ETERNAL VIGILANCE

Why did the Netherlands vote NO?

Voting 'NO' to a European neocon Superstate and wars.

Why the Dutch used their NO as a sledgehammer between the eyes of their misleaders: Who wants to sign a blank check for future wars by the US/NATO/EU-Army without a UN Mandate?

by Henk Ruyssenaars
June 2, 2005
Foreign Press Foundation

The Netherlands - Like the French last week-end, the Dutch voted NO in the referendum on the treacherous EU Treaty yesterday. With nearly all ballots counted, unofficial results showed a thunderous 62 percent voted "NO" while 38 percent said "YES". The level of opposition and the turnout of 63 percent exceeded all projections.
The by eighty-one percent (81) of the people despised dutch 'christian' neocon Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende conceded defeat Wednesday night and said his government would accept the will of the people.

It's even thought that the 'vote counters' refrained from using electronic 'rigging' techniques - like in the US there's no 'paper trail' from the voting machines in Holland - because in the bitter end it had become 'too dangerous'. One of the TV polls the night before showed namely a too big a difference by a sixty-five percent NO votes, and twenty-five% YES votes!* There was no room left for 'plausible deniability', even if all by the government faked opinion polls untill the last hours maintained that the YES vote was getting very close. It turned out to be a 25% gap. which couldn't be 'faked away'.

The angry NO vote by the fed-up Dutch is based on bad experiences of the past years with the growing 'Superstate' in which the 16 million Dutch were promised a 'Great Europe without Borders' - with the freedom to travel anywhere 'without even needing a passport anymore'.

'APARTHEID' IN THE NETHERLANDS?

The reality is, that we now in the Netherlands live in an 'Apartheid-state', where we can get fined when we leave our house without an ID card: "On average a little more than 100 fines a day were issued to people who could not produce identification in January. Since a new law came into effect on News Year's Day [2005] obliging everyone above the age of 14 to carry ID, authorities have issued 3,300 fines, news agency Novum reported. The fines amount to EUR 50 and EUR 25 for those aged 14 or 15."

The often malignant and corrupt [Barosso] 'politicians' in Brussels promised 'One Big Europe', with - as one of the advantages - the 'Euro' as the new currency. The people were warned that 'live might become up to a half percent more expensive'. In reality more dutch middle class people are going bankrupt than ever, with a fast growing number of people complaining that 'prices have doubled' and their economy is in shambles. Two years ago fourthousand people got free food from one of the 'free food organisations' in Amsterdam. A month ago - and this is still one of the 'richest' countries on earth - poverty had tenfolded. More than fourty-thousand (40.000) people today find themselves standing in line at that same free food center to get something to eat. Because otherwise, as they say: "We and our families will starve".

I see very little people in the average supermarkets buying meat after the fifteenth or so...when too much of the month is left, and too little Euros. The worst thing being that Holland is among the richest countries on earth, but still has around one million people 'vegetating' on the poverty line, according to the government's own figures.

People voted NO too, because the same gangsters that keep robbing and wrecking the economy, now again shoved a 439 pages fine print 'blank check' under the Dutch noses, urging all to sign again. And on top of that in their imbecile arrogance threatening with everything negative possible from 'staggering unemployment figures' to 'black outs', and even in a TV message with the Holocaust, done by the despicable Dutch neocons, the conservative party VVD. ('Vereniging Van Dieven')

PEOPLE ARE NOT CLEVER ENOUGH?

The neocon Dutch government's 'investigations' of the people's complaints - with the govt's own 'commissions' of course - certainly never found any fault. Justice in the Netherlands has been killed a long tome ago: impartial judges are unknown, and to them 'Justice' means "Just us". Even 'People are not clever enough' - was said by the people's own personel in The Hague, which are corrupt in different shades and call themselves 'Excellency'.

Those so called 'ministers' also said the people were 'too stupid to understand the exchange rates and couldn't count.'
Apparently they themselves can't count either: according to the 'Nederlandse Bank' director Brouwers on TV, and many other high ranking financial specialists, the Dutch Guilder currency was 'sold out' ten percent below it's net worth, enlarging the economical disaster for the taxpayers and as usual enriching 'The Banks of London'. The neocon robbers involved - after the overwhelming vote of distrust by two-thirds of the people - kept denying Brouwers even ever said so... While everybody could see and hear it on national TV.

An investigation by the Dutch weekly HP/De Tijd - published exactly two years ago, under the cover title "The Euro Disaster" confirmed - by comparing the cost of living 'before' and 'after' the introduction of the Euro - that the overall cost of living at least had gone up with forty-nine-dot-one percent (49.1%). That was two years ago.

No wonder the Dutch have (finally) sharpened their knives, because the collaborators working for the multinationals 'managing' Holland which call themselves journalistst, specialists, experts etc. - day and night drowned the country in a tsunami of lies in a false ticker tape parade of YES! EU-propaganda. All financed by the taxpayers of course, who are apparently seeing through the mainstream media's country-wide fog of lies. But even in the official brochures the word 'taxes' was left out; to avoid making people think about who's paying the crook's bills.

