Is it the End of Britain, as we know it?
According to the Christian Science Monitor, March 24, 2008, they believe the Lisbon Treaty, as part of the development of the European Union, will spell the end of British sovereignty.
This winter, 27 nations of the European Union signed the Treaty of Lisbon. However, the Treaty of Lisbon is not in Britain's best interest. That is because, when ratified, it will become the decisive act in the creation of a federal European super state with its capital in Brussels, Belgium. Britain would become a province of its "Mother of Parliaments," a regional assembly. The Eurocrate elites in Brussels won't admit it, but the Treaty of Lisbon is essentially a constitution for a "country" called Europe. Bluntly, it is a repackaging of the European Union constitution rejected by the French and Dutch voters in 2005.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair promised to put the EU constitution to the British people in a referendum. His successor, Gordon Brown, has reneged on that promise. He insists that the Treaty of Lisbon is shorn of all constitutional content and that it preserves key aspects of British sovereignty. On March 11th, the bill to ratify the treaty cleared the House of Commons and now the Brown government is poised to win passage in the House of Lords also.
If all 27 nations ratify the treaty this year, it will begin to go into effect on January 1, 2009. The British will then be expected to transfer loyalty and affection to the European Union and devote themselves increasingly to its well being. Now with its flag, anthem, currency, institutions, regulations, directives, the EU has long been indistinguishable from a nation state in waiting. Now, the Lisbon Treaty gives it those requisites of nationhood it has always lacked: a President, Foreign Minister (and diplomatic corps), a powerful new Interior Dept., a public prosecutor and full treaty-making powers. Add to those its common system of Criminal Justice and embryonic Federal Police Force, and the faintly sinister European gendarmerie force, and what this Union becomes is a monolithic state with great state pretensions.
Most alarming is that the Lisbon Treaty can be extended indefinitely without recourse to other treaties or referendums. The 27 European nations are on the verge of being reconstituted as a Federal European Super-state and is substantially the achievement of the fanatical French integrationist Jean Monnet, for whom the nation state was uppermost.
When British Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the Common Market in 1973, the country thought it was opening a "free trade" agreement. It hoped membership would sprinkle some European stardust on Britain's shipwrecked economy. Mr. Heath, a passionate Europhile, assured the country that membership would not entail any specific or any "independence and sovereignty." Like Europe's fervent integrationist, whose plans for political union have always been disguised as an increasingly beneficial economic integration, Heath maintained that he had simply joined a trading bloc.
The United States, Canada and Mexico are following in exactly the same footsteps as did Britain in 1973. NAFTA was sold to the American people and continues to be sold to the American people as a "free trade bloc of nations in the Western Hemisphere." Currently, the President is seeking congressional approval which will change the import/export status between the United States and Columbia. Editor's Comment: The promoters of NAFTA, and ultimately what some call the North American Union, are "hiding in plain view" and moving the country in that direction just as we have witnessed in Europe.
All of these regional governments that are being established will ultimately total TEN and they will make up the New World Order. And when the New World CEO or President is selected, the world will only be three and one-half years away from the beginning of the Great Tribulation spoken of by Christ in Matthew 24:15. q |
