The Treaty of Lisbon exposed
Readers may recall our recent report of a
hidden agenda within the Church of England in support of European integration, a policy that extends to divesting itself of its own bibliographical and documentary heritage in order to remove any sense of national identity and a record of centuries of achievement. It seems this has stimulated a discussion between our patron Lindsay Jenkins and a mildly Eurosceptic vicar.
We reproduce their email correspondence below.
Lindsay Jenkins29 April 2008
Dear Mr. Knight,
Thank you for taking an interest in my posting.
I am very sorry to hear that both Archbishop Temple and Bishop Bell are today revered in the Church of England. Indeed I am surprised but no doubt you are in touch with a broad grouping.
Archbishop TempleMy own family tell me that Archbishop Temple was very far from universally revered while he was alive; many were appalled – even at a time when some were thoroughly hoodwinked by Stalin.
What was thought through in 1940 (and the thinking started a lot earlier than that) is what we now see in the Lisbon treaty – the EU in all its intrusiveness.
The end of the nation state was exactly what Archbishop Temple and others were working towards. He was not proposing a cosy federation of friends.
The aim was political union and that was exemplified by the first serious attempt with the help of a beneficial crisis in June 1940 – Anglo-Franco Union.
An Oxford lawyer, Professor Zimmern, wrote a detailed constitution of the proposed combination of France and the UK into one country and it had been agreed with sympathetic French in Paris in 1939. But it was stopped by the French government - cowering in Vichy and selling out to the Germans. You may remember the exchange:
General Weygand leading the defeatists said, ‘In three weeks England will have her neck rung like a chicken.’ (Churchill later replied, ‘Some chicken - some neck!’). Jean Ybarnegaray exclaimed, ‘Better be a Nazi province. At least we know what that means’.
An even more comprehensive constitution (similar to the treaty of Lisbon) to include most of Europe was written by an Australian solicitor, Ronald Mackay, who had settled in Britain in 1934, building on constitutional work begun by Lionel Curtis, and the American lawyer, Professor A H Goodhart of University College, Oxford.
That constitution was presented to a 1940 conference in Oxford organised by the Fabian Society with which Archbishop Temple was most closely associated.
On the World Council of Churches (WCC), if you have not already read it I found the Memoirs of the Rev Dr. Willem Visser ‘t Hooft illuminating: he was the first Secretary-General.
Many people over the last decades have not realised what was creeping up, because generations of politicians have either not read the texts (Ken Clarke), not believed them or have deliberately lied.
Should you be interested I have written a book on who has created the EU and why called
Britain Held Hostage, The Coming Euro-Dictatorship.
With kind regards
Lindsay Jenkins
www.lindsayjenkins.comFrom Rev. R. Knight
Subject: Re: THE CHURCH & ITS SUPPORT FOR THE EU - Another Letter to Bishop of Chichester
29 April 2008
Dear All,
I’m glad you are all vigilant about misrepresentations of what is going on with the Lisbon Treaty. I was dismayed to read a letter in the “Times” which seemed to imply that the Church of England supported Lisbon.
That cannot be so for the reasons I included in my letter to the Bishop of St Alban’s.
I must say, however, that I do not at all agree with Lindsay Jenkins and, as a clergyman in the Church of England, I must suggest that it would be
counterproductive to use his letter as a template. William Temple and George Bell were good men - no doubt flawed in some respects like all of us - and are revered in the modern Church of England. Any decent person would want to ensure that nothing like the two world wars could never happen again and it is not unreasonable to explore the possibility that leagues or federations of nations might be an answer. Bell and Temple ought not to demonised for trying. Neither can they be held responsible for the EU’s development into a superstate which wants to intrude into every area of our lives. No-one would have foreseen this in the late 1940s. Indeed, part of the case for a referendum now is that most people did not foresee how the EU would turn out even as late as the 1970s. I’ll paste in my letter to the Bishop of St Alban’s to offer alternative arguments to use with the bishops.
Roger Knight
The Bishop of St. AlbansLetter from Rev. R. Knight to Rt. Rev. Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St. Albans
2 March 2008
Dear Bishop Christopher,
I was dismayed to read your letter in today’s “
Times” suggesting that the Church of England supports the Lisbon Treaty. I should be very surprised if the Church of England has an official view on this subject or if there is any one view of the Lisbon Treaty to which Anglican Christians might be expected to subscribe.
In fact, I believe, there are two issues. Is the Lisbon Treaty a good thing? Ought there to be a referendum in the UK on the Lisbon Treaty?
