planned - may none of the latter ever again achieve an elected office!

Simply click here to view but first have an air sick bag or other vomit container close-by!

The Lisbon objections before the Czech Court

These interesting and powerful objections were obtained from here and are reproduced below:

The 17 Senators led by Mr Jiří Oberfalzer (conservative ODS) have submitted their new complaint against the Treaty of Lisbon to the Czech Constitutional Court in Brno. The chairman of the Constitutional Court immediately informed President Klaus that he is not allowed to sign the treaty until the court releases the verdict (which may be as early as in 4-6 weeks).

On those 44 pages, they explain that they consider the document unconstitutional because of many reasons. Most of the reasons should be understandable in all the EU countries; a few of them may be specific to the Czech legal system.

First, there is a problem with the format. The Treaty of Lisbon is recycling the legal material from the previous treaties. It is therefore extremely incomprehensible and it doesn't provide an easy survey. Moreover, although it substantially changes 90 percent of the rules listed in the previous treaty and, consequently, the arrangement of the EU, it is formally an amendment. According to the Senators, such a format is incompatible with the rule of law. It's because the Constitutional Court has previously banned the so-called "glued amendments" ("přílepky"). The Lisbon format is even worse than a glued addition, they argue.

Second, the Treaty of Lisbon is not politically neutral because among the goals of the EU, it enumerates many policies that belong to the political programs of some political parties rather than the basic laws of the EU. This fact makes it incompatible with the democratic rule of law because the treaty restricts the questions whose fate should be decided by the elections.

Third, the Senators object that it is expected that the treaty may be modified a posteriori, which is confirmed even by the currently available text. It follows that the leaders were not signing a treaty but a mere half-finished product that is being modified as time goes by. This aspect contradicts the rule of law, too.

Fourth, the paragraph of the treaty claiming that the EU is based on parliamentary democracy is unconstitutional, too. According to the Senators, the EU must be based on equal rights of the member states instead. The European Parliament is just an addition to the existing system of institutions in the EU countries. If it were the fundamental pillar, the EU would be a country.

Fifth, the Treaty of Lisbon is discriminatory because it declares that the members of the commission should be chosen according to their "Europeism". This regulation is discriminatory because it prevents the people who don't fall for the cult of conformity to run for these offices.

Sixth, the treaty restricts the co-operation between certain members of the Union (that goes beyond the co-operation within the EU) by the required agreement of the EU which is a typical feature of a federation.

Seventh, the common defense required by the treaty contradicts the sovereignty of the member states. The Czech Republic is not constitutionally allowed to transfer vital competences that are needed for the existence and preservation of the country to other subjects. The defense is the best example. Moreover, the common defense would be incompatible with the existence of NATO. Additional competences that have to remain in Czechia are listed at the bottom.

Eighth, the treaty limits the possibility to leave the Union. It's not true that it's the treaty that introduces such a possibility because the possibility already exists today, Senators argue. On the contrary, the new treaty says that quitting requires the agreement within the EU and a two-year probation period. In practice, it means that the EU is allowed to demand conditions that can't be fulfilled.

Nineth, the Senators are concerned with the issue of immigration. They see a disagreement between the Czech constitution and a regulation in the treaty saying that "when one or several member states get into an emergency situation because of a sudden inflow of citizens from a third country, the Council has the right to adopt special temporary policies that help the affected countries, following a proposal by the Commission".

The Treaty of Lisbon also says that the "Union is pursuing a shared immigration policy whose goal is to effectively direct immigration flows at all stages". The right to decide about the composition of the population belongs among the basic rights of every country. The Czech Republic therefore doesn't have the right to transfer the rights to control the migration flows through or to its territory to another subject.

Tenth, the Senators question the guarantees for Ireland. They were adopted in the contradiction with our constitution, and are therefore invalid. Much like the Treaty of Lisbon itself, they should have been ratified as a constitutional law, with the required extended majorities, because it is a genuine amendment of the Treaty of Lisbon i.e. another international treaty. Without such a special ratification, the guarantees are just a non-binding pledge.

