France and Holland to decide EU fate

Fire of Liberty

John O'Sullivan has a great column in The Chicago Sun-Times focusing on the upcoming EU Constitutional Referendums in France and the Netherlands and its possible implications if the "No" camp succeeds. Here's a brief sampling of O'Sullivan's wonderful work:

According to the law in the EU's founding treaties, the proposed constitution cannot go into effect if any nation rejects it. But the conventional wisdom is that there are national gradations of power in this regard:

First level: If France, a founding member of the EU and one of Europe's "Big Three," rejects the constitution by a clear margin, then the constitution is finished.

Second level: If Britain, one of Europe's "Big Three" but not a founding EU member, votes against it, then there would have to be renegotiations to make the treaty more palatable to the British electorate.

Third level: If Holland, a founding member but one of Europe's smaller nations, votes against it, then the Dutch will have to keep voting until they get it right -- as in the past the Irish and Danes were forced to eat their votes.

It's amazing that the promoters of the EU Constitution fail to point this out to the various voters in their respected states but then again these elites have tried to move Heaven and Earth to create the United States of Europe without really consulting the people or creating a government by and for the people. These EU elites prefer a government with people rather people with a government. Hopefully the "folks" of France, Holland and eventually the UK will give them a good what for, by voting "No" on the referendum. Expet more on this in the coming days.