[Peace-discuss] Holland votes

Tue May 31 20:14:27 CDT 2005

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

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PFN> Holland votes NO to European Superstate and wars 

Future wars by the US/NATO/EU-Army without UN Mandate

by Henk Ruyssenaars

The Netherlands - May 31st - 2005 - The Dutch will vote NO in the
referendum on the EU treaty tomorrow June 1st. It's even thought that
using electronic 'rigging' techniques, because there's no 'paper trail'
from the voting machines, has become 'to dangerous'. One of the TV polls
last night showed too big a difference by a sixty-five percent NO votes,
and 25% YES votes.* 

The angry NO vote by the fed-up Dutch is based on bad experiences of the
past years with the growing 'Superstate', which speak for themselves:
they were promised a 'Great Europe without Borders' - with the freedom
to travel anywhere 'without needing a passport anymore'. 

The reality is, that we now in the Netherlands live in an
'Apartheid-state', where we can get fined when we leave our house
without an ID card. ''On average a little more than 100 fines a day were
issued to people who could not produce identification in January. Since
a new law came into effect on News Year's Day [2005] obliging everyone
above the age of 14 to carry ID, authorities have issued 3,300 fines,
news agency Novum reported. The fines amount to EUR 50 and EUR 25 for
those aged 14 or 15.'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8gujf 

The often malignant and corrupt [Barosso*] 'politicians' in Brussels
promised 'One Big Europe', with - as one of the advantages - the 'Euro'
as the new currency. They were warned that 'live might become up to a
half percent more expensive'. In reality more dutch middle class people
are going bankrupt than ever, with a fast growing number of people
complaining that 'prices have doubled' and their economy is in shambles.
I see very little people in the normal shops buying meat after the
fifteenth or so...when too much of the month is left and too little
Euros.

People will vote NO too, because the same gangsters that wrecked their
economy, now again are shoving a 439 pages fine print 'blank check'
under their noses, urging them to sign again. Threatening with
everything negative possible from staggering unemployment figures to
'black outs', and even in a TV message with the Holocaust, done by the
despicable dutch neocons conservative party VVD. ('Vereniging Van
Dieven') - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cyskr 

'People are not clever enough'

The neocon Dutch government's investigation of the complaints - with
their own 'commissions' of course - never found any fault. 'People are
not clever enough' - as was said by Dutch ministers - 'to understand the
exchange rates.' Apparently they themselves don't either: according to
high ranking financial specialists, the Dutch Guilder currency was 'sold
out' ten percent below it's net worth, enlarging the economical disaster
for the taxpayers and enriching 'The Banks of London'. 

An investigation by the Dutch weekly HP/De Tijd - published exactly two
years ago, under the cover title "The Euro Disaster" - confirmed by
comparing the cost of living 'before' and 'after' the introduction of
the Euro, that the overall cost of living at least had gone up with
forty-nine-dot-one percent (49.1%). 

No wonder the Dutch are (finally) sharpening their knives, and the
people working for the multinationals 'managing' Holland - day and night
drowned the country in a tsunami of lies; a false ticker tape parade of
YES! EU-propaganda. Paid by the taxpayers of course, who are apparently
seeing through the country-wide fog of lies. But even in the official
brochures the word 'taxes' is left out; to avoid making people think
about who's paying the crook's bills. 

The Dutch seem not to be willing to accept anymore that Holland is #6 of
the richest countries in the world, while they - after Sweden - pay the
highest taxes in the world, getting less and less in return, of the 6
months a year they 'tax-work' for the 'government'. The people of the
insurance companies, banks and other criminal multinationals at work in
Holland, try to strip the country in the same way the neocons do in the
United States, England etc. They are 'Starving the Beast'.

A poll published two weeks ago, showed nineteen percent (19) favorable
towards the neocon 'government' with an overwhelming eighty-one (81)
percent dumping PM Balkenende and his hypocritical 'christian' neocons.

The many reasons how and why the new 'Treaty for a European
Constitution' is very undemocratic and dangerous to peoples lives and
well being, is very well shown in this excellent summing up -
http://tinyurl.com/cwnyk - with all the important points why nobody ever
should sign this blank check. 

It has however nothing to do with 'left' or 'right': humanity is divided
in the groups 'givers' and 'takers'. The US/Israeli 'neocons' are the
worst exponents of the 'takers'. Victims of their 'War of Terror' are
all the 'givers'. The 'no opinion' ignorant people too, because they're
paying without understanding, or being able to comprehend the scheme. 

