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18 November 2009 EU Commissioners Are Acting Unlawfully Action Stations - Pens Are Sharper Than Swords (How Action Stations works can be found at end of this posting)   Postings 19 and 20   Action Stations Posting 19   EU Commissioners Are Acting Unlawfully   Every EU Commissioner bar one is now acting unlawfully, having come to the end of their fixed five-year mandate on 31 October 2009.  Only the president, Portuguese former prime minister Jose-Manuel Barroso, has been re-appointed.   All the rest have no authority to remain in place, and are now acting ultra vires.   Does that make you angry – furious even?   Well, here’s the answer to the question you’re always asking – what can I do?    Join an army of letter-writers and complain direct to the man responsible – Jose Manuel Barroso, president of, now, a one-man European Commission, supposedly responsible for everything and everybody.   His address is:   J-M Barroso president, European Commission rue de la Roi 200 BE-1049 Brussels, Belgium   jose-manuel.barroso@ec.europa.eu     President Barroso has said former commissioners are staying on in their previous posts as ‘temporarily’ caretakers (until the new commission is appointed).  They would maintain a low profile and not take any major decisions.  Either he is lying (I regret using the word, but there is no other), or he doesn’t understand what a ‘major decision’ is.      Right now, a former EU commissioner, Neelie Kroes of the Netherlands, is telling two British banks (RBS and Lloyds) bailed out by the British taxpayer to sell off their most profitable businesses.  This means we British taxpayers will unnecessarily wait much longer for our money back, and the core businesses will take longer to recover.  This is the economics of the madhouse.    The former commissioner confirmed her ignorance of international banking when she said “: [RBS] is not a bank with a sustainable business approach. This bank was not merely too big to fail. It was too big to supervise, too big to operate, too complex to understand, and highly dangerous to the European single market.”  The clue is in the final phrase.    You might also ask what business it is of hers, especially in her present circumstances?   Elsewhere in Brussels, former EU commissioners are hatching a new directive to control and limit the City of London’s global financial activities, including its dominating 85 per cent or so of the world’s hedge fund business and its similarly dominant international insurance businesses.   In addition, the EU is proposing three new authorities with the power to override national regulators to control banking, securities and the insurance industry in all 27 member states.   One of the EU’s bureaucrats dealing with the new authorities said of them: “In future we will no longer give advice, but we will impose binding rules. The autonomy of the member states will steadily be reduced.  Harmonisation of the EU's financial sector is moving ahead at full speed.”   These proposals have been tabled despite the EU having no authority to do so, even by the EU’s own questionable criteria.    The objectives are obvious – hobble the City of London for the benefit of Frankfurt.  And continue the process of taking over government of the UK in a way which will – with Lisbon in place – demonstrate dramatically where real political power now lies.      Yet these busybody former commissioners are out of a job.  They are all exceeding their authority, and acting ultra vires.   The political background:   There are no provisions in the EU Treaties for a caretaker government in the absence of a legitimate one appointed according to the supposedly strict rules.  These involve, amongst other things, a lengthy interrogation by the European Parliament and a vote.   Because the Lisbon Treaty comes into force only on 1 December, and Lisbon changes the number of commissioners and the way in which they are appointed, the EU has been waiting until December before starting the process of inviting member states to make their nominations.    The process of appointment is long and complex.  Horse trading and consultations between and within member states are inevitable.  The candidates who finally win a nomination will then have to run the gauntlet of a series of gruelling public examinations by the European Parliament, followed by a series of votes to accept them or not.      Past experience suggests this process could run until February or March next year. Even those re-appointed are unlikely, on past experience, to retain their portfolios.   Meanwhile, the European Commission doesn’t exist, apart from its president.   Hence the present hiatus.   This impasse raises questions about the legality of decisions being taken in Brussels, and enforced on member states.  It could well lead to legal challenges by people and enterprises threatened by individuals who have been unlawfully impersonating commissioners since the end of October.   A so-called "flexibility clause", Article 308 of the Consolidated Treaties, could have been used to extend the terms of office of commissioners legally, but there is no evidence this has been done.   So, since the treaties include no provision to vary the terms of office for commissioners beyond five years under any circumstances, and President Barroso has no legal authority to re-write the treaties, the case against the present lawless situation is plain as day.      (I am grateful to Dr Denis Cooper for information included in this posting)     …………………………………………   Action Stations Posting 20   EU Is Creating A Police State   The Lisbon Treaty is about to be used to justify the creation of a totalitarian police state across all 27 member states, including the UK.  Surveillance will be based on the full use of all the latest technologies and equipment.  All previous national borders will be ignored.   What is being planned is a new form of Soviet gulag.  A prison without bars, but a vast prison nonetheless.   Does that make you angry – furious even?   Well, here’s the answer to the question you’re always asking – what can I do?    