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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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Date Posted:
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Contents
Rome and WCC
Pope Ratzinger
Paisley Given Freedom
My Farewell To Europe
Europe Constitution 5
Europe Constitution 4
Europe Constitution 3
Europe Constitution 2
Europe Constitution 1
A White Flag?
Surrender Birthright?
Clamour for Referendum
Paisley Slams 'Deceit'
Making Void God's Law
Be the Soul of Europe
Hitler’s Pope Pius XII
Dare Call It Treason
DUP In Europe
Law Threatened by EU
'October Revolution’
Political Claims
European Union - IV
European Union - III
European Union - II
Vacant Seat 666
European Union - I
EU and Ecumenism - II
EU and Ecumenism - I
The Task Before Us
Rome's Crimes
Of Bonfires
EU Conspiracy
Intrigue and Expansion
USA Debt To Ulster
Mentality of Deceit
Eames
Vatican Cover-Up
Ignominy At Ten
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The Conspiracy Behind The European Union: What Every Christian Should Know
A Lecture delivered at the Annual Autumn Conference of the United Protestant Council in London on Saturday, November 7, 1998
Professor Arthur Noble
Introduction
Fellow Protestants,
The
actual title of my lecture is "The Conspiracy of the European Union:
What every Christian should know". To deal comprehensively with such a
vast topic in the space of one hour is, of course, quite impossible, so
I am obliged to limit myself to the bare essentials. As with every
conspiracy there are always several aspects which go to make up to the
plot. They are always intertwined and interrelated, but not obvious in
some immediate way. Nor do they do always run parallel to one another
or even develop according to the original plan. Historically speaking,
the European idea ostensibly began as a plan for economic co-operation,
but it soon acquired a social dimension and very quickly thereafter
developed into a full-blown scheme to unite the whole Continent
politically. The underlying religious dimension has yet to be realised,
as well as its full implications. What I want to try to show is that
while these developments may reflect an apparent shifting of the
original goalposts set for the new Europe, they were in fact carefully
planned (or, rather, plotted) from the outset and pursued by stealth
and with great determination. There is clear evidence, both in the
successive European treaties themselves and in pronouncements by the
would-be designers of Europe, that the European Union was intended from
the outset as a gigantic confidence-trick which would eventually hurtle
the nations of Europe into economic, social, political and religious
union whether they liked it or not. The real nature of the final goal –
a federal superstate – was deliberately concealed and distorted; it was
to be released in small doses, to condition those who would never have
accepted it, until it would be too late for the whole process to be
reversed.
Background
In
1946 Sir Winston Churchill delivered his famous Zurich speech calling
for the establishment of a United States of Europe. He envisaged a
Western Europe of independent, free and sovereign States that would
rise from the ashes of World War II and reach for a destiny of
unprecedented harmony and democracy. Neutral Switzerland, with its
centuries-old harmonious co-existence of four languages and cultures,
was to be the blueprint for a multilingual and multicultural Europe
which would never again see maniac dictators and supra-national
demagogues bent on imposing their will on member nations.
Initially,
Churchill's vision seemed to be advancing according to plan. Former
fascist Germany and Italy decentralised power and became parliamentary
democracies. Fascism became discredited throughout Europe.
Then,
however, events took a different turn. The Schuman plan of 1950
proposed the supra-national pooling of the French and German coal and
steel industries as a means of forging European economic unity. The two
economies were interwoven to such an extent that war between these
traditional enemies became virtually impossible.
The
EEC, established in 1957 by the Treaty of Rome, brought Italy and the
three Benelux countries into the union but represented a further step
towards a pan-European economy by tying economic development to the
city of Rome. Significantly, this Treaty also gave Europe a sense of
supra-national religious unity and the Roman Catholic Church its protection against the then still existent threat of Communism.
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The public was not told everything, but startling facts emerge from the
great mass of papal encyclicals and pronouncements of those years. |
At
this stage in the Community's development Churchill's vision of a free
Europe of sovereign States was in a sense hijacked by the Vatican. The
public was not told everything, but startling facts emerge from the
great mass of papal encyclicals and pronouncements of those years. I
shall mention some of them later. The religious aspect of the European
idea had at that time not yet emerged to the public view (nor is it yet
overtly apparent). It was still to be concealed in the background while
the emphasis remained on achieving political unity in economic
disguise. Indeed, the Vatican's post-War diplomatic peace efforts were
not particularly apparent to many: the eyes of the general public were
too closely focused on space exploration, the rearmament contest,
Berlin and the Viet Nam War to recognise the true significance of the
Vatican's crusade.
1962
was the year of the Common Agricultural Policy resulting in a single
European market with price fixing – a further step towards uniformity.
In that year the Northwest Technocrat recognised the EEC as already much more than simply an economically united Europe and commented:
Fascism
in Europe is about to be reborn in respectable business attire, and the
Treaty of Rome will finally be implemented to its fullest extent. The
dream of a Holy Roman Empire returning to power to dominate and direct
the so-called forces of Christian mankind of the Western world is not
dead, but still stalks through the antechambers of every national
capital of continental Western Europe, in the determination of the
leaders in the Common Market to restore the Holy Roman Empire with all
that that means!
