UK PM Gordon Brown, addressing the European Parliament, Strasbourg, March 24, 2009
I’ve tried to jot down some of the most important points. The responses are from various interlocutors from the floor.
GB:
- There is no old Europe, no new Europe, no eastern or western Europe
- Britain….sees itself ..not in the European slipstream but in the European mainstream
- We in Europe are uniquely placed to lead the world to meet the challenges of globalization
Response:
- Within a few days of the Irish saying no to the Lisbon treaty, you (Gordon Brown) have rammed that treaty through the British parliament and you have done it breaking a specific manifesto pledge that you would give the British people a referendum of [sic] a constitutional treaty. Shame on you Prime Minister…
- A clear majority of the British people want us to have friendship and free trade with the European Union, but do not want to be a member of this political union.
GB:
- The world is unsustainable, unsafe, and unequal
- For many years I’ve advanced the case for a global Europe
- I passionately want Europe to be leading on the world stage
Response:
You have subsidized where you have not actually nationalized swathes of our economy including the car industry and many of the banks
GB:
We see Europe’s central role in replacing what was once called the old Washington consensus with a new and principled economic consensus for our times
Response:
You cannot continue against public opinion to build this European union..If you do it again the will of the people you are storing up enormous political problems for the future
GB
I want a world in which…every country participates by having global standards for regulation
My Comment
Sustainability, safety, and security are code for the imposition of global government. We will be asked to support programs of surveillance, taxation, medication, or war through appeals focusing on the following:
1. Scarcity of resources (peak oil, water shortages, food shortages, farmland shortages, population growth)
2. Physical safety (domestic and foreign terrorism; insurgency; war; incipient fascism, such as, Islamo-fascism), as well as environmental safety (pollution, carbon emissions)
3. Poverty (famine, malnutrition, education, human development, housing)
This doesn’t mean there aren’t real problems in these areas. There are. But the globalists’ use of these memes isn’t in order to “solve” problems, even if we assume economic or political problems can be solved top down. Instead, they use them to solidify and centralize control of the state system and create a captive global market that they can squeeze dry.