Long Live The New Union? *
Wise Up Journal
25.09.2009
By Gabriel O’Hara
"The current EU is legally a group of nations/communities called states. The term EU is just used to describe the join pact. At the moment there is no such thing legally as a European Union state. The EU is actually still the European Community according to the most up-to-date treaty in force. The European Community is not a legal entity like the United States of America that has a seat on the UN Security Council. In the eighteen hundreds independent states such as Texas conferred its powers/competencies to the higher entity we now know as the USA . If you did not know the Lisbon treaty is just as significant as the constitution that established the United States of America now is the time to find out.
Article 1 TEU of the Lisbon treaty shows that a new union will be established. The word community has been removed. The communities are dissolved.
Article 1: “By this Treaty, the HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES establish among themselves a EUROPEAN UNION , hereinafter called ‘ the Union ‘ , on which the Member States confer competences ”
We’ve become familiar with using the term EU but this article shows the ordinary person what lawyers already know, that it’s just a term. This treaty establishes the European Union and it prefers to be hailed as “the Union “. The act of article would be the most significant event since Ireland and other nations became states themselves.
Article 47 TEU of the Lisbon treaty gives the new federal Union/state the authority to make commitments by itself; to have legal personality. It states, ” The Union shall have legal personality .” The European Community called the EU never had legal personality; the new Union would have a seat at the UN for the first time (Art. 27.2).
What happened in the 1800’s to Texas and Montana and the other states would be placed upon the Irish state, the Dutch state, the French state and the other 25 European states. Don’t you think the people in those states deserve to be asked if they want this massive transformation? The same nations that fought in world war two to protect nations from a single German Union. The entity that will benefit from this treaty, the EU, has not allowed the public a vote in all the other states besides Ireland . Democratic? Irish constitutional law on giving up power meant the EU could not stop a referendum in Ireland . However it has not accepted Ireland ’s democratic vote. In fact they put these state changing articles along with over 96% of the Lisbon treaty to the French and Dutch public in 2005 when it was called the EU constitution and they voted no as well. They are not being asked this time around. Since Ireland voted the wrong way it’s been asked twice. If you don’t approve of this behaviour by the EU ask yourself would you give it more power allowing it to become a real state in control of the vast majority of your affairs?
Article 21.h TEU of the Lisbon treaty uses the exact term ” global governance ” and commits the new Union to “promote an international system”. Global governance and empire building are terms used many times in the past. The public accept the fact that politicians lie to them, or should I be politically correct and say spin information to them. But when did a large percentage of the public start believing that by putting liars from Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland and other states together then making them unaccountable would change these individual’s psychology? Even though the public know politicians prefer to do favours for the banks and big business (with tax payers money) people certainly do love giving up authority to them and will go along with almost anything if these career spinners/liars use the warmest and fuzziest expression of them all, “for the greater good”. Oldest rhetoric trick in the book, reused over and over again. People can even be lead to kill in a war for peace and with the right rhetoric accept political and economic colonisation of other nations for democracy and diversity.
The prime minister who holds the current rotating six month presidency of the council has no extra authority than the other council members expect cheerleading duties. The Lisbon treaty creates a real Union President for a period of up to five years, two and a half years each term. This president would have powers similar to the United States president and would represent the new Union at the UN. A few EU state heads have recommended Tony Blair as our new president, who is despised internationally almost as much as oil and weapons investor George Bush. “I wouldn’t vote for Blair to be my president” I hear most people saying. Hasn’t the penny dropped by now? You won’t be asked. Our president will not be voted on by the people of the new Union . They are not even pretending to be democratic anymore. If it’s not democratic then what is it? In fact it could be easily be argued we are in a post-democratic era now; just ask the citizens from the European community not given a vote on their nation’s future.
Article 48 TEU shows the Lisbon treaty can be altered afterwards by the Union itself. It said; “The Treaties may be amended in accordance with an ordinary revision procedure. They may also be amended in accordance with simplified revision procedures.” The Union can vote to bring areas with vetoes to Qualified Majority Voting thus removing vetoes then bring in laws unacceptable by some. The public in the other 26 states defiantly will not be voting on amendments, they are not even allowed to vote in or out as the case may be the massive treaty itself. If 51% or more Irish people vote yes in the second referendum on the identical treaty they voted no to the EU would accept this vote. The Irish people would be are agreeing to Lisbon ’s self amending clause. The Irish would agree with the referendum question that Ireland ’s constitution will be subordinate to the Lisbon treaty which makes article 48 constitutional in Ireland . The Lisbon treaty is a blank cheque to a proven undemocratic entity............."
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Meanwhile back in Fool Britania, the cluelessness of most of its dozy inhabitants continues:...
Tories Revealed as Ignorant Fools with Flip-Flop Lisbon Treaty Policy
September 25, 2009.
"The Tories have revealed themselves to be utterly ignorant of the implications of the Lisbon Treaty with their failure to grasp that the only way out of it is a complete withdrawal from the European Union.
In response to mounting criticism of their flip-flop policy towards the Lisbon Treaty, the Conservatives have announced that they will hold a referendum “if the Lisbon Treaty is not yet in force at the time of the next general election.”
They have also said that they will recommend a no vote in such a referendum. From that, observers might think that they are opposed to the Lisbon Treaty — despite pronouncements from leading Conservatives such as Kenneth Clarke to the contrary.
However, that is not all. The Tories have also announced that “if the Treaty is in force we will be in a different situation.
“In our view, then, political integration would have gone too far; the Treaty would lack democratic legitimacy in this country and we would not let matters rest there,” the latest Tory policy now says.
Therein lies the rub. The reality is that the Conservatives do not understand what the Lisbon Treaty really means.
Once it is ratified, it cannot be “torn up” or “renegotiated” and the “worst parts opted out of” as the Conservative Party is implying.
The Lisbon Treaty contains within its clauses a consolidation of power which is the basis of the whole EU structure.
In other words, should the Conservatives want to withdraw from the Lisbon Treaty, they will be obliged to take Britain completely out of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty makes it impossible to disengage from a part of the EU structure one does not like. It is all or nothing.
Given that the Conservative Party’s European elections manifesto called for an “EU that looks out to the world, not in on itself” and that the Tory party “wants to keep the doors of the EU open to new members like the Balkan states and, in due course, Turkey”, it is obvious that that party is in favour of the European Union.
The idiocy of the Tories’ insistence that some parts can be “renegotiated” is apparent when the practical implications of that policy are considered.
To “renegotiate” the EU constitution requires all 27 member states to agree to sit around a table and start the entire process — which has taken years — all over again.
This is, quite simply, impossible.
It is a combination of a foolish delusional fantasy and an outright lie for the Conservative Party to suggest that the other 26 states are ever going to agree to such a harebrained scheme."
“The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.”
http://bnp.org.uk/2009/09/tories-revealed-as-ignorant-fools-with-flip-flop-lisbon-treaty-policy
