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ATTENTION !!

19th October 2009


  FREE CITIZENS' PARTY
Tržiště 1  PO BOX 51 118 00 Praha 1 Česká republika  petition@svobodni.cz

Courtesy of the Free Citizens Party, we have the opportunity to sign their pan-European petition rejecting the amended EU constitution Lisbon Treaty.

Their motto: EU civil servants have never given us the opportunity to express our opinion in one place before. So we have done it for all free citizens of EU member countries.

Their petition reads:     We, the citizens of the sovereign countries of the European Union, aware of our civil rights and in an effort to prevent steps leading to a bureaucratic lack of freedom across Europe, hereby express our disapproval of the Lisbon Treaty ratification.

The Lisbon Treaty is basically the European Constitution, which has already been rejected once. It gives the EU new powers to the detriment of the member countries (the right to veto measures is cancelled 68 times). It takes away our independent foreign, economic, social and energy policies and much more. Countries will lose control over indirect tax rates.

The Lisbon Treaty gives the EU the opportunity to acquire new powers and to cancel vetoes in other areas without any additional ratification. (Section 48, whose paragraph 7 enables the council to continue to increase the number of areas in which Brussels makes decisions and in which it makes decisions by qualified majority. In the future, such extension will not require the approval by the parliaments or citizens of the individual member countries, as was the case until now.)

The Lisbon Treaty increases the power of unelected bureaucrats: it extends the so-called “flexibility clause” under which only civil servants of the European Commission can issue binding decisions on trading standards, for example. Even now, there are ten times more such decisions than the number of directives discussed by the European Council and European Parliament.

In addition, the Lisbon Treaty reduces the weight of votes of smaller countries’ representatives in the Council of Ministers and increases the weight of large countries’ votes. Three of the four large countries (Germany, France, Italy and Great Britain) may at any time obstruct any of the European Commission’s plans. On the other hand, it is sufficient for them to get the support of eleven countries, no matter how small, to push through what they need – 55 per cent of the countries with 65 per cent of the population are sufficient, as compared with the current situation where each country has a veto. It destroys the sovereignty of the smaller countries in a number of important areas, making them dependent territories under the rule of a higher power. Member countries will no longer have a commissioner in each commission, thereby losing a large portion of their influence on the Union’s decision-making process.

On the basis of the above, we refuse ratification of the Lisbon Treaty and ask the governments of the various countries, in the interests of maintaining the liberty of the nations and their future generations, to initiate negotiations on a new direction for the European Union, to be built on equality and true liberty without bureaucratic regulations.

Prague - 2. 5. 2009
Please go to http://petice.eu/index.php and sign their petition today.
My thanks go to Margaret Baker for alerting me.

TELEGRAPH 17.10.09 at 3.33pm
This is not good news.

EU Lisbon Treaty to become law within weeks after Czech president concedes defeat

The controversial Lisbon Treaty is set to become law within weeks after the Czech Republic's eurosceptic president conceded his attempt to challenge it was futile.
The Lisbon Treaty has taken another step towards becoming law across Europe after the Czech president, Vaclav Klaus, effectively abandoned his attempts to stall it.
 
Vaclav Klaus, the only European Union leader who has still not signed the document, said he could not wait for a British general election next year which could lead to a Tory government and a possible referendum to bury the Treaty.

Mr Klaus said: "The train carrying the treaty is going so fast and it's so far that it can't be stopped or returned, no matter how much some of us would want that."
By Melissa Kite and Robert Mendick
Published: 3:33PM BST 17 Oct 2009

13th October 2009



Something else very important for you to do - Support President Vaclav Klaus in his opposition to the EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty by signing this pan European petition here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/sptklaus/petition.html

11th October 2009

Courtesy of SOS and Brits at their Best

This matter is most pressing.

Please read below and take action!

SOS

SAVE OUR SOVEREIGNTY

The regular issue of SOS is in the process of being written and will hopefully be out by the end of the month.  The following was sent to me by Anne Palmer, Michael Clark and Geoff Southall and I felt that this matter was far too important to delay sending it until the newsletter is completed.  A more detailed paper on the British Constitution by these authors will be attached to the next SOS.  In the meantime, I must thank all who sent me generous donations, communications, good wishes, DVDs, CDs, articles and cuttings.  My thanks to you all:

Invoking Clause 61 of Magna Carta, as repeated with great distinctness by Henry III (1216-72) “ …it shall; be lawful for every one in our realm to rise against us to use all the ways and means they can to hinder us … until that in which we have transgressed and offenced shall have been brought again into due state …”

The Government and the House of Commons have had their say in ratifying the renamed Treaty of Lisbon.  The House of Lords have had their say in ratifying that same Treaty. Neither House have listened to the People that, in respect of the Lower House, sent them to Parliament to represent them. They have ignored the people completely. The High Court also refused judicial review on the previous EU Constitutional Treaty. The people have been denied their say at every point.