The answer to the latter question is obvious. Nearly every MP at present in the House of Commons was elected on a manifesto promise to hold a referendum on the European Constitution. Virtually everybody, who has any expertise, in the matter agrees that the Lisbon Treaty is effectively the same thing as the constitution. MPs have broken a promise in refusing a referendum. Christians must condemn that (
Psalm 15).
There ought, therefore, to be a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. If we were given a referendum, I am sure that sincere Christians could with a good conscience vote either way. There is a strong case to be made for the EU and for strengthening its organisation and administration and you have made an important contribution to that case in today’s “Times”. One can also argue, of course, that the EU is a club of rich western nations which harms poorer parts of the world by its trade policies. One can argue that it is too intrusive into the life of its citizens. One can argue that there is a considerable democratic deficit in the EU. And one can also argue, that, while any decent person cannot but rejoice in the fact that nations which were deadly enemies twice in C20 are now allies and partners, it is wrong to overlook the fact that our membership of the EU has been to the disadvantage of Commonwealth countries and others who supported us in the fight against German expansionism under the Kaiser and the horrors of Nazism and Fascism. Christians are 100% committed to the reconciliation of enemies, but there is absolutely nothing in the Gospel that allows us to betray our former friends.
So, Christians, including Anglican Christians, should continue to demand a referendum on Lisbon and could vote either way in such a referendum without doing an injustice to their Christian conscience.
Roger Knight,
Rector of Cuxton and Halling,
Diocese of Rochester
John Hind, Bishop of Chichester28 April 2008
Rt Rev John Hind
Bishop of Chichester
c/o House of Lords
London
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My Lord Bishop,
In your recent speech in the House of Lords supporting the Lisbon Treaty, you described one of your predecessors, Bishop Bell, as 'one of the greatest Europeans of the last century'.
Bishop BellBishop Bell was indeed of that inner group which was seminal in creating what is now the European Union. But I am not sure that Bishop Bell's views are worthy of the eulogy, which you gave him in the House of Lords; unless that is you are either a Communist or a Communist sympathiser and that I doubt very much.
As you may know, Bishop Bell was very close to Archbishop Temple, widely known throughout most of his adult life as a 'radical Bolshevik' and fervent admirer of the USSR. Bell joined Temple in many political ventures including the founding of Federal Trust in 1940 by an inner group of the Fabian Society.
Bell, when Dean of Canterbury, also helped Temple (then Archbishop of York) to launch the World Council of Churches (WCC) in 1937. Temple had for many years campaigned and manoeuvred to lead the Protestant Churches away from a spiritual role to a much more political one, and a very left wing one at that, and achieved it with the WCC.
I quote from one of my own books :
"Thirty-five clergymen attended the 1937 meeting at Westfield College, London University and Temple hoodwinked most of them. Only two bishops voted against the motion to set up the WCC because they guessed its purpose was political, not spiritual. It was: Temple and Bell had deliberately manipulated the meeting."
Both Bishop Bell and Archbishop Temple were no friends of the nation state and believed that nations cause war and should be totally subsumed into a federal Europe, a federal Europe that would echo the USSR.
I am sorry that you have apparently so misunderstood the nature of the European Union not only to praise it, but also to praise your own predecessor, Bishop Bell, who wished to hijack the Church of England for political ends, ends which many then and now find deeply distasteful and who worked to end the independent sovereignty of the United Kingdom.
Your present position, like that of Bishop Bell, does of course leave the role of the Church of England in a no-mans-land: no England, no Church.
I do hope that you will review the nature of the European Union and support not only the Church of England but also the independence of the United Kingdom.
Lindsay Jenkins
Further readingAnything but ordinary
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Ummm
The light-fingered brigade has been at it again, exposing deficiencies in the security aspects of several major UK archive repositories.
Last year we learned that a series of major thefts of archives from the
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) had taken place. The thief had targeted the Jersey Collection there and had stolen documents including letters from Queen Victoria and the first Duke of Wellington. The
Islington Tribune was informed by the LMA’s parent authority, the City of London, that a security review was taking place and that Detective Inspector Joe Lock of Islington CID was asking for further information.
We await further news on the recovery of these stolen documents and the identity of the thief.
