Campaign for Truth in Europe
a Call to Action
by Phillip Day

In previous EClubs, we've been examining the European Union's new draconian supplements directives and their potential implications. Yet we have also seen that this proposed wide-sweeping legislation is symptomatic of a much wider threat which is stalking, not just Britain, but the free world today. Incredibly, just in the space of the last 15 years, we have seen a somewhat obscure and bureaucratic comglomeration of European Common Market nation states rapidly and forcefully merge their sovereignty into what is increasingly being viewed as the new superpower on the block to challenge America.

Ironically, as we will examine in future bulletins, it was the US who played a leading role in encouraging the European Union from the outset, as it was perceived by the Central Intelligence Agency at the time that a strong Europe after World War 2 would prevent the expansion of Soviet interests into western Europe. This Soviet threat subsequently evaporated with the break-up of the USSR in 1991.

As a political and economic observer of many years' experience, I cannot but view what is occurring in Europe and my own nation today with extreme nervousness and a stark foreboding. For what is emerging from Brussels is not some benign and bumbling morass of committees, but a fledgling superpower with state apparati which has consistently shown itself to be diametrically opposed to the benchmark principles of democracy, accountability, legality under British Common Law. Many ordinary citizens, as well as those in high places in Britain, have become nervous also.

It is probably for this reason that British politicians, such as Edward Heath, Harold Wilson, Roy Jenkins and Tony Blair, who have spearheaded Britain's reluctant involvement in the EU, chose not to come clean with the British people about what was ultimately being put on the table. Today, we can see for ourselves the end result in sight: UK law now fully subordinated to European Law, ultimately leading to a loss of all sovereignty and the take-over of the British state. The intent all along has been the creation of a new superstate absorbing all the old nation states of Europe into a continent-wide power block dominated by the Franco-German axis which emerged following World War 2.

This EClub article seeks to examine in overview some of the major concerns facing the British people about these developments, and indeed the kind of Europe that is emerging from the fog of political duplicity and intrigue.

Most see the European Union of today as an inefficient conglomeration of states run by self-serving career politicians anxious to guarantee their survival by safely nesting in the EU's cocoon of endless bureaucracies. Many don't really see a threat at the moment. They believe that an integrated Europe makes sense; that it would prevent any chance of a third European war; that it is the modern, forward-thinking way to go.

NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.

NONE DARE CALL IT TREASON
On 1st January 1973, Conservative British Prime Minister Edward Heath took Britain into the European Common Market after he had added his name to the Treaty of Rome the year before. Heath reassured Parliament and the British people at the time that sovereignty would not be affected and that we were just joining a trading partnership. His 1971 Government White Paper stated the following:

"There is no question of Britain losing essential national sovereignty."

Subsequent papers came to light which unequivocally showed that Edward Heath had recognised at the time the full implications of what he was doing. Years later, in a BBC interview in 1998, Heath was asked if he had known all along that Britain was signing up to a federal Europe. His exact reply was, "Of course I bloody did!"

The recent release of government papers has confirmed that Edward Heath lied to the British people.

Through further amendments to the Treaty of Rome, the original Common Market has gradually been changed by stealth into the European Union of today. The British people have never given their consent, nor have properly understood the implications of the European Union. The reason successive British governments have deliberately lied and misled the public over Europe is because they knew the British people would be horrified and would not tolerate the destruction and loss of control of their own country.

A GERMAN 'EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY'?
(Europaische Wirtschaftgemeinschaft)
In 1942, during World War 2, a group of German economists met at a well attended conference in Berlin to discuss a new concept of European political integration controlled by the Nazis. The conference was entitled 'The European Economic Community'. Later in 1944, once Germany recognised that defeat was inevitable, amazingly the Nazi push for European political integration continued. The chief question being asked in Berlin was: "How can Germany dominate the peace when she loses the war?"

The Treaty of Rome which birthed the EU was signed in 1957. Several of the original architects were ex-Nazis. The rest were ordinary socialist politicians who had the understandable motive of wishing to avoid any future repeat of the two world wars they had experienced. Nevertheless, the Treaty and its subsequent amendments bear a striking resemblance to the earlier German plans for the federalisation of Europe, economic and monetary union of the continent, the destruction of Britain, and the domination by Germany of the new monolithic European superstate. Article 189 is the engine of the Treaty, which states that all regulations, law and directives produced by the European Court are binding in totality on the nation states.

Today, it seems, these goals have almost been accomplished.

