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Current mood:  betrayed Category: News and Politics
WARNING : May Contain Politics.
I don't particularly enjoy writing about politics. It often ends up alienating, confusing and annoying people who have come here to catch up and enjoy some music (or verbally abuse me). So please forgive me for what I feel I MUST write now.
For those of you outside the EU, there's a referendum on the EU constitution coming up shortly. For those of you in the EU, you know this already. Ireland, France and Holland have already rejected this very same treaty - but they ... well... they gave the wrong answer according to Brussels, but it's okay, because they're not being asked this time around. Ireland is now the ONLY country in the EU to get to vote on this, for the simple reason that we have enshrined in our Irish constitution the requirement to hold a referendum on any changes to our constitution. If we vote yes to this treaty, we will lose that power (and it's a considerable democratic power).
I don't wish to align myself with either of the parties or organisations on either side of the (entirely non-existant) debate. Both camps have proven themselves to be completely inept at arguing their case, and have succeeded in being condescending to even the most stupid citizens. We have chimpanzees on some campaign posters for god's sake! How is that an argument for or against? Unfortunately, there are only two answers possible for this referendum, so we must choose one... and bear in mind that just because you don't agree with someone else's reasons for voting NO, doesn't mean that it's the wrong decision.
Those of you who do wish to make up their own minds and read the treaty before making a decision, you can do so here : http://bookshop.europa.eu/uri?target=EUB:NOTICE:FXAC07306:EN:HTML(Check out article 2 for a list of all the decisions our own government will no longer be able to take by themselves... that means Brussels will be making the decisions... which means your local TDs will have even less to worry about... and you'll have even less chance of affecting any change)
If not, and I don't blame you (for reasons which will become apparant if you read on) then please, please, please consider the following direct quotes from the people who brought you this treaty - some of the scariest people Europe has produced, and we have produced more than our fair share of them....
"The aim of the constitutional treaty was to be more readable; the aim of this treaty is to be unreadable."
- Belgian Foreign Minister
"Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly.... All the earlier proposals will be in the new text but will be hidden and disguised in some way"
- Valery Giscard d'Estaing, original author of the rejected Nice Treaty... now the Lisbon Treaty.
"Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation."
"The peoples of Europe will assuredly be too stupid to recognise what is best for them. Thus we, the enlightened few, will have to trick them into signing away their democracy, their nation and finally their freedom, so that we can create the Federal Republic of Europe, centrally governed by our appointees."
- Jean Monnet, founder of the EU
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