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Toward the End of National Sovereignty
NewsMax.com ^ | Dec. 13, 2001 | Paul Craig Roberts

Posted on 12/13/2001 4:11:32 AM PST by tberry

Toward the End of National Sovereignty Paul Craig Roberts

Dec. 13, 2001

Tyranny is coming to Europe in the form of a new multicultural empire. Ancient sovereign states, such as England and France, and newer ones, such as Germany and Italy, are to cease to exist, to be folded into a European superstate. National existence is targeted for extinction by about 2006, followed by national consciousness.

Preparing the British for their demise as a people, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote in The Independent on Nov. 22 that "in a world where states and the interests of their citizens are so obviously interdependent, we need to rethink our attitudes to concepts like 'independence' and 'sovereignty'."

Prime Minister Tony Blair agrees. The war against terrorism, he says, has made national sovereignty out of date. If you think these are weak arguments for giving up the nation-state, you have a point. The basis for successful political life is a common language, history and culture, which create "a people" sufficiently cohesive for democracy or self-rule to arrive at compromises that reconcile conflicts.

When multicultural diversity replaces "a people," cohesion must be provided by coercion.

Coercion is the response to the massive Third World immigration into European nation-states. The erosion of "a people" by diversity has evoked tyrannical laws in an effort to coerce an artificial commonality.

Great Britain, for example, no longer consists of its indigenous peoples: English, Scots and Welsh. Britons are having to make room for large numbers of Africans, Indians, Arabs and Pakistanis. Sheer numbers and victim-group status impede assimilation, which, in turn, both impedes the immigrants' progress and fosters resentment by diluting British culture.

The consequence of non-assimilation is racial inequality. The Labour Party has responded by blaming "racism." On Dec. 6, the government implemented draconian "race equality" laws. Public, private and voluntary organizations are under statutory obligation, policed by the Commission for Racial Equality, to produce racial equality in employment, college admissions, school performance, disciplinary proceedings, pay, benefits, facilities – in short, a thoroughgoing quota system.

Gurbux Singh, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, called the legislation "a powerful lever for change." In effect, British culture has been declared unfair, because immigrants who do not assimilate are disadvantaged.

Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain is. Some German Social Democrats favor immigration as a way of diluting the German population, thereby diminishing "the worst characteristics of the nation" – in other words, as a way of de-Germanizing Germany.

Proposals are afoot to give the same state subsidies to Islamic cultural organizations as German ones receive.

Dilution of national cultures by immigration is the basis for the European Union. A weakened sense of nationhood in Britain, France and Germany means no effective opposition to bureaucratic rule by the European Commission in Brussels.

In order to criminalize national patriotism and opposition to immigration, the European Union is pushing forward legislation that makes xenophobia and racism crimes. Once this legislation passes, a European who, for example, criticizes immigration as an anti-diversity measure that is wiping European civilization off the face of the earth can be found guilty of racism and sentenced to two years in prison.

Similarly, persons who oppose EU measures as contrary to British values or French culture can be imprisoned for xenophobia.

Hand in hand with the criminalization of national identity goes the European arrest warrant. Once in effect, an Englishman could be extradited to Greece and put on trial for offenses that are not crimes in England.

No finer recipe for oppression could be devised. The oppression will be felt most keenly by the British, for it is the liberties protected by their unique legal system that will be lost. Oppression leads to civil war, not European unity.

The United States, of course, is on the same path. In fact, it began here with coerced racial integration by judicial decree, a "civil rights act" that destroyed freedom of conscience and substituted coercion for persuasion, and unconstitutional racial quotas that destroyed equality in law.

In the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, white governments are responding to the postwar propaganda about "racist white hegemonic culture" by disadvantaging the white populations and diluting the "hegemonic culture." In the United States, the melting pot has been evicted by the slogan "Assimilation is racism."

If the melting pot is dismissed as racist, it must also be racist to question immigration. In the United States, only one side of the immigration debate is permitted – the side that calls for more immigrants. In Europe, there will soon be no debate at all.

As the United States and European governments are committed to national and cultural suicide, what is the point of defense budgets? Shouldn't the money be used instead for payments to make amens for having once had a hegemonic national identity?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: sovereigntylist

1 posted on 12/13/2001 4:11:32 AM PST by tberry
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To: tberry
re : Europe is as overrun with Third World immigrants as Britain is.

I hate to quibble and nitpick, but out of a population of around sixty million only two million can be described as immigrants how does that make Britain overrun.

There are issue's about Sovereignty that needs to be addressed, but over hysterical reporting of the sky is falling when it is not does not do the cause any good, and diminishes any real messages that need to be got across.

Cheers Tony

2 posted on 12/13/2001 4:17:04 AM PST by tonycavanagh
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To: tonycavanagh
Beg to differ. I read the NY Times article yesterday about the Home Office report on the race riots in three British cities last year...it said that the nature of "Britishness" was being lost,the immigrants were NOT assismilating....and had NO loyalty to GB.....I was amazed to see this gcoming from the British govt.....comments?
3 posted on 12/13/2001 4:26:53 AM PST by ken5050
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To: tberry
The war against terrorism, he says, has made national sovereignty out of date.