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Pope John XXIII envisaged a European religio-political monster which he
called "the Greatest [Roman] Catholic superstate the world has ever
known". |
Subsequent
Vatican pronouncements and developments in the Community vindicate that
view. Pope John XXIII envisaged a European religio-political monster
which he called "the Greatest [Roman] Catholic superstate the world has
ever known". (The Papal Nuncio in Brussels was later to describe the EU
as "a [Roman] Catholic confederation of States".) United within the
ancient boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire by the common spiritual
bond of religion, in a burgeoning and booming industrial economy,
situated geographically in the world's most productive industrial
complex, it would march onto the scene of world history – so said John
XXIII – as "the greatest single human force ever seen by man".
The
Brussels bureaucrats danced to Rome's tune, admitting in 1973 the
Vatican's lackey the Irish Republic and the first two Protestant
nations earmarked by the Pope: Denmark and the United Kingdom. We know
very well why the UK took so long to make up its mind: joining the
Continental Europeans meant a dramatic withdrawal from a global
tradition of independence and democracy; but did we recognise the plot
to undermine the Protestant heritage of our Nation, whose Queen is the
Defender of the Faith? Romanism and Irish Republicanism, the
traditional enemies of our British way of life which is founded on the
principles of Protestant freedom, could thus once again in our history
– this time in the guise of economic expediency – join forces against
us.
This
time, however, the gravity of the situation was increased by the
perfidy and treachery of an administration which fell for the ploy.
Never in our Nation's history did a succession of British governments
become so anti-British, so busily and blindly engaged in selling our
birthright to foreigners, denying to the people of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland their right to a referendum on self-determination,
content to sacrifice us against our will for some ill-conceived,
naively misunderstood and politically fatal goal of European union.
After
the first direct elections to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in
1979, the word "economic" was ominously dropped in favour of the
description "European Community" (EC). Greece joined in 1981, Spain and
Portugal in 1986, the year of the Single European Act which meant the
gradual transfer of executive, legislative and judicial powers from
member States to EC instrumentalities. Thus Europe could make
ever-increasing political inroads into our national sovereignty and the
London-Dublin conspiracy attempted to force the British people of
Northern Ireland by stealth and terror towards a united Ireland under
European rule, while arrogant and spineless politicians in Westminster
continued politely to play the enemy's game, or, as Dr. Paisley once
put it metaphorically, to "feed the brute instead of slaughtering it".
When
the infamous Maastricht Treaty on European political Union was signed
in 1992 with the aim of transforming the EC into a federal superstate –
now significantly redesignated as the European Union (EU) – many of the
politicians elected to Brussels, including those from Britain, fell for
the confidence trick.
How Britain fell for a confidence trick
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"Once in the Common Market we shall be a minority in an organisation in
which the decisions of the majority will have the power to bind the
minority, not only for a few years, but theoretically for all time." |
Two
decades earlier, in 1960, when Britain first sought entry into the
(then EEC), the historian Sir Arthur Briant had issued an unheeded
warning: "Once in the Common Market we shall be a minority in an
organisation in which the decisions of the majority will have the power
to bind the minority, not only for a few years, but theoretically for
all time."
Sir
Arthur could not have chosen a more apt word than 'bind'. Although
Britain was twice saved from her own folly by President de Gaulle, in
1973 she not so much joined as bound herself to the Common Market, and
agreed to be bound by the Treaty of Rome. Even at that time, the
founders of the Common Market knew – but apparently Britain did not –
that the Common Market was not a club to join or a free trade area with
which to associate, but a superstate in the making. Its founders were
in no doubt about this, even if British politicians were unaware of -
or unwilling to face up to - the ultimate goal of the founders. Robert
Schuman, while preparing the European Coal and Steel Community in 1950,
had said: "These proposals will build the first concrete foundation of
the European Federation. Article 189 of the Treaty of Rome is quite
clear about what was involved: "Regulations [...] shall be binding in
every respect and directly applicable [...]." "Directives shall bind
any Member State [...]." "Decisions shall be binding in every respect
[...]."
Unfortunately no more people read the Treaty of Rome than had read Mein Kampf
before the Second World War, and many who should have known better
accepted assurances that no loss of sovereignty was involved in
acceding to the EEC. Looking back, we regret that they did not know
better. After a quarter of a century , during which the EEC evolved
into the EC and then the EU, experience ought to have taught us what
the anti-Marketeers failed to teach.
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The EU quickly adopted many symbols of nationhood – a passport, a flag, an anthem, a common currency.
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When
the EEC was transformed into a European Union, Britain loaded still
more chains around her neck and became bound economically, politically
and constitutionally to a Europe which is hostile to our traditions and
way of life. In economic and foreign policy she became increasingly
bound to institutions in Brussels. The EU quickly adopted many symbols
of nationhood – a passport, a flag, an anthem, a common currency. What
next? A common state religion – Roman Catholicism? Assuredly the EU as
presently constituted is not in its final form.
