Germany's Former President Protests European Union Domination of His Country
By John F. McManus
Published: 2007-01-15 18:21

ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:

Awareness about predictable domination of the European Union over its member states is finally dawning on more of Europe's political leaders.

Follow this link to the source article: "EU threatening parliamentary democracy, says ex-German president"

COMMENTARY:

Sold to the European people and their leaders over several decades as a trade promoting agreement, the European Union has quietly but effectively overcome the independence of its member states. The EU Constitution, gradually gaining acceptance by all EU members, actually states that it "shall have primacy over the law of Member States." It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to know what this means for once-independent nations.

Roman Herzog, Germany's president from 1994 to 1999, complained in a dramatically important article that Germany's own constitution is supposed to be "the central actor in the shaping" of German law. But, because 84 percent of German law between 1999 and 2004 came from EU headquarters in Brussels and not from its parliament, he wonders "whether Germany can still unreservedly be called a parliamentary democracy."

Herzog noted that the EU Constitution, already ratified by 19 states, does not spell out the respective powers of the EU and those of member states. And he added that the drafters of the EU Constitution deliberately omitted including such a listing of powers.

Former Mexican president Vicente Fox stated five years ago that he wanted to establish for the Western Hemisphere "an ensemble of connections and institutions similar to those created by the European Union." He has never been alone in seeking such a sovereignty-destroying super-government in our part of the world.

As moves toward building such a monster continue via the Bush-approved Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) and the nascent North American Union (NAU), Americans can learn from this ex- German leader's new awareness of the dangers because powerful influences are steering our nation into a duplicate of the European Union through their initial plan to merge the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Immersion of our country into the NAU would result in cancelling our own nation's Constitution.

All calls for the SPP and the NAU must be rejected. Congress must be altered to put a stop to the Executive branch's determination to speed our nation into cancelling U.S. independence.