Funny. I came to the opposite conlcusion. So have most Americans.

4 posted on 12/13/2001 4:28:55 AM PST by Maceman
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To: ken5050
Those three cities were in unemployment black spots, the riots started with rival drug gangs a Asian drug gang ran a area, a local white family with local criminal connections tried to muscle in started a drug gang war which spread amongst both local Asian and white lads.

Average age of the rioters 18 to 20, all unemployed all bored and all with a chip on there shoulder.

My mate is a copper up there, well three of them, one is an Asian, there is an Asian community down the road from me no trouble at all, might it have something to do with the fact that we are all working and dare I say successful, might be.

As for assimilation, my mum regards her self still as Irish as do most of my older relatives me I am British through and through, its not only the Muslims.

Cheers Tony

5 posted on 12/13/2001 4:43:03 AM PST by tonycavanagh
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To: Maceman
"Funny. I came to the opposite conclusion. So have most Americans"

No. I don't think you or they have. I think you and most Americans have started to subconsciously see your selves as cosmopolitan world citizens that can't legitimately do anything without the Politically Correct (PC) approval of the rest of the "free (and not so free) world"

As Bush and everyone else has stated, "Terrorism is a war on peace loving people everywhere." Everywhere literally means ALL countries that supposedly are "our friends." (unofficial world government?)

We have forfeited the ability to do anything meaningful without the permission and support of a "coalition" (unofficial world government?)

NATO airmen are defending and flying in our airspace and we have lost another piece of our sovereignty.

NAFTA and the Federal Government push for the president (king), without congrssional approval (the people), to have the ability to join us with any other country through trade agreements that limit our economic sovereignty. An example is how we uphold our national principles when it might jeopardize cheap "flip Flops" at Wal Mart if we would hold the Chinese accountable for their Totalitarian Dictatorship. Instead we give them Most Favored Nation trading status.

It goes on and on. Everyday we read of our loss of sovereignty and our official and unofficial joining of the New World Order (NWO).

6 posted on 12/13/2001 5:45:10 AM PST by tberry
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To: tberry; KentuckyWoman
"...Everyday we read of our loss of sovereignty..."

Yessir.......

Every second that passes....with the newest Laws on the books (the ones that the American Public knows about and the ones that are tried to be kept secret), moves the temperature up one more degree under this nation.

...fairly soon, it'll be brought to a boil and very, very few will notice the difference....
the truly sad part will be the fact of even fewer will care..

The 'line' between our two closest nations is blurring with every "Treaty" that is enacted. Either by our Congress (or Supreme Court) or by the United Nations. Our Nation's Sovereignty is in jeopardy, and everyone believes this to be a 'good thing' for the 'Global Economy'.

There is a 'unified currency' in most of Europe - with a dismal showing (at best) since it's invention....
...how long before our United States Dollor is taken down the same route ??

This is America...and that can't happen here - is the Battle Cry of the Blinded, uninformed or Brainwashed.

The failed 'Public Education' practicies of the countries in Europe are, now, being force-fed to the American School-Aged Children and their parents. Slowly, as to not kick up the first cloud of dust or cause the panic that would surely happen if all of these 'New Ideals' were to placed into law - all at once. It has been stated that if the new education practices, that have been put into place since the early 1930s, would have waited until today and started all at once - -- - -- - it would've been considered an 'act of war'.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war

An Open Letter to the American People. A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform April 1983

But, no, everyone that knows what needs to be done is willing to wait......
...willing to wait to make all of the needed changes in our children First. Then, when the time is ripe...everything that is needed for (Here it is - you've been waitin' for it) The New World Order or whatever the words for it to be called at that time, will be in place just as Lenin bragged: "Give me a child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever."

Our children...will know that that all Firearms are bad....
...Every Chosen Form of Lifestyle is Okay and shouldn't be questioned....
..any one version of Religion is just as good (and Bad) as any other....
....will know to accept anything handed down to them, from any level of authority, should be blindly followed and never question. As 'They' will know what's best.



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At this time, my Wife and I (along with an innumerable other Parents) are Homeschooling our children. I fear the time is soon coming that this will be against the newest Laws on the books....

7 posted on 12/13/2001 7:36:54 AM PST by Alabama_Wild_Man
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To: tberry
Yes. I have come to the opposite conclusion, which is that NOW is the time for a renewal of our commitment to preserving our national sovereignty.

What makes you think I have not come to this conclusion, when I have told you clearly that I have?

8 posted on 12/13/2001 11:20:11 AM PST by Maceman
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To: Maceman
Guess I misread you and sincerely apologize.
9 posted on 12/14/2001 3:41:45 AM PST by tberry
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