The Federalist system, which the European Union seems to be gravitating towards, greatly menaces our traditional idea of both what a leader of a country should be and what politicians will become in the not too distant future.
We are about to witness leaders of nations and politicians reduced to the levels of mere managers who run states by solely tweaking fiscal policy and appointing people to boards.
It is interesting to read through what Declan Ganley (Libertas) has to say regarding the Lisbon Constitution.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRDBworQ_w&feature=channel_page
Libertas Malta Launch 21st March 2009 – Declan Ganley Part 1
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“..Thank-you, I have to stand up, if you excuse me Mary I can’t speak very well, I can’t certainly think sitting down very well. It’s wonderful to be, to be in Malta. I have actually haven’t been to Malta before, although I’ve planned many times on coming here on holiday with my family. We never actually got to come here, so it is great to be here. We were at the harbour this morning looking at that magnificent historic place thinking about the history that is contained on this Island all the way back to the megalithic era, to the Phoenicians, the Romans, the Knights, and all that came from the Great Siege of Malta, the heroism of this Island, the heroism that is still in living memory that this Island showed during the terrible time that it suffered during the Second World War and the spirit of the Maltese people.
And you come here and you just look around down at the harbour, the Cathedral and throughout the City and this is Europe all concentrated onto this Island. It’s our history. It is very interesting to find out that the Phoenician language of the ancient Phoenicians was deciphered, decoded from discoveries made here in Malta where Latin and Phoenician were found side by side, where those cultures have lived together for some time in some kind of harmony and there is such an infusion and mixture of culture here that it is an example for all of us Europeans to see how this can be successful and Malta, although like my own Country Ireland, is small, you got a lot to offer and it is very important that the people of Malta have a tool, a mechanism, to ensure that the voice of the Maltese is heard in a very effective way within the Institutions of Europe, because there are a few points that people unfortunately are not aware of in Malta. Certainly the general public is not aware of, the general public probably isn’t aware that the majority of laws passed in Malta now are all initiated in Brussels.
The majority of people don’t realise that when your governing government party and main opposition party agree and did not even really debate the Lisbon Treaty, which is actually the European Constitution, they didn’t even have a debate on it. It was ratified and they agreed to create a President of Europe that will be your President, a President of the European Council as set out in the Lisbon Constitution and this is going to be your President and your President as European citizens will represent you on the global stage, but they never have to ask you for your vote. I believe that here this morning that we have the elite of Maltese political journalism. I am very privileged that you are here and it is interesting because, here we have some of the most informed people on the subject of Malta in keep within the European Union and I think we would all agree that the majority of laws in Malta, in the last couple of years, were initiated in Brussels and I ask you, if you could name me 3 people that initiated the majority of laws in this Country last year. Anybody have any answers or suggestions? And I know I am not supposed to be the one asking the questions because I did this to your colleagues in Berlin and in Paris as well last week, (those who initiated the laws) and its interesting because nobody actually knows the answers to that question, is it so an unfair question? But the point is that I can go on and say, ‘well ok just name me 1 person who initiated most of the laws that passed in Malta last year and you can’t do it’.
The fact is that you do not know their names!
You don’t know how these people look like!
You do not know who is lobbying them!
You do not know why they are being lobbied!
You do not know who is paying the lobbyists!
You do not know the relationship between the lobbyists and that person who is initiating the law!
And why don’t we know?
The reason you don’t know is because today, Brussels is one of the few places where you have to be unelected to be able to initiate law, you can’t do it as a member of the European Parliament, you can’t be in the European Parliament and be an elected member and initiate law, which is practically a ridiculous situation.
So if I can stand here in front of the elite of Maltese journalism, political journalism and ask you who initiated most of your laws here last year and you can’t answer the question, then we all have got a problem that we need to face together, because we are living in a POST DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. Democracy is a system where you get to hold your law makers accountable at the ballot box. That is the way it is supposed to work. It is a very old fashioned idea starting in Greece 2.5 thousand years ago. The other thing that the Lisbon Constitution does is that it makes us all European Citizens, which is a good thing. I want to be a European Citizen, I feel European, I am European. It makes us a European Citizen and it also makes the laws of the union supreme. It states categorically ‘the laws of the Union shall have primacy over the laws of the member state’ that means Malta in your case. The laws of the Union have primacy; have supremacy, over Maltese law. But for the 1 st time ever this Constitution, this Treaty, also makes you a citizen. So if you are in front of a Judge in Europe as a E.U. Citizen, all citizens are equal before the law, as it should be, their laws are supreme, you are a citizen and subject to their laws. If there is something in Maltese law that contradicts European law, European law wins every time, so Maltese law is subjugated, maybe that is OK, but I would humbly suggest, that if we are going to do this and I think we should pull sovereignty, I think there are many good aspects and reasons to do that, then let’s make sure that the people exercise their power, are accountable to us, all of us, at the ballot box.
That they need to care about what you think, because under this formula if it comes to pass of the Lisbon Treaty – DEMOCRACY in Europe is finished. In reality it will not exist because you cannot hold these people initiating law accountable at the ballot box.”
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