EU Leader To Dissenter: "How Dare You Say I Was
Not Elected, I Was Elected By The Commission In Secret"
Farage attacks Barroso over politically explosive
EU direct tax
Steve
Watson Infowars.net
Wednesday, Oct 20th, 2010
In
democratic politics there is a distinct difference between selection
and election. However, according to European Commission President,
José Barroso, the two are interchangeable.
Barroso tore into British member of European Parliament
Nigel Farage today, after the UK Independence Party member accused
Barroso of using illegitimate powers to implement a direct tax
on all EU citizens.
"Well Mr Barroso, you're certainly flexing
your muscles, using the powers given to you by the Lisbon Treaty,
which you pushed through using illegitimate means." Farage
said in a speech before the EC.
"You now do everything you can on the world
stage and within the EU to acquire all the attributes of statehood."
he added.
"No where could that be more apparent than
in your recent proposal for a direct tax to be levied by the
European institutions on the peoples of this continent."
As we highlighted
yesterday, the EC has laid out no less than eight
different forms of direct taxation that it wants to impose on
citizens of all 27 member states, despite the fact that the
majority of people in all of these countries would rather their
governments cease all financial commitments to the EU entirely.
Not content with national governments from every
member country already sending taxpayer money to the bloated,
anti-democratic EU bureaucracy, globalists in Brussels are now
desperate to sink their teeth in further, in an effort to increase
their budget by 6 per cent even in the midst of a national debt
crisis which affects the majority of European nations.
Fully aware of the fact that a direct EU tax will
cause a huge backlash and potentially mass civil disobedience
amongst those forced to pay it, EU bureaucrats….have advised
officials to avoid using the word “tax” because
it would be “politically explosive”, an RTE
report notes.
"Of course in previous times there was a
very successful independence movement that campaigned on the
slogan of no taxation without representation." Farage continued
during his speech. "And you certainly sir are not a representative
- we have not voted for you and we cannot remove you."
he charged.
A clearly infuriated Barroso then only made Farage's
case stronger by reminding him that he was not elected by the
people, but rather chosen to head the EC in a "secret"
parliament vote.
"I usually do not intervene, but there is
a point of order that I want to make. It is not the first time
that Mr Farage, addressing to myself says 'you have not been
elected'. certainly I have not been elected by you, but I have
been elected by this parliament. I have been elected in a secret
vote by this parliament, and you belong to this parliament."
Barroso said, attempting to validate his position, but only
verifying Farage's initial charge in the eyes of onlookers.
It seems that Barroso genuinely believes that
being selected in secret by an elite few to head up a parliament
constitutes being elected by the people of the countries he
now wants to see directly taxed by the EU.
"I consider it, always saying that myself
or the Commission have not been elected is a lack of respect
to the Commission and to the parliament to which you belong."
Barroso snapped at Farage as if he was addressing a naughty
school boy.
This shows a incredible level of arrogance in
the face of the basic facts that the Lisbon Treaty was never
put to a referendum in almost all EU countries and that those
now using it to act in the manner of a federal state were not
elected to their positions and cannot be held accountable by
European citizens.
Farage further noted " I do see a ray of
hope", referring to a proposal
to revise the Lisbon Treaty, which could pave the
way for a public referendum.
"The Deauville deal, between Merkel and
Sarkozy, the thing that you're all so terrified of today, I
hope it happens. Lets have a new Treaty, and lets put it to
a referendum." Farage urged.
Steve Watson is the London based writer
and editor at Alex Jones' Infowars.net,
and regular contributor to Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters
Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics
at The University of Nottingham in England.
In
democratic politics there is a distinct difference between selection
and election. However, according to European Commission President,
José Barroso, the two are interchangeable.