Scottish Catholic ArchivesMeanwhile, in Scotland we hear the
Scottish Catholic Archives has been raided by Oliver Fallon, better known internationally as a Sanskrit scholar, who has recently been convicted by a court in Edinburgh. 300 documents with a market value of £26,000 were stolen during five visits he made to that office in July 2006. Fallon adopted the normal technique of the archives thief, that of cutting or tearing off parts of pages or secreting smaller documents on his person. 132 documents are still missing and damaged documents require repairs costed at nearly £5000. The Edinburgh court learned from Fallon’s solicitor John Mulholland that he was already serving time in England for similar, apparently unreported thefts south of the border. SQA is unaware of any official connection between the LMA thefts and the Edinburgh thefts at this stage.
Oliver FallonSeveral sources place emphasis on Fallon’s story he was a postgraduate student, as though to say the Scottish Catholic Archives or its apologists need defend giving access to their archives to anyone. The issue in this instance is that Fallon was left unsupervised while he consulted the documents. It is unlikely in the extreme the public searchroom at LMA was unsupervised.
The Scottish Catholic Archives have also stressed researchers are not allowed to remove documents from the premises and must use pencils only, which is rather beside the point.
The Herald reports Fallon had also obtained documents by deception from the Catholic Archives in London although we are not aware of such a repository.
In an unrelated breach of security of a different kind, 29 forged documents have been inserted into 12 government files at the UK National Archives by Martin Allen, an enthusiast of Hitler’s Germany, in order to support spurious or unsubstantiatable claims. At least one forged letter was written on a blank page from an old book, a classic forger’s trick. The Times quotes Sir Max Hastings as saying
it is hard to imagine actions more damaging to the cause of preserving the nation’s heritage than wilfully forging documents designed to alter our historical record and John Fox states
how on earth were these documents slipped in? This is something that the National Archives has to answer. Whoever got these documents in must have done it in a very clever, sneaky way, so you can’t entirely blame the security. But maybe there are questions with the security.The National Archives is reported as saying new security procedures had been put in place.
We asked Ellison Millinocket of Taunton, Somerset, the outspoken security and conservation spokesman for SQA, to offer some comments.
It really beggars belief. A searchroom left unsupervised? Have the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland no concept of security? I notice their entry in British Archives, 4th. Edition, states they allow access to bona fide researchers. It is all very well asking for a letter of reference but all researchers should be invigilated by trained staff when original and irreplaceable documents are being consulted. It tends to be the case archival material has high market value because it is unique and may bear valuable postmarks, autographs and stamps. The Standard for Record Repositories states:
When in use the study area should be constantly supervised by sufficient staff to provide an effective level of invigilation of the whole area, under the direction of a professionally qualified archivist (section 4.9)
I am not aware if the Scottish Catholic Archives employs a qualified, professional archivist. This would make a huge difference. The Standard also states:
Beyond the very smallest, record repositories accordingly require the services of one or more professionally qualified archivists with training or experience relevant to the kind of records held (2.2 (a))
and
In the case of a small repository where no appropriately qualified professional staff can be employed, the governing body should formally seek regular advice on such matters as acquisition, storage, conservation and cataloguing from a professionally qualified archivist in another repository or from The National Archives (which provides guidance on both public and private records) or, in Scotland, from the National Archives of Scotland and in Northern Ireland from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (2.3)
Thus it would appear several national institutions are implicated. My final advice is always bear in mind the heritage professionals’ axiom, that thieves tend to be the most trusted of our users. There is no such thing as a bona fide researcher and the strictest invigilation is required at all times.
We thanked Ellison for his comments and next asked Dr. Pochin Sturge of Wigston Hall, Leicester, consultant anthropologist to SQA, to explain what makes individuals such as Fallon and Allen tick.
Actually, these behaviours are relatively common in modern western society, which has confused cultural heritage and cultural icons with economic wealth, through the mass media impact of the auction trade, Ebay and popular television programmes like the Antiques Roadshow on the one hand, and the substitution of economic status with privileged access to and interpretation of our cultural inheritance on the other. Knowledge is power, so to speak.
The thief of archival documents achieves several ends; he acquires economic betterment based on his discernment, he relocates cultural material to a more deserving custodianship justified by intellectual elitism and overcomes an irrational jealousy associated with the academic mentality by obviating the need to consult vital primary source material by going through an intermediary.
As for the forger, whether in dealing with the superior or inferior academic mentality, there is a tendency to abuse the legitimate custody of archives not by theft or vandalism but through the more subtle and perverse frustration that official archives do not contain evidence supportive of a thesis. By putting the cart before the horse, this inconvenience can be overcome and a new reality can be created. If the documents don’t exist, they jolly well ought to. Finally, in this regard, the deviant mind can be reassured by having other researchers fall into the trap of accepting his forgeries as evidence, through the creation of a supportive network of the like-minded people. Society thus rectified can be more habitable for the forger and those with similar behavioural abnormalities.
