Some people, particularly those familiar with the  "Lisbon Treaty" are calling these the "gravest times" in European history. The EU Leadership (read handful of people) is enslaving all EU and soon to become EU countries!

A document written by Professor Anthony Coughlan (Secretary of the National Platform EU Research and Information Centre) in consultation with authorities on European and constitutional law, states:

"The Prime Ministers and Presidents have agreed among themselves on no account to have referendums on the Renamed Constitutional Treaty for that would be rejected everywhere again."

Such an act of the Presidents and Prime Ministers of the EU member countries is a blatant dictatorial act and the crudest violation of our democratic and constitutional rights.

Since the Lisbon Treaty is in fact the renamed EU Constitution, and since in France and in Netherlands the EU Constitution has been rejected by public voting, in these countries the absolute minimum of democratic obligation would have been to ask the French and Dutch people if they still reject it or if they have changed their minds in the meantime.
Mr Coughlan, goes on to say: "The issue is so GRAVE that this is probably the gravest in our lifetime. In fact all civil organizations of all EU countries should start uniting their powers to prevent the ratification of the Treaty."

The content of the Treaty, as well as the circumstances within which it has been forced onto the member states are so alarming that if this Treaty will be ratified, that will be the end of freedom for the nations of Europe. It will be much worse than marxism, because this new form of dictatorship will be called democracy, therefore we will have no justification to fight for our freedom. We will live in an orwellian world and that world will be called freedom."

What Mr. Coughlan is trying to say is, any sort of 'uprising' will be brutally crushed by a new "European Army". In fact, if a rebellion occurs in France (even a strike), the EU will send Germans and Italians to crush it, not French. You get the picture of the brutality with which any 'issues' will be dealt with.

IN 2001, the Danish said no to the "euro" and the Irish said No to Nice. 

I lived and breathed every moment of the betrayal thereafter: the hijacking of Laeken by Franco-Belgian diplomats to rush through an EU constitution before the Poles, Czechs, and Balts arrived; the charade of a Philadelphia "Convention" of parliamentarians, when the real drafting was done by Commission lawyers answering to a handful Euro-imperialist.

Gisela Stuart, Britain's sole voice on the Presidium, called the process a stitch-up from start to end, moulded by an "unaccountable political elite".

All dissent was ignored. Documents were slipped through in French late at night. "Not once did representatives question whether deeper integration is what the people of Europe want," she said.

One would have thought that the French and Dutch had driven a stake through the heart of this animal. Commission chief José Manuel Barroso said as much.

But no, Berlin has brought it back from the dead to haunt Europe. Unwise even for Germany, the great winner under the proposed voting structure. Mrs Merkel's démarche has already opened a feud with Poland, but it will not end there. Anyone wonders why is Berlin driving this EU "Constitution"?

Is it only I who See the similarities here? Berlin is doing, what they could not accomplish 1941-45. Except this way it does it 'peacefully'. Every European country will give up its rights, all countries will be ruled by Brussels, when in fact it is Berlin (Germany will have the biggest say in "EU" affairs). 

EUROPE COURT 

Beware of Europe's court, the unseen engine of EU federalism! For now it is confined to "community" matters: the single market, competition rules, and so on. It has no say on the wider fields of foreign affairs, defence, justice, and criminal matters, and little say on economic management.

The text smashes the old structure. Everything becomes fair game, unless specifically exempted. Euro-judges would, for example, decide the meaning of Article 1.15 forbidding states from foreign policy and defence actions deemed "contrary to the Union's interest". Anything can be made contrary to Union's interest.

The Falklands? Iraq? Forget it. Rulings would be final, beyond appeal. As a supreme court, the ECJ could strike down national laws much as America's Warren Court struck down US state laws in the heyday of judicial activism.

The revived text endows the EU with the machinery of a quasi-sovereign power: a full-time president and foreign minister; a justice department; and a "legal personality" allowing it to negotiate treaties in its own name.

The national veto? You can forget about that. Euro-MPs gain powers of the purse. Brussels extends its legislative primacy over security and justice, agriculture, fisheries, transport, energy, social policy, economic cohesion, and the environment. For an excellent guide, try The New Treaty published by Open Europe.

Mrs Merkel's plan to slip this through as a mini-treaty is a return to the EU's "Monet method" of advance by stealth - except that this time the French and Dutch have already voted "No".

It is far from clear that such a cynical coup can be pulled off, even if EU leaders agree to a relaunch this week. The details will have to be thrashed out over coming months, opening up a hornets' nest.

This time the Poles will have a veto, and they are in no mood to oblige an ever more muscular Germany. French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants changes that are anathema to the free-trading belt of Britain, Holland, and Scandinavia. He has to assuage all those "No" voters at home, even if he is denying them a fresh vote.

His answer? "Community preference", a tariff bloc to fend off globalisation. Utter regression. Will this bare-knuckled street fighter turn nasty if he does not get what he wants?

Did Mrs Merkel think about that? Did she think the Dutch people would quietly acquiesce as Europe shoves the treaty down their throats again?

We are told that "Europe" is grinding to a halt under the old treaties. Indeed it is. Spain, Italy, France, and Poland are openly defying existing EU law.

Will Russia and China be the only free countries? We are certainly headed that way.

Ireland is holding a referendum on the EU Constitution (Lisbon Treaty). There has been numerous reports and suspicion of EUCrats visiting Dublin attempting to bribe Irish politicians and influential businessman. Wil Ireland save Europe?  

J. T. and Ambrose E.