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High Treason on November 3rd - the handing over of a nation to a foreign power

2009-11-03T22:35:02Z

A Post to mark the death of a Nation

The signing of the Lisbon treaty today marks the end of a once proud nation. A nation that has fought for the freedom of all Europeans through two World Wars. A nation that now becomes just a vassal state of the European Union. A nation whose Prime Minister now reports to his E.U. masters.

As Dr Richard North put it so clearly on October 9th:

But, as we pointed out – nay screamed out - in our earlier posts, the most fundamental change in the ~~constitutional~~ Lisbon treaty is to absorb the European Council into the structural institutional maw of the EU, making it formally an EU institution, bound under treaty law to further the objectives of the EU and subject to EU law.

Since the membership of the European Council comprises the heads of state of governments of the member states, this means necessarily that our prime minister becomes a servant of the European Union, bound by the treaty to promote its objectives, and subject to its law. He will no longer represent us in the European Union but, as part of the supreme government of Europe, is one of 27 who will determine the policies of the EU for individual vassal states to implement.

Thus, as we have remarked many times, come the next general election, we will not be electing MPs, with the wining party then go on to form our government. We will we choosing an electoral college which will then go on to choose the person it wishes to send to Brussels, not as our representative but as one of the 27 who will take part in the supreme government of Europe.

Despite the general election, therefore, the government will not change. We only get to change one member of our government – our member of the European Council. Those MPs who go on to become ministers will, by and large, assume junior roles in the rubber-stamp machine of the Council of Ministers, and then go home to implement EU laws.

To that extent, the next election is devoid of any great significance. Barring those few areas which have not been taken over by Brussels, the new "government" will be shorn of its power. The election is primarily an electorally mandated (partial) reshuffle.

And that is why the ~~constitutional~~ Lisbon treaty is so important. That is why we cannot "leave it there". When the treaty comes into force, the all but final step of creating a supreme government of Europe is complete. All the "colleagues" want now is an elected president and the coup d'état will be complete.

The genius of it all though, it that so few will notice. The EU has learned that the way to take over independent countries is not by force of arms but to create "institutional changes" that go unrecognised for what they are. Leave intact the façades of the formerly independent institutions of the member states, and reward the politicians handsomely with the trappings of power, and the deed is done.

The end game is all but complete. Our politicians have sold the pass. They have allowed our government to be stolen. And if they don't care, we should. We are to be ruled by an alien power. It is not our government – it is theirs. We owe it neither loyalty nor obedience.

[Photo from England Expects]

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This website has now served its purpose

2009-11-02T21:51:28Z

This website has now served its purpose. The subjects of the United Kingdom are becoming increasingly aware that all meaningful government power has been handed over to the undemocratic unelected, officials of the European Union, despite assurances to the contrary and despite no public support for this transfer of sovereignty. There are many useful websites exposing the truths behind this E.U. government and the Westminster puppet regime's blind love of all things Big Government and especially the EU.

I suggest the following sites, shown below.

But please do not forget the plight of Andrew Symeou while he rots in a Greek jail, almost forgotten by most of us. He epitomises the Whitehall Government's attitude to both the individual and to the E.U. Superstate. The former is unimportant and can rot especially if he is innocent but an embarrassment. The latter must be obeyed and its rules implemented and gold plated.

Dr Richard North's valiant expose of the E.U. vs Truth at EUReferendum.blogspot

Roger Helmer MEP's attempts to expose the Great Global Warming Scam

Lord Lucas supporting the freedom of parents to choose how to educate their children

Helen Szamuely highlighting the almost daily increased restrictions on personal freedoms

Daniel Hannan MEP's expose of the pointless and dangerous aspects of the 'Toy Parliament' in Brussels

[Photo: Andrew Symeou]

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DECLARATION OF ANNEXING THE BRITISH ISLES AS PART OF THE USA

2009-10-29T20:52:15Z

Obsolete

According to Snopes.com, one Alan Baxter of Rochester, U.K., wrote a short, four-item article in November 2000, as a wry commentary on the then recently concluded (but far from decided) U.S. presidential election. The original article spawned a whole subset of articles, which snopes details. These included this repost.

DECLARATION OF ANNEXING THE BRITISH ISLES AS PART OF THE USA

To the imperialist British colonizers.