You have my hearty sympathies that such cultural behaviours affect your most worthy profession. Please be on your guard.
We thanked Dr. Sturge for his analyses.
In a sequel to the thefts from Scottish Catholic Archives, we learn in a new report that the collections may be transferred to Aberdeen University. It is telling that a Scottish Roman Catholic spokesman has stated the material could be better preserved at the university.
Further readingThe TimesStandard for Record Repositories BBC NewsThe ScotsmanThe HeraldEdinburgh Evening News 19 May 2008
Press AssociationGlasgow
Daily Record 20 May 2008
Advaita Vedanta Research Center
The Convention brought together a self selected group of the European political elite, many of whom have their eyes on a career at a European level, which is dependent on more and more integration, and who see national parliaments and governments as an obstacle ... Not once in the sixteen months I spent on the Convention did representatives question whether deeper integration is what the people of Europe want, whether it serves their best interests or whether it provides the best basis for a sustainable structure for an expanding Union. The debates focused solely on where we could do more at European Union level... None of the existing policies were questioned... Consensus was achieved among those who were deemed to matter and those deemed to matter made it plain that the rest would not be allowed to wreck the final agreement.
Gisela Stuart MP, British Labour Party representative on the EU. ‘The Making of Europe's Constitution’ Fabian Society, London, 2003
Rogue employers, well almost
Following up previous posts on unsatisfactory salaries or person specifications at
Durham,
Bromley and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (
PRONI), we return again to Bromley where it seems a previous advertisement for the post of archivist at Bromley Central Library is being re-run.
Bromley Central LibraryThe salary offered is £25,440 to £27,009 which suggests a slight move in the right direction. The
advertisement also states the successful candidate will be a qualified archivist. However, we asked Garth Bland, County Archivist of Loamshire, to comment on the Bromley situation.
I think we are dealing with quite a common situation, one not at all beneficial to the cause and promotion of archives. Many local government archive services are beholden to library services even to the extent they are physically contained within a library building. It goes without saying the building is branded as a library and the archivist reports to a librarian. Usually in this context, the archivist is seen as a specialist, almost as a specialist librarian. Indeed, I have seen many advertisements for hybrid archivist/librarians. Unless such post-holders are qualified archivists and librarians, and there are some such beasts, this is an appalling cheek and damaging to our profession.
We continue to fight a battle for the equipping of stand-alone archive repositories headed by qualified, professional archivists employed at the same level as chief librarians and museum curators. Municipal traditions are hard to overcome, as is the strong position library services are in when it comes to competing for funding and access to decision makers. University libraries are much the same. This gives rise to difficulties based on the more specialised needs of archive services and representing such to committees, quite apart from the wider public and politicians.
I tend to think archives authorities should respect the spirit of the National Archives’ Standard for Record Repositories, which states that
Beyond the very smallest, record repositories accordingly require the services of
(a) one or more professionally qualified archivists with training or experience relevant to the kind
of records held
(b) one or more professionally qualified conservators
(c) one or more non-professional archivist or records assistants, and appropriate clerical staff
(d) support staff, who may include word processor/keyboard operator(s), porter(s) and cleaner(s).
(section 2.2)
We thanked Garth for his contribution.
A scorpion and a frog met on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asked the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asked, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion said, "Because if I do, I will die too." The frog was satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stung the frog. As they both began to sink, the frog had just enough time to ask "Why?" And the scorpion replied: "Because it is my nature..."
Do you still not understand the nature of the EU?
The Church of England’s hidden agenda
For those observant and critical enough, the signs of the Church of England’s tendency to support European integration have been there for some time. We recall the letter from the Dean and Chapter of Coventry to a national newspaper in which they collectively stated their support for European integration.
We recall the Bishop of Exeter’s exclusion of the UK Independence Party’s representatives from the regional forum for the South-West Constitutional Convention. We recall the new Prayer Book which includes a prayer for European Institutions. We recall the appointment of a bishop of Europe. We recall the CofE’s involvement in the
Council of European Churches and the
Soul for Europe programme.
The latest activities of the Church of England to come to our attention are the disposal of numerous cathedral libraries, we assume as part of an act of self-censorship for removing inconvenient printed evidence of the rise of the Protestant based British Empire. The Church has not gone so far as to burn its books in the style of the Nazi Germany in the 1930s but the abandonment of its printed heritage amounts to a most useful act of self-imposed Europhile collaborationism, suited to supporting the gradual dismantlement of the national institutions of the most hated and democratic country in Europe.
