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When the State becomes the Enemy of the People. At eighteen, living in Chicago, and holding both a British Passport and US immigrants Green Card I faced a decision. My mother was Canadian and I had to then choose which political master I would serve and as this arose during the Vietnam War, I though long and hard about which citizenship I would affirm for the future. Whilst not drafted I remained liable for U.S. military service as I enjoyed all of the rights and duties of a natural born American, excepting the right to vote. Having made my decision to go home I sailed to England, returning my Green Card. I took very seriously the imperative "America: Love It or Leave It!" then proclaimed by multitudes of bumper stickers. In the U.K. I voted Conservative, as that Party appeared to be more in touch with reality than the Labour Party. Working in the Highlands during the oil boom, I flirted with the Scottish National Party was reasonably uninvolved in UK politics until 1992 when my political world exploded. Then a friend asked if I knew anything about "Maastricht". I told him I knew it as a fairly boring town in Holland, a centre for drug trafficking and home to a Novotel in which I had stayed. He sent me a copy of the Treaty of European Union and asked for my comments. Upon reading Article 8 1 and 2, learned I had been made a citizen of a hitherto non-extant nation and was subject to the duties and privileges therein. My American civics lessons had been clear. The political power to which the citizen owes his allegiance is the protector of the rights of the citizen and in return the citizen has duties and responsibilities; these are to pay tax to the government and to die, if necessary, in military service defending the nation state. Others and I raised the matter with various departments as to how one could renounce this new found and most unwelcome imposition; to me unprecedented since civilisation began. One knows the honour with which Paul held his Roman citizenship, and one was aware of those who had been stripped of their citizenship, and forfeited their rights and privileges from their respective states, but never had citizenship been imposed without consulting the "citizen" to be. Letters were sent t the following persons and departments in June 1995, enquiring how such citizenship could be renounced: The Prime Minister, The Foreign Secretary, The Home Secretary, and Ian Taylor M.P. They replied Home Office, June 23, 1995 "Union Citizenship is not equivalent of citizenship of a state and will not take the place of national citizenship……….the status of British citizens and their relationship to the Crown remain unchanged. The Union DOES NOT HAVE LEGAL PERSONALITY AND DOES NOT ADOPT THE ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF STATEHOOD." [Emphasis mine]. "Nowhere [in the treaties] is there any duty…. such as military service." Home Office, July 11, 1995 "…..there is no formal mechanism for renunciation of EU citizenship, and your status as such does not, of course, affect your allegiance to the Crown." Ian Taylor M.B.E. ,M.P., June 19, 1995 "The European Community has been a means of securing peace…..Only by being active Europeans will we protect and advance British interests. I had a personal example of how successful we can be when I persuaded the other eleven countries to liberalise their telephone structure by 1998…" Mr Taylor was again asked to answer the question he had so studiously avoided. He replied on July 4, 1995 "There is no "European Citizenship" as such for you to renounce. It is used as a useful term to encourage people to work for a common aim. As it has signally failed in your case, I suggest that you ignore it." Foreign & Commonwealth Office June 28, 1995 Citizenship of the European Union does not replace national citizenship Indeed it cannot be acquired without national citizenship. Nor does it conflict with loyalty or allegiance to the Crown …………It is not possible to renounce European Citizenship, any more than it is possible, as a British citizen, to renounce Commonwealth citizenship. It could only be achieved by renouncing your British citizenship." Letter from Dr. Brian Mawhinney M.P. May 1996 addressed me as "Dear Fellow Citizen", and prompted me to fax Geoffrey Martin of the European Commission, London asking him how to renounce my European Citizenship. He replied on May 14, 1996: "I can only presume, as this is a matter for the British Parliament, that you deal directly with your MP." Readers of London Miscellany will be able to draw their own conclusions from these contradictory and duplicitous "answers" and will understand why I now also hold a Canadian Passport. So when the Major government asked for my vote, I told them what they could do. For a while I gave the Blair government the benefit of the doubt. How tragic therefore, to discover that Blairism had taken the torch from the Conservatives and the answers coming from the new government's offices were the same despite the despot's appeal to the "people". Never in living memory has there been a government more remote from the "people" than the present elected dictatorship. I have commiserated with Labour and socialist fellow "citizens" about the rape of Europa. Only this time it is we, the English people, who are being raped by Europa and her fellow travelling oligarchies. The Blair government appears so repressive that even the Labour Commons are afraid to demand the truth. Under New Labour the foundations are under attack. We are being divided that we may be ruled. The Union is to be rent asunder, and England to be divided into Regions, the House of Lords wrecked with no structure to replace it, and ever increasing politically correctness becomes law; a stupidity which guarantees more inter racial and inter cultural violence in this Fabian nightmare. But almost as though roused from a deep sleep the people who make up middle England are realisng they face the greatest threat to our nation for seven hundred years. And not all are over fifty years old. Political activism has not been as strong since the 1800's yet the Fabian controlled broadcast media ignore it. So do the government and to their peril, for the English have only recently been awakened to national identity, unnecessary when things ran smoothly. Now, no longer represented by any major political party, we receive duplicated platitudes from the Government and the office of the Leader of the Opposition. We are stunned that our "leaders" do not lead, nor do they defend our national interests. Men are jailed for failing to pay their television licenses, yet men who have murdered with violence are set free - for the sake of an "Orwellian" peace. One message reverberates: The people are an annoying irrelevance and the only way to change things is through the gun or by dictat. We have seen the success of violence in Israel, Kenya, and South Africa. We are witnessing it in Northern Ireland. If Corpus Juris becomes EU law and continental political professionals continue to make fools of our supine politicians, then the inevitable result will be civil war. Our once great country has been betrayed by successive governments since the European Economic "community" was sold to us under the guise of a trading arrangement of independent states. Since then we have lost most of our manufacturing industries in the first organised de industrialisation of a Western nation. The UK as the only net importer of foodstuffs has seen its agriculture and fishing industries destroyed by the imposition of quotas and set aside, and the cultural attack from within both the educational establishment and the media has been merciless and unremitting. Thus the state, a servant of the citizenry, has become the enemy of the people. Soon the results will soon be seen on the streets. It is sad, as it is wholly unnecessary, but our present politicians have neither read, nor understood, history and therefore all of us are destined to repeat it. I fully expect that within ten years I and many of my friends will be imprisoned for criticising the EU, having run foul of some of the more pernicious and draconian laws which will stem from Corpus Juris for we shall have become, by remaining what we always were, the enemies of the new and Orwellian State. Shortly after WWII my father wrote "The State as a Servant of God". It would be ironic if his son were to author a book shortly before the next one entitled "The State as the Servant of Antichrist". Peter Watson Copyright Docere Veritas Press 1998 Article may be freely copied or quoted from providing the quotation does not change the meaning of the intention within the original context. TOP |
