From a Dutch commenter at Reuters:

We dutch people said ‘NO’ to the new European treaty. Then Balkenende decided, that we should not be allowed to vote again after the politicians made same cosmetic changes to the treaty. Then Balkenende said ‘YES’ to giving away our rights and our sovereignty against our explicit will. So the people of the Netherlands said ‘NO’. And Balkenende is guilty of High Treason.

Europe and the USA have a very big mouth about democracy, elections, honesty, human rights. But is there democracy in the Netherlands? Have the people a say in their own affairs? Or do we need to go to The Hague with a guillotine, before somebody listens?

The voters are running away from traditional parties towards new extremist parties. They have very good reasons for doing so. The traditional politicians have betrayed us so many times, that nobody takes them serious anymore.

I am from the Netherlands. And I know that Balkenende would be a very wrong choice. In the Netherlands he has been absent in each and every crisis. Only when the opposition forces him to an opinion, he comes up with some kind of statement. He gives the impression of someone suffering from a clinical depression.

Just the type Europe might put in as the new Prez.  He has all the qualifications – bland and grey, self-serving, treasonous, a yes man and corrupt.  Yep, he’s their boy.

Leaving that aside for one moment, I’m still stunned how a country can run a referendum, the result of the referendum is negative and the Prime Minister goes ahead, on the strength of that and signs the treaty.  Why wouldn’t he have to resign on the spot?  Why wasn’t there daily outrage and outcry from all sectors of society until he reversed that?

The answer, as we all know, is that national outrage can only be known as outrage if the media lead it.  They clearly didn’t here.  Culpable.  The government and media colluded to do an openly illegal thing and breached all terms of their remit.

How powerless we are under this system and I’m sure that’s what we’re meant to be observing until the cry for a new system becomes too great.  Then a new system comes in worse than the one before.  I’m sure that there are learned minds grappling with this one right now – how to wrest power back.

I’ve never been a revolutionary type, vastly preferring loyalty and this blog is a relatively recent thing for me.  It seems quite revolutionary but it’s just a reaction to what we’ve been seeing these past few years.

Readers, how do the people wrest power from Them?  How can it be done without revolution and how can we prevent the revolution being hijacked, as it’s sure to be if it happened, by the wrong people?  How can we stop the slide into totalitarianism and inevitable war [they adore war and grandiose building projects]?

Because we are surely going to have draconian financial measures imposed on us to supposedly overcome the dire situation, a situation They caused in the first place.  We have no mechanisms – even the Founding Fathers did not foresee this situation or rather they saw it very well and papered over it.

At this time now there is absolutely no cogent reason to go to war.  There’s no enemy without, Iran is too far away and not even thinking of taking us on, Russia is looking at its own defence, China is down the track.  The elite is spoiling for war – we’ve gone too long without one, in their opinion – just look at the falling away of the moral compass but that is a false argument.  What is needed instead is a group of highminded men and women of decency to join and lead the push for a document, for a start, which will act like the U.S. Constitution.

Then when we get this rubbish:

October 28, 1939 – In an address by John Foster Dulles [later U.S. Secretary of State], he proposes that America lead the transition to a new order of less independent, semi-sovereign states bound together by a league or federal union.

… and this:

1975 – In Congress, 32 Senators and 92 Representatives sign “A Declaration of Interdependence,” which states that “we must join with others to bring forth a new world order…Narrow notions of national sovereignty must not be permitted to curtail that obligation.”

… then this is plain treason to the U.S.A. What happened to these people? They stayed in place.

The major obstacle is that those who might have led the charge against these forces are now so dispirited just trying to make ends meet, that there is no time for upheaval and it’s every man for himself.

And even more dispiriting is – you’ve seen commenters on this blog saying it – that there are people who really do think things are fine in society and who think we’re on the right track. One puts the head in the hands and just rocks quietly backwards and forwards.

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