Even
after a quarter of a century it is still not easy to understand how any
free people would consent to be bound, as the British people are bound,
by membership of the EU. Wealth and power – if that is the goal of the
EU – are not worth buying at the cost of independence. In any case it
is not success but failure that has been purchased at so high a price
and as the result of such extreme gullibility. Britain has
progressively intricated herself into an organisation which has failed
to fulfil and of the promises held out to her. In 1962 the Anti-Common
Market League produced a booklet entitled Britain, not Europe, which argued that the hopes of economic gain were false and that the prospect was one of disadvantage and danger if
we joined the EEC. Membership has not only failed to cure the ills it
was supposed to cure: it has in fact added many new ills – food prices
that soared at the beginning, the damaging Common Agricultural Policy,
the ruin of our fishing and beef industries. Since then, the Single
European Act has significantly reinforced the principle that the
European Parliament should progressively take the place of our
Parliament at Westminster or reduce it to the status of a county
council.
The
Single European Act of course reduced in several respects the
requirement of the Treaty of Rome that in the Council of Ministers
certain things require unanimity of voting to a requirement of only
qualified majority voting. Now we are faced with the prospect of full
majority voting and of the loss of our veto.
The plot to destroy our Sovereignty
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I contend that behind the respectable European mask is a plot to
destroy our sovereignty and to re-align the whole balance of power
world-wide. |
What
is the real nature and purpose of this Europe into whose heart the
British people are being dragged with increasing resistance? I contend
that behind the respectable European mask is a plot to destroy our
sovereignty and to re-align the whole balance of power world-wide.
It
should be remembered that, strategically, Europe's unification drive
began at a time when the entire Atlantic Alliance was coming to grips
with the relative decline of the United States both as a world economic
power and as leader of the West. America's generosity to the world has
reduced her riches and necessitated a serious reassessment of her
global strategic commitment. Trade frictions between the US and Western
Europe have long been a reality and have moved from the agricultural
sector into advanced technological areas. Doubts also grew about the
reliability of the US "nuclear umbrella" protecting Western Europe, and
a subsequent reduction of American forces and the withdrawal of Russian
forces on the Continent following the collapse of the Soviet Union has
been paralleled by increasing calls for a solely European self-defence
capability. A European army and a European police force already exist
in more than embryonic form.
The Daily Mail headline
of July 26, 1994, summed up Britain's blundering blindness to the
danger of these events: "Hurd's amazing support for major rearmament.
All power to the Germans." Meanwhile, the British Government's folly
extended to the closure of naval and air bases; and President Clinton
abandoned America's 'special relationship' with Britain, encouraged the
Germans to play a more active role in world politics, and aided and
abetted Britain's avowed enemy Sinn Féin/IRA. Today he stands disgraced
but unrepentant for defiling the White House, and it has yet to be
revealed to what extent his financial and propagandistic facilitation
of Irish Republican terrorists is responsible for the slaughter of the
Protestant people of Northern Ireland.
The dangers inherent in the 1986 Act were recognised by eminent author and journalist Paul Johnson, who tried hard in The Times of
June 23, 1986, to shake Britons out of their lethargic view of Europe.
He saw the Act as requiring "a fundamental alteration in Britain's
relationship to the Common Market" and was amazed that it nevertheless
"aroused no passion in the Cabinet, in the Commons or the media". It
was, in effect, endorsement of "a completely new treaty, which ought
properly to have been placed on a level of significance equivalent to
that of the original treaty of Rome".
Yet
the British people, whether misled or inadequately informed, had no
say, and chose to ignore the serious implications of this so-called
"European Communities (Amendment) Bill", which Johnson says should more
correctly have been entitled "The European Political Union Treaty".
Johnson asks why the proposed legislation was not presented to
Parliament as "an act to create a European superstate" since, he said,
it "will transform relations among the EEC states into a European union
and it will invest the union with the necessary means of action." His
explanation is significant:
To
do so would have been to tell the truth, and the EEC establishment, and
our own government, know that the truth would be much more difficult
for the public to swallow.
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The British Parliament was noticeably weakened: European institutions
began to infringe on British sovereignty on a whole range of subjects
from seatbelts to spanking children. |
The
essential point of the Act was to abolish the national veto over a
whole range of social policies. The British Parliament was noticeably
weakened: European institutions began to infringe on British
sovereignty on a whole range of subjects from seatbelts to spanking
children. British law started its retreat. Subsequent parliamentary
legislation intensified and enhanced this process. Johnson predicted at
that time: "Within the area of social legislation, Britain will no
longer be able to impede further reductions of its sovereignty, however
fundamental."
So
much for the "democracy" promised as the goal of this Treaty. The
political and economic system which it imposed is nothing short of
rabid federalism, a technocratic confidence-trick, fundamentally
anti-democratic and anti-liberal.
The
British people have continued to ignore at their peril a most solemn
warning issued by Dr Paisley in the DUP's policy document The Surrender of Maastricht. What it means for Ulster. At that time he wrote:
What
European countries could not do by force through the centuries –
destroy the sovereignty of the United Kingdom – they are now
accomplishing with the government's help.