In the light of your indecision over joining a common European Currency, your dissatisfaction with the European Union, your bickering with European Governments and the fact that you already almost speak our language and refuse to speak any other European languages, you are to be annexed as a State of America. Your state code will be GB. Zip codes will be assigned to replace your old postal districts. The state capital will be Stratford-upon-Avon which is a lot prettier than London. Princess Diana will be declared a saint. You have already assimilated so much American culture that you are unlikely to notice the transition. To aid in the assimilation, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:

1. Look up "aluminum" in any good American Dictionary. Check the spelling and pronunciation guide. We discovered it, we named it, you are mispronouncing it. Learn to live with it. You are, of course welcome to your idiosyncratic and illogical place-names such as Edinburgh, if you wanted it pronounced 'Eddinburra' you have spelled it that way in the first place. You will quit using words such as "fortnight". The correct term is "a two week period". You will learn words such as "credenza", "intern" and "chad".

2. There is no such thing as "UK English". UK English is the relic of a defunct colonialist power which attempted to impose British English linguistic superiority on a nation which has a higher number of English speakers.

3. Your film-makers should learn to distinguish the American and Canadian accents. American accents are not limited to redneck drawls or New York accents. Mainland Americans have more than enough accents to cope with in our own country, so all British dramas will now bear subtitles, especially those made in impenetrable dialects such as Scottish, Scouse or Geordie. To make life easier for mainland America, all British films and TV programs must use American vocabulary and accents; Scotch characters will wear plaid, Irish characters will have shamrocks on them, Welsh characters will not be used since we don't have Welsh Americans, and English characters will wear bowler hats and pinstripes.

4. The British film industry will no longer portray all Americans as cowboys, rednecks, trailer trash or Beverly Hills billionaires. Hollywood will continue to use "Mockney" and "Posh" British accents as this makes it easier for viewers to identify which characters are British. You can have Hugh Grant back. He's a lousy actor and we don't want him either. All British films will be made in Hollywood where the weather and scenery are better. Your film industry is already unable to make a halfway-decent film which doesn't contain a American in the starring role. All American characters should be 'good guys'.

5. You will learn your new national anthem "The Star Spangled Banner". It shall be sung every morning at kindergarten, high school, university and your places of work. Your Union Flag will be hung up any damn way we wish so stop bitching about it being upside down. If there was meant to be a right way up you should have made it simpler. All Union flags will be replaced by the Stars and Stripes over a 12 month period of time.

6. You should stop playing soccer and rugby. There is no need to have two games, one of which is confusingly like Football and one of which is called football but patently isn't real football. If it doesn't require 45 pounds of padding, it isn't football. You should also stop playing cricket. Americans can't understand the rules. If you insist on playing this game which is only played by former British colonies, you will introduce a simplified scoring system, timeouts, colored strips and cheerleaders to make it more interesting. Any match which takes longer than 90 minutes will be declared a draw.

7. In films, as in real life, we decide who the bad guys are. The bad guys are those guys who don't do as we tell them. They are also the guys who attract the biggest audiences into movie theaters. You will cease using the word "cinema". They are "movie theaters". The snippets of forthcoming films are not "trailers" they are "teasers".

8. November 5th is no longer a day for fireworks. July 4th is the appropriate fireworks festival. If you want a big fireworks party on November 5th, we will help you to blow up your Houses of Parliament. You won't be needing them any longer; Disneyland London will be situated there. Hunting with packs of dogs is also banned. Instead, you will go hunting with a pick-up truck, some six-packs of beer, two coonhounds and enough guns and ammo to equip a private militia. There is also no such activity as "caravanning". It is properly called "camping". The thing boy scouts do with tents and bedrolls is called "tenting".

9. Roundabouts will be banned. What is the point of turning left in order to turn right? They are confusing to Americans and are death traps. You will start driving on the right with immediate effect. Most of the world drives on the right already. You will be allowed to turn right on a red light if safe to do so though you must check local county legislation as this is not permitted in all areas.

10. Those things which you call chips are cholesterol-soaked abominations. You will start to eat fries - light fluffy potato in crisp coating. If you want to eat British-style fried potato sticks you will need a certificate from your doctor and good medical insurance. Beer is to be served cold. The warm, flat drink you call beer is properly termed 'ale' and the FDA have determined it to be unfit for human consumption. You will also learn the difference between crackers, cookies and biscuits to avoid causing unnecessary confusion to mainland Americans.

11. All inter-personal communications between family members, even if resident in the same house, must be through a lawyer. It is compulsory to sue somebody at least once per year - be inventive. It is compulsory to have therapy three times each week and to recover false memories of your childhood which allow you to sue your parents and/or your therapist. Therapy will take the place of speaking to family members. You will be given compulsory courses on how to become dysfunctional. Name your children after interesting medical conditions.

