More than three months ago, former French President Giscard had announced the scandal loud and clear. His message: The EU is stealing power. The EU is sneaking the Constitution (it had devised by and for itself) past the people. The EU is pushing its Constitution through despite member state referenda rejecting the document.
The response? No response. Read this post from EU Referendum on Giscard's second attempt to make the fraud known:
This is the second time. The first was in July, when Valéry Giscard d'Estaing told the world that differences between the (proposed) new treaty and the EU constitution, "are few and far between and more cosmetic than real".
Now, in a way that could be hardly more spectacular and public, he has written an open letter to Le Monde declaring, "the tools are exactly the same ones, only the order was changed in the toolbox".
Picked up by The Daily Telegraph, we learn that the treaty was "rewritten" in a different order just to avoid the need for referendums.
In the letter, he says that "the constitutional draft treaty was a new text, inspired by a political good-will, and replaced all the former treaties." For the treaty of Lisbon, the lawyers of the Council "reverted to the traditional way followed by the institutions of Brussels." This, he says, consisted of "modifying the former treaties by way of amendments."
Thus it is that the treaty of Lisbon is exactly in the line of the treaties of Amsterdam and Nice. The lawyers did not propose innovations. They retained the text of the constitutional treaty, from which they extracted (broke out) the elements, one by one, and returned them, by way of amendments to the two existing treaties of Rome (1957) and Maastricht (1992).
Thus, Giscard confirms, the treaty of Lisbon ends up as "a catalogue of amendments" to the former treaties. It is illegible to the citizens, he adds, "who must constantly refer to the texts of the treaties of Rome and Maastricht, to which these amendments apply". But, "the result is that the institutional proposals of the constitutional treaty - the only ones which counted - are found complete in the treaty of Lisbon, but in a different order, to be inserted in the former treaties."
So does Giscard expose the "constitutional concept lie" so egregiously peddled by Brown and his cohorts, one which the high profile, pro-referendum campaigners have singularly failed to address.
But the question remains is why should a man who regards himself as the "father of the constitution" apparently put his treaty at risk?
At first sight, it looks like extraordinary arrogance – the most extreme form of hubris – but there may be a more pedestrian explanation: an old man's vanity. It was his constitution - his bébé - and he wants it recognised, to say nothing of his own part in producing it. Such is his confidence that it will go through, he is not worried by the prospects of a backlash. The dramatist John Webster (c. 1630) had it:
Vain the ambition of kings
Who seek by trophies and dead things
To leave a living name behind …
However, it seems inconceivable that Giscard's statements will have no political effect. Not least, published in a leading French newspaper, it must surely wake up the French to the fact that the result of their referendum is being ignored. And, in British politics, it so clearly exposes Brown's lies that surely he will have some difficulty repeating them with a straight face.
Of that, we can but hope, but in so doing, we take a little comfort from Webster, who said of the "vain ambition" that all the kings manage is to, "weave but nets to catch the wind."
Also, see for more my post: [58] News from Absurdistan - The European Harmony between the Fuckor and the Fuckee
And let me add: should the odd European care to pay attention to the fraud, you can be sure to hear this excuse: Well, that's politics, that's the way. Can't be helped. It will always be like that.
The same guy is likely to feel proud about European troupes spreading our political system to other countries - at the barrel of a gun.
Well, if you do not institute a Constitution designed to protect liberty - an ambition unknown to the peoples of Europe - you are right to expect nothing but egregious corruption from politics.
But what the heck are these Europeans proud about?
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