"The Thunder from Down Under"

September 6, 2001

Regionalism: Achieving the NWO by the Back Door
by Antonia Feitz

In the face of growing worldwide protests against globalisation, national governments are now pushing for what they think is a more politically acceptable alternative - regionalisation under the guise of free trade zones.

There's NAFTA, planned to embrace the entire Americas. For Europeans there's the EU, also expanding. And for Asians there's ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) which is also planning to expand into ASEAN + 3 to include China, Japan, Korea. Very Orwellian.

But these free trade zones are a misnomer. They aren't primarily about trade at all, but political union via the back door. You only have to look at Britain's experience. When Britain joined the Common Market in 1973, the British people were deceitfully told the Common Market was just about trade. On the 25th of February 1970 the then Prime Minister, Edward Heath, declared the Common Market wasn't a blueprint for a federated Europe. Twenty one years later on BBC TV he admitted he knew he was taking Britain into a United States of Europe.

[Joke: How do you know when a politician is lying? His lips move.]

Now, almost thirty years later the British people are horrified that Brussels' EU law takes precedence over their ancient domestic law. They're outraged that a greengrocer was prosecuted for the 'crime' of displaying the prices for his fruit & veggies per pound, not per kilo. They're dismayed that their parliament is fast becoming just a clearing house for rubber-stamping EU-created policies, rules and regulations.

Before too long, the once sovereign United Kingdom will be no more. It will comprise just 12 out of the over 100 proposed 'administrative regions' of Europe to be governed from Brussels.

This isn't sci-fi, folks, it's already started. The establishment of the three regional assemblies for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland had very little to do with satisfying demands for Celtic autonomy. Sadly, those nationalists played the role of 'useful idiots' for the globalists. Nine more such regional assemblies are planned for the UK. It's all being deceitfully done under the guise of decentralising power.

But once they're up and running, the UK's 12 regional assemblies will play no part in the EU's legislative process. They will simply decide how to spend their EU-allocated budgets in limited areas like health and education. Their only political voice will be through the EU's Council of the Regions - whose recommendations are not binding.

Britain's traditional freedoms are being swept away like rubbish down a gutter after a downpour. According to the Magna Carta no parliament can bind another one, but EU treaties are irrevocably binding. Yes, under the EU principle of 'acquis communautaire', once any legislation originating in the EU has passed into an individual nation's law it can't be revoked, even by a new government.

Unless they suddenly wake up the British can kiss freedom goodbye because the EU's leaders have only contempt for it. For example, an analyst in the Brussels bureaucracy called Bernard Connolly was punished for criticizing the EU. They sacked (fired) him.

The Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice absurdly said that any criticism of the EU, its institutions, or its chief bureaucrats was akin to blasphemy. True. He also said that punishing critics of the EU was not an infringement of their free speech.

Obviously a lack of logic is a prime qualification for high office in the EU. But criticizing the EU and its policies is not only 'blasphemy', it will eventually be unlawful under Article 51 of the proposed EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Clearly the totalitarian turkeys of the EU have no concept of freedom as the English-speaking peoples of the world understand it. They have no understanding that our rights are grounded in our God-given human nature.

Governments can only protect our rights; they can't grant them. The ultimate source of authority and power is the people themselves, not courts or governments.

It will be almost impossible to opt out of the EU. Under proposed changes to Article 7 of the Amsterdam Treaty, the European Commission will punish any country that elects a government which two-thirds of EU member countries consider a threat to "European values and principles".

Read it again: if Britain - or any other country - democratically elects a nationalist government committed to opting out of the EU it will be "punished".

The year 2001 is crunch time for freedom in Europe and Britain. Leading up to the Nice summit scheduled for the 6th of December, there has been a series of Inter-Governmental Conferences where socialist control-freaks have been drafting proposals which will kill off national sovereignty for good. The European Commission has already published a draft treaty with more than 180 articles. What do they want?

1. The integration of the military forces under Brussels command.

2. A new criminal code for the EU. Although the proposed powers are limited to fraud against the EU budget, nobody disputes that this is just step one.

3. An EU Constitution. They call it a Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, but there's no need for it as such rights are already guaranteed by a plethora of institutions. Their deceitful game is to get their Charter into the Nice Treaty, get it recognised by the ever-obliging European Court of Justice, and voila! - a European Constitution.

4. Full political union. They want to transform the European Commission into the European Government.

These guys mean business: Article 6 of the draft treaty provides for trans-national, pan-European political parties. Such parties must respect fundamental rights "as defined in the Treaty of Rome". Parties which don't measure up will be suspended by the European Court of Justice.

Clearly these proposals will be the death knell not only for sovereignty but for freedom itself. This is how Communist parties stay in power. Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliament, noted that the communists didn't ban elections - they had elections all the time to prove how 'democratic' they were! The communists just banned parties they deemed extremist or fascist.

Australian politicians and elites are beside themselves because the Asians don't want us white trash in their free trade zone. "Boo hoo", they cry, "we've been left out in the cold." Ordinary people say, "Yippeeeee!" . ***

© 2001 Antonia Feitz