I am very much aware that Clause 61 desires four of a quorum of Barons to take any grievances or petitions to the Monarch, but time is short and that was tried before at the time of the Treaty of Nice.  Will they again?  I would hope so. However, it is also the People’s duty to defend their Monarch and their Country; not only is their solemn Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, the people have a very strong desire and need for their Country to be free and for those we elect to actually instigate our laws, working with the European Union but not governed by them and particularly not forever. The Treaty of Lisbon is a Treaty too far. The House of Lords is no longer the same House of Lords with its commitment to the workings of our own Constitution as it once used to be with the steady hands of the Hereditary Peers at the helm. We can no longer stand by and do nothing while our Head of State too is ignored, deemed to be an ordinary European Union citizen.  Her Majesty is no such thing for she is our much beloved Queen and on Coronation Oath not to be subject to alien laws.

The Treaty of Lisbon is a very constitutional Treaty and without doubt, the People should have had say in a true and fair Referendum because it will affect this Country for all time (the EU is planning for the next fifty years starting with The Stockholm Programme and so it goes on and on). 

There is now but one final recourse open to the Electorate, that being to ask Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for the Treaty of Lisbon to be withdrawn and put before the People in a referendum, preferably before all 27 Countries ratify it and even if it has been ratified by all.

It is time for the people to use for themselves this section of their Common Law Constitution, the great Magna Carta Clause 61.  There is no point in having a Constitution if it remains dormant forever and unused and our laws are instigated by foreigners and simply transposed into the United Kingdom.  It is time the People of this Country spoke up to defend their Country and its unique Constitution.  This is so little to ask to try to save the peace of the Realm, particularly so when our forces are fighting and sadly dying to bring “Democracy” to the people of Afghanistan, which the people of Britain have been denied by their own Government.

No less than 40,000 people went in the first days to see the gold treasure of The Shropshire Hoard in Birmingham.  I would like to think we could inspire at least the same amount of people to write to Her Majesty -- for the price of a British stamp.   I would like to hit one million really.  We have a duty to do quite apart from the fact that none of us want the contents of the Lisbon Treaty to apply to anyone in this Country, for it is one Treaty too far.  No more new EU Treaty or legislation (e.g. The Stockholm Program) contrary to our Common Law Constitution should be accepted by this Country ever again without a referendum for the people.

Logistics: With a careful eye on the postal strike, timing becomes more important than ever.  Therefore if you know anyone that is going down to London and is prepared to deliver the letters by hand, please use that method.  I can’t see any letters being delivered by post before Monday 12.10.2009, so the 40 days should start from that date.  I hope every member of your family writes a letter to the Queen. Please spread the word as much as you can, and PLEASE write to your local AND the Daily Papers.  The proposal does not just come from me, but from every person in Her Majesty’s Realm that wants their voices to be heard in a referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon.  I will however, keep a tally on how many people have written to the Queen if you let me know.   Letters to the Queen are the most important at this point in time.  Thank you and good luck. 

Anne Palmer JP,
Michael A. Clark, Chairman, Covenant Publishing Company Ltd,
Geoff Southall, C Eng., MIEE, MRIN.

Suggested sample letter. 

To be no delay, for immediate sending.  Time is short.  Try to deliver before the National Postal Worker’s Strike

Your Address           Date  

           
May It Please Your Majesty,
On the authority of Clause 61 of Magna Carta and as repeated with great distinctness by Henry III (1216-72) “ …it shall be lawful for every one in our realm to rise against us to use all the ways and means they can to hinder us … until that in which we have transgressed and offenced shall have been brought again into due state …”, I appeal to Your Majesty.

The Government and the House of Commons have had their say in ratifying the Treaty of Lisbon.  The House of Lords have had their say in ratifying that same Treaty.  None have listened to the people that sent them to Parliament to represent them.  They have ignored the people completely.  The people have not had their say.

It is the people’s duty to defend their Monarch and their Country.  Not only is their solemn Oath of Allegiance to the Crown, the people have a very strong desire and need for their Country to remain free. The people are willing to fight for their Country as has been proven in the past.  The people also expect the people they elect to actually instigate our laws, working with the European Union but not governed by them and particularly so not forever.  The Treaty of Lisbon is one Treaty too far – in effect, a new constitutional settlement.

It is now up to the people to ask your Majesty for the Treaty of Lisbon to be withdrawn and put before the people in a referendum, preferably before all 27 Countries ratify it and even if it has been ratified by all 27 Nation States for it STILL to be withdrawn and put before the people in a true and fair referendum.  This is the very least that is required, as putting into effect what in all reality is a new constitutional settlement, will affect all future generations.

The Treaty of Lisbon being far more than a Treaty, the People without doubt have the constitutional right to a say in a true and fair Referendum.  Fundamental changes for the Realm in respect of its ‘laws and customs’ will be consolidated for all time (the EU is planning for the next fifty years starting with The Stockholm Programme after ‘Lisbon’ and so it goes on and on). The People have been ignored. Furthermore, as the new Supreme Court does not appear disposed to uphold Statute Law (still in force) on behalf of the People, without a long and expensive judicial process, the only recourse they have available in seeking immediate redress is to appeal to Your Majesty to override the present constitutional illegality under Clause 61 of Magna Carta. .

I have the honour to remain, Madam,
Your Majesty’s faithful subject. 

The envelope may be addressed as follows:

The Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
Buckingham Palace
London,
SW1A 1AA

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