For the second time, the Senators also complain about the suspension of member's rights for the EU countries. In the first complaint, this principle was argued to contradict the sovereignty principle. In this second complaint, the Senators also object to the conditions leading to the suspension which are vaguely defined which means that this rule may be abused.

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According to the Senators, especially the following competences, among others, cannot be transfered:

• Decisions about the revenue and spending
• Decisions about the defence of the Czech Republic
• Decisions what a crime and guilt is and what the punishment should be
• Decisions about the ways to enforce the law, order, and safety in the Czech Republic
• Decisions about events with an extraordinary impact on the social and cultural life of the Czech societ

Many thanks to Anne Palmer for sending this on and to Motls Blogspot.

The Horrors of EU Partnership

A headline to an article in this morning's The Times, linked here, is as follows:

French troops were killed after Italy hushed up ‘bribes’ to Taleban

When will we wake up to the reality of the incompatibility and consequent wonder and importance of the many different cultures across Europe?

Conflict of Interest

On the first meeting of Parliament for Prime Minister's Question Time since mid-July, after reading the names of the 37 British servicemen killed in Afghanistan while MPs had been on their holidays (many cavorting around the world, for no purpose, and at tax-payers expense) this hugely important question was put to the Prime Minister, reproduced here, together with the reply exactly as reported in Hansard:

Ann Winterton: All Members will wish to associate themselves with the Prime Minister’s expression of sympathy for the families and friends of those who have fallen in Afghanistan since the House last met for Prime Minister’s questions.

When the Lisbon treaty comes into force, the Council of the European Union will become a formal institution of the European Union, and the United Kingdom will be a member of that institution. Will the Prime Minister confirm that he is bound by its rules, and is thus obliged to further the objectives of the European Union in preference to those of the United Kingdom?

The Prime Minister: I thank the hon. Lady for her tribute to those brave men who died in Afghanistan, and I hope that the message will go out today that all political parties—every Member of this House—want to send their sympathy and condolences to every family concerned.

We joined the European Union in the 1970s, and we hold by our obligations to the European Union, but that does not prevent us from representing the national sovereignty of this country.

Every leader of a former sovereign and democratic country represented on the Council of the European Union should be asked this question, at every opportunity, if the Lisbon Treaty ever becomes fully ratified. Every citizen of the EU must be made aware that their nationally elected leader is bound by the rules of the Council of the European Union and thus obliged to further the objectives of the European Union in preference to those of the nation state which they were elected to lead.

In the case of the UK, the Prime Minister first returning from a Council of Europe meeting following ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, should be arrested on the airport runway immediately upon his return and thereafter taken straight to the Tower of London for trial for high treason.

Czechs threatened with losing EU Comissioner

The latest bullying is reported in the EU federalist Euractiv, linked here.

EU Bullying by Barroso

Bear in mind when watching this that the Czech Prime Minister, standing to the side of EU Commission Chief Barroso, is a former civil servant who has never received a vote in his life, from the general European public. President of the Commission Barroso is of course, only recently, re-appointed to his own job by his fellow EU troughers.

Think of the money Europeans will save for better use in fighting the recession and the credit crunch were Lisbon to remain unratified, the EU to collapse and all those troughing EU dependent nonentities find themselves without pay or perks!

Sudeten German property claims the basis for latest Lisbon hurdle

We made several posts last evening on the footnote required by Czech President Vaclav Klaus in the latest moves to thwart enactment of the Lisbon Treaty which would destroy the democracy and independence of 27 former European nation states.

I have waited most of the day for a reasoned report on what exactly is involved. I have selected this report from the Wall Street Journal Blogs as a good summary and brief explanation of the situation.

The silence from David Cameron, on this development, especially following his more assertive stance on the EU in his speech of yesterday, is becoming increasingly mysterious!

The Conservative Party must decide where they stand on the EU!

