grimmeissen
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Posted: 6/2/2008 8:14:24 AM
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On December 13, 2007 in Portugal, the European Council signed a document that will finalize over 50 years of effort to remove the sovereignty of the individual European states. The document won't be voted on by the European citizens, and is not being heavily promoted on national television stations. It will make official all of the European Union councils that have already been operating. The central bank, the high courts, and the EU parliament will now have full power over all member states to regulate commerce, conduct foreign relations, and levy taxes.
The document is being called the Treaty of Lisbon (often shortened to the Reform Treaty). By giving it this name, the European Parliament has used the effective political tactic of naming a bill something harmless when in fact it is devastating to the democratic process. The document should have been called "The Agreement to Hand Sovereignty Over to an Unelected Government Body with Globalistic Intentions."
The Reform Treaty has been signed and will become law after the 27 member states ratify it. Each state will effectively be ratifying a new constitution for a united European government, but it will be masked in the name of a treaty. Only Ireland, of all the member states, is allowing its citizens to vote via referendum on whether they wish to join such a union. Every other country is leaving the decision to its corrupt politicians in each parliament--15 of which have already ratified.
On a site where the writings usually relate to American politics and economics, one might wonder why any attention is being given to the European Union and its socialistic agenda. The reason why such attention is being paid is because similar actions to the founding of the EU are already occurring in the United States. Several free trade (actually managed trade) agreements have been signed between Mexico, Canada, and the United States which give powers in commerce to bodies outside of the US Congress. President Bush has already signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership between the three nations, which will actually create bureaucratic agencies above the individual governments to perform tasks such as the planned North American Superhighway. The SPP--like nearly all of the agreements that kicked off the construction of the European Union--was not voted upon by the US citizens or even Congress.
It makes me wonder how long it will be until our Congress is looking face to face at the North American "Reform Treaty."
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grimmeissen
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Posted: 6/2/2008 8:15:17 AM
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This video from German Parliament (with subtitles), shows Henry Nitzsche making an argument against the Reform Treaty. He mentions that the treaty is not being voted on by the people and discusses many of the actions that will completely remove the sovereignty of the German state. This passionate speech was followed up with a vote where Nitzsche was one of only 58 out of 574 to reject the treaty.
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SeekerDarksteel
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Posted: 6/2/2008 10:16:47 AM
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" This video from German Parliament (with subtitles), shows Henry Nitzsche making an argument against the Reform Treaty."
Later, Nitzsche could be heard stating "Democracy is dead."
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mccracken
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Posted: 7/14/2008 5:58:14 PM
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Leave it to Europe to create an elaborate all encompassing network of treaties.
If I remember correctly, that has worked out really well for them in the past. Now all they need is a tiny spark, and their powder keg will go off again.
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mccracken
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Posted: 7/16/2008 7:07:18 PM
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Ha ha, Ireland--the only country allowed to make their own decision--voted the sucker down.
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grimmeissen
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Posted: 7/18/2008 11:12:42 AM
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I saw that as well and forgot to mention it here. Obviously, if the people have a choice they will not go along with this BS. Thier sovereignty is being destroyed by the movement towards a collectivist European Union.
Congradulations to Ireland for giving the people a voice, rather than just taking the country down a path that its citizens don't want to go without even listening to them. Sadly, I doubt the United States would take such a "treaty" to a vote. At this point it would probably take a simple Executive Order.
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mccracken
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Posted: 7/18/2008 8:16:15 PM
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Executive orders spit in the face of the Constitution--so do Supreme Court Rulings that institute laws--but then again so do laws passed by Congress that take tax dollars and use them where they shouldn't--it seems like all three prongs of the government have gotten stronger and the public's strength has waned.
I imagine any thee of those branches of government could easily enter us into an agreement like Europe's.
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