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The “New European Soviet”
New American ^ | September 6, 2004 | Vilius Brazenas

Posted on 01/10/2005 4:02:34 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe

I am going to tell you a story about Europe and America. It is a true story about tyranny and freedom, about hope, folly, deception and betrayal. It is also a warning about grave danger. Alarmed at the trends I see, I feel obliged to tell this story. Now in my 91st year, I am one of the few living souls who have experienced the major events of the last century. Being both European and American, I have witnessed and studied these events from opposite sides of the Atlantic.

I am Lithuanian by birth and saw my small country suffer under both Nazi and Communist brands of totalitarianism. My family was trapped in Russia when the Bolshevik Revolution brought the Communists to power. As a young boy in Moscow, in 1922, I was forced to march with my classmates in the Communist May Day parade in front of Vladimir Lenin himself.

Like much of Europe, Lithuania was overrun in the 1940s by the Soviet Red Army, then by the Nazis, and then again by the Soviets. In 1944, as the Soviet Red Army was reinvading Lithuania, and after facing Soviet tanks, I was able to escape with my wife and daughter. In 1949, we were able to come to America and, later, thank God, to become U.S. citizens.

In January 2003 I came back to live in Lithuania. As an author, speaker and newspaper columnist, I am attempting to use my talents and opportunities in the time that I have left to warn my countrymen — both American and Lithuanian — about the very real and present danger to freedom posed by the evolving European Union (EU) and the very similar project proposed for North and South America called the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

Most Americans have only a very hazy understanding about what the EU is and an even foggier notion of how it came about. Unfortunately, most Europeans also have a very poor understanding of these things. They have only recently begun to recognize how blind they have been to the very real threats that the growing centralization of power in the EU poses to their national independence and their freedoms.

However, it must be said that the main reason why Europeans and Americans both have such foggy notions about the EU is that the EU architects and promoters have purposely kept the real origins and objectives of the EU shrouded in deception. They had to do this, in order to foist this scheme on the peoples of Europe. If they had openly proclaimed their true objective — to end national sovereignty and create an unaccountable, socialist suprastate — the entire scheme would have been rejected overwhelmingly, right from the start.

When former Soviet dictator Mikhail Gorbachev visited Britain in 2000, he accurately described the European Union as “the new European Soviet.” He said this with obvious approval, since he sees the evolving EU as fulfilling his vision of a “common European home” stretching “from the Atlantic to the Urals,” as he described it in his 1987 book Perestroika. Mr. Gorbachev is a lifelong Communist overlord who has steadfastly refused to renounce Communism.

In fact, he defiantly remains a Communist. On December 23, 1989, Gorbachev declared to his fellow Soviets, “I am a communist. For some that may be a fantasy. But for me it is my main goal.” On February 26, 1991, Gorbachev said, “I am not ashamed to say that I am a communist and adhere to the communist idea, and with this I will leave for the other world.” He has repeated these sentiments many times. In his book he also stated: “I frankly admit that we are glad that the idea of a ‘common European home’ finds understanding among prominent political and public figures of not only Eastern, but also Western Europe....”

It is highly significant that a top-level Marxist-Leninist such as Mikhail Gorbachev could find such affinity with Western leaders about a “common European home” and then, 13 years later, approvingly note that that common home was moving ever closer to the Soviet model. After all, hadn’t the Soviet model collapsed and died? But Mr. Gorbachev was, at least in this instance, telling the truth; the EU has been, and is now, moving steadily toward Soviet-style tyranny.

The European Parliament, the European Commission and other EU institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Frankfurt and The Hague are dominated by radical socialists and dedicated one-worlders who are bent on smashing the individual, once-independent nation states of Europe into Soviet-style conformity with the oppressive dictates of the new EU Politburo.

A Revolutionary Coup d’Etat

In their powerful exposé, The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union (2003), British journalist Christopher Booker and Dr. Richard North, formerly a researcher inside the EU bureaucracy, aptly describe the EU as “a slow-motion coup d’état: the most spectacular coup d’état in history.” In what remains of this article, I will attempt to explain why that description by Mr. Booker and Dr. North is no exaggeration and how this spectacular coup has come about. It is also my intent to show how the deceptive NAFTA-FTAA process is directly related to the EU and patterned after it to achieve the same kind of coup d’état in the Americas.