Join an army of letter-writers and complain direct to the man responsible – Jose Manuel Barroso, president of, now, a one-man European Commission, supposedly responsible for everything and everybody.   His address is:   J-M Barroso president, European Commission rue de la Roi 200 BE-1049 Brussels, Belgium   jose-manuel.barroso@ec.europa.eu     We forget at our peril that politics is about control by fear and the retention of power.   The Lisbon Treaty gives new legal powers to the European institutions over, among many other things, cross-border police co-operation, counter-terrorism, immigration, asylum and border controls.  It also gives the EU the right to snoop on anyone and everyone.   Deep within the bureaucracy in Brussels, which is advised by over 3000 secret committees (whether there are any commissioners in place or not), plans are being drawn up to use the Lisbon Treaty to create the EU's first ever fully integrated internal security policy.  It will include a centralised EU identity card register, internet, phone and satellite surveillance systems, and biometric and risk profiling systems.  But that is not all.   The Lisbon Treaty creates yet another secret committee, this one called the Committee of Internal Security, known as COSI, to co-ordinate policy between national forces and EU organisations such as Europol, the Frontex borders agency, the European Gendarmerie Force and the Brussels intelligence sharing Joint Situation Centre or Sitcen.   The unelected ruling elite are planning to create a gulag, a surveillance state, much as George Orwell predicted.  As I have said before, he got only the date wrong.   This plan already has a name – The Stockholm Programme.   The commission describes it as covering policy on 'freedom, security and justice serving the citizen’.  It does not concern itself with moral or legal justification.    The thinking is brutal.  The technologies exist, so let’s use them.    Currently, law enforcement agencies and ‘public security organisations’ share existing DNA and fingerprint databases which are kept for the new digital generation of ID cards already used on the continent but not in the UK.  Under the Stockholm Programme, to all that nasty state snooping will be added the holding and distribution of CCTV video footage and material gathered from internet surveillance.   And how else will they get it?   The security forces (they will avoid the use of the word ‘police’) won't arrive at your door with a warrant. The searches will be online, and you won’t even know.  Again, the technology exists.  The idea was first proposed to the EU bureaucrats by the German government in June 2008. Why are we not surprised?  It just had to be a German. The bureaucrats are also talking about using electronic car number recognition systems to track people across former national borders – which is an extraordinary idea given that the EU was ‘sold’ to us as encouraging the free movement of people.  But the bureaucrats can’t resist the temptation to snoop on them anyway.   Everything known about you by the British government and other official bodies – name, address, date of birth, personal history, insurance numbers, banking details, passport details and photograph, fingerprints, credit card charges, email traffic, phone calls and health records - is now going to be available to any official busybody anywhere this side of Estonia and Romania.   Even under existing EU legislation state agencies are already implementing comprehensive surveillance regimes and beginning to build up what has been described as 'previously unimaginably detailed profiles of the private and political lives of their citizens.'   This is done with total disregard for their own data protection criteria, without proper legal authority and in the complete absence of any democratic control or public accountability. A new EU data centre ‘for the management of large IT systems in the field of liberty, security and justice' is being created especially to hold vast quantities of sensitive personal information about individuals and organisations across all 27 countries.  This centre will cost us taxpayers €100 million to create and millions more every year to run.  A bizarre, outrageous and utterly unacceptable misuse of public funds.   Our birthrights of liberty, privacy, freedom of speech and personal sovereignty are not just being undermined.  They are being destroyed.  And the role of the state and the individual is being insidiously reversed.  They no longer answer to us as they should and must.  We do not, and should not, answer to them.   Every lawyer, journalist and opponent of the EU has good reason to fear what is going on.  They, better than any of us, might urgently remind the EU of the Declaration of Human Rights, signed after the second world war, which enshrined – amongst many other things - the right of all individuals to privacy; protest and freedom of speech. The European Union is now clearly in actual or potential breach of all three.   Footnote:  Much of the information in this posting came from leaked sources.  The Stockholm Programme was supposed to be kept secret during gestation until the EU delivered it to the member states as a fully-developed fire-eating monster.   …………………………………   How To Use Action Stations   Join an army of letter-writers and complain direct to the people responsible   Each topic below (above) should be regarded as notes for reference.  They are NOT standard letters.  Please use the material to write your own.   LETTERS ARE BEST - E-mails get deleted by minions in the office.  A letter has to be answered.  And it makes them think.  It reminds them the Brits are not putting up with EU nonsense any more.   So here’s what you do -   * Pick an issue, or an area of interest where you have special knowledge   * Write to the European Commissioners responsible, and tell them what you think   * Demand explanations, answers. Tell them about the damage they have done   * When you get an answer, try to keep the argument going.   * Report all this to your local papers   * Get friends and relations to join in.   * Create a letter-writing group.   * Start today.           To respond to, or comment on this Email, please email ashley.mote@btconnect.com Click www.ashleymote.co.uk to visit the site now.