By Greg O Brien – WiseUp Journal.
We have come to accept that the people
we elect have privileges that the ordinary citizens don’t enjoy.
Privileges in the EU are set to be further enshrined in the Lisbon
Treaty/Constitution, to further alienate the accountability of the
elite and the Federal State
proposed by this treaty. We have also been programmed and conditioned
to accept that the law only applies to the “common people”, as we’ve
seen in case after case involving corruption at the highest level,
while the ordinary people are jailed for not paying a television
license or various types of fines.
As part of the text of the treaty are the immunities that make the members of EU
even less accountable than they already are, while your rights will be
under constant attack from the Charter of Fundamental Rights. First we
look at the Federal State:
Protocol on the Privileges and Immunities of the European Union
Article 1
The premises and buildings of the Union shall be inviolable. They shall be exempt from search, requisition, confiscation or expropriation. The property and assets of the Union
shall not be the subject of any administrative or legal measure of
constraint without the authorization of the Court of Justice.
Article 2
The archives of the Union shall be inviolable.
This is contrary to all we’ve been told
by the politicians about the openness and accountability of the EU, and
makes any judicial enquiry almost impossible, further eroding the lack
of oversight that’s already inherent in this corrupt structure. There
will be no body accountable to the people and overseeing the integrity
of the EU, as we’ve seen in the tribunals in this country which have
exposed the corruption and held the individuals to account while acting
independently. They have cost a lot of money and the judiciary have
made a fortune, but we have trawled through their findings and
politicians have resigned over their conclusions. Next we look at the
members:
Article 8
Members of the European Parliament shall not be subject to any form of inquiry, detention or legal proceedings in respect of opinions expressed or votes cast by them in the performance of their duties.
Article 9
During the sessions of the European Parliament, its Members shall enjoy:
(a) in the territory of their own State, the immunities accorded to members of their parliament;
(b) in the territory of any other Member State, immunity from any measure of detention and from legal proceedings.
Immunity shall likewise apply to Members while they are travelling to and from the place of meeting of the European Parliament.
Immunity cannot be claimed when a Member is found in the act
of committing an offence and shall not prevent the European Parliament
from exercising its right to waive the immunity of one of its Members.
That’s right, we can no longer question
the votes cast by our elected representatives even if they vote
contrary to the wishes of the people or the national interest. We have
already seen how Brown and members of the Labour Party, as well as most members of the Conservative and LibDem parties have voted contrary
to the people but we will not be able to hold them to account under the
treaty.
As for criminal offences, they have to
be caught in the act of committing a crime, unlike everyone else who
has to comply with the full rigors of the law and is subject to
interrogation and investigation. As for the Parliament waiving
immunity, that’s absolute nonsense, as we’ve seen with any State body
investigating itself or one of its members. Corruption will be given a
free reign in this atmosphere and not only does this apply to MEPs, but
goes further by allowing the un-elected to enjoy immunity as well:
Article 10
Representatives of Member States taking part in the work of the institutions of the Union, their advisers and technical experts shall, in the performance of their duties and during their travel to and from the place of meeting, enjoy the customary privileges, immunities and facilities.
This Article shall also apply to members of the advisory bodies of the Union.
Article 17
Privileges, immunities and facilities shall be accorded to officials and other servants of the Union solely in the interests of the Union.
Each institution of
the Union shall be required to waive the immunity accorded to an
official or other servant wherever that institution considers that the
waiver of such immunity is not contrary to the interests of the Union.
Next
we look at the judiciary, which will be responsible for your
fundamental rights under which you will no longer have the protection
of the Constitution of Ireland to defend you against. Again they have
levels of immunity unheard of in this country:
Protocol on the Statute of the Court of Justice of the European Union
Article 2
Before taking up his
duties each Judge shall, before the Court of Justice sitting in open
court, take an oath to perform his duties impartially and
conscientiously and to preserve the secrecy of the deliberations of the Court.
Article 3
The Judges shall be immune from legal proceedings.
After they have ceased to hold office, they shall continue to enjoy
immunity in respect of acts performed by them in their official
capacity, including words spoken or written.
The Court of
Justice, sitting as a full Court, may waive the immunity. If the
decision concerns a member of the General Court or of a specialised
court, the Court shall decide after consulting the court concerned.
Where immunity has
been waived and criminal proceedings are instituted against a Judge, he
shall be tried, in any of the Member States, only by the court
competent to judge the members of the highest national judiciary.
Article 6
A Judge may be deprived of his office or of his right to a pension or other benefits in its stead only if, in the unanimous opinion of the Judges and Advocates-General of the Court of Justice, he no longer fulfils the requisite conditions or meets the obligations arising from his office.
The Judge concerned shall not take part in any such deliberations. If
the person concerned is a member of the General Court or of a
specialised court, the Court shall decide after consulting the court
concerned.
The Registrar of the
Court shall communicate the decision of the Court to the President of
the European Parliament and to the President of the Commission and
shall notify it to the President of the Council.
The judges will be immune from
prosecution unless other judges decide that they will lose their
immunity, again a body deciding the rights of its members, with no
oversight or accountability.
The judiciary will be responsible for accounting for themselves and if they don’t comply with the objectives of the Union (Federal State), they are liable to lose their pension. So what are the objectives of the Union
how will they be defined in years to come? These are vague statements
which we can only assume will be to the common good and the objectives
of a fair society, which is a false sense of security.
We are entering into a totalitarian
dictatorship, whether we pass this treaty or not. A No vote in Ireland will give
us time to wake more people up to what’s going on and give us the
opportunity to change the course of history, but democracy can only be
defended by vigilance, which means an end to mindless distractions. It
will require a more critical and responsible population, educated in
their Constitutional Rights and willing to defend them at every
opportunity. Nothing can be taken for granted in the future and those
that are handing us over to this dictatorship must be exposed and held
to account, which our Constitution states the people are fully entitled
to do.
Will Nick Clegg and David Cameron be voting for this on the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty?.
You bet they will !!!
When will people stop voting for these people who are giving away your sovereignty, even though they know it is not theirs to give.
