DANGER! EUROPEAN BUREAURATS AT WORK!

It has recently been announced that the European Union is planning to create a super-prosecutor, with have powers to bring cases against British citizens in Britain without the approval of the Crown Prosecution Service or the Government.

The British Government has made the usual cringing show of resisting this move, which it is well aware our people will regard with resentment and dismay.  However, this “resistance” is of course the customary flanneling.  The proposal will become effective when it has the backing of nine member states, which the EU oligarchy will doubtless encounter little difficulty in achieving.  “Our” Government will then declare ruefully that it has no choice in the matter.  Of course it had a choice, when it eagerly signed the Lisbon Treaty which makes the proposal possible.  The Conservative and Liberal parties have proved just as anxious for Britain to sign the capitulation Treaty, though we may confidently anticipate that they will make the usual  unconvincingly cautious show of objection.

The proposal, once put into effect (as it undoubtedly will be, under a Labour or Conservative Government, with the customary sycophantic support of the Liberals), will go far towards establishing that centralized European police state which lies at the heart of EU ambitions.

The grave and irremediable danger implicit in this despotic policy was pointed out more than two centuries ago by one of Britain’s greatest historians.  After long years of studying the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon concluded:
'The division of Europe into a number of independent states, connected, however, with each other, by the general resemblance of religion, language, and manners, is productive of the most beneficial consequences to the liberty of mankind.  A modern tyrant, who should find a resistance either in his own breast, or in his people, would soon experience a gentle restraint from the example of his equals, the dread of present censure, the advice of his allies, and the apprehension of his enemies.  The object of his displeasure, escaping from the narrow limits of his dominions, would easily obtain, in a happier climate, a secure refuge, a new fortune adequate to his merit, the freedom of complaint, and perhaps the means of revenge.  But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.  The slave of Imperial despotism, whether he was condemned to drag his gilded chain in Rome and the Senate, or to wear out a life of exile on the barren rock of Seriphus, or the frozen banks of the Danube, expected his fate in silent despair.  To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly...  “Wherever you are,” said Cicero to the exiled Marcellus, “remember that you are equally within the power of the conqueror”’ (Edward Gibbon, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (London, 1782-88), i, p. 10).

We cannot say we have not been warned.  Small wonder that our corrupt rulers are so busily engaged in dumbing down history in schools and universities!  In the words of Robert Burns, "such a parcel of rogues in a nation".