The Czech President must resist and not sign the Lisbon Treaty
President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic might be the last hope for opponents to the Lisbon Treaty --- As a Czech and also a British subject, I call on President Václav Klaus of the Czech Republic, in view of Ireland's second and confused referendum, to remain steadfast in his long-standing effort to reject the Lisbon Treaty.
He is no doubt aware that the overwhelming majority of people of the United Kingdom oppose the treaty, but have no hope of getting the chance to vote, promised to them by their own government.
Never mind that European Union money is being used for propaganda to secure the right answer from a minority of apprehensive Irish voters in a referendum on the treaty.
Never mind that the unelected and unaccountable EU government cannot be dismissed, or that the European Parliament is a pretence of democracy.
What I am concerned about is the officially promoted lie that we are all subjected to by the new European imperium. We are told that there is a European idea, rather than a civilisation, and that this idea requires a unitary state.
We are told that there is a European nation, or, if not, that it needs to be created. We are told that the EU government of appointed clerks, in its expensive effort to regulate social and economic life in Europe, seeks to promote peace and prosperity.
The opposite is true. The more the politicians try to impose a common straitjacket on nation-states, the more discord they will create.
Politics is the art of measured compromise between the varied interests of free and loyal subjects. If our governments delegate their powers to unelected delegates, who will control the delegates of the delegates?
President Klaus will be called an extremist; he will be mocked and threatened. He is now alone, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn was when he published his manifesto Live Not by Lies. But like Solzhenitsyn, Václav Klaus will be supported by the millions of people who have not spoken yet.
Alexander Tomsky
Prague, Czech Republic
Vyšlo dne 5.9.2009 v The Daily Telegraph
autor je členem Svobodných a místopředsedou krajského sdružení v Praze