EU Trying to Move Goal Posts

Fire of Liberty

According to these articles here and here from The Times, the French and various other governments in Europe have decided to move the goal posts once again on the ratification of the EU Constitution. Throughout the various capital cities of Europe, you have the governmental elites discussing their "Plan B's" if the treaty is rejected in France, Holland and the UK. Instead of abiding by the people's vote, the various leaders have decided to either pass the treaty through their respected parliaments without going to the people, continue the treaty process by holding the subsequent referendums or even worse, the elites will continue to hold one referendum after the other until the leadership gets the vote they want. To see how far the pro-EU camp will go in order to preserve their precious superstate, just look at what the EU leadership plans to do if the treaty is rejected:

After the French result on Sunday evening, Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, which holds the rotating EU presidency, and Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, plan to lay out the course ahead at the Commission's Brussels headquarters.

Mr Juncker will declare that the ratification process must continue, and that countries such as Britain must not abandon their referendums.

Mr Juncker insisted this week: "The countries that have said "no" will have to ask themselves the question again."

It amazing how everyone like Valery Giscard d'Estaing and other pro-EU elites continue to promote this Constitution as the next version of the US Constitution even though the EU and its leaders continue to forget that the guiding principle of the US Constitution, as Lincoln put it is a "government of the people, by the people, for the people." As long as the elites in Europe continue to deny this form of government to its people and continue to move the goal posts on the EU question, you will see a supranational entity like the EU fall to the wasteside. You only have look at the history of Europe to realize that individuals who have tried to impose their complete will on the people, have failed miserbly. Whether it was the British breaking Napoleon's back at Waterloo, the US and Britain defeating the Nazis during WWII or the West fighting the Communists in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, the people who freely chose the government have always overcome such vile actors. Though the people in the EU leadership are a far cry from Napoleon, Hitler or Stalin, they still have lost all respect of the citizens in these various nations by ignoring their wishes. If these leaders are willing to ignore the voters now, could you imagine what they will be like when they have complete power over the various national governments.

So the best advice I could offer is for the people of Europe to vote "No" and stand pat on that decision. I guess that the EU elites are trying to take Europe down Hayek's Road to Serfdom once more. This is something that the people in the various European nations can ill-afford.