Only
through the incorporation of the UK in a European superstate as opposed
to Churchill's vision of a Europe of co-operating Sovereign States
could such a policy succeed. Call it federalism or centralism: the
principle is essentially contained in the Eurojargon term
'subsidiarity', a concept which, Dr Paisley reminds us, has its origins
in Roman Catholic dogma and denotes the downward devolvement of certain
powers for the practical outworking of the Supreme Power's objectives
while pre-supposing that the latter has all power.
Defence Implications
The
implications for Britain's defence are serious. European history
decisively demonstrates that Britain is secure only as long as no Power
or group of Powers on the Continent can obtain a supremacy that would
enable them to attack her. Whenever practically the whole Continent was
ruled by one Power, Great Britain lost her liberty. The earliest
example was ancient Rome's supremacy on the mainland of Europe. This
inevitably led to the invasion of this country on Caesar's plea that
the Britons had assisted the Gauls against Rome. There followed
centuries of national servitude.
The
lesson of the Roman conquest was never forgotten by the British people.
Therefore, when Spain, France and Russia in turn tried to obtain
supremacy in Europe by land, and when Holland did so on the sea, each
of those nations came into collision with this country, and each was
prevented by Great Britain from attaining that supremacy which would
undoubtedly have endangered our national existence.
The
ganging up of all Europe in Napoleon's European System to crush Britain
is another lesson. Socialist and pacifist elements had their way
between the two World Wars, despite the unheeded warnings of Sir
Winston Churchill, and we relied so well on the policy of collective
security that we disarmed ourselves blindly, almost to the point of
national suicide.
The
fate of the Franco-British Alliance in the Second World War, when
Britain was left alone in the world to face her "finest hour" (which
could easily but for the grace of God been her last hour), is a further
case in point.
Today
the old players have reappeared in economic guise, perfectly
illustrating the already quoted warning of Dr Paisley about how a
change in tactics can obscure and achieve the real, concealed goal.
History
has consistently taught Britain that her safety lies in supporting the
weaker Powers in Europe against the stronger; but Britain today,
through her European policies, is actively supporting the strong; and
the threat posed by the Holy European Empire emerging on the Continent
has largely gone unheeded. Not content with the progressive sellout of
the United Kingdom's sovereignty to Brussels, the Major Government
busily dismantled the United Kingdom's defences through substantial
reductions in our air and naval bases. The Blair Government has
continued this policy. A report published by the Institute for European
Defence and Strategic Studies in October, 1994, severely criticised the
Government for "defence cuts that it knows should not be made",
describing the principle of contracting out to our NATO Allies as "a
rather generous interpretation of national security". The report
specifically warns of the folly of troop reductions in Northern Ireland
and asks:
Will
the IRA really surrender its arsenal of weapons, [...] its 650
semi-automatic rifles, its forty RPG grenade launchers, its millions of
rounds of ammunition? [...] It would not want to compromise itself
should the struggle start up again.
Events
in Ulster are, indeed, a commentary on the growing crisis within the
United Kingdom as a whole: the sneering contempt for patriotism, the
scorn for the democratic will of the people, the progressive
undermining of our Constitutional rights by what Michael Portillo
famously described as "the rot from Brussels", above all the
abandonment by the Churches of Biblically-based Christian doctrine –
all these and other symptoms are facets of a spiritual malaise which
would drag us irretrievably into the European snare if they are not
halted.
Seen
in this light, the role of the Sinn Féin/IRA campaign against Britain
in the European context becomes glaringly obvious. They are not freedom
fighters at all but advocates and facilitators of an "imperialist"
Europe. As a letter to the editor of the Belfast News Letter put it some time ago:
Mr
Adams should be repeatedly questioned on his statement that the Single
European Act "will place all of Ireland under imperialist control"
(especially with Eire having had the previous presidency of this
"imperialist" movement). We never hear these words being exhumed as
they do not suit the agenda being pursued.
The Vatican and the EU
Which
brings me to the subject of religion. What further aspects of our
national sovereignty are envisaged for the sellout in later treaty
amendments? Will an attempt at religious unity follow in the wake of
monetary and political unity in this "imperialist" Europe? After all,
that is the confessed vision of Pope John Paul II when he speaks about
European unity on his numerous propaganda jaunts, now numbering about
sixty. His message has consistently been that European identity is
"incomprehensible without Christianity" (for "Christianity", of course,
read "Romanism"). In other words, his vision of European unity is based
on the principle of strong Vatican influence on political governments,
reminiscent of the situation in the Middle Ages.
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Developments in Europe are not planned to end with merely economic and
political union. The envisaged European superstate plans to go even
further. |
Developments
in Europe are not planned to end with merely economic and political
union. The envisaged European superstate plans to go even further.
Although – as is characteristic of the planners' tactics – no formal
mention of the next step has yet been made or foreshadowed in any
treaty, it is clear that the stage has been set, and is already well
constructed, for the greatest politico-religious revolution ever
witnessed in the history of mankind. Tragically, widespread
indifference on the part of our national leaders, and especially of the
leaders of the established Churches, indicates that they are either
totally ignorant of these developments or else willing accomplices in
this evil design. The latter explanation quite clearly applies to
Church leaders in particular – and it is here that the hidden
significance of the Ecumenical Movement emerges in its relationship to
the ideal of European unity.