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The Frauenkirche after restorationAfter all, was it not Protestant Britain that stood in the way of Spanish, French and Papal attempts at achieving European or world dominance? The Protestant-based constitution of Britain also undermined later German attempts at defeating Britain in two world wars. The modern European and German domination of Britain is symbolised by the officially sanctioned abandonment of the ruined medieval Coventry Cathedral, destroyed by German bombing and the recent rebuilding of the Frauenkirche in Dresden, after destruction by RAF and USAF bombing.
So what prompts SQA’s latest concerns?
A Bible sold by Truro CathedralIn 2005 Pusey House, Oxford sold most of its pre-Tractarian library; Truro Cathedral sold Bishop Philpott’s Library; and writing in
The Church Times, Professor Jonathan Clark in an article entitled
The C of E is losing its own history reports the sale of cathedral libraries from Bangor, Canterbury, Ely, Lincoln, Llandaff, Lichfield, Exeter, St. Asaph and Wells on
AbeBooks. Manuscript items are included in these various sales.
The critics of these actions mainly express concern about the Church’s financial incompetence. The Truro sale, described by one eminent librarian as a disaster, raised £36,000 for stock eventually sold on for half a millon pounds. However, to SQA it looks rather more like self-imposed asset-stripping allied to Europhile tendencies.
We asked Benedict Crumplethorne, principal spokesman for SQA, to offer comment.
Two things come out of this, the Church’s naivety in relation to book dealers and the Church’s naivety in relation to politics. Somewhere hidden away in the Church’s institutions is also a rabid pro-Integrationist agenda which sits very easily with self-imposed asset stripping. European integrationism sits well in turn with ecumenism. And ecumenism sits well with Roman Catholicism, as the EU is clearly modelled on the Holy Roman Empire and is founded on the Treaty of Rome. If the EU are to be our new political masters, then so must the Roman Catholics in religion. In short, the CofE has seen which way the wind is blowing.
Our Lady of Europe, Strasbourg Cathedral
My own pet theory is that many clergy and laity support European integration because they believe regional integration conforms to and paves the way for a divinely ordained progression towards unified world government. The only trouble is that such regional or world government is ordained by man not God and the evidence of the EU’s tendencies is that they are totalitarian, not humane and liberal. However, even on this point, many Christians will still support totalitarian rule because they see neither democracy nor dictatorship as a suitable substitute for theocracy.
So with a few Europhile clerics leading the way, the sheep follow, blissfully unaware they are being led away to the slaughter.
And thank goodness for the Parochial Registers and Records Measure!
We thanked Benedict for his insights.
Further readingThe Dresden FrauenkircheThe TimesPhilobiblosThinkingAnglicansPaul Oestreicher in
The GuardianThe Church TimesThe Holy European Empire
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.
The Rev. Martin Niemoeller, on being released from Dachau in 1945
Anything but ordinary
As inveterate readers of SQA’s pages are aware we keep an eagle eye on job advertisements in the sector, identifying rogue employers offering unsatisfactory salaries and those not requiring applicants for archives posts to be professionally qualified.
The PRONI logoOn this occasion an advertisement by the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) has been drawn to our attention. It is for the post of Director of the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), in Belfast.
We are informed
The post-holder will be an expert in archival and records management matters although as there is no mention of the successful applicant having to possess the postgraduate diploma in archive administration, conveniently available from
University College Dublin, the NICS clearly envisages the possibility of finding such an expert who is not qualified. For its part, SQA is mystified that such a species can be considered to exist.
At £56,100 - £78,540 the salary is certainly not an issue: the devil looks after his own and while the rest of the profession laments the absence of national archives legislation which might regularise gradings at least in the public sector, civil servants sit pretty.
SQA has previously blogged its concern at similar developments elsewhere at national governmental level, particularly the appointment of
Natalie Ceeney to head the UK National Archives.
We asked Benedict Crumplethorne, principal spokesman for SQA, to comment.
I heartily sympathise with SQA’s position. However, the trend in central government (if I may term the Euro Regional government of Northern Ireland such) is for non-qualified persons to be appointed to these senior positions. However laudable the retention of their original title (the Scottish Record Office, Edinburgh and Public Record Office, London having changed their titles to the National Archives of Scotland and The National Archives respectively), PRONI is clearly still dedicated to dyed in the wool civil service officialese.
