Lisbon Treaty

Has anyone looked into the Lisbon Treaty? I have read that it effectively undermines our constitution, our parliament, our government, and gives the power to abolish our political parties, force us into the Euro, and basically in conjunction with other EU treaties, is an attempt to create a sort of dictatorship or single governing body which renders individual state governments powerless. So I decided to look into it (sad I know) and came across some clauses in the actual treaty on an EU site:

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:C:2007:306:SOM:EN:HTML

Well I don't really know what to say, I've written a couple below and said my thoughts on it, I'm still unbiased and not really sure what to think, so I thought I would post some of the clauses of the treaty and see what everyone thinks?

Article 2

Throughout the Treaty:
(a) the words ‘Community’ and ‘European Community’ shall be replaced by ‘Union’ and any
necessary grammatical changes shall be made, the words ‘European Communities’ shall
be replaced by ‘European Union’

(c) the words ‘the Council [shall], acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in
Article 251’ shall be replaced by ‘the European Parliament'

Page C306/14
Article 8A-4:
"Political parties at European level contribute to forming European political awareness
and to expressing the will of citizens of the Union."
(At the EU’s Party Financing Conference in Madrid in June 1999,parties at the European level were defined as parties with voters in more than 10 countries. Therefore, we do not express the views of "The Union")


Page 306/34
Section 2 "Provisions on the common security and defence policy"
49) (a):
"1. The common security and defence policy shall be an integral part of the common
foreign and security policy. It shall provide the Union with an operational capacity
drawing on civilian and military assets. The Union may use them on missions outside the
Union for peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security in
accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. The performance of these
tasks shall be undertaken using capabilities provided by the Member States.’;"
49) (c)
"3. Member States shall make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union
for the implementation of the common security and defence policy, to contribute to the
objectives defined by the Council. Those Member States which together establish
multinational forces may also make them available to the common security and defence
policy.

Member States shall undertake progressively to improve their military capabilities.(!!!!!!) The
Agency in the field of defence capabilities development, research, acquisition and
armaments (hereinafter referred to as “the European Defence Agency”) shall identify
operational requirements, shall promote measures to satisfy those requirements, shall
contribute to identifying and, where appropriate, implementing any measure needed tostrengthen the industrial and technological base of the defence sector, shall participate in
defining a European capabilities and armaments policy, and shall assist the Council in
evaluating the improvement of military capabilities
(so member states have to actively improve their military capabilities??! For "The Union"?)
49-6
"Those Member States whose military capabilities fulfil higher criteria and which
have made more binding commitments to one another in this area with a view to the
most demanding missions shall establish permanent structured cooperation within the
Union framework. Such cooperation shall be governed by Article 28 E. It shall not affect
the provisions of Article 28 B."
(does this mean us? Does this mean we will be paty of a "permanent structured cooperation within the Union"?)


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Article 8-B
"4. Not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of
Member States may take the initiative of inviting the European Commission, within the
framework of its powers, to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens
consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Treaties."
(So to petition against the EU, you have to ask for further laws?)


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Article 3-A
"3. Pursuant to the principle of sincere cooperation, the Union and the Member States shall,
in full mutual respect, assist each other in carrying out tasks which flow from the Treaties"
"The Member States shall facilitate the achievement of the Union's tasks and refrain from any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the Union's objectives.’."

(REFRAIN FROM ANY MEASURE WHICH COULD JEOPARDISE THE ATTAINMENT OF /THE UNION/'s OBJECTIVES. In other words- do not oppose the EU, sorry, "The Union")

"The Member States shall take any appropriate measure, general or particular, to ensure
fulfilment of the obligations arising out of the Treaties or resulting from the acts of the
institutions of the Union." (Member states should take measure against acts of other members?)

I don't know the end, or how it began,
or the men that were slain, or the songs that they sang,
but I know that the battles continue this day,
for the violence remains, here to stay.

Fighting for freedom, for love and for peace
they clashed swords with Fate and let Death take his prizes
For out of the carnage and blood nothing rises
Save evil and sin, Destiny's twin, blackened and twisted it rises within
each of the fallen's kin, to continue the fight on another day,
Avenging their father's and brother's lay slain, the children grow up, inheriting pain.

And so it continues, this violent act,
when brother kills brother, in an unholy pact,
to continue the wars of their father's time,
The infinite battle, the ultimate crime,
of taking a life not of your own, to returning to earth another's blood sweat and bone.