It is unbelievable that they have been thrown this lifeline by President Klaus and appear to pass by and continue to flounder as if they prefer drowning to facing reality.

Read my blog beneath this to see what Cameron said on the EU only yesterday!

Where is the support today for President Klaus? Will we have to wait again for the right words from Boris?

Lisbon footnote demanded by Klaus to take months after Constitutional Court ruling!

The Times report on our earlier posting of the bombshell dropped by President Klaus on the conspiratorial rulers of the EU indicates it could well deliver the promised referendum to Britain!

Read here, the following being a quote:

A fresh obstacle to the Lisbon Treaty has been raised by Czech President Vaclav Klaus which could delay it long enough to allow David Cameron to carry out his promise of a British referendum.

The notoriously unpredictable Czech president astonished EU leaders by demanding extra guarantees on the Charter of Fundamental Rights - the controversial declaration being incorporated into European Union (EU) law by the treaty and from which Britain has an opt-out.

President Klaus, who regularly compares the EU to the Soviet Union, refused to clarify his demand for a “footnote” to the treaty on the Charter, but legal experts warned it could take months of negotiation with the other 26 member states.

The European Project is now the ENEMY

A good article from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, this evening, linked here and concluding as follows:

The methods being used to force this treaty through after electorates have already spoken cross a line that may not be crossed. The European Project has become the enemy.

This is the treaty that Gordon Brown was too ashamed to sign in public with fellow EU leaders in Lisbon. Yet sign he did.

The question for David Cameron is whether he will continue this practice, or take a stand before any more pages are ripped out of our own Magna Carta. Go on, David, sock the usurpers between the eyes.

Why the EU is doomed in spite of the 2nd Irish vote!!!

A brilliant post from Natalie Solent last evening on Samizdata which is linked here so you may read the comments AND quoted in full for extra emphasis:

After this, anyone who likes the EU is a weirdo

Natalie Solent (Essex) European Union

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"She's a communist. A real one."

Some thirty years ago I, then a bookish sixth former, attended a week long "Introduction to Philosophy" course at London University. One of the tutors was a commie. She was quite pleasant, introduced us to philosophy more than adequately, but truly, really was an actual no-kidding self-declared communist. First I had ever met.

I and some of the other kids from various different schools on this course found this even more interesting than Logical Positivism and we all tried to get into debate with her about it. Got nowhere, of course. A woman who had been defending the party line in all its various manifestations for decades was more than capable of disposing of the arguments of a bunch of seventeen year olds.

All of us but one - there was one boy who did, just about, make an impression. The tutor had some particular link with East Germany and this boy simply repeated, politely but insistently, several very basic statements about that state. "Nobody is allowed to leave." "They have a wall and and barbed wire to stop people escaping." "If you try to escape they shoot you." And when he said this he sounded honestly astonished that anyone could be - could allow themselves to have become - the sort of person who would sincerely defend East German communism. It was not just wrong but weird. I mean, what? The wall, the shooting people, and she says she likes that?

I am moved to write about a communist I met thirty years ago because the second referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty will be held tomorrow. The European Union is not remotely as bad as Communism. But there are some very basic things wrong with it and this referendum has brought them out. The European Union will not accept a vote against it. It will not allow a vote at all, if it can get away with it. If people do vote against something the EU wants it makes them vote again and again, knowing that the donors and volunteers for the opposing side will be exhausted eventually, as will the voters, whereas its side has bottomless coffers and power to keep on pushing till it gets its way. The European Union lies to get what it wants. The Lisbon treaty is the rejected Constitution under another name. The Lisbon Treaty is deliberately written in confusing language so as to hide what it means. That is what con-men do. The Lisbon Treaty is a con.

I think that anyone who has allowed themselves to become the sort of person who would sincerely defend these lies and abuses of democracy should be regarded as a weirdo. Amazing, and not in a good way. Yeah, sure, people might be bribed or bullied or bored into doing what the EU wants - all these I can understand, if not admire. But the "neverendums", the Constitution written like the small print of a dodgy timeshare agreement - you say you like that? I mean, what?