The “European project,” as the EU designers refer to their ongoing revolution, was launched with the Treaty of Rome in 1957. The Common Market was born the following December when Italy became the sixth nation to ratify the treaty (joining France, Belgium, West Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg). It was sold to the peoples of Europe as a “free trade” agreement that would bring prosperity by removing barriers to the movement of people, goods, services and capital across borders.

In fact, it was a program for national suicide, for gradual, “slow-motion” political and economic merger of the member nations. Booker and North write that Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, known in Europe as “Mr. Socialist,” was responsible for convincing his fellow EU founding fathers that “the most effective way to disguise their project’s political purpose was to conceal it behind a pretense that it was concerned only with economic co-operation, based on dismantling trade barriers: a ‘common market.’”

The Treaty of Rome was, in truth, a constitution for a new government disguised as a treaty. Traditionally, a treaty is an agreement between sovereign states, concerning borders, military alliances, trade relations, extradition, etc. The parties to the treaty remain sovereign states; their form of government is not altered and their citizens are not directly bound with new laws or obligations. The Treaty of Rome, however, created a new, over-arching “community” independent of its member states and claiming the power to create laws that are binding not only on the member nations but on their individual citizens as well.

This was not noticed by the people at first, because the EU founders were careful only to show their citizens the benign features of their project. It had been designed to be implemented incrementally, as an ongoing process, so that no single phase of the project would arouse sufficient opposition as to stop or derail it.

The original Treaty of Rome has been repeatedly modified by subsequent treaties and legislation, all of which have greatly enhanced the legislative, executive and judicial powers of the central EU government. The European Communities Act (1972), the Single European Act (1986), the Schengen Agreement (1990), the Maastricht Treaty (1992), the Amsterdam Treaty (1998), and the Treaty of Nice (2000) are some of the most important benchmarks that have transferred vast powers piecemeal to Brussels, where the EU is headquartered.

The eurofederalists cloak this destructive, revolutionary process under such code words as “integration,” “harmonization,” and “convergence.” In 1991, the Single European Act was coming into force and beginning to show the very ugly teeth that had been built into it. At that time, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph, one of Britain’s major newspapers, expressed in a column the sense of betrayal and outrage felt by many in Europe. “Twenty years ago, when the process began,” he wrote, “there was no question of losing sovereignty. That was a lie, or at any rate, a dishonest obfuscation.”

It was actually a multitude of lies. The EU founders and their successors have been carrying forward nothing less than a brazen scheme of treason dressed up as economic trade policy. And treason is not too harsh a word, for many of the key leaders of this operation are government officials who are betraying a sacred trust and have been lying outright to their constituents. As Sir Worsthorne pointed out, for decades the EU advocates had explicitly lied, insisting that the developing EU would not affect national sovereignty, and that EU laws and regulations would not override national laws and constitutions. These were wild, paranoid fantasies, they said.

Warnings about the true nature of the EU were routinely smothered by the globalist controlled, pro-EU press — which includes nearly all the major media organs. Now that the project is entering its final stages, however, the eurofederalists are dropping all pretenses and admitting openly what they previously denied. They can hardly help it now, since the EU established a constitutional convention in 2002 to draw up a formal constitution for a United States of Europe. At nearly 300 pages, the document is an open-ended power grab, with none of the checks and balances and means of accountability that we enjoy in our U.S. Constitution.

Many Americans, no doubt, tend to consider the Common Market and the EU as positive steps toward greater freedom. After all, it certainly is more convenient to have only one currency, the euro, when touring the continent. But whatever conveniences it may offer are offset by far more important concerns. Consider:

• Regulatory nightmare. British grocers have been arrested and fined for continuing to sell bananas and other produce by the pound instead of by the EU’s newly mandated metric weights. Similarly, the EU dictates on the shape and size of cucumbers, the consistency of marmalade, the texture and taste of chocolate, and thousands of other consumer items.

• Acquis communautaire. The EU already operates under the doctrine of acquis communautaire, which holds that all members must adopt EU law in its entirety, and further, that once the EU usurps the right to legislate in a new area, its authority in that area is guaranteed in perpetuity. Thus, power is guaranteed to flow in one direction — from the member states to the central government.

