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Taking the government to court Print E-mail
Written by Philip Salter   
Saturday, 03 May 2008

Friend of the ASI Stuart Wheeler has passed the first hurdle in his noble endeavour to force the government to hold its promised referendum on the Lisbon Treaty (i.e. EU Constitution). On Friday, Mr Justice Owen ruled in favour of having the decision judicially reviewed in the High Court. The Lisbon Treaty, signed by 27 EU leaders in Lisbon in December, is intended to replace the European Constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in referendums in 2005.

With the increasing loss of sovereign democratic power to the unaccountable European supranational bureaucracy, Mr Wheeler is fighting on the side of all that value legitimate democracy. It is time that the relations in Europe were rooted in national democracy, with power resting in votes of the people in each country. There are strong reasons to be close to other countries of Europe, but relations should not be based upon centralising legal and political powers in Brussels, but upon respectful diplomatic relations and the concord of free trade.

There are two things you can do right now to show your disgust at the government’s duplicity. The first is to contribute to Mr Wheeler’s campaign; the second is to sign this petition to the government initiated by Nigel Farage MEP.
 

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Taking the government to court - courageous Germans have taken this literally and just done so
written by GNN, Wolfgang Worzcinski, May 12, 2008
on April 18,2008 a group of very courageous people decided to take the german government, namely Chancellor Mrs. Merkel and others to the criminal courts by bringing in a complaint of high treason vs. the Fed.Rep.of Germany. Meanwhile more that 90 individual citizens decided to join the complaint by further sending their written complaints to the Police Dept. in Charge which have to pass it on tho the Public Prosecutors Office. Since the concern at the moment is primarily of german interest the site temporarily is available in the german language only: www.zero-zone.info/hightreason but we will see to it that an english translation oder edition of the site becomes available to the internatina english speaking people as well. The EU especially the Lisboa Treaty (even more without the proper referendums) is a highly dangerous operation, for any state involved and its people.

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