The family awaits at their home all alone but their father lay dead on the cold earth and stone,
when will the price of battle become, too much to bear for the people now numb,
from fear of attack and terror and lies
they fall on their knees and preach to the skies
for an end to the violence, to cut all their ties
to the anger of the past, to the embrace they despise.

No longer do men fight blade with blade
Nor fight with honour, in the glade.
Times past when Death did wait his turn
for bodies to fall amongst the fern
with a blade through heart and destiny self-made the soldiers took themselves to the grave.

Now war continues to take its dead
And the fields and sand are still painted red
And Death waits by with gleeful amusement
at the people's panic and their confusement.

But now the dead are innocents slain
by the bombs that fall as if like rain
to burn and brighten the darkest night
the people fall, against the might
for no longer do men use sword and bow
to take their victims blow by blow.
For now the weapons are guns and bombs
which flatten cities- ash falls like snow
amongst the rubble and ruin and blood the children do weep amongst the mud
to inherit the pain once more and again
to continue the battle, to avenge the slain,
Never once knowing it is all the same,
the perpetual fight, the infinite battle,
that nothing has changed in centuries past,
save the weapons that kill have surpassed
mere bows and axes, swords and steel,
The children still are left to feel
the pain and anguish of their father's fight
to which no end, is ever in sight
The infinite battle, born again, always stays the same.


I don't know the end, or how it began,
or the men that were slain, or the songs that they sang,
but I know that the battles continue this day,
for the violence remains, here to stay.

We have lost.

Until the military is disbanded there will be no peace. There can never be peace if your country is vying for military dominance. Until the secret services, secret organisations and secret behaviour of the government is stopped, we will continue to be slaves. For you cannot truly be free when those above you conduct themselves under secrecy. The governing body should be the most transparent institution of them all.

You cannot fight for peace, it is a contradiction.  If the government owns the people, who owns the government? You have to look at the people behind the elected officials, the people who fund them, the elected official's business partners and friends/allies, the corporations who own a stake in the government or the leaders. And that is too much work for the average citizen, who will dismiss everything that does not fit into their "reality tunnel" as conspiracy, who will not see what is happening until it is too late.

The human race has already lost. We lost the game. We lost the race. We just plain lost. This is because we have the weapon capabilities to destroy the planet a hundred times over. Imagine if there was world peace tomorrow. Everyone's happy, no wars, just peace. There would still be thousands of nuclear warheads and deadly weapons across the globe. So we constantly live in the fear of annihilation. This fear of annihilation and the lust for military dominance leads countries to a perpetual arms race to develop the most powerful, accurate, deadly (etc) weapons or systems so that they can own it before any other country, because they are more "responsible" or "democratic". Yeah we have lost. Doesn't mean we should stop trying for peace. Doesn't mean we should stop trying to make things better, or standing up for human rights where ever they are violated. But it does mean that we lost, a long time ago. It wasn't your fault, don't worry. It was the culprits that it always has been- the elected and unelected leaders who own the world and think they know what's best. If it was up to the man in the street, we probably wouldn't be at war. We probably wouldn't have developed nuclear weapons. Because the ordinary citizen does not feel any need to war, or develop super weapons, or kill or maim. The ordinary citizen only begins to think so when the social institutions- the media, religion, propaganda from the governments, etc- begin to tell him that they need to go to war or develop a super weapon.

So yeah. Humanity, the dumbest species on the planet. Constantly warring since recorded history. Yet now we have the capabilities of destroying the planet many, many times over- and it's getting worse, more advanced weapons are developing with more military power than ever. So I would be afraid if I were you. Not afraid enough that you hide in a corner and weep, but afraid enough that you go and spread information, or organise yourselves, do action. Because you have two choices. You can either try and act, spread info, talk to people, get angry at the state of affairs and try and change things while we still have a pseudo-democracy, or, you can go shopping. Yeah that's right, shopping. Go about your day as normal, go shopping, "What do I care, I'm going to die one day anyway". Yeah that's the right attitude to have. Don't think about our future, our children.. just think about yourself. 'Cos that's what you've been programmed to do, you little robots, to be selfish little drones, caught up in routines and shopping and cycles self-perpetuating throughout your life, whilst outside of the bubble of society.. bombs fall from the skies destroying cities and killing innocents.. people starve and suffer from the effects of the globalisation of our corporations, the entities we feed with our consumer spending as we live comfortably, never having to see the how our hard-earned money is used to destroy the world.. third world countries are being taken advantage of, for their resources, their land, their waters, their people as a source of labour, their rainforests.. Whilst a western agenda keeps their populations in a state of ignorance and cynicism, closely monitored by the Big Brother state..