• Corpus juris. The corpus juris is the new legal code initiated by the Amsterdam Treaty that will, among other things, set up a European Public Prosecutor with over-riding criminal law jurisdiction throughout Europe. Habeas corpus, trial by jury and other important protections will be swept away.

• Unlimited migration. Signatory countries of the EU Schengen Agreement have given up their right to police their borders, thus allowing illegal aliens — including terrorists — to travel freely between countries. With Russia and other former Soviet states, along with Turkey, scheduled for membership, we will soon have millions of new migrants, including many Communists and militant Muslims migrating at will throughout Europe — much like what could happen to the U.S. if the FTAA is implemented.

• Economic control. With the establishment of the euro currency and the European Central Bank, the EU countries have lost control of their fiscal and monetary policy as well as their currencies.

• Destroying agriculture. The EU’s Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) has taken control of nearly all agriculture and has nearly destroyed British agriculture.

• Power to tax. The EU already claims the authority to dictate indirect tax policies such as the VAT (value added tax) on clothes, food, public transport, fuel, construction, homes, etc. The Treaty of European Union declares that EU decisions to “impose pecuniary obligation on persons other than States shall be enforceable.” That means direct taxes on individuals.

• Coercive military and police power. If the Eurocrats have their way, they will soon have European military and police forces to enforce their increasingly dictatorial edicts.

The architects of NAFTA and the FTAA openly cite the EU as the model for their proposed regional “common market” for the Western Hemisphere. For example, Mexican President Vicente Fox acknowledged on May 16, 2002: “Eventually, our long-range objective is to establish … an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union.” At the time Fox was referring specifically to the three NAFTA countries (the U.S., Canada, and Mexico); the proposed FTAA would further develop the “ensemble of connections” while extending them throughout the Americas.

President Bush, President Fox and the “new world order” Power Elite at the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Council of the Americas have all adopted the deceptive terminology of the EU — “integration,” “harmonization,” “convergence” — to describe their “American project.” They have adopted an aggressive schedule, intending to do in a few years what it has taken the eurocrats decades to accomplish.

We can and must stop this treasonous plan — or Mr. Gorbachev and his ilk will soon be able to gloat about the “new American Soviet.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: eussr; ftaa; harmonization
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To: John_Wheatley

A more serious question here, what advantages do you feel adding another layer of government to European society provides for you?

I've long felt the world needs less centralization, not more. Compare the progess of Medieval to Victorian China and Europe in regards to both freedom and prosperity...


41 posted on 01/10/2005 5:38:59 PM PST by swilhelm73 (Like the archers of Agincourt, ... the Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.)
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To: John_Wheatley

I thought we were talking about Naz.. Sorry the EU?

Same difference.


44 posted on 01/10/2005 5:49:39 PM PST by loboinok (GUN CONTROL IS HITTING WHAT YOU AIM AT.)
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To: John_Wheatley
I genuinely don't know what you are talking about, so how can I answer?

Your rhetorical question about; "What freedoms have I lost?", you answered to my satisfaction. That being, you are unaware of any lost freedoms, so to enumerate them would be a futile exercise.

46 posted on 01/10/2005 5:53:09 PM PST by elbucko (Feral Republican)
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To: John_Wheatley

I can understand your confusion concerning the pistol example . . . after all, pistols were banned in the UK long before its accession to the EU. But don't tell the knee-jerkers here.


47 posted on 01/10/2005 5:53:54 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: John_Wheatley

But again, here is what I am trying to get at, one can argue that the EU will simply not make things worse, as you've largely done here, but what benefit, or potential benefit, does it provide for you?


48 posted on 01/10/2005 5:54:03 PM PST by swilhelm73 (Like the archers of Agincourt, ... the Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.)
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To: PeterFinn

"Threat" you say, EU will be a threat to the U.S.? I hope not, I can't see that happening. Really the slowly evolving EU reminds me more of the early days of the U.S. Whne each state printed their own money. I think of it more as independent nations (like our independent states) forming one "country." For the E.U., the nations are to large and independent to really be one "country" but neve will they ever be a "threat" to us. Competitors, yeah sure, we compete against each other for business etc. but not a "threat" to us militarily.


