Signing of EU Treaty

[thephoenix]

Gordon Brown has signed the EU Treaty in Lisbon ahead of the EU Council starting tomorrow.


http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page14060.asp

[Guest]

Re: Signing of EU Treaty

"Speaking during the session, the PM said that the Lisbon Treaty was "in Britain's interest" and that MPs would have the chance to debate elements of the agreement in Parliament."

Britain's interest or his own interest?

Brown has betrayed us all. Him and his monkey Miliband have just made sure that we, the people, have lost the right to elect and dismiss those who make most of our laws and our hard-earned right to govern overselves.

This treaty spells the end of the nation state, so it won't matter much to our future rulers in Brussels what people in the North-Western Island provinces (formerly British Isles) think.

One item that needs stressing, and that so far has not been stressed enough is this:

This is the last Treaty, and not just because it provides a self-amendment mechanism dispensing with the need for any more IGCs and Treaties, but also because it transfers ultimate competence for Justice & Home Affairs from the nation states to Brussels. This gives the EU for the first time the power to put people in prison, and that is really the heart of State power.

We are not Europeans. We are an island race with legal and political conditions very different from those of the Continent. Our culture is also very different directly as a result of our isolation from the European tradition. We are different in racial composition, in our unique sense of history, our attitude to citizenship, but above all, in our attitudes towards the State and our place within it.

The British legal system slowly evolved over the centuries through custom and usage, by legal interpretation of judges and lawyers but most importantly by a well understood system of Common Law and traditions known in Roman times as the 'Mos Maiorum', that everybody understood well enough and was unassailable. This is also what the American Declaration of Independence (that still relies on Magna Carta) is based on.

Now we have the European 'Corpus Juris', that is being imposed top-down upon us today and that will now become prime law after Brown's signature on the European Reform Treaty.

Most importantly, The British State served the citizens, not the other way round. In America too, the state serves the People. The American Declaration of Independence even clearly says so.

British and American legal and political practices are direct modern descendants of the Roman Republican system of Common Law. For example the only law that the ancient Anglo Saxons could copy in their time was the still extant Roman Law. Roman Law established that a citizen had the right to trial before a jury. So does the British and American today. The Corpus Juris system being imposed upon us today by this awful Reform Treaty is based upon Napoleonic Continental systems of law that allowed inquisitorial methods of trial, not by jury of one's peers but professional bureaucrats or magistrates appointed by the state for the protection of the state, not the People.

Trial by jury has been an important aspect of a our liberty. Europe's Corpus Juris submits the Citizen to the state, while Common Law submits the Subject/Citizen to the judgment of his peers but the state and its officials to the Subject/Citizen. This entire principle was reaffirmed in Magna Carta and when the Settlements of 1689 and 1701 established the Hanoverian on the English Throne after the Golden revolution of 1688.

Already police have arrested people for seemingly ridiculous crimes like selling golliwigs, displaying pigs, criticising religion and even politicians. Cameras spy on us wherever we look, our details are demanded by officials before we travel and there are calls for ID cards: all totally foreign to Britain. These are all things that European populations have been long used to. We the British are not! Our psyches and attitudes based on totally different traditions will instinctively reject them involuntarily, because we are not formed and schooled by these Continental historical traditions of service to the State in a British system that does the opposite.

Magna Carta states clearly, that the People have the right and obligation to disobey a corrupt Government that have taken to themselves privileges and authority that is not theirs to take. They are not the state but the Executive under Common Law of the People, namely us for we are the State not they.