Of course my view as to how such people should be regarded counts about as much as a "no" vote three referenda ago. What is more to the point is that I am almost sure that in Britain at least, my "should" has become, or is in the process of becoming, an "is". At some point during the Lisbon treaty saga normal people in Britain became embarrassed to actively like the EU. This does not mean that they cannot be bullied or bribed or bored into going along with it, as the Irish will be tomorrow, if the polls are to be believed. But when did you last meet a person who passionately and proudly supported the EU? And what were they, some sort of weirdo?

Irish should recall Blair's apparent blood lust!

Many British seem to have amnesia on the subject of Blair's love of bombing.

The first evidence was Operation Desert Fox which took place in the year following his first election, that'right way back in 1998, recall that event from here, from which comes these quotes:

At the end of Operation Desert Fox, what has the Anglo-American combine gained? A total of 62 Republican guards killed and a few hundred wounded? The damage to civilian life and property has been extensive. At least this is the testimony of Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz. Even if we await the assessments of independent sources, it is unlikely that these will approximate to the Anglo-American exaggerations.

Americans can put it down to President Clinton's impeachment difficulties, but what was the British reason for so shrill and excited a participation in the operations? It wouldbe a sobering experience for Prime Minister Tony Blair to replay the video clips of the simulated vigour of those battle-damage reports outside 10 Downing Street........

When the BBC interviewed the ``brave'' British Tornado pilots in Kuwait after their successful sorties in Iraq, the pilots had their backs to the camera, scared of being identified by the people. Why this fear if they were operating on behalf of the people of Kuwait where the RAF Tornado squadron sparked?

Remember Blair's deviation to Kuwait City to sit at the controls of one of the Tornado Bombers that had taken part in the raid, details of the reports in the press seem to have disappeared.

Recall the high altitude bombing of Serbia, unapproved by the UN, who was the greatest cheerleader for these raids and which western politician the most vocal in demanding the continuation and intensification of these raids -none other than the man The Times today tells us, read here, will soon be the President of the hundreds of millions of mostly decent and peaceful EU citizens - Tony Blair. All the rest is more recent and less forgotten history!

What value Irish neutrality in an EU with such a man at its head?

VOTE NO!

Cameron again refuses a Referendum

My comment to a Times report that David Cameron, still refuses to address the Lisbon Treaty issue, linked here, was as follows:

If the Irish change their previous vote and now give Lisbon a 'Yes' it will be because they have been threatened.

If all the 'hurdles' Cameron lists are overcome, it is because all the politicians in the EU countries are scared of the monstrous EU that they have created.

Rightly so, consider the actions taken by that organisation to force their self-amendable Constitution upon the 27 former sovereign states.

If the Conservatives had the courage to halt this destruction of European democracy, they and Nick Clegg's Libdems, could have joined forces to do so in the House of Lords.

Cameron clearly intends to stand aside and allow totalitarianism to return to Europe in order to gain power in one of its small subjugated outposts. Hoping no doubt, like the rest of those politicians who have sold out their citizens, to eventually advance further on the juggernaut himself with all the tax-free perks and power that such treachery still returns.

President Klaus will not sign Lisbon Treaty at present

President Klaus will not sign the Lisbon Treaty at present, according to this report, furthermore a fresh challenge to its constitutionality is planned in the Czech courts. Klaus is reported as saying, following the Czech Senates approval of the Treaty by just over the required two third majority:

".... he would not sign the treaty for now due to its rejection by Irish voters last year and an expected court challenge in the Czech Republic.

"The Lisbon Treaty is dead for this moment. It is dead because it was rejected in a referendum in one member state. Therefore, a decision on ratification of this treaty is not on the agenda at this point," Klaus told reporters."

As I mentioned on this blog yesterday, following the logic of President Klaus, he could withhold his signature until after a British General election given the opposition's promise of a referendum in Britain in the event of continuing non-ratification of the Treaty.