Finally! At
last! The cards are on the table! The aces up the sleeves now show! The
sharpened knives, ready to be stuck into the back of national sovereignty and
under the seventh rib of the body politic, have been taken out of the drawer!
The Moment of Truth, dear reader, has arrived.
Rahm Emanuel,
President Obama’s first chief of staff, once spoke a momentous line: ‘Never let
a good crisis go to waste.’ With this he meant to say, that times of panic,
fear and tension can be put to good use to pass controversial measures which
the nation would not accept under normal circumstances. Mr Emanuel is nobody’s
fool…
However, there
are still people more brilliant than he… Masterminds who first cause a crisis, and then put it to excellent
use to reach their own goals.
Yesterday Welt am Sontag leaked the news that the
Brussels’ Gang of Four, to wit:
Barroso, Van Rompuy, Draghi and Juncker, are working on a secret plan ‘to save
the Eurozone’ which they will present to the European heads of state, to
swallow or choke on, the coming 28th of June.
The plan contains,
among many other nifty things no doubt, the following benign proposals:
European institutions
will get even more power over national budgets (which they can already veto at
present…)
A new European
supervisory body for the banking sector with fresh new powers will be installed
(the ‘independent’ power of the ECB is far from sufficient…)
There will be
‘harmonised’ fiscal, tax, foreign and security policies (i.e. the European
executive – which has not been elected and can not be sent packing by a
parliament – will set the rules for tax-gathering, budgets & spending,
foreign relations, policing & defence)
There will be ‘reforms’
of social welfare programmes (read: they will take an axe to all that cry-baby
spending on the poor that endangers the Divine Euro)
The audacity of
this plan is only equalled by its brazenness. But I guess the gentlemen think
their Finest Hour has come. The time is ripe, after all, a huge crisis is eating out the bowels of Europe, and they know that if
they bring this one in, under the pretext of saving the Euro, the Banks
and Employment, nothing and nobody can ever stop them again from complete
supremacy. With tongue well in cheek, one might pronounce Olli Rehn as ‘All I
Reign’! It is what they dream of.
The essential
functions of government are ultimately two: the making of laws and the say over
money. The first is already firmly in the hands of the Beurocracy, through a
web of Treaty Obligations which force independent countries to write European
laws into their legislation. The second is now being conquered; despite the
fact that such wholesale transfers of sovereignty come down to a fundamental change
in various national constitutions, and that there are rules for that. Very old
and respectable rules, written in those same constitutions. Those rules will
simply have to be ignored, our benign Brussels rulers tell us. In the name of
Stability and Prosperity and Peace. Oh…and Democracy
of course!
So Brumaire is on our doorstep - except
that it is a Brumaire Light, since no
Napoleon Bonaparte is anywhere in sight, only megalomaniac Pinocchios. And that
leads us to the last question: will the European populations bite the venomous
bait and swallow? The Gang of Four surely expects them to do so, for thus far
the dumbos always have. And yet, it is perhaps not superfluous to remind them
of a quote from another American fellow who was nobody’s fool, but knew a thing
or two about fooling. To wit:
‘You can fool
all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you
cannot fool all the people all the time.’
There may still
be a spark of hope for this our poor continent.
I wonder who pioneered the whole idea behind "lets-create-a-crisis-so-that-they-need-our-solutions". It's reminiscent of the calls for war and the ever elusive "weapons of mass destruction" in the hunt for oil reserves. If the world was a man, he'd be senile with advanced Alzheimers since people never learn from the mistakes in the past.
ReplyDeleteWell, if one is to believe Lady Thatcher, it all started in the 70s when unscrupulous socialists like Mr Delors made evil plans to establish a sort of EUSSR. But personally I don’t believe in such well-planned devilish conspiracies. Rather, I think that – in the absence of all critical opposition - the Brussels internationalists did the logical thing with the introduction of the Euro. For them this was a win-win situation that could only lead to closer confederation. If the Euro succeeded, economic union would be consolidated and they could point at is as a triumph. If it failed – and I have no doubt that many of these very smart boys and girls recognized that possibility – it could be put to good use as a reason for ‘emergency centralisation’.
ReplyDeleteThe bottom line here is that not a single European bigwig responsible for this mess is being called to account or sanctioned; and that national leaders all sheepishly support the plans of their Brussels colleagues, in blatant disregard of the wishes or instincts of their populations. Hence the ever growing support for pretty suspect rogue parties on the left and right. The EU therefore pretends only to cultivate roses, but in reality it breeds a thorn bush.