Bizarre: the anti-Lisbon campaigner wants a United States of Europe

January 10th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Mary Ellen Synon
09 January 2012

This is my column in today’s Irish Daily Mail. It is a response to a proposal written by the Irish businessman Declan Ganley, one of the leaders of the No to Lisbon campaign during the Irish referenda, and Brendan Simms, another Irishman who is professor of the history of European international relations at Cambridge. Mr Ganley says he is preparing to re-enter politics with a new pan-European organisation which will advocate for United States of Europe.

I have been hesitating to comment on Declan Ganley’s new plan for a United States of Europe if only out of embarrassment for the man.

It’s like the moment when you see a woman trip over a kerb and sprawl flat with her dress blown up around her waist — you look away in embarrassment for her.

Mr Ganley is a good chap, and a man who was courageous in his fight against the Lisbon Treaty. But his desire to see the member states of the European Union turn into a federal union based on the United States is just blush-making.

First it is embarrassing because I don’t think Mr Ganley understands the American federal union, and second because there is no taste on the Continent for such an utterly Anglo-Saxon invention.

Therefore it does raise the question of why Mr Ganley has put forward this proposal. But why Mr Ganley might be doing this is something I won’t get into. Motive in this case is irrelevant. I will just deal with what Mr Ganley and his colleague Brendan Simms of Cambridge University wrote yesterday in the Sunday Business Post.

Back to why there is and can never be a taste on the Continent for re-shaping the EU into an American-style federal union: the point from the start of the EU was that it would be nothing like America. It was to be the anti-US, the non-America. Europeans have always seen America as the supreme product of the Anglo-Saxon political philosophy, which is the opposite of the Continental political philosophy.

That is why America was and is a place despised by the euro-elite.

Right from the start, and I mean right from the 1920s, when the idea of a European union first appeared, the idea was that any ‘United States of Europe’ would be an entirely new form of government, not like America at all.

According to The Great Deception by Christopher Booker and Richard North (probably the best book tracing the roots of the EU), the two men who first conceived this ‘dream’ in the 1920s of a United States of Europe were Jean Monnet, a French former brandy salesman, and his close friend, an Englishman now largely forgotten, Arthur Salter. What these two wanted to see created in Europe was a government that was ‘supra-national,’ that is, beyond the control of national governments, politicians – or electorates.

So look at the powers which have already been shifted to the EU institutions by the Lisbon Treaty, and then at the even greater powers which are now being seized on the pretext of ‘saving the euro’ – centralised control of national budgets in particular — and ask yourself how the move towards the Monnet-Salter supra-national dream is going. Answer: it is moving along at a cracking pace.

Third, the Europeans are not intellectually or philosophically up to building a union such as the one framed in the 1787 US Constitution. They do not have the same foundation in a common legal history that the 13 original States had, they do not share a common history sprung from the English constitution, they have nothing like the common law tradition from which to draw.