12. You will not have guns. In the eyes of Mainland Americans you are wayward children. Children are not permitted to play with firearms unless they have a legitimate reason to do so i.e. they plan to gun down the population of a small town (self-defense) or slaughter every living creature within a mile radius (hunting).

Thank you for your co-operation. You will be assimilated.

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When Andrew Neil notices, the Warmists must begin to worry

2009-10-28T10:39:42Z

7a-dogwood3

... and with only 40 days left for saving the world!

The BBC has maintained a united Global Warming front, in all its news stories, until recently, but the cracks are beginning to show. It started with its scientific correspondent, Paul Hudson, on 9 October 2009 saying What happened to global warming?

“This headline may come as a bit of a surprise, so too might that fact that the warmest year recorded globally was not in 2008 or 2007, but in 1998. But it is true. For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures. And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise.”

Now the BBC's Andrew Neil is saying “Apocryphal, some might even say hysterical“ about Lord Stern's recent outburst. Neil makes some sound points:

Part of the problem is that, as those worried about global warming become more apocalyptic, so the supposed scientific consensus about the matter begins to fray at the edges. Then there is the problem that global temperatures have actually been falling since 1998:

And there is the simple populist resistance to rock stars and rock politicians who lecture the rest of us on the evil of low cost flying while circling the globe in their private jets.

The media also needs to become tougher in questioning what the experts tell us -- for example, there is much coverage of claims that the Arctic is melting, very little mention that Antarctica, which counts for 90% of the world's ice, has been cooling for the past three decades.

And we need to be very wary indeed of events that are clearly stunts: there was much unquestioning coverage of the recent underwater meeting of the Maldives cabinet, meant to highlight the danger to the islands of rising sea levels, caused by global warming. Hardly anybody bothered to ask the question: are the seas around the Maldives actually rising? The answer, from the world's greatest authority on the subject, the Commission on Sea Level Change, would seem to be no. It has visited the Maldives regularly in recent years. Its studies show that sea levels today are about 20 centimetres LOWER than they were in the years below 1970, that the current lower level is stable and there is no sign the islands are about to be submerged.

Is global warming just one big scam? It would begin to appear so and remember it wasn't many years ago that the scare was that we were entering a new ice age. However, don't expect this scam to disappear anywhere soon. It is far too convenient a scare for the worlds political class to create new “green” taxes and other powers that have very sinister undertones.

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Common decency demands that the European Arrest Warrant be thrown out

2009-10-26T19:34:39Z

David Birkinshaw and Matthew Neale were enjoying a stag weekend in Riga, when they found themselves accused of assaulting a policeman. There is no doubt that a scuffle of some kind took place, and a Latvian policeman claimed to have been hurt, although his injuries were described as "minor". It was never clear that the two Derby men had any part at all in the fracas.

Initially they came home to Derby, where David Birkinshaw was planning to marry his long-time fiancée, and mother of his child, Rachel Gee. But both men were sent back to Latvia under the European Arrest Warrant, where they spent ten weeks in a Stalin-era prison described by Latvia's own President as "not fit for animals". This was a time of appalling uncertainty. For a long time they had no details of charges, no assurance of a trial date, no assurance that adequate translation would be provided - and the looming possibility that they might be found guilty, and imprisoned in dreadful conditions for a lengthy period.

[Photo. Andrew Symeou]

The extract above is from the blog of Roger Helmer MEP.

Andrew Symeou, another victim of the EAW, has now spent 3 months, almost forgotten, in his Greek prison cell, with no sign of a trial date. His father said (fairtrials.net):

'It has been hell ever since he arrived in Greece. I've never seen anything like it. When I first saw him, he'd been forced to sleep on a concrete slab with a filthy, flea-infested blanket which had been left unwashed in the cell for years. 'At one point he was sharing a cell with five Albanian illegal immigrants, in 37C heat with the windows welded shut and a stinking toilet in the corner of the room. He wasn't allowed out of his cell once in four nights. 'When I looked into his eyes this week I saw sheer, blind terror. I'm not sure how many pieces my heart is in now, but what I do know is that it will take a lot for it to heal. 'This is a young man who has never been in any trouble before. He's never been in a fight or been violent to anybody, and the so-called evidence brought against him in this case would be laughed out of a British court. 'But our authorities put Andrew on a plane without any questions asked. We feel utterly helpless and it makes me so angry I can't tell you.'

