Well done, France!

We've never had anything against a strong Europe, one that can stand up to the greedy, impertinent USA – especially in nuclear terms. That's why, in contrast to the sleepy, grumbling traditional Left, we never have been Euro-grouches. But it should have become a Europe of the peoples and not the governments, of the workers and not of drones.
Maastricht was a conspiracy of the governments against their peoples, a smack in the face of the stupid masses by their corruptible career-makers: the Maastricht Treaties became valid, but secretly in many parts; the referendums afterwards were only aimed at persuading the stupid yes-men and/or media junkies to legitimise the purchase of the pig in the poke.
This has worked ideally until now – but finally it has ceased to function in France and the Netherlands, and it's better that way. It was the last chance. Only referendums are democracy, no matter what bullshit the teachers and newspapers may blurt out and spread around to order. Any other kind of voting is at best an unavoidable crutch or a technically enforced emergency aid. For this reason, the Germans were denied this most important of all people's rights and were not even granted it in the case of the annexation of the GDR, but apart from the Swiss (whose real, existing democracy is only based on prosperity and could therefore be simply a fair-weather affair – but nonetheless, it's still real!) the French, Italians, Dutch and others kept this significant remnant of democracy, and if two of them had not now used it, it would have been gone for ever. (Although it would have been maintained formally, this would only have been the case so that some smirking and characterless Euro-lackeys of an »independent European judiciary« can, after several years of sensationalizing press and television garbage, invalidate it again by referring to some rubbery expression from the European Constitution. We are already familiar with this shabby game at national level – for example, unless well-behaved idiots have not already forgotten and stupidly forgiven it – the story of Paragraph 218 (the ruling on abortion in Germany)).
In a peoples' Europe, as opposed to one of its governments (to be more precise: of the US puppets the media recommend to us), i.e. in a Europe of free peoples, there would have been a vote for a European constitution POINT FOR POINT – or at least about the most important individual points – by all the member states at the same time, not about a pig in a poke and a retroactive Enabling Act. However, it is precisely this latter procedure that the governments, spoilt by the sycophancy and willingness to obey of their people, had intended, and this is exactly what the French and Dutch have finally given them the clip round the ears they deserve. It really was about time.
So what did the pig in a poke contain, exactly? The media never let on – or if they did, it was only in the small print. (They are, just as an aside, the new religion – whether you might have believed, for example, in Hussein's hidden miracle weapons or the immaculate conception, it is really, from the point of view of reason, the same level of absurdity – an old-fashioned believer or a fundamentalist really need not be ashamed in the light of the »modern-day« TV couch potato! To any intelligent people reading this: why not become worldly atheists too!) So what kind of little surprises did this little Euro parcel, so daintily packaged and praised by press and TV alike and which must now, thank God, go back on ice, contain?
We won't give everything away – a bit of effort in one's own interest is, after all, not bad – but we would like to draw attention to one thing from which the remains of French democracy has saved us: Article 52 of the planned European Constitution. It means nothing less than a pan-European church state after the fashion of the Hitler Concordat, the restoration of a big juicy part of medieval privileges, a victory for the Pope on the long journey back to before 1789, and with it to before the genuine human rights linked to it (he decreed, correctly from his point of view, the promptest encyclical in the entire history of the Catholic Church, but defeat came nonetheless, and until a few years ago, when the persecution of sects started, not a single European was persecuted because of his religion after 1789; even Hitler had to disguise his persecution of the Jews as racism).
We will be glad to send the text of this disgusting and well-concealed Article 52 in its original legalese to anyone who is interested for a token fee – if you don't get a reply, it means that the Post Office has withheld it – so in that case, please contact the Post Office! But Euro Article 52 means no more and no less than what we have said. This is why the Protestant EU countries didn't want it either at first, but the Roman Church put some pressure in its cronies and finally, the weak, cowardly Protestants or their bureaucrats, even those from Sweden and Holland, did force it down after being sweetened up enough. The French plebiscite has saved us from it again, but beware: the press have time and will be hammering away for a good while yet.
So, lawlessness and slaves' wages have been prevented once again by the Western Europeans. But the fight for an appropriate anti-US model (= money for the people and not for the corporations, in other words, what had distinguished the richer part of Europe, such as Scandinavia and, in parts, even Germany, so positively from the USA for decades) has only just begun (or to be more precise, may only just have begun at best: Europe, which at least produced the workers' movement, has been resting on the latter's laurels for a very long time and has become terribly lazy and cowardly. A united Europe – a USE to counter the USA – would have been very good in this context, but a peoples' Europe and not one of governments.
This is what we would like to see: a united Europe without things like phone-tapping and bug-planting, without berufsverbots (forgotten that already?!?) and tolls on motorways. A Europe that only uses its army against states that attack it instead of loaning it to the USA for its colonial wars. An enlightened Europe with freedom of religion but without privileges and subsidies for religions! A democratic Europe in the Swiss style, where referendums are the main issue and elections the side issue. A Europe that defends the prosperity of its useful citizens and is stingy with bureaucrats, party apparatuses and also with corporations, including the American ones. A peoples' Europe, not a Europe of governments!