WHITE IRISH NIGGERS and LISBON
The No campaign has been accused of being paranoid about the Lisbon Treaty, which Ireland last year rejected, in an expensive nationwide rederendum. It is a rambling text meant to deliberately confuse ordinary working people. Almost 500 pages filled with details on just about everything.
One of the most important provisions would create a EU president, a continental foreign policy and eliminate the requirement of unanimity for the EU to act on major issues. While the consolidation still would not be as complete as say the U.S. yet, Brussels would emerge significantly strengthened well on the way to absolute and total control over working people in countries like Ireland.
The transformation of the Common Market which started as the European Coal and Steel Community, into the European Union has gone far. Not far enough, however, for the continent’s new elite ruling class, imbued with a pan-European philosophy to control the various national policies. Thus the campaign to further consolidate control through the Lisbon Treaty, over working people, over banking, over the cannon fodder for a unified military partner for US neo-colonialism.
The EU has evolved from a tool to expand markets for profit, into an ever more distant regulatory bureaucracy over working people's lives. Like Washington DC in the US, popular resistance is also growing to transferring anymore local powers to Brussels.
Despite opposition from just about everyone, a treaty evolved, christened the “Lisbon Treaty” which only required parliamentary approval in most countries. Polls show that voters in more than half of the EU’s member states would reject the agreement. They did not receive an opportunity to vote however, except in Ireland, who had already won that right through, the many sacrifices of its revolutionary dead, creating a constitution to protect citizens interests from centuries of being conscripted cannon fodder for their eternal colonial wars of imperialism.
The skids were well greased however by corporate and banking money, to slide the treaty through the various parliaments, irrespective of popular opinion in Europe. Then, on June 12 last year Irish voters, "the white niggers of europe", had the audacity to say no.
Anger and gnashing of teeth filled the corridors of power throughout the European continent, after the Treaty's death. However all the politicians started immediately, to scheme to get around the Irish vote. Ideas included allowing Ireland to opt out, were considered. A few politicians secretly suggested ramming the treaty through Ireland’s Dail, the lower house of parliament, but it was eventually agreed that the Irish vote again.
In short, democracy is fine in the EU, as long as it yields the correct outcome. This time they are bullying it through with innuendos of blackmail, fear, threats and disinformation or barefaced lies. So the Irish government in having another vote is brushing the last nationwide vote aside with disdain. The Irish public has been watching its politicians scheming in public ever since the last NO vote. So they can see that the con is firmly on.
The new European elite and fat cat Irish politicians agree more on process than substance, most obviously their interests merge on the right of the elite to make all the important decisions on exploiting working people to the maximum, though their may be disagreement on the shareout of the spoils and power.
The outrage of Mary Frances McKenna, director of the Business Alliance for Europe is an insight into the fascist nature of the new European elite.
"What type of democracy is it that says one country can dictate to 26 countries? What type of democracy is it where one country demands that others respect its vote, but refuses to respect the vote of the other 26 countries? What type of democracy is it that one country tells 26 countries how to ratify its laws? It’s not a democracy at all. What it really is, is dictatorship masquerading as the voice of the dispossessed."
If the Lisbon Treaty proponents are so concerned about respecting the democratic will of the European people, then they should embrace the proposal for an EU-wide referendum, suggested by Declan Ganley, who is an important part of the Treaty's opposition in Ireland.
The business alliance believes democracy is preventing people from deciding. McKenna believes that the 495 million Europeans, or the people of the other 26 countries, should be able to decide through a few thousand highly paid priviliged Eurocrats, spread across national parliaments, the EU bureaucracy, large corporations, institutional allies and the corporate media.
The Irish result is so threatening, because last time the people seized back control. The gap between the European elite and mass European opinion, is so great that it “prompts a more troubling question. Why, across Europe, have the political classes become so disengaged from the citizens they represent?” said the British Independent newspaper.
Irish people do not want to get dragged into a war with nuclear-armed Russia or Afghanistan and deapite strict neutrality laws, its government has arrogantly already sneaked Irish soldiers in there, because a distant and largely unaccountable elite in Europe and the US has ordered it, which has demonstrated its utter disdain for what the Irish people vote and decide that war is necessary?
Some Americans believe a more powerful EU would provide a more effective partner for the U.S. government. Perhaps, even a consolidated Europe implementing Brussels policies might just as well oppose American interests and create the windfall of an arms race for the securocrats and their friends in the armament idustries But the theory doesn’t matter its the power and money that matters.
Maybe with the brutal history of imperialism in Ireland and the sacrifices made by its republican resistance and working class citizen's armies paranoia is quite healthy after all.
“I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country,” he wrote in a letter to his wife. The apparent racial inferiority of the Irish was made more shocking for Kingsley by their superficial similarity to the English: “If they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.” By the time he described the Irish in “The Water Babies,” Kingsley had regained a measure of judgment. There they are “good-natured,” but still “untrustable” and “wild.”
In recent years, Irish writers have taken up the idea of racial difference themselves, turning it into an empowering distinction. Think of the white working-class musician in Roddy Doyle’s 1987 novel, “The Commitments,” whose identification with American soul music leads him to conclude that the “Irish are the niggers of Europe.” “Say it loud,” he tells his band, “I’m black and I’m proud.”
Art. 48 TEU: The Treaties may be amended in accordance by an ordinary revision procedure or by simplified revision procedures
Art. 1 TEU: "The Union shall replace and succeed the European Community"
Art. 47 TEU: The Union shall have legal personality.
Art 37 TEU: "The Union may conclude agreements with one or more States or international organisations in areas covered by this Chapter."
Art. 21.2.h TEU: "promote an international system" and "global governance"
26.4 TEU:" The common foreign and security policy" will use "national and Union resources."
Art. 42.3 TEU of the Lisbon Treaty: "Member States shall undertake progressively to improve their military capabilities."
Art. 42.3 TEU: "Member States shall make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy"
EU President: Art. 15 TEU: The European Council shall elect its President, by a qualified majority, for a term of two and a half years, renewable once.
Since EU membership, we estimate European vessels have taken up to €200 billion worth of fish out of our waters - Mr Ebbie Sheehan, Irish Fishermens Organisation. Ireland received €60 Billion. Conned out of €140 billion, more if processing is included.
Bureaucrat quote: Day said the treaty will give the EU the power to "speak with one voice in helping to shape THE new world order."
(Irish Times, 7 Sept 2009) - Catherine Day, Secretary-General of the European Commission.