The Dutch seem not to be willing to accept anymore that Holland is #6 of the richest countries in the world, while they - after Sweden - pay the highest taxes in the world, getting less and less in return, of the 6 months a year they 'tax-work' for the 'government'. The greedy neocons 'running' the Netherlands, the criminal lot of insurance companies, London banks and other non-taxed multinationals at work in Holland, are stripping the country and people in the same way the neocons do in the United States, England etc. They are 'Starving the Beast' without any scruples and must be stopped. A poll published two weeks ago, showed nineteen percent (19) favorable towards the neocon 'government' with an overwhelming eighty-one (81) percent dumping PM Balkenende and his hypocritical 'christian' neocons.

More and more people openly say this hypocritical 'christian' so called 'Prime Minister' and his gang should be treated like the former Rumanian presidential crook Ceaucescu, but get a fair trial and be put in court as soon as is possible because of crimes against humanity in illegal american neocon wars too.*

The many reasons how and why the new 'Treaty for a European Constitution' is very undemocratic and dangerous to peoples lives and well being, is very well shown in this excellent summing up, with all the important points why nobody ever should sign this blank check.* It has however nothing to do with 'left' or 'right': humanity is divided in the groups 'givers' and 'takers'. The US/Israeli 'neocons' and their London banks have for more than a century been slyly growing into the worst exponents of the 'takers'. Victims of their despicable 'War of Terror' are all the 'givers'. The ignorant 'no opinion' people too; because they're paying without understanding or being able to comprehend the dirty scheme.

MILITARIZATION - SECRET AGREEMENTS AND NO UNITED NATIONS APPROVAL

There is a whole series of top secret agreements between the European Union Council, the United States, Israel and different defense forces and intelligence services, which the EU voters - and many times not even their members of parliament - are allowed to see nor hear about. But pay - for the secret militarization and infringements on their 'freedoms' - the misled taxpayer must.

Anthony Coughlan, the Secretary of the 'EU Research and Information Centre' writes in his excellent article on the NO to the EU, about the militarization of the EU, as part of the US neocon Empire, it is understood. "It militarizes the EU", Coughlan rightfully writes: "The Constitution points to the end of the formal military neutrality of Ireland, Denmark, Sweden, Austria and Malta by replacing the 'Nice Treaty' provision that the progressive framing of a common defense policy "MIGHT lead to a common defense, SHOULD the European Council so decide" with the provision in the Constitution that it "WILL lead to a common defense, WHEN the European Council, acting unanimously, so decides "(Art.I-41).

That decision is clearly only a matter of time. The same Article requires all Member States "to make civilian and military capabilities available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defense policy". The Constitution permits EU military operations to take place without a UN Charter mandate. ( ! - HR )

Article I-16 gives the EU the power to conduct a common foreign and security policy covering "all areas of foreign policy and all questions relating to the Union's security, including the progressive framing of a common defense policy that might lead to a common defense". The same Article places Member States under an explicit constitutional obligation to refrain from following an independent foreign policy if that clashes with the EU one: "Member States shall actively and unreservedly support the Union's common foreign and security policy in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity and shall comply with the Union's action in this area. They shall refrain from action contrary to the Union's interests or likely to impair its effectiveness."

Tony Bunyan, editor of the excellent 'Statewatch', in an earlier comment: "This is another instance of secret policy making. European and national parliaments should be consulted and the texts made public so that there can be a debate as to their content and consequences.

Putting these agreements in place is not just about exchanging classified documents, it is also about the construction of a security regime for future cooperation on defense, foreign policy and justice and home affairs between the EU, non-EU states and international organizations. It is about tying in the acceding states and others into the aims and objectives of the EU-NATO-USA politico military axis."

With other words: the EU army with it's 'Rapid Deployment Forces', the US's SSB, ('Special CIA Forces' 'Rendering') and NATO troops - all under American so called NATO command in reality - is supposed to fight wars for the neocons without asking again for a UN resolution or a mandate of the Security Council of the United Nations.

War criminals do not get a UN mandate as long as the disgustingly brutal 'Bulldozer Bolton' has not succeeded in wrecking the whole UN as is his plan. He calls it reorganizing the UN. Normally one doesn't get a mandate when committing crimes against humanity all the time, like done the US, Israel, England, the Netherlands and what's left of the bullied and bribed 'Coalition of the Killing' in their illegal wars.

The Neocon Dream they work for has not come true yet, and through the Dutch NO vote now the plans are delayed for their 'European Province' of the US Empire which in the future still more should be striking at will and 'covering' all illegal military occupations and other murderous actions, without any United Nations Security Council's approval, sanctions nor limits.

Thanks to everyday's 'home made laws' even legalising torture - and like the EU 'Treaty' still is meant to become, there even will be - according to the neocons - 'No More War criminals'!

The Dutch have a proverb: the brutal people have half the world, and try to get the rest.

That's too why the people in open disgust said NO.

Henk Ruyssenaars

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Editor's comment: We are in full agreement with our Dutch friend.

The people are awakening and it will not be long the the "best laid plans" of the New World Order come crashing down.

We need to be mindful that the UN is still considered to be the vehicle for the administration of the Global Government. And the neocons wish to shape that organization to do its (read Israel's and the fascist corporate-government symbiant's) bidding.

We are still unabashedly opposed to the existence of the UN for very nationalist and populist reasons, as that body and its treaties are the cause of the loss of sovereignty of its member states.