For
the past three quarters of a century the Popes have laid careful plans
for this organisation which is aimed at reclaiming all those regions of
Europe which were wrested from Rome through the Great Schism of the
eleventh century, the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth, and,
more recently, the communisation of Eastern Europe. Before his death in
1903, Pope Leo XIII had already encouraged political rulers of whatever
allegiance to re-ally themselves with the Roman Church: "To princes and
other rulers of the State," he said, "we have offered [i.e.
historically] the protection of [the Roman Catholic] religion. Our
present object is to make rulers understand that this protection, which
is stronger than any, is again offered to them [...]." It is that same
principle that the Vatican is offering to present-day governments if
they will submit to the Vatican's jackboot and return to the Romanist
fold.
In
an address to the European Parliament in May, 1985, this
carefully-chosen first Slavic Pope called for an intensification of the
search for European unity and for work toward eliminating the East-West
division. Speaking of the two Europes (East and West) he designated
Methodius and Cyril - the two patron saints who brought Christianity to
the Slavic world in the ninth century - as patron saints of Europe. On
June 26, 1985, the Wall Street Journal spoke of the symbolic importance
of the choice of these two missionaries to the Slavic peoples as
highlighting the Pope's vision of a united Europe.
Thus
Romanism can again be clearly seen rearing its ugly head as the one
constant force that has bedevilled all European history and politics
and conducted a vicious campaign against Protestant Britain for
centuries.
MEP
Otto von Habsburg, once heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, an ardent
Papist and descendant of the family that ruled over the Holy Roman
Empire in almost unbroken succession from 1273 till 1806, dreams of a
return to the days of former Vatican-assisted ill-gotten influence over
much of Europe. He advocates a modern European superstate as a means to
this end, working towards the concept of Europe as one large
supranational entity.
In
the European Parliament in 1989 he claimed: "Europe is living largely
by the heritage of the Holy Roman Empire, though the great majority
[...] doesn't know it." He stressed how the "religious and Christian
element" (for "Christian" read "Romanist") plays "an absolutely
decisive role" in Europe's heritage". Like the Pope, he spoke of an
"obligation [...] to rethink Europe on the cultural and spiritual
levels" and added as a measure of his blatantly anti-democratic aims:
"whether it pleases political leaders or not". In the Roman Catholic
countries of the Continent, nostalgia is growing for the old systems,
especially the Austro-Hungarian Empire of Central Europe – the major
successor state to the Holy Roman Empire. Significantly, The Independent of January 11, 1987, observed: "The ghost of Central Europe has come back to haunt, or perhaps tempt us."
There
are indeed significant structural parallels between the Roman religious
system and the political subsidiarity principle. Just as no member of
the Roman Church may question the doctrines of the hierarchy, so too
the nations of Europe are being asked to accept the dictate of Brussels
through the gradual erosion of their right to veto; and just as the
Roman Church interprets, decides and does all, so too the planned
European superstate desires autocratic control of the lives of those
forced to be its citizens. This indicates very clearly a close
relationship between religion and politics in the structure of the EU.
Rome's
plan to unite Europe politically and the world religiously by ushering
in a seventh revival of the Empire was announced by Pope Pius XII as
early as 1952 in his Christmas broadcast, which envisaged "a Christian
order which alone is able to guarantee peace. To this goal the
resources of the Church are now directed." This arrogant and cunning
fanatic, who helped Hitler to power, blessed Mussolini's troops and
colluded with the Nazi Ustashi in Yugoslavia in slaughtering 240,000
Orthodox Serbs and forcibly converting over 750,000 to Roman
Catholicism, exhorted the faithful of Rome in February, 1952: "The
whole world must be rebuilt from its foundations." The plans for this
gigantic task, about which the world knows little, were subsequently
laid under cover by the Vatican's diplomats. The concept of a United,
Roman Catholic European superstate, which is presently emerging in
Europe, was to be the first step in world domination.
The plot is now far advanced. The late Enoch Powell alluded in the Evening Standard
(December 2, 1987) to a "profound rearrangement now taking place"
involving the "dissolution of the North Atlantic Alliance versus Warsaw
Pact confrontation" and resulting in an arrangement which would
"reappear like some submerged landscape revealed when the floodwaters
fall, an older pattern, which previous generations would have no
difficulty in recognising. [...] Its old name is Holy Roman Empire."
Significantly, the metaphor is strongly reminiscent of the prophecy in
Revelation 17:8 of a beast ascending out of a bottomless pit.
The
Vatican recognises once again that its aims can be achieved only by an
international organisation which has iron teeth to crush opposition.
"This organisation," said Pius XII already in his Christmas message of
1944, "will be vested by common consent with supreme authority and with
power to smother in its germinal stage any threat of isolated or
collective aggression." Foreshadowing the militaristic nature of the
organisation envisaged, he added in 1951: "[...] disarmament is an
unstable guarantee of lasting peace."