And meritocracy? I note the advertisement states ALL APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE CONSIDERED STRICTLY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT. Well, clearly qualified archivists are not recognised as meritorious by the meritocrats!
Intrigued by the situation in Northern Ireland, we asked Garth Bland, County Archivist of Loamshire to offer some comments on the constitutional position north of the border.
Very deceptive and messy, actually. Northern Ireland is a Euro Region exactly like London, Wales or Eastern England. The creation of devolved government there has always been viewed in the context of the Troubles but actually it would have come anyway and is merely a forerunner of planned EU regional governments throughout England and the rest of the UK. Nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales has played into the integrationists’ hands perfectly.
Current elitist thinking concerning Northern Ireland is that by a process of national governments gradually relinquishing power to the EU, the devolution of power from Westminster to Belfast will make sectarian divisions irrelevant. Once the process is complete, the nationalist community will be unable to unite to the Republic of Ireland and the Loyalists will not be able to unite with, or remain united to Great Britain, because under the Treaty of Lisbon the process of the creation of the EU superstate will become complete and both states will cease to exist. The future EU is one of regions with no national governments or legislatures worthy of the name. It is not surprising Sinn Fein is campaigning against ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon.
It is hardly an issue now whether British troops will remain in Northern Ireland. British troops are just as likely to patrol southern Ireland under the Treaty of Lisbon. With a common foreign policy and common defence policy in place, German, French, Dutch or who knows one day Turkish troops are just as likely to be garrisoned in Ireland, along with the stationing there of former British and French nuclear weapons. No more neutrality, no more nuclear free zones!
Our Lady of Europe, Strasbourg CathedralFinally, I note applications from Roman Catholics are being especially sought. This will please the nationalist community but the appointment of a Protestant won't benefit the Loyalists in any case. The EU is predominantly Roman Catholic and the chapel of the EU is in Strasbourg Cathedral, a Roman Catholic church whose stained glass window proclaims the sovereignty of Our Lady of Europe. The image of Mary, wearing the hexagonal crown of the Holy Roman Empire, is surmounted by the EU's ring of stars.
Who said the EU was secularist?
Further readingEND OF NATIONS - EU Takeover & the Lisbon Treaty (Irish anti-Lisbon Treaty video)
The Balkanisation of Britain Archives and the State Tomorrow's World
Europe's Unholy Empire
Sir- We, being most concerned about matters of sovereignty arising from the signing of the Lisbon Treaty, held an informal conference in Guernsey this week. In the context of this treaty, currently being debated in Westminster, there are uncertainties as to the constitutional position of the Crown dependencies, which remain outside the European Union, as Britain cedes further powers to Brussels.
We consider it of vital importance that our people are fully informed about the implications of any constitutional changes that may arise from this treaty.
We would therefore urge Her Majesty’s Government to adopt a position of openness and honesty regarding this treaty, which affects not just the people of Britain, but also the citizens of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Deputy Paul Le Clair (Jersey)
Deputy Robert du Hamel (Jersey)
Constable Simon Crowcroft (Jersey)
Deputy David Jones (Guernsey)
Peter Karran, Member of the House of Keys (Isle of Man)
Roger Knapman MEP*
Thomas Wise MEP Guernsey*
Letter to The Daily Telegraph 27 January 2008
* Editor’s note: the European Commission has grouped the Channel Islands with the UK South-Western Euro Region, although in point of fact, unknown to most Channel Islanders, they actually come under the French Lower Normandy Euro Region.
The Genocide Convention
We must congratulate our patron Ashley Mote MEP for drawing attention to the European Union’s genocidal war against the British people. This is something SQA has expressed concern about previously in our blog
The Natives are Revolting, in which we examined the implications of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Ashley Mote MEPThis useful development has been reinforced by the
Genocide Convention. Mr. Mote has asked the European Commission the following question:
Given that Malta appears to be the only nation state in the European Union that has failed to sign the Genocide Convention of 1948, can it be assumed the European Union considers itself a party to it? If and when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified, will the EU sign the Genocide Convention?
In which case, can the Commission explain how it will then defend its present activities and immigration policy in the light of Article II, and specifically sub-section (c)?
