Lisbon – vote ’No’

Take a stand for democracy and vote No, says Michael Commins, rather than ceding more control to our European masters

‘NO’ vote
Michael Commins

THE Lisbon Treaty is upon us at last. And the people of the city that bears its name are not even allowed to cast their vote. For the leaders of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Labour to claim that democracy is being served by supporting this referendum is an abomination. No wonder that thousands of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil supporters all over the country are ready to vote No on Thursday and take a stand for real democracy.
Brian Cowen, Enda Kenny and Eamonn Gilmore, and their ‘vested interest’ lackeys, including their MEPs, have the gall to ask us to support them when millions of citizens of the EU are being denied the basic right to vote by their respective parliaments. Where’s the democracy there?
Already, the people of France and Holland have voted No to basically the same document with a few minor changes. The British people were promised a referendum but have now been denied the right to vote. This Lisbon Treaty would be slaughtered by the British electorate and the Labour Party have deprived their own citizens of the right to vote.
Ireland is ceding control of its destiny to our European masters. We will soon have the same influence on Europe as the people of Inishturk have on Dáil Éireann. The politicians at the helm are selling the soul of our nation for the 30 pieces of silver.
Poor old Michael Davitt and the Land League slogan, ‘The Land of Ireland for the People of Ireland’, wouldn’t stand a chance in the warped thinking of today’s political elites. It would be ‘racist’ and not politically correct to argue such theories. No, the likes of Davitt from Mayo and James Fintan Lalor from Laois, that extraordinary land agitator whose writings inspired rebellion among the agrarian classes in many parts of Europe, would be sidelined as ‘trouble-makers’ by our top politicians who are supping from the golden trough.
It is galling to see the three political leaders hand in hand on this issue. We have been fed lies by politicians and the same is happening again. The people of Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Monaghan and Clare did not vote to have services in their hospitals curtailed and siphoned off to centres of excellence. People who feel they have been let down on any issue, whether it be the hospitals, fishing, farming, the taking away of the freedom to have two or three drinks in their local pub without being made feel like criminals, should use the Lisbon Treaty to register their disapproval. The politicians need a kick in the behind to bring them to their senses. They need to be reminded, in the words of US Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis, that ‘the right most valued by all civilised men is the right to be left alone’.
No one can ever accuse that great Westport man, Joe McNally, of being a Yes man. In a letter published in last Tuesday’s Irish Independent, he pulled no punches when he stated: “In another time in this country, they would have been shot for treason for the complete sell-out of their God, culture and country, if their boundless arrogance had been allowed to reach this stage of stupidity.
“They want us to submit our Ireland to the creation of a European super state. The bureaucrats in Brussels know what they want. Has the spirit of the Irish of old dissipated into nothingness? Have we finally surrendered to the lies and deceit of our Leinster House lackeys? Do we really want to stab our forefathers in their graves? In the name of God and Ireland, vote No to the Lisbon Treaty,” exhorted Joe.
The Westport man is 100 per cent right. There’s a breed in control in the European Empire these days that wants to outlaw nationalism of any kind. Wanting to protect your heritage, identity, community and beliefs does not mean you are a racist. But many European PC thinkers would like to make you believe so. It is time to fight this nonsense and time for all of us who see the European flag as a new flag of domination to have the right to ask that it be taken down.
More and more I find myself in agreement with the thinking of that great American writer, Edgar Allen Poe. He had nothing but contempt for the opinions of the so-called ‘democratic mob’ of politicians, the New England literary cliques and the Boston ‘frog-pond’ of commentators of his day. “I wish to establish a journal,” he once expounded, “in which the men of genius may fight their battles; upon some terms of equality, with those dunces the men of talent.”
The elites of Europe are exerting more and more control over our freedoms. You can’t cut turf, you can’t fish as before, rural Ireland is closing down, everywhere you turn there’s an EU directive. Even in the worst of times, under British domination, people had the right to harvest turf from the bogs.
Treasure your freedoms, whatever is left of them, because they are being eroded month by month. Stand up for the millions of decent Europeans who have been denied the basic right of exercising their vote by the amadáns in the EU, now being endorsed by their mandarins of vested interests here at home. Don’t cede your ability to think to the ‘thought police’ of this country and Brussels.
To doubt is safer than to be secure. It will be a privilege to vote No on Thursday, a privilege being denied to the millions and millions of citizens throughout Europe. By voting No, you are giving them a voice … and taking it away from the faceless bureaucrats of the Empire of domination that is Brussels today. You can help change the course of European history. Halt the bandwagon in its tracks this Thursday.