There
is nothing new in Rome's tactics: from the Gunpowder Plot to Semtex
they have merely kept pace with advancing technology. There is nothing
new in Rome's aims: from then till now they are the destruction of the
British Parliament and the subjugation of Protestantism and all other
opposition.
The
iniquitous Ecumenical Movement and its offshoots, disguised as a
genuine conciliatory process, is in reality a parallel front to Rome's
secret battle strategy in the new Europe. In the early sixties Cardinal
Bea, President of the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Church Unity,
made that abundantly clear by admitting:
The
Church would be gravely misunderstood if it should be concluded that
her present ecumenical adventuresomeness and opinions meant that she
was prepared to re-examine her fixed dogmatic positions. No concessions
in dogma can be made by the Church for the sake of Christian Unity.
In his book Catholic Terror Today,
Avro Manhattan describes the ecumenical revolution as "though seemingly
alluring, [...] nothing more than a Trojan Horse via which Catholic
power, apparelled in contemporary garb, continues to assert itself as
effectively as ever." The American evangelist Dr de Haan calls it "the
most cleverly planned piece of religious deception ever foisted upon an
unsuspecting world".
It
is so closely bound up with the European goal that I am tempted to
invent the word 'Eurocumenism' to describe the conspiracy. At the time
of the first European elections, the ardent pro-European Roman Catholic
politician Shirley Williams unambiguously associated the vision of
Europe with her Church's goal of assuming political and religious
authority over the lives of all and sundry:
We
will be joined to Europe in which the Catholic religion will be the
dominant faith and in which the application of the Catholic Social
Doctrine will be a major factor in everyday political and economic life.
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Not long ago, The Times commented: "The soul of Britain is being
reclaimed for Rome in a Catholic call to arms" and "by the next century
Catholicism could be reorganised as the predominant faith in the land".
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Not long ago, The Times
commented: "The soul of Britain is being reclaimed for Rome in a
Catholic call to arms" and "by the next century Catholicism could be
reorganised as the predominant faith in the land". We now have a Prime
Minister who actively promotes Romanism, and I read in the Catholic Herald Standard
recently an article headed "Prime Minister 'very close' to
Catholicism", in which he is reported as having confessed this
closeness to Archbishop Bonicelli while on holiday in Siena. No wonder,
after telling the country that Labour would "wait and see" about the
single currency, his Government is now actively promoting monetary
union in a federal superstate which will destroy the financial and
therefore the political independence of the nation-state.
Historically,
the concept of the nation-state has been anathema to the Vatican, whose
tactics have been to rob sovereign nations of their nationhood and
reduced to mere states or provinces of a single European nation-state
controlled by her, even subdividing them internally where it suited her
purposes.
Her
present goal is unchanged – to recreate a re-mediaevalised Europe of
small, ineffectual states which she can easily dominate. Already, the
map of Europe is becoming strikingly reminiscent of the period before
World War I. The dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy after the War had
enabled the creation of independent sovereign nation-states on its
former territory, such as Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Hungary. As
Czechoslovakia recently split into its two constituent states, as
Yugoslavia violently disintegrates into a jigsaw puzzle of its
provinces and Hungary may still threaten to fall apart into ethnic
regions, the familiar and unmistakable tactics of Rome become
increasingly discernible.
History
is repeating itself in a particularly obvious way in Yugoslavia and
Czechoslovakia. In 1917 the Papal Nuncio in Munich, Pacelli, secretly
negotiated with the Germans to accomplish the "Pope's Peace without
Victory" in order to save both Germany and predominantly Papist
Austria-Hungary from defeat and to strangle at birth two new
nation-states: Yugoslavia, in which Roman Catholics would become a
minority dominated by Orthodox Serbs, and Czechoslovakia, where they
would be dominated by the Protestant Hussites and Liberals.
After
the plan failed, Nazi-supporter Pope Pius XII resumed the plot to
achieve his lifelong dream of destroying the Serbian Orthodox Church as
a rival religion by overtly aiming at Yugoslav disintegration - the one
prerequisite for attaining his goal. His plan was to detach Roman
Catholic Croatia from the rule of Orthodox Serbia and make it an
independent religious state, and eventually to set up a Roman Catholic
Kingdom in the Balkans.
Ominously,
the planned destruction of Yugoslavia has now actually been achieved.
The Russian opposition leader Vladimir Zerenovski recently recognised
and described Croatia's secession from the legally-constituted State of
Yugoslavia as "a Vatican plot". On the other hand, the Romanist
propaganda machine that has infiltrated the European media falsely
portrays Serbia, our former ally, as the aggressor. Croatian atrocities
are conveniently ignored, as are those of her Ustashi priests of the
Nazi period.
The Vatican's dream of detaching Roman Catholic Slovakia and thus re-dividing Czechoslovakia has now also materialised.
Similar
tactics are being employed in the case of Northern Ireland. Rome's
clandestine aim is to detach it from the United Kingdom and turn its
Protestant majority into a minority, at the same time destroying the
United Kingdom as a nation-state and ethnic-cleansing the Protestants
from the Island of Ireland.
Poland
too has been thoroughly re-Romanised through the collusion of the
Vatican with the Solidarnosc Movement, whose leader, Lec Walesa, an
ardent Roman Catholic, subsequently became President. The significance
of the election of a Polish Pope is almost too obvious to mention.