To save the Commissioner looking them up, I can remind him that the relevant words are:
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group as such...(c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
As the Commissioner will have seen in my recent pamphlet J ' Accuse...! the effect of present EU migration policy has been systematically to destroy national identity in the UK, and - for that matter - in most other nation states. Given that the Genocide Convention makes specific and separate references to "national", "ethnical", "racial" and "religious" groups being threatened, (implicitly either in isolation or in combination) is it not obvious that the uncontrolled influx of economic migrants and the mass influx of Muslims to the UK represent real and present dangers which fall within the Convention ' s definition of genocide?
If not, why not?
We look forward to their reply.
Mr. Mote has correctly understood that the current large scale immigration Britain is experiencing is not the result of something conveniently called Globalisation, it is deliberate policy aimed at dismantling British society and national identity and forms an essential Leninist plank for Communist world government.
Against such large scale immigration and anti-British policies and viewed as an obstacle to Europeanisation, the guaranteed preservation of British archives, which enshrine our identity and rights, becomes highly questionable.
We asked Dr. Pochin Sturge, honorary consultant anthropologist to SQA, to comment.
I suppose the principal effect of mass immigration is to undermine social cohesion. Islam in particular challenges the existing legal as well as religious and political status quo in the UK. In other societies, similar developments are taking place, this is not unique to our ancient culture. I must congratulate Alethea on including a video supportive of Islam in her reading list. Balance is of the essence and in a way the defining characteristic of a healthy society. However, I must point out one glaring error in Dr. Sultan's diatribe. She states the Jews are responsible for most of the world's inventions. According to a recent Japanese government survey, I quote several web sites which quote their findings:
In electronic computing, the biggest new industry to arise in the last half-century, British brainpower provided the ideas, foreign industry reaped the profits. And that's not only true of computing. The Japanese Ministry of Trade has recently worked out that of all the commercially viable inventions in the world since the Second World War, 50% have been British. The next most innovative country, the U.S.A., with five times Britain's population and vastly more wealth and resources, was only responsible for half the number of inventions - just 25% of the total. The Japanese, who have who have the world's second richest economy, only came up with a miserable 5% of the inventions. The Japanese Government study concluded that if British inventions had been put into production in Britain it would have added a stunning £156,000 million to Britain's Gross Domestic Product. With last year's GDP being £1,317,000 million, that would have made us 12% better off - or an extra £2,836per person or about £10,000 per family (source) and
A Japanese government report advised that since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, c1780, 70% of innovations and inventions sucessfully used commercially by Japan originated in Britain; 55% since 1945 originated in the UK. The British Department of Trade reckons that this continued inability to exploit our own superior technological intellect costs Britain £165 billion annually (source)
We thanked Dr. Sturge for his insights.
Further readingImmigration Gumballs: video on the impact of immigration on the USA
MigrationWatchUKAshley Mote MEP's
web siteVideo against Islamisation feauring Dr. Wafa Sultan
Clash of Civilizations ? Islam and the WestVideo in favour of Islam featuring Faisal al-Qassem
Islam. Wafa Sultan Refuted
Each has won a glorious grave - not that sepulchre of earth wherein they lie, but the living tomb of everlasting remembrance wherein their glory is enshrined. For the whole earth is the sepulchre of heroes. Monuments may rise and tablets be set upto them in their own land, but on far-off shores there is an abiding memorial that no pen or chisel has traced. It is graven not on stone or brass, but on the living hearts of humanity. Take these men for your example. Like them, remember that prosperity can only be for the free, that freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
Pericles' oration to the Athenian war dead
Rewriting History
Members of SQA’s south east, eastern and north-east Euro Regions have been approached by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) to assist in the trialling of MLA London Euro Region’s
Revisiting Archive Collections toolkit, part of a process of expanding the project outwards from London to the rest of the UK.
MLA informs us:
The Revisiting Archive Collections toolkit takes collection managers through the process of opening up their records to external scrutiny and comment and capturing new information and understanding in their core collection description and cataloguing systems. The purpose is to help archivists to attract and serve non-traditional audiences and people wanting to access the material from non-traditional perspectives.
Also:
Participating archives will be trained and supported to use the toolkit by a team of consultants with expertise in both archival cataloguing and description and in facilitating community participation.
This development almost certainly stems from recognition of the huge potential arising from the publication of electronic archival finding aids on the web. Online finding aids stand to benefit researchers who will be alerted to the existence of many relevant collections and documents for the first time. This all seems very harmless and indeed beneficial, but only when viewed from the standpoint of archivists unversed in current political trends.
