Lisbon revisited
You may have missed it, but the Czech Senate voted this week to approve the EU Lisbon treaty. (Remember the Lisbon Treaty? It's the one that replaced the proposed EU constitution, the one to which the French and the Dutch said No.)
That leaves Ireland as the only one of the 27 member states still holding out. (Well, to be strictly accurate, both the Czech Republic and Poland still need presidential signatures for ratification, and those won't be forthcoming, it seems, until after the Irish have said Yes.)
So Ireland looks set for a Lisbon referendum. Again. They tried last year, but Irish voters said No thanks. And if you're wondering which bit of the answer No the EU doesn't understand, here's what the European commission president Jose Manuel Barroso told me: "When we believe something, we should not give up. Of course we always have to respect democratic decisions, but I don't change my opinion just because there is a majority opinion that is different from mine."
You can hear him by clicking below.
(broadcast on The World Tonight, BBC Radio 4, 6 May 2009)
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I Looked up the word "liar" in the dictionary. No words, just a photograph of Manuel Barroso along with the rest of the EU bureaucracy and Parliament.
"When we believe something, we should not give up."
One way or another, the EU will find a method to shove Lisbon down Ireland's throat whether the Irish like it or not, just the way it was shoved down the throats of the other member states such as Britain where King Gorgon The First signed it into law by fiat without so much as a vote from his rubber stamp Parliament. France put the Constitution to a public vote and it lost. France's people will never be given the opportunity by its government to make such an important mistake again. Public votes have become a minor technical difficulty delaying progress for those who are determined to build a European superstate to challenge the US at any cost, the pretense of democracy a mere nuissance. "When we believe something, we should not give up" (and not allow the voice of the people to get in the way.)
Clearly one thing Mr. Baroso does not believe in is keeping a promise made to those joining the EUSSR that no actions would be taken without unanimous consent. What they neglected to say was that such consent would be extracted through any and all coercion if necessary. Europe's basic mentality as a heavy handed tyrannically run centrally planned secretive and corrupt dictatorship has not changed one iota when you get past the veneer of the EU in thousands of years. This is one of the hallmark differences it has with the United States of America and one reason why its inferior irrational construct is sure to collapse under its own dead weight. It makes an excellent adversary, one that is showing its weaknesses every day in every way.
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Since the EU dont listen to clear messages from outside, the Irish NO campaign under Declan Ganley have decided they need to hear it from within. So he has set up a Pan European party - LIBERTAS - which will fight the EU elections in all 27 countries on June 4th. When MEPs from all over Europe form perhaps the largest single party in the new EU parliament, perhaps the deaf, undemocratic, unaswerable, untransparent and spendthrift EU might understand just what NO means
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Since we are discussing united European actions, please allow me to ask some question?
Where are the daily EU denunciations of the civilian slaughters in Sri Lanka?
Where are the EU fundraising and recovery pledges by the billions?
Where are the daily BBC 'Have Your Say' topics about this?
I ask these only to contrast these EU and BBC behaviors when the poor Hamas soldiers were being assaulted in Gaza for their crimes of shooting rockets into israel.
In fact, these actions (or lack of actions) are a clear indication of where the EU and the BBC stands on Sri Lanka: 'Not enough Jews to blame'.
I, of course, include you Robin, who has managed to produce no bleeding heart stories of victims of 'fascist Sri lankan gov't disproportionate violence'.
Maybe the Tamils should declare themselves 'Honorary Palestinians? That should fire up the BBC propaganda engines.
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SteveGNyc
If you are expecting objective complete factual reporting of the news and fair and balanced analysis clearly separated from the report itself, you've come to the wrong place when you've entered the world of BBC. BBC's management and staff are rabidly anti-American and anti-Israeli. Perhaps its from their perception that America has an empire as they claimed in their series "America Age of Empire" and they no longer do. They are as jealous of America as the French are. Their Continental Euro-centric political dogma which infects all of their reports and opinions includes basic anti-Semitism just as much of the rest of Europe experiences it only they would call it another name and attach it to the nation of Israel just as other anti-Semites now do. This is doubtless the conclusion of the Balen report they have spent considerable license fee-payer money in a legal battle to prevent public disclosure of. But we don't need an official report to tell us what we can't possibly mistake right in front of us so blatantly and frequently.
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