Recent Polish history demonstrates that even countries where Roman
Catholics are in the majority are jackbooted by Rome: the Vatican
actively worked for centuries against Poland's independence from the
Czars, a fact which inspired the great national Polish poet Julius
Slowacki's famous warning: "Poland, thy doom cometh from Rome."
The
former Soviet Union has disintegrated into small states, some of which,
including Ukraine, have large Roman Catholic populations; and the
Vatican is now aiming at other targets – the Protestant Scandinavian
countries in particular. Democratic Switzerland, the land of Zwingli
and Calvin, has been left till the last. By then it will have been
literally surrounded.
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Are our leaders blind to what is going on in Europe, or are they naively stupid, or knowing collaborators?
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Are our leaders blind to what is going on in Europe, or are they naively stupid, or knowing collaborators?
In his book Power Beyond the Market – Europe 1992 – the title itself is significant – Otto von Habsburg lets the cat, or rather the Vatican beast, out of the bag:
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of these days the Middle and East Europeans are going to belong to us.
The call for self-determination from Lithuania [in the Soviet Union] to
Croatia [in Yugoslavia] and beyond is heard today so that even the
adversaries of a greater Europe can no longer ignore it.
Significantly,
these two regions, with Poland and Hungary, are strongly Roman
Catholic. The deception, however, lies in the phrase
"self-determination", a principle totally hostile to Romanism, as
evidenced by its attempt to remove the same inalienable right from the
British people of Northern Ireland. Croatia, Lithuania, Poland and
Hungary are merely passing from the dictatorship of communism to the
dictatorship of Romanism.
Pope
John Paul II symptomatically called Eastern Europe "that other lung of
our common European homeland". He told the European Parliament in 1988
of his wish that Europe might "one day expand to the dimensions
bestowed on it by geography and above all by history" (cunningly
avoiding the word "religion").
It
has taken years of undercover plotting to advance the goal of unifying
Europe under the Romish doctrine. Preparations for the religious unity
of the new Europe were made by the Vatican even before the end of the
War. Because they were not recognised before much of the damage has
been done, they could result in the absorption of millions of nominal
Protestants into the Roman Catholic fold before they even realise what
is happening. Many nominally Protestant Churches have already defected
from their Reformation faith.
Adrian Hilton has published a brilliant study The Principality and Power of Europe, subtitled Britain and the Emerging Holy European Empire.
Every British patriot and every Christian should read it. It was
published by Dorchester House in1997. Hilton exposes the emerging
Europe as a Vatican plot and links it with the role of the Ecumenical
Movement. He mentions how Roman Catholicism has as strong tendency
towards centralism and views it as wholly necessary for individual
nations and churches to merge their individual identities into a larger
body, beneath the guise of avoiding future wars and uniting Christian
witness. The spiritual values of the Church of Rome, however, as well
as its perceived right to rule in the temporal affairs of the world and
its role in global politics, constitute an ethos which is alien to the
Biblical Protestant traditions of Britain, which are more than 400
years old. Today's climate of compromising ecumenism would have us
believe it is possible for the two to co-exist, yet the laws and the
constitution of the United Kingdom are diametrically opposed by
European laws. One has to submit to the other.
In 1953 the Queen swore an oath at her Coronation 'to govern the peoples of the United Kingdom according to their laws and customs'
and 'to maintain the Protestant Reformed religion established by law'.
Both these are negated by the process of deeper European integration.
In a continent in which 61 million claim a Protestant heritage and 199
million profess to be Roman Catholics, it is simply not possible to
maintain Protestantism by democratic law. The Protestant constitution
of the United Kingdom has long been a strong defence against Rome's
desires for the 'evangelisation' of Britain, which the Pope refers to
as 'Mary's Dowry - hers by right. The Vatican recognises that the
defeat of Protestantism here would weaken it throughout all Europe, and
this has been its aim since the Reformation. All of the direct military
assaults on Britain from the Spanish Armada to World War II were
manifest failures, but the modern tactics of encirclement and erosion
and bearing fruit.
The Catholic Herald
recently stated: 'The days of the Anglican Church are numbered, and
most of its worshippers will return to the true faith of their distant
mediaeval forebears.' It is almost a symbolic fulfilment of that
prophecy that the 20-pence coin of the British colony Gibraltar, issued
by Parliament and approved by the Queen, bears an engraving of Mary
crowned 'Queen of Heaven' and titles 'Our Lady of Europa'. The head of
the Queen on the other side is simply titled 'Elizabeth II -
Gibraltar', without her usual titles of D.G., REG., F.D. - Queen by the
Grace of God, Defender of the Faith. As portentous as such Roman
Catholic symbolism is, the British postage stamps issued in 1984 to
commemorate the second election to the European Parliament went even
further. They depicted a whore riding a beast over seven mounds or
waves. Such imagery has startling similarities to passages from the
book of Revelation which a succession of theologians from Wycliffe to Spurgeon has identified as representing Papal Rome.