To the Leninist however, the advent of online finding aids to historical source material, available alongside contemporary socio-political web sites through search engines such as Google, has prompted the appalling realisation that objective archival description of documentary evidence of the development of the world’s most influential state, England, and its empire, laws, customs, accountable government, rule of law, presumption of innocence,
habeas corpus, etc., will undermine their surreptitious scheme for Communist world government. The MLA web site reveals some clues as to their real motives:
The Revisiting Archive Collections toolkit takes collection managers through the process of opening up their records for external scrutiny and comment and capturing new information and understanding in their core collection description and cataloguing systems. The purpose is to help archivists to attract and serve non-traditional audiences and people wanting to access the material from non-traditional perspectives.
It is at this point the whole devious plan is exposed. What the metropolitan
elite are proposing is that archival descriptive lists are written or re-written on advice from persons who are not necessarily objective, qualified archivists, so as to conform to the Leninist world view. Based on our prior knowledge of the Malvine Project, which seeks to “harmonise” the archives of the EU member states alongside the accompanying dumbing down of history, we knew it wouldn’t be long before EU collaborators got to grips with the bread and butter work of archivists, descriptive listing, which clearly forms the first stage in access to and interpretation of archives.
As if it’s not good enough for qualified, professional archivists, who are already expertly trained in identifying and describing material of socio- historical value, to be effectively retrained on the job, archivists will now be suitably politically indoctrinated and politically re-educated by MLA commissars who are not identified at this stage and whose credentials therefore cannot be checked by the wider profession.
Academic research is already heavily funded by the EU and the BBC is now also being indirectly funded by the EU. The outcome will therefore be a seamless conveyer belt of carefully slanted archival description leading to approved historical research, interpretation and educational propaganda, both feeding into a biased media presentation of heritage, all issues SQA has warned of previously.
We asked Garth Bland, county archivist of Loamshire, to describe his office’s experience of working with MLA’s commissars.
The Duke of Wellington, saviour of EuropeWe were visited by Jacinta Sprout-Davies * and the whole experience proved very traumatic. Jacinta criticised our descriptive lists as being reactionary, Fascist and politically incorrect. Staff were hurt and offended. Until Jacinta’s visit we were proud of our high standard of descriptive listing. To give you an example of how some of our descriptive lists had to change, I will compare our original description of a letter from the Duke of Wellington to Jacinta’s revised version.Letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London to Sir Lionel Scratchrace MP, Bloggsbridge, Loamshire, describing the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) and its consequences. Wellington describes Napoleon as a tyrant and ogre, the French as stinking of garlic and thanks God the peace of Europe has been assured for generations to come, the Code Napoleon denied imposition on England and the British Empire and its numerous good works preserved as a beacon of justice for all civilisation.
Following Jacinta’s revision, the description now reads:Letter from Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Apsley House, London to Sir Lionel Scratchrace MP, Bloggsbridge, Loamshire, in which he makes racist and chauvinistic remarks about the French people, criticises Napoleon’s enlightened social and political theories and objects to the fulfilment of European Union, the harmonisation of legal systems, a single currency and imposition of post-democratic governance, instead favouring reactionary forms of government, populism disguised as democracy and the upholding of Anglo-Saxon world dominance.
I just can’t see what's wrong with our original description!We thanked Garth for his contribution.
For a final view of the whole sorry business, we approached Benedict Crumplethorne, principal spokesman for SQA.
Obviously MLA is getting carried away with the EU's success in imposing the revived European constitution on member states even to the extent they are anticipating its formal implementation. The UK represents the biggest cultural and political threat to the European project, not just because our instincts are so anti-EU but because our institutions, traditions and cultural heritage are quite simply not European. We are British and identify much more with the Americans and Commonwealth, with which we should have a true free trade area instead. This is Big Brother entering the world of British archives for the first time. And they are only just warming up!
We thanked Benedict for his valuable insights.
[* Editor’s note: readers may recall Jacinta is Assistant Archivist at Norrey Record Office (Priscilla Dyke, county archivist). Jacinta is a qualified archivist and previously worked for the European Commission. She is a graduate in sociology, holds the Diploma in Advanced Political Correctness from the Institute of Political Correctness in London and during her student vacations obtained valuable experience of dealing with the general public at McDonald's]
Further readingMLA
Revisiting Archives CollectionsMLA GuidanceMLA gauleiters in actionBBC BiasThe Fabian SocietyDumbing down historyCommon PurposeThe Malvine Project
It wasn't worth creating a negative commotion with the British. I rewrote my text with the word federal replaced by communautaire, which means exactly the same thing.
Valery Giscard d'Estaing,
Wall Street Journal Europe, 7 July 2003
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