MILITARIZATION - SECRET AGREEMENTS AND NO UNITED NATIONS APPROVAL

There is a series of top secret agreements between the European Union
Council, the United States, Israel and different defense forces and
intelligence services, which the EU voters - and many times not even
their members of parliament - are allowed to see or hear about. But pay
- for the secret militarization and infringements on their 'freedoms' -
the misled taxpayer must.

Anthony Coughlan, the Secretary of the 'EU Research and Information
Centre' writes in his excellent article* on the NO to the EU, about the
militarization of the EU, as part of the US neocon Empire, it is
understood. "It militarizes the EU", Coughlan rightfully writes: "The
Constitution points to the end of the formal military neutrality of
Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Malta by replacing the 'Nice
Treaty' provision that the progressive framing of a common defense
policy "MIGHT lead to a common defense, SHOULD the European Council so
decide"  with the provision in the Constitution that it "WILL lead to a
common defense, WHEN the European Council, acting unanimously, so
decides "(Art.I-41). 

That decision is clearly only a matter of time. The same Article
requires all Member States "to make civilian and military capabilities
available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and
defense policy" - The Constitution permits EU military operations to
take place without a UN Charter mandate.  ( ! - HR )

Article I-16 gives the EU the power to conduct a common foreign and
security policy covering "all areas of foreign policy and all questions
relating to the Union's security, including the progressive framing of a
common defense policy that might lead to a common defense". The same
Article places Member States under an explicit constitutional obligation
to refrain from following an independent foreign policy if that clashes
with the EU one: "Member States shall actively and unreservedly support
the Union's common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty
and mutual solidarity and shall comply with the Union's action in this
area. They shall refrain from action contrary to the Union's interests
or likely to impair its effectiveness." [ ]

Tony Bunyan, editor of the excellent 'Statewatch', in an earlier
comment: "This is another instance of secret policy making. European and
national parliaments should be consulted and the texts made public so
that there can be a debate as to their content and consequences. 

Putting these agreements in place is not just about exchanging
classified documents, it is also about the construction of a security
regime for future cooperation on defense, foreign policy and justice and
home affairs between the EU, non-EU states and international
organizations. It is about tying in the acceding states and others into
the aims and objectives of the EU-NATO-USA politico military axis." [ ]

With other words: the EU army, with it's 'Rapid Deployment Forces', the
US's SSB, ('Special CIA Forces' 'Rendering' - http://tinyurl.com/89dbf)
and NATO troops - all under American so called NATO command in reality -
will be able to fight wars without asking again for a UN resolution or a
mandate of the Security Council of the United Nations. Which one doesn't
get, committing crimes against humanity all the time, like the US,
Israel, England and what's left of the bullied and bribed 'Coalition of
the Killing. - UN-BBC-Annan" the Iraq war is illegal - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

The Neocon Dream come true: their 'European Province' of the US Empire
can be striking at will and 'covering' legal or illegal military
occupations and other murderous actions, without any United Nations
approval, sanctions nor limits. Thanks to everyday's 'home made laws' -
like the EU Treaty must become - there will - according to the neocons -
be ''No More War criminals''! 

The Dutch have a proverb: the brutal people have half the world, and try
to get the rest.

That's a very good reason to say NO!

Henk Ruyssenaars

Footnotes 

Why All People Should Oppose the EU 'Constitution' - Url.:
http://tinyurl.com/cwnyk

Dutch voters poised to reject Constitution - Latest from Expatica
Amsterdam - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ao72d

* A poll yesterday night by State TV's 'Twee Vandaag' (Program 'Two
Today') - showed a 40 percent gap between the two sides: 65 percent
opposed and 25 percent in favour of the treaty/'constitution'. That
survey involved 17,000 people, 78 percent of whom said they were
definitely going to vote in the referendum.

WARNING: the EU web pages do *not* have the final text of the Treaty
(29.10.2004), they only have the pages of the *draft* treaty
(18.07.2003). - Final Act - III.A.30 - of the Treaty to Establish a
Constitution for Europe - Url.:
http://europa.eu.int/constitution/futurum/constitution/declaration/final
act_en.htm

* Barosso's free holiday - Euro-reporters.com, Belgium - May 25, 2005 -
Whatever the outcome of the vote in Strasbourg, questions remain about
Barroso's holiday in August 2004 paid for by shipping magnate Spiros
Latsis. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/84vlo

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