Roman
Catholic imagery is endemic in Europe, and has been wholeheartedly
embraced by the European government. The design of the European flag
was inspired by the halo of 12 stars around pictures of the Madonna,
and appears prominently on the Council of Europe stained-glass window
in Strasbourg Cathedral. The window was unveiled to the world on 11th
December 1955, co-inciding with the Roman Catholic feast of the
Immaculate Conception.
[...]
Strasbourg is a city which symbolises the dream of Franco-German
integration - the heart of the Empire of Charlemagne. [...] It is also
concerning, though some may dismiss it as trivially amusing, that a
Roman Catholic Englishman sent a letter to Jacques Delors, with the
suggestion of dedicating the European Union to the 'Blessed Virgin
Mary'. He had presumably noted that Delors has been responsible for
promoting the European flag, with its unmistakable Marian symbolism
showing a circle of 12 stars on a blue background. The member of
Delors' private office responsible for the Commission President's
relations with the Catholic Church replied that the suggestion was
gratefully received, but that the President didn't feel that it was
within his authority to respond affirmatively. Was this because such a
decision has to be placed before the European Council, or the
Parliament or even before the peoples of Europe in a referendum? Sadly,
no. Elucidation came as the President stated that he would make the
suggestion known to the Holy Father. If, 'after prayerful
consideration', the Holy Father considered it appropriate, Delors would
do everything he could to implement it. Is this an indication of the
real spiritual bodies ruling Europe? Thankfully, since nothing more was
heard, presumably the Pope didn't like the idea.
The Role of the European Institutions
I had intended to talk about the European institutions, but time has beaten me. I must conclude very briefly.
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...the Vatican is the prime mover behind the EU conspiracy.
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If
I seem to have digressed into religion, that is because, as I hope to
have shown, the Vatican is the prime mover behind the EU conspiracy.
Let me repeat that the British people were deceived about Europe from
the start. The Europe proclaimed as a free-trade area consisting of
sovereign nation states and requiring a negligible membership cost was
a cover-up for a planned politico-religious superstate. The various
institutions and bodies of this superstate in embryo have already
steadily encroached on our sovereignty to such an extent that they are
reducing our Parliament to the status of a glorified county council. The Daily Mail of May 9, 1996, put it succinctly:
Our
laws are now worthless. Fifteen judges in Luxembourg – only one a
Briton – are now the supreme arbiters of British law; and they base
their decisions on Roman law, unknown in this country since the Roman
withdrawal.
The
European Court of Justice has made itself an ever more intrusive agent
for ensuring that the British Parliament is no longer sovereign, even
when Britain's national interest and security are involved.
EU
directives are crippling Britain's businesses. British industry is
finally waking up to the true price of the EU's single market, as it
struggles to comply with 20,000 directives and regulations which have
made Brussels the biggest law-factory in the world.
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The move towards monetary union and a single currency must be stopped.
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The
move towards monetary union and a single currency must be stopped. In a
recent debate with Mr Lammers about the single currency, Normal Lamont
said he was opposed to it because he believed it would "lead to the
political unification of Europe". Mr Lammers then said that there was
no point in any debate taking place, because he entirely agreed that
that was the purpose of the single currency: "It is part of political
unification as we have said all the time." The Chief Executive of the
Bundesbank, Dr Issing, said recently: "There is no example in history
of lasting monetary union not linked to one single state." Dr
Tietmayer, the President of the Bundesbank, said: "A European currency
will lead to member nations transferring their sovereignty over
financial and wage policy as well as monetary affairs. It is an
illusion to think that states can hold on to their autonomy over
taxation policies." Bill Cash has warned that monetary union even
threatens the rule of law in Europe.
One
single currency would be managed by one Central Bank empowered to
implement EU monetary policy. If the United Kingdom abandons the Pound
Sterling and signs up to monetary union, this would be an irreversible
step towards the complete destruction of our national sovereignty.
What
is equally unacceptable is to use majority voting for European
governmental policy. Majority voting causes unaccountability because
ministers can be outvoted in the Council: they are then not accountable
for their decisions to their national parliaments, and the Council
itself is not accountable to any electorate or parliament. Majority
voting cuts the link between voter in a member state and law-maker,
which is the bedrock of all democracy. At the time when he voted for
the Single European Act, Bill Cash tabled an amendment which said:
"Nothing is this act shall undermine the sovereignty of the United
Kingdom Parliament." That amendment was not passed. National
parliaments, as expressions or national sovereignty, are the very
cornerstone of democracy.
Conclusion
If
we do not pray and if we do not act, Rome will once again succeed in
establishing her evil system in this country. When William Tyndale,
captured and burned in 1535 by Belgian Papists for having dared to
translate the New Testament, uttered his dying cry: "Lord, open the
King of England's eyes!" God's eventual mighty answer came in the form
of the King James (or "Authorised") Version of the Bible (1611). It
fell to Protestant Britain to spread the Gospel worldwide and check the
power of Rome. I am convinced that that is our divinely-appointed task
once again. We can no longer rely on our political leaders or even our
Royal Family to carry the torch of Biblical Truth. Let us therefore
pray: "Lord, open the eyes of the British nation!"
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