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Our Prime Minister, bound in law, to serve the interests of the EU

2009-10-16T14:32:14Z

Oliver Cromwell outside the Houses of Parliament

Ann Winterton, MP, won the ballot to ask the first question in the first Prime Minister's Question Time in the new session of Parliament, on Wednesday (Oct 14^th). She asked the most important question of the day so I listened to the BBC's “Today in Parliament” to hear it, but it was not mentioned, but then, The European Union rarely is. I wonder how many people really understand the significance of the question that she asked. It seemed, from his answer, that Gordon Brown, did not.

Ann Winterton (Congleton) (Con): When the Lisbon treaty comes into force, the European Council will become a formal institution of the European Union, and the United Kingdom will be a member of that institution. Will the Prime Minister confirm that he is bound by its rules, and is thus obliged to further the objectives of the European Union in preference to those of the United Kingdom?
The Prime Minister: We joined the European Union in the 1970s, and we hold by our obligations to the European Union, but that does not prevent us from representing the national sovereignty of this country.

As Richard North reminds us, The European Council becomes an institution of the European Union when the ~~European Constitution~~ Lisbon Treaty comes into force,as it will shortly, when the last remaining EU vassal State, Czechoslovakia signs it. This is important as the European Council, as an institution of the EU (Art 9 of the Treaty of the European Union):

... shall aim to promote its values, advance its objectives, serve its interests, those of its citizens and those of the Member States, and ensure the consistency, effectiveness and continuity of its policies and actions.

You might want to read those words again. It says that our Prime Minister, as a member of the European Council “is bound by its rules, and is thus obliged to further the objectives of the European Union in preference to those of the United Kingdom”. Ann Winterton was spot on. He becomes a servant of the EU, serving ITS interests, above those of the UK, however much he cares to represent “the national sovereignty of this country”.

Wake up Britain to what is really going on, before it is too late.

Remember when you vote in May, that our Prime Minister, whoever he or she will be, will just be a servant of the EU, bound in law to “promote its values, advance its objectives [and] serve its interests”, not yours.

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The beauty of having the freedom to choose

2009-10-15T15:15:41Z

Home-ed

Yet one more basic freedom is threatened by our government but not without protest. Seymane's case¹ established the basic right that an englishman's house is his castle but, in its usual way, this government is attempting to slide a change to this basic freedom. This time for those who decide to educate their children at home. Home Educators today; another small group tomorrow, you the next day and thus this government removes our basic freedoms little cut by little cut, and hardly anyone notices.

In this case, however, the government have discovered that they have taken on a very eloquent and feisty group who are not taking this change in the law, lying down. A large group of Home Educators met outside of the Houses of Parliament on October 13^th to protest against this and other changes. The concerns are summed up in this note from one Home Educating Mum:

Why are that nutty family going to parliament today?

Lots of people have asked me this question, so I thought I would put into words how I am feeling today and what brought us to this point.
In law it is the PARENT who is responsible for the education of their child. The 1996 Education Act says:
"7. The parent of every child of compulsory school age shall cause him to receive efficient full-time education suitable-
(a) to his age, ability and aptitude, and
(b) to any special educational needs he may have,
either by regular attendance at school or otherwise."
I am currently educating my children "otherwise" than at school. Not because I dislike school, just that this way suits us and our children's particular needs. I sent my children to school when they were little and have now been home educating for 3 1/2 years. [The oldest] was 9 when he came out of school.
The new guidelines, which will very quickly become law, give the local authority the right to refuse registration as a home educator. In effect, I will have to ASK the authorities if I can educate my child and they can say "no" if they wish. Currently the reasons for saying no include drug use, mental health issues and that old catch all " or any other reason for concern". I can't begin to tell you how disturbing that sounds to me!
That means that the law will no longer favour the parent. It will favour the authorities. I will no longer be the person who decides how my child is educated. That is crucially important for all parents. Do you like your private school/ faith school/ Steiner school? What if the government decides that is not a suitable way for your child to be educated? What if your state school made a decision you didn't like?
Currently the Local Authority have a right to check that I am educating my child. They do not have right of access to my home or a right to see my children. Actually I allow them to come here on the basis that they will then leave me alone for the next year. They see my children, but that is MY decision. The new law will mean that my Social Worker (yes we have a social worker!) will be able to see my children ALONE to check that they are SAFE.
The POLICE do not have the right to see any child alone and there is no other section of society who is subject to this. This is to check if I am abusing my child. Just because no other government organisation regularly sees my child, it is considered that they are unsafe. This is because the government no longer consider that children are safe with their parents. Now, I don't doubt that a home educator is capable of abuse, but this kind of measure is akin to considering any man a potential rapist and checking their home incase. Social services are there to deal with these situations whether my child is in school or at home. This is NOT an education issue. It is a WELFARE issue and should treated as such.
If you have a preschooler, that child is not required to be seen by any government organisation. How would you feel if the government brought in measures to check that you are not abusing them? Maybe you wouldn't mind. I would mind ALOT!
Please don't consider that this is Party political. It isn't. I suspect that the Conservatives will do just the same. This is just me, a parent with four wonderful children who wants to continue to have the right to decide how they are educated. We are a Christian family, but I am there for families who educate their children at home because they have a different faith or no faith at all. It is your right to decide for your children, not the government's.
I am sorry if this sounds like a rant and well done for getting this far! A year ago I didn't even know who my MP was. I have never engaged in the parliamentary process at all. I don't expect everyone to agree with me; that is the whole point of this. We won't all agree. That is the beauty of having the freedom to choose!