WHY THE EU MUST DISMANTLE BRITAIN
Most citizens of Britain, who are angry at the meddling of Brussels, nevertheless fail to examine the situation from the European viewpoint. Britain, it would seem, is part of Europe only through an accident of geography and finds itself consistently divergent from the economic and political fortunes of its continental neighbours. Consider the following:

* Germany and France geopolitically find it hard to secure their borders. Their alternative is to seek buffer zones around their nations, or, more effectively, control the continent of Europe altogether. Britain, on the other hand, is an island and easily defended.

* Britain was the first truly global, maritime power. Today, as before, the majority of her trade is GLOBAL, chiefly with her erstwhile colonial and Commonwealth partners, NOT WITH EUROPE, whose economies are PROVINCIAL and currently stagnant and contracting. Increasingly, Britain has been compelled by treaty to cease trading with her former global partners and obtain and market products into the Eurozone first and foremost. This enforced protectionism has increased food costs and other raw materials significantly for the British people.

* Europe has historically resented what it sees as Britain's 'destabilising influence' on continental economies because of her massive strength. It galls some European nations that Britain has traditionally been powerful enough to call the shots. Wars in the past, such as the Napoleonic, WW1 and WW2, have been started by European powers in order to secure their future economic and political stability. These measures ultimately failed. Today, the tactics have changed and economic conquest is the order of the day.

* Europe recognises that if Britain were subdued and broken up, a greater proportion of the UK's coveted world trade, including her prodigious art market, massive financial/pensions sector, hi-tech industries, and her oil and fish resources could be controlled for the first time by the dominant continental powers, France and Germany.

* France and Germany were partners in the embryonic EU, known previously as the European Coal and Steel Community, formed after World War 2. Without France and Germany today, there would be no European Union.

* Europe resents Britain's special relationship with the United States, with whom Britain has always enjoyed huge trade, security and strategic interests.

* Peace has been kept in Europe for the past fifty years, not through ambitions to create a unified Europe, but through the willingness of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to act as a European military watchdog.

* NATO is a military alliance of nations dominated by the two leading powers formerly comprising 'the Allies' during World War 2 - namely the United States of America and Great Britain.

* The EU understands that if she can dismantle Britain and absorb her, USA influence in Europe will dwindle and France and Germany will once again be able to reprise their original roles as the strongmen of Europe and secure their borders accordingly. Every action performed by the EU is carried out with this ultimate goal in mind.

DOES ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?
FACT: The European Union is planning a new European army which will be capable of 'autonomous action'. This new army will threaten the balance and stability NATO has given to the Continent and hand over military jurisdiction in Europe once again to the two nations, France and Germany, who have historically abused it and gone to war for their own economic interests.

FACT: Europe's new autonomous police force, Europol, has taken on frightening new powers to investigate and compile a huge number of records on European citizens. Unlike the UK's police force, Europol cannot be held responsible by European law for its actions. Ironically, or perhaps not so, her main base of operations, housing 350 officers, is quartered in the old fortified Gestapo headquarters building in The Hague. Eventually there will be 5,000 of them.

FACT: France has twice had to suffer the embarrassment of Britain and her allies baling her out of trouble in two previous world wars, which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, Commonwealth and American troops. After both wars, the Allies graciously withdrew and allowed France and Germany to regain their sovereignty. Yet today, many French politicians scorn Britain and America, and seem willing to jeopardise the balance and stability of Europe by sanctioning the pan-European re-arming of the Continent with its own powerful army, with a newly unified Germany as the most dominant power…

For the third time in a century.

THE EU - AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ANOTHER EUROPEAN WAR
Supporters of today's European Union claim that an integrated Europe will prevent future war. Yet true democracies do not provoke war, whereas forced or premature conglomerations of disparate nations have a proven history of causing turmoil and bloodshed (for example, the Roman Empire, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and much of Africa). Every once in a while, one gets a tantalising glimpse into the EU's true agenda, sometimes voiced in an unguarded moment of political zeal:

"The European parliament and the commission are allies against the member states. Together we have to prevent the member states from taking back power." President of the European parliament, speaking on BBC Radio 4, July 1999

"When we build the house of Europe, the future will belong to Germany." Helmut Kohl, speaking in Germany, unaware that reporters were present.

