Why Lisbon Treaty is a Bad for Ireland

1. It puts at risk our automatic right to a referendum on future changes to existing treaties.

2. It gives the EU too much power and reduces our ability to stop decisions that are not in Ireland's interests.

3. It gives 105 additional powers to the EU on issues such as international relations, security, trade and economic policy. And in more than 60 of these areas we will lose our right to stop laws not in our national interest.

4. It creates an EU Foreign Minister and common defence and foreign policies, and allows the EU to act on the international stage in the same way as a state and to speak on our behalf.

5. It erodes neutrality by drawing us into a common defence and obliging us to increase military spending.

6. It cuts our voting strength on the Council of Ministers by more than half.

7. It ends our automatic right to a Commissioner.

8. It seriously undermines workers rights and public services.

9. It mandates the EU to promote nuclear energy.

10. It undermines the EU's commitment to tackling global poverty and inequality.

 

EU Commission to Approve 5 GMO Crops

Can you really trust the EU Commission to have our best interests at heart?

GreenPeace organizes 1 million signatures against GMO’s Article I-47(4) of the proposed EU Constitution..
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/1-million-europeans-call-for-g

EU Commission likely to approve 5 GM Crops
http://euobserver.com/9/25686/?rk=1

According to Article I-47(4) of the proposed EU Constitution and Lisbon Treaty: "not less than one million citizens who are nationals of a significant number of Member States may take the initiative of inviting the Commission […] to submit any appropriate proposal on matters where citizens consider that a legal act of the Union is required for the purpose of implementing the Constitution

If you can’t trust them on GMOs can you trust on them on EU Defense Policy?

“Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power?”
EU Commission President Romano Prodi 13/02/2001

Wake Up, We are about to Give Away More Hard Won Irish Sovereignty!!! “We declare the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies to be sovereign and indefeasible” 1916 Proclamation

Is this the kind Europe We Want? Don't Give Your Power Away

All of this comes at a time when Ireland is the only country in the European Union having a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Ireland's small electorate will decide what the future of democracy looks like for the 450
million people of the European Union.

Video on the Various EU Treaties
http://www.erc2.org/fileadmin/user_upload/vids/erc_-_You_have_to_eat_it_all_16x9__4_MB.wmv

Vote No On the Lisbon Treaty

Lisbon Treaty Upsets the EU Parliament

You basically get the feeling that EU is trying to pull a fast one on us. Hardly anybody has read the Treaty, almost no one read the previous Constitution which the treaty is based on, and now they expect us to ratify a referendum on the treaty in Ireland with almost no debate, other than a few simple sound bytes on why we should.

14.12.2007 - "No" vote on EU treaty would hurt Ireland: Irish PM
Reuters - A "No" vote by Irish voters in next year's referendum on the European Union's reform treaty would isolate Ireland from the bloc, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said in an interview published on Friday. Ahern told the Irish Times newspaper the government had to "win" the referendum and said a rejection by voters would be "an enormously retrograde step for Ireland in every way".

What does this mean? The treaty is asking us to transfer some of our sovereignty to the EU through referendum and all they can come up with is simple platitudes. I was hoping for a much more vigorous debate. Wouldn't you want to be more informed on a decision that is important enough for a referendum because it affects the Irish Constitution.

Check out this "YouTube Video" on how angry the EU parliament is about how the treaty is being forced upon us ...

Hey if the EU parliament is upset, maybe we should vote "NO", watch out ...

United Sovereign Citizen Power in Action

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.--

Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, 1776