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You can see from this how the already corrupted EU pretend 
'parliament' is completely corrupted and taken leave of its senses.  
But now the established parties in Ireland have caught the virus too 
and are using Libertas as a smokescreen to stitch up the Irish 
political process for ever for their own benefit.

Truly the sky is darkening wherever you look even while the sun shines!
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IRISH INDEPENDENT   26.9.08
Libertas makes raving loony parties see red
By David Quinn

When Libertas first appeared on the scene a few months back it caused 
severe heart palpitations in the body politic. When the Lisbon 
referendum was lost the palpitations became a full-scale heart 
attack. Now it looks like insanity has taken hold as well.
Whether the insanity is temporary or permanent remains to be seen 
although I suspect the latter is the case.

At the European Parliament this week the subject of Libertas and its 
funding caused an outbreak of ranting and raving that in a saner 
world would demand the immediate administration of sedatives and 
electric shock therapy.

The first to go bonkers was Daniel Cohn-Bendit, [HE always was! -cs] 
the parliamentary leader of the Greens. He demanded that an 
investigation be conducted into the funding of Libertas to determine 
if claims that the CIA and the Pentagon had interfered in the Lisbon 
referendum are true.

A word about Daniel Cohn-Bendit, aka 'Danny the Red', is in order. 
Danny, you see, was an ultra-radical leftist in his day, an anarchist 
in fact. He has since become 'Red-Green', that is, a left-wing Green. 
He is anti-American in his bones and is deeply paranoid about US 
intentions in the world.

He was one of the leaders of the student protests that almost ripped 
France apart in 1968. The name 'Danny the Red' dates back to that era 
and is reference to both his politics and trade-mark red hair.

An ultra-rightist past is usually a killer blow to anyone's political 
aspirations in European politics outside of a handful of countries, 
but an ultra-leftist past never is.

Check out Joschka Fischer for example. He's a pal of Danny the Red 
and he was also a student radical. In 1973 he was pictured beating up 
a policeman but that didn't stop him becoming German foreign 
minister. Interesting. Maybe that's what I need to do to get on the 
political ladder. But, of course, it wouldn't work. I'm forgetting 
that this is only a good career move when you're on the left.

Now, to the best of anyone's knowledge Declan Ganley has never led an 
attempt to topple a government via street protests nor has he beaten 
up a police officer, but he is being presented as the Devil Incarnate 
anyway. He is a pawn, a servant, a willing concubine (sorry for the 
imagery) of the CIA and the Pentagon who are intent on subverting the 
European Union.

The only 'evidence' anyone can find for this is that his company, 
Rivada, has won contracts from the American army.

Joining Danny in the lunatic asylum this week was no less a figure 
than the President of the European Parliament himself, Hans-Gert 
Pottering. [YES HIM Again! He is totally anti-democratic and has 
stifled debate in that 'Parliamen' which he rules with a rod of iron. 
Many accuse him of being a neo-Nazi -cs]     He thundered: "We are 
awaiting confirmation of reports in the media regarding funding of 
Libertas's campaign for a No vote to the Lisbon Treaty. If proved 
true, this would clearly show that there are forces in the US willing 
to pay people to destabilise a strong and autonomous Europe."

Wow, any day now they'll connect Ganley to Opus Dei and then Dan 
Brown will feature him in his follow-up to the 'Da Vinci Code'. He'll 
call it the 'Libertas Code'.

How is the political class responding to this? Well, apart from 
making an issue of the funding of Libertas and darkly connecting it 
with the CIA, they are moving to ensure that no organisation like 
Libertas can ever appear on the scene again.

Increasingly the political class behaves like a cartel and like all 
cartels it is interested in protecting what it sees as its 
prerogatives. The chief of those prerogatives is that only the 
established players -- the members of the cartel -- get to exercise 
political power. Libertas is, from their point of view, a gate-
crasher, an uninvited guest, an interloper.

Our political parties had decided between them that the Lisbon treaty 
must go through. It was extremely unfortunate from their point of 
view that the treaty had first to be put to the people. Even without 
Libertas there was a possibility that it would be defeated. But then 
along came Libertas and it probably played a decisive role in its 
defeat.

Two measures are therefore being considered to ensure that this 
cannot happen again. Both measures are the equivalent of a country 
that doesn't like free trade erecting higher protectionist walls 
around itself.

The first is to attach even more stringent conditions to political 
funding which will make it even harder for new political 
organisations to form and gain critical mass. The second is to try to 
revise the practice whereby during referendum campaigns both sides 
gain equal access to the airwaves.

Both of those moves are being advanced in the name of democracy but 
in fact they are deeply undemocratic in that they will make it harder 
than ever to challenge the existing political cartel.

Libertas is a competitor our political class cannot and will not 
stomach. However, what they are proposing is itself a form of 
corruption. Cartels should not have the power to change the rules of 
the game to suit themselves