"Germany, as the biggest and most powerful economic member state will be the leader [of Europe] whether you like it or not." Theo Waigel, former German finance minister, 1997

"The top priority is to turn the EU into a single political state." Joshka Fischer, German foreign minister, quoted in The Times, November 1998

"Why does Europe need fifteen foreign ministers when one is enough? Why do member states still need national armies? One European army is enough." Hans Eichel, German finance minister, November 1999

"Never again must there be a destabilising vacuum of power in central Europe. If European integration were not to progress, Germany might be called upon, or tempted by its own security constraints, to try to effect the stabilisation on its own and in the traditional way." German CDU parliamentary committee on European affairs, September 1994

THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT BRITAIN AND THE EU
When politicians tell you that European integration is inevitable, they are lying. The reality is, the EU ultimately needs Britain's continued membership herself to survive. Britain has been behaving like a junkie towards Europe, told by her politicians that continued membership is her only real hope for future prosperity. Again, nothing could be further from the truth.

Consider the points below, and then ask yourself, who needs who?

* Membership of the EU costs the UK £1.25 million EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY - enough to pay for all the hospitals, doctors, nurses, schools, teachers and police we could ever need, and leave money over for tax cuts.

* The EU has imposed 30,000 new regulations and directives on the UK since we joined and adds another 3,000 every year. France routinely ignores regulations which don't suit her, whereas Britain, with her long tradition of playing by the rules, is ridiculed by Europe when she tries to obey every one.

* No politician of any party has ever given a straight and specific answer to the simple question - what are the benefits of EU membership? That's because there aren't any.

* The politicians of Europe, and indeed their peoples, are completely clear that the EU represents the formation of a federal superstate. No leading British politician dare tells the British people that the EU's ultimate aim is the destruction of Britain as an independent sovereign nation.

* Britain's fishing industry has been destroyed by the EU, and farming is going the same way. Dozens of other industries and tens of thousands of individuals have had their lives or livelihoods damaged or destroyed by the EU, and there is no end in sight.

* The EU is endemically corrupt and cannot be reformed from within, according to many of the senior staff who have left or been dismissed over the years. Billions of euros disappear down the drain of fraud every year and the Court of Auditors has failed to stop it - despite having never once signed off the EU's annual accounts as audited and correct! The EU does not even use double-entry bookkeeping for the accounts it does try to produce. Any UK company running its books of account in the same way would have seen the directors thrown in jail long ago.

* The EU is systematically destroying British legal safeguards. Habeus corpus, the presumption of innocence, double jeopardy (preventing the state being able to appeal against a not-guilty verdict and go on doing so until it gets a conviction), and trial by jury are all actively under threat already. The independence of the judiciary - which is intended to ensure that the law is upheld - is being increasingly undermined by the appointment of full-time state-employed judges, as per EU instructions.

* The EU has already become an unelected, unaccountable government with tyrannical powers. The European Parliament, on the other hand, is no more than a talking shop. It has no legislative powers, cannot create, amend or vote down any EU laws. It is merely a public fig-leaf of supposed democracy.

* If MEPs are absent from a vote, they are taken to have voted with the Commission. If the parliament votes against the Commission, it is assumed to have made a mistake, and the result is reversed.

* Why do most British politicians love the idea of the EU? Traditionally politicians in Britain have had a reasonably short 'shelf life' before having to return to private life… and for good reason. Today however, Brussels can guarantee a loyal politician a job for life with vast remuneration even if that person is a political failure in their own country. Neil Kinnock and his family, for instance, receive a staggering £500,000 each year in EU salaries and expenses, paid for by the beleaguered taxpayer.

* Joining the euro would cost a minimum of a massive £36 BILLION (£631 for every man, woman and child in Britain) and cause immediate price hikes, just as it has done on the Continent. Some estimates put the cost of joining as high as £100 BILLION.

* Joining the euro would entail handing over to Brussels all the UK's gold and dollar reserves, all its oil reserves, the power to set interest rates and - ultimately - the power to raise taxes. And the British parliament could do absolutely nothing to stop unelected Euro Commissioners making decisions which would threaten to destroy our economy.

* Joining the euro, and thus the EU, as a full member would be irreversible. That means, if Britain didn't like the results of political and financial integration, as others don't today, the only way we could free ourselves would be to go to war for our independence.

It boils down to this - if the British government no longer controls taxpayers' money, the country cannot defend itself against any external threat, whether physical or economic.

Is this truly what we want for our own future and that of our children?

PICTURE A PROSPEROUS AND INDEPENDENT BRITAIN
LEARN HOW WE CAN WIN IT
Most ordinary citizens of Britain and her Commonwealth don't see themselves as any sort of 'activists'. The time for silent anger and dissent however is at an end. Britain herself is dying at the hands of the European stranglehold. Evidence of this can be seen daily in the newspapers.

