How the EU will lead to war

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"[T]he EU economies are not substantially better than they were in the 90s.
Many are at the same level, others are worse. Ask any Italian what he thinks
of the economy at the moment and if you're lucky he'll just shout at you for
a few hours. The only reason your dollars don't seem to go far any more is
because the dollar has fallen significantly, not because the euro has risen.
The euro is placing a massive inflationary burden on the EU economies, which
no longer have the mechanism of altering interest rates in order to control
inflation.

Further, there is no mechanism for national debt transfer, as exists in the
US, which places further inflationary pressure on individual member states.
This pressure is compounded by inflation in members states that are net
recipients of EU funding (Spain and Ireland as examples) who are able to cut
taxes to miniscule amounts because they're getting funded by the other EU
member states. All of this is combining to produce an inflationary economy
with no control mechanism. Unemployment has risen constantly within the euro
zone since the euro was introduced, and productivity has fallen just as
constantly. National debts are going up, taxes are rising, GDP is falling.

[.] Individual nations are slowly losing their national customs as laws and
regulations are 'unified' across the continent. National institutions might
appear unchanged, which might then present an image that the nations in
question are unchanged, but this is simply a signature of how the EU
functions. Those national institutions have been hollowed out from the
inside and replaced with EU functionaries and apparatchiks. The EU bypasses
national legislatures and operates through the implementation of an ever
more powerful unelected bureaucracy of civil servants and managers. Thus
normality appears to remain. However, in my country, the traditional and
ancient freedoms of common law are being slowly abrogated by the
implementation of bureaucratic systems. Habeas corpus is being erased, the
right to travel within the borders of this country are being erased, the
freedom of the individual is being erased. In fact, this country no longer
officially exists. Look at any EU-approved map and you'll notice that, while
the UK is marked clearly, its constituent parts are not England, Ireland
Scotland and Wales, but Scotland, Wales, northern Ireland, The North West,
The North East, The Midlands, the south east, the south west and greater
London. My country is gone.

Your [American] revolutionary war was started with the cry of "no taxation
without representation". Well, I am definitely no longer represented in the
government that runs my country. In all but a few areas, the laws that are
implemented through Parliament are defined by the EU. The elected government
of this country now only has the freedom to legislate in a few areas;
foreign policy, health and education being the main. Agriculture and
environmental policy, transport, internal affairs of various sorts, prisons
policy, immigration, these are all legislated by the EU, with barely a nod
to the national legislature. MPs will get perhaps 12 hours to examine a
draft law in these areas before putting it to vote - which will generally be
ignored anyway - and these drafts will often run to 30 pages. An MP will get
several of these drafts every single day, dozens in a week. And this is just
the legislation that is passed through Parliament. The EU can simply define
legislation as an administrative or technical regulation and bypass the
elected legislature entirely.
All of this from an organisation that was sold to us on a lie. The EEC was
put across as a free trade zone. I never voted for the creation of a
supranational, unaccountable government that does not submit to the will of
the people via an election. In fact, I did not vote at all. I have never had
a say on whether I want my country - which no longer exists - to be a part
of this. The EU has no mandate and never has.
Now, Germany is a more apt comparison than you might realise. Bismarck
conceived the unification of Germany as a means to prevent the German
kingdoms from fighting each other. He began to implement it when those same
kingdoms were on the verge of signing an unprecedented peace treaty; his
manipulations caused a war that gave him the pretext to simply conquer those
other kingdoms, or trick them in to treaties that irrevocably tied them to
his Imperial Germany.
He began with a customs union.

The EU has not resorted to wars to implement itself, but it began in the
same way, and with the same aims. The EU was conceived as a means to prevent
another war like the Great War, but it was interrupted by the Second World
War. By the close of that war the political landscape had so changed that
the concept of the EU was obsolete before the first treaties were even
signed. It is consequently an institution looking for a role, and it has
since found that role by re-positioning itself as a counter to American
'hegemony', a second pole against the US's presence in the world as a
super-power. This is in itself a foolish proposition; historically it is
more foolish still, because history demonstrates that it will cause more
trouble than it is worth.

Bismarck's united Germany did become peaceful for a while, but that peace
didn't last long. The internal fractures of the new Imperial Germany soon
started to cause strife and resentment amongst the people of that country. A
solution was found in the redirection of the national angst toward external
enemies. The eventual result was the great war. The result of that was World
War 2.

The 'unification' of the nations of Europe is the same thing on a much
larger scale. It is perhaps no coincidence that incidents of
anti-Americanism have risen sharply since the signing of Maastricht.

The EU has placed itself in opposition to the United States. It has
inveigled itself so deeply in to the lives of its 'citizens', so deeply
embedded itself in to every aspect of life, that everything a person does is
regulated in some way by the EU. As examples; In order to install an
electrical socket in my kitchen I must comply with at least eleven separate
regulations. Some are sensible, governing the type of wire to use and the
general direction that wire should go in. Others are nonsense; in order to
comply I have to place my sockets a certain distance from the floor no
matter what their purpose. EU regulations now mandate by law the kind of
taps I'm allowed to use in my bathroom. They mandate the height of my door,
the height of the gap between the door and the ceiling and the angle of my
stairs, to millimetre precisions.

Every day I break about 30 laws whilst engaged in what were previously
lawful activities. Most of these laws are EU-inspired regulations
prescribing the details of how activities are to be carried out. My computer
does not comply with regulations on lead content, electrical output or
anything else, despite being perfectly safe. The lights in my house will
soon be made illegal.

None of this was done with the consent of Parliament. None was done with the
consent of the people of this nation. These are just little things, little
examples of how the EU interferes in every-day life. They are a tiny
fraction of the laws and regulations that are implemented by the EU;
thousands each year, each one limiting the freedom of people just that
little bit more. Sooner or later the sheer volume of regulations will start
to affect people culturally. Our culture is slowly being eroded and
destroyed by this vile institution, our national identities removed, our
freedoms erased, and the end result? Inevitably, it will be war, but before
that will be a morass of dull, lifeless existence for millions of people
shorn of everything that once made their nations great.

What price the ability to spend the same coin in 20 countries?"

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2104


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