Tony Blair: President of Europe?

Posted: April 21, 2003

1:00 a.m. Eastern

(c) 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. 

If you would see the model for the World

Government that is to rule your grandchildren, look to Europe. 
For it is rising there.  

At the Athens summit of the European Union, where 10 new members 
were brought into the fold, ex-President Giscard of France, who 
is drafting the EU constitution, endorsed the idea of a powerful 
president of Europe who would serve for a five-year term.  

A president of Europe who can stand up to the president of the 
United States is the brainchild of Tony Blair. And Blair's eyes 
are on the prize, come 2006. But his dilemma is this: The price 
of his becoming president of Europe is surrender of his country's 
sovereignty.  

Unless and until Britain gives up the pound, and accepts the euro 
as its currency, she cannot be a full member of the new Europe and 
Blair cannot be president. But before Britain can give up the pound, 
Blair must call a referendum and persuade his people to give up their 
currency and, with it, control of their economy. That referendum will 
pit him against Margaret Thatcher, the Tories and a majority of Britons, 
who do not wish to give up any more freedom or independence to Europe.  

Moreover, if Britain marries Europe, the special relationship with 
America is over. As the Bible teaches: A man cannot serve two masters. 
Either he will hate the one and love the other, or love the one and 
hate the other.  

What is happening to Europe is making prophets of those who warned 
about the hidden agenda of the "free traders."  

Since the early 19th century, classical liberals have preached that 
free trade leads to free nations and freer peoples. The theory has 
not survived its collision with reality.  

Look at what has happened to Europe as the barriers to trade have 
come down. As the European Coal and Steel Community of the 1950s 
evolved into the European Economic Community ("Common Market"), 
then the European Community, then the EU, the people of Europe 
have become less free, less independent, less self- governing.  

On top of the national governments of Europe has been added a new 
layer of transnational government. A new and more distant socialist 
bureaucracy has arisen to be piled on top of the old state 
bureaucracies. With this difference: These new bureaucrats have 
no loyalty to any country.  

Moreover, as the EU has evolved, it has expanded its powers, 
intruding in areas formerly the province of parliaments: labor 
law, social policy, budgets, environmental policy, immigration 
policy.  

Comes now the demand for "harmonization." This means that all rules, 
regulations and laws written in Brussels are to be imposed upon all the 
nation- states of the EU. Parliaments of sovereign nations are becoming 
as impotent as Rhode Island is to the dictates of the U.S. government 
and Supreme Court.  

What is the driving force behind the New Europe? It is the will to power 
of politicians and a bureaucratic elite that has no allegiance to any 
nation, only a driving ambition to dominate, first, Europe, then the 
world. Like U.N. bureaucrats from ragtag Third World countries, they 
seek a larger canvas on which to paint.  

Why have the peoples of Europe surrendered their independence and 
sovereignty to bureaucrats over whom they have no control? Because 
they are being bribed with a promise of cradle-to-grave security. 
The promise of the new regime is this: We will guarantee you a job, 
unemployment insurance, medical care, pensions for your old age, 
and free time to enjoy the bread and circuses of modernity: TV, 
sex, sports, films, travel.  

It is the bargain Jacob offered Esau - a mess of potage in return 
for his birthright. Though libertarians cannot see it, global free 
trade is the lure leading us ineluctably into the trap of World 
Government.  

Every free-trade zone ever established u whether by the U.S. 
Constitution, the customs union of Bismarck or the Common Market - 
has called into existence a powerful new regime that has displaced 
the old state governments that entered the zone. As creation of a 
national economy requires a national government, a transnational 
economy, as in Europe, requires a transnational government. And 
a Global Economy means World Government.  

In preventing that, patriots of all countries are allies, and the 
elites of many countries, not excluding our own, are adversaries. 
Nor is the battle lost as long as this Republic exists. And the 
elites of globalism  know it. To them, we are the enemy.

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Source: WorldNetDaily ...
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32158


Cheers, Steve..

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