The heartening news is that polls indicate that over 60% of the British people would unequivocally support Britain leaving the EU IMMEDIATELY if they knew this would not harm us and we could continue to trade with Europe. This figure of 60% is estimated to rise to over 80% if British people were properly educated on the dangers we now collectively face as a nation from the threat of the EU. Norway withdrew her application for EU membership, when she realised she would have to cede her territorial fishing waters to the EU. Norway is a prosperous and thriving nation today. Switzerland too, with all her banks, has remained free of EU protectionist interference.

Worried about Britain being able to survive outside the EU? Don't be. Consider whether the following nation would be able to make it on her own.

* Britain is a nation of 58 million people.

* She is the fourth largest economy in the world by Gross Domestic Product.

* She owns the largest financial trading centre in the world, centred in London. There are more US banks in London than in New York, more German banks than in Frankfurt and handles more euro transactions than the whole of the European Union COMBINED.

* Britain earns £100 billion a year from her £1,931 billion of global asset investments, second only to America.

* Britain has the lowest inflation and unemployment rate in the EU by far.

* Unemployment across the EU is a staggering 18 million. No increase in jobs has been achieved in the past 20 years. Britain has created 2.3 million jobs during that period.

* Britain invented the computer, the jet engine, the hovercraft, the steam engine and railways, the telephone and television. We invented mail services and discovered nuclear physics.

* Over the past 250 years, British scientists and engineers have been responsible for almost four out of every five major inventions, discoveries and new technologies.

* Recent Japanese research shows that more than half of the world's useful inventions since 1945 were made by Britons, whether they lived in Britain at the time or not. America's contribution was under 20%.

* Adjusted for population, this means that the British are TEN TIMES more inventive. Both Britain and America can claim 75% of all the world's useful inventions.

* Britain invented a free press, a Briton was the first to sail around the world and we invented football, cricket and rugby. World-class British statesmen, artists and musicians can be reeled off without number.

* Britain is one of only two currently independent nuclear powers in Europe. The other is France.

* We have the only oil industry in the EU. We have a world-class financial services sector with huge pensions assets, while Europe has a combined pensions liability totalling $1.2 trillion for which it has no underpinning assets.

* Britain has a massive tourism market based on its unique blend of individualism, tradition, monarchy, history and craftsmanship.

* Britons have been at the forefront of developing and taking advantage of the massive boom in Internet sector technologies to boost our global trade. British is the language of the Internet.

* The British are the true global traders of Europe. Most countries on the continent just trade with each other.

* Britain has strong links with America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, much of Asia and South America. Almost all European nations do not.

* English is the most widely used language across the world and is used in business globally. English is virtually a compulsory second language for everyone on the face of the Earth.

* Britain is the EU's best customer, creating 5 million European jobs. If Britain were to pull out of the EU and negotiate a proper trading agreement, the EU simply couldn't afford to upset or close the door on its best customer, given the Union's current shaky financial state of affairs.

* Won't the Germans still want to sell us their cars, the French their fine champagne and wines, the Dutch their bacon, and the Mediterranean countries their tourist destinations? Besides, continued trade, even if Britain left the EU, is guaranteed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), to which almost every nation on the planet subscribes.

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It is utter nonsense to maintain for a moment that Britain could not continue as a strong, vibrant, INDEPENDENT nation if she left the European Union. Yet every day, jealousy, special interests and covert agendas are gutting our country. Our farmers, fishermen and many other trades people will willingly give you all the details.

And so the decision is ours. Will we press to stay in the EU, and watch as Britain becomes a small and insignificant part of a harsh and unforgiving new Continental empire? Or will we move and stir ourselves to freedom to forge a new and passionate destiny for our country's independent future? I believe that now is the last, unrepeatable moment at which we can halt our extinction as a culture and a nation.

AND TODAY'S THE DAY!
I am proud to launch the new Campaign for Truth in Europe, whose aim it is to unite a huge number of Britons and her Commonwealth cousins to compel truth and legality onto our politicians and unelected bureaucrats. This campaign has nothing to do with party politics. It's about the simple, shocking truth of what is happening to our nation as each day passes.

If you live in Britain or any Commonwealth country and receive EClub as a matter of routine, I have taken the liberty of automatically enrolling you in CTE, so you are able to track further information about the EU supplements directive in a special section of future EClubs. If you are reading this article and are not currently a member of the Campaign for Truth in Medicine, you can join for free today by clicking here.

For those of us who love what Britain has traditionally stood for, we must be grateful that our country has given us many wonderful freedoms and opportunities, housed and fed us and kept us safe. Meanwhile, many other nations still dwell in the hopeless darkness of their despair. Britain now enters one of her darkest, historic hours. Find out what you can do to help. Visit our CTE website at http://www.campaignfortruth.com/CTE/.