51 posted on 01/10/2005 6:06:01 PM PST by ExPatInFrance
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To: John_Wheatley

I think you misunderstand me. I didn't say you personally lost any freedoms, but your nation as whole HAS. They are giving up their freedom to regulate some of their own practices, such as agriculture, finance, and possibly (I believe that this has not been finalized for the EU yet)even foreign policy. How do you feel that submitting to the EU's authority on these things is NOT a loss of freedom? Just because you permit it doesn't mean it's not a loss, kwim?

I wasn't speaking of defense, by the way. I was speaking of your foreign policy objectives. Your government already goes in different directions from both France and Germany, for example. From what I can tell, the UK's foreign policy is much closer to that of the former Soviet Republics and Australia than any other country on the Continent. Going along with a Foreign Minister from another country might be hunky dory when you agree, but what happens when you don't? All of this power is being centralized in areas that are not always going to be friendly to the UK's interests. The effects of this can trickle down to you, as well.


52 posted on 01/10/2005 6:10:03 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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To: John_Wheatley

I totally agree with you. I can't imagine any of the people posting have ever tried to do business in Europe. The E.U. is at east making some things "common." Like package labeling for example. They are pooling their money to for example, finance healthcare in deeloping countries. Instead of all these nations having overlapping projects, now it is better organized. How would it be in the U.S. if Illinois had a Malaria treatment program in Brazil, and then California came in and started dupication the efforts of Illinois? Europe is jsut doing what the U.S. already does, except for them it is countries banding together and for us it is states.


53 posted on 01/10/2005 6:12:54 PM PST by ExPatInFrance
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I don't understand why the Euros didn't leave well enough alone. They were on friendly terms, traded freely, and respected one another. But now they're throwing themselves into the big cement mixer, and it smells like trouble down the road..


54 posted on 01/10/2005 6:16:00 PM PST by cookcounty (-It's THE WHITE HOUSE, not THE WAFFLE HOUSE.)
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To: John_Wheatley

You wrote:
I'm not saying the EU is perfect, very far from it but some of the benefits are:

I do not need to wear a uniform to kill fellow Europeans. (THE most important reason)
I get food cheaper.
I can work anywhere in the EU.
I can travel anywhere in the EU.
I have a large block of 450 million people behind me in trade disputes.
My whole nation benefits from a massive single market and harmony of company law.

It's basically a market of 450 million people instead (in my case) 50 million. Money and Peace, what's not to like?

My Reply: 100% agree with you. The changes thus far have been an improvement. The posters seem to feel that there is now an "extra" layer in Brussels. However they do not grasp the individual country laws that were recinded that opened up free trade between the E.U. Member states. It is not "more" laws, just more uniformity in laws. Makes it easier to do business.


55 posted on 01/10/2005 6:20:17 PM PST by ExPatInFrance
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To: John_Wheatley
Yes, in the European elections.

And how does it feel knowing that someone in East Germany is cancelling your vote?

56 posted on 01/10/2005 6:25:06 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: John_Wheatley

I enjoy it here because there is not many people in Britain who think the way you people do.


Give it time, Your Muslims will change your tune very shortly. They have already. I suspect that will be one of many eye openers you will enjoy in the very near future.


57 posted on 01/10/2005 6:26:21 PM PST by loboinok (GUN CONTROL IS HITTING WHAT YOU AIM AT.)
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To: ExPatInFrance

However they do not grasp the individual country laws that were recinded

Now be reasonable. How do you expect a country with 50 State Constitutions under a U.S. Constitution to grasp something that complex?


58 posted on 01/10/2005 6:33:19 PM PST by loboinok (GUN CONTROL IS HITTING WHAT YOU AIM AT.)
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To: ExPatInFrance
Europe is jsut doing what the U.S. already does, except for them it is countries banding together and for us it is states.
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LOL...then why not give up the pretense of being sovereign nations at all? If they're gonna be the United States of Europe, then why be coy?

Because people won't stand for it, when push comes to shove, that's why.
60 posted on 01/10/2005 6:36:22 PM PST by exnavychick (There's too much youth; how about a fountain of smart?)
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