1“the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose”

is a famous quote from Semayne's Case (1604), where the principle of “knock and announce” was established. It lead to the 4th amendment to the US Bill of Rights.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The outcome of Semayne's case was to show that the King had limited authority to enter his subject's “castle”, but recognised that, when a warrant was obtained, government agents could conduct searches and seizures. Following the case, a number of general warrants were issued until John Entick's house was forcibly entered by the King's agent. In Entick vs Carrington (1765) it was shown that the warrant lacked probable cause to justify the search. This case established the principle that the crown is limited in intruding on private property by Common law.

See also Douglas Carswell MP's comments at “Hands off home education!”

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BBC's Climate Change Correspondent undergoes conversion

2009-10-15T14:49:38Z

Euagrobiogas

Deep in the BBC's web pages is a little report that says “What happened to global warming?” By Paul Hudson, Climate correspondent, BBC News, Friday, 9 October 2009 16:22 UK. He reports:

What is really interesting at the moment is what is happening to our oceans. They are the Earth's great heat stores. According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO).

For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years.

So could global temperatures follow? The global cooling from 1945 to 1977 coincided with one of these cold Pacific cycles. Professor Easterbrook says: "The PDO cool mode has replaced the warm mode in the Pacific Ocean, virtually assuring us of about 30 years of global cooling." So what does it all mean? Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along.

They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature.

But those scientists who are equally passionate about man's influence on global warming argue that their science is solid.

As The Telegraph's Damian Thompson commented, when covering this post;

“The point of this post is to draw attention to an *extraordinary* change in the BBC’s position, which it attempted to slip out under the radar. I would guess that there is absolute chaos behind the scenes at the Beeb over this one – years of massive investment and propaganda have been undermined by Paul Hudson’s fair-minded report. And the BBC won’t be able to play this one down now, because Hudson is not just an obscure science reporter but the climate change correspondent.”

Maybe we can have a grown up debate about ~~Global Warming~~ Climate Change, at long last, without the lies and falsehoods being reported as if they were facts, as the costs of government initiatives are going to be enormous in lives as well as money.

Hat tip Douglas Carswell MP

(Cartoon from Saxon Times)

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Climate Change.

2009-10-13T15:10:47Z

Bedtime Story

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Forget corruption, the real issue is Sovereignty

2009-09-23T16:01:35Z

Lord Pearson reminds us that there are far more important issues than those of expenses scandals, in the letter page of The Daily Torygraph - letters Sept 19th.

Royal Mail Box from freephoto.com

SIR – Your explanation of "How EU law reaches us" (September 17) doesn't reveal the whole frightening process. This is that the unelected Commission enjoys the monopoly to propose all EU law in secret. Their proposals are then negotiated, again in secret, by bureaucrats from nation states, in the Committee of Permanent Representatives. When the horse-trading is complete, the proposed laws go to the Council of Ministers for decision, still in secret, where the UK has 8 per cent of the vote.
The EU Parliament cannot propose legislation, but can amend and even block some of it. It doesn't do so, of course, because it is loath to delay or derail the gravy train.
British Governments have promised for many years that they won't agree to any new law in the Council which is still being "scrutinised" (that's all we can do) in the select committee of either House of Parliament. But they have broken that promise 435 times in the last six years.
Our Parliament is powerless to change any of the laws, which are then enforced by the Commission and the Luxembourg Court, against which there is no appeal. And they call this "the democratic deficit".
Lord Pearson of Rannoch
London SW1

Hat tip - the ever excellent Your Freedom and Ours

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