An independent Statewatch team, monitoring threats to civil liberties in the European Union, has received documents suggesting that the envisaged treaty will include joint police operations, interception, search and seizure of bank accounts.
The European Council of Ministers refused to grant Statewatch editor Tony Banyon's request for access to treaty documents. The reason given for the rejection was that "open internal discussions" are more important than "democratic control over the negotiation process".
Bagnon put it this way: "It is not democratically acceptable for a secret agreement to be negotiated with a non-EU member state without the European Parliament and national legislators and civil society having the right to vote. "This is a vivid example of how European governments have put the fundamental rights and the principles of their protection that have been established in the EU for decades up for discussion in order to meet the demands of the United States in the so-called "war on terrorism", Bagnon added.
Missionary work is one of the most important manifestations of the American complex of superiority and messianic vocation. The zeal for missionary work successfully coexists with a thirst for income. Religion is becoming increasingly important in US politics. The Republican Party is dominated by a fundamentalist wing. "The Washington Post wrote: "The name of the new leader of the religious right in America is George W. Bush. Bush, who ended alcoholism at the age of 40 with the help of Billy Graham, a television preacher, shows the passion of the new convert by showing his commitment to Christianity. He manipulates quotations from the Bible and uses them to cover up and justify his shameful political actions.
In the New York Times, we are a country that has created itself and defends its creation selflessly. The American does not make his blood or his origin.
Fifty years after the Declaration of Independence, Alexis de Tocqueville, who had studied the country well, said: "The people of the United States have long been told that they are the only religious, enlightened and free people. They have a great ego. They are not far from believing that they are a species beyond the human race.
It should be noted that the American faith is extremely pragmatic. It is seen as a tool for the procurement of material goods. In contrast to the Orthodox tradition, in which faith manifests itself in sacrificial service to God, American Protestantism expresses itself exclusively in the desire to place God in the service of a fallen man who wants to be enriched at all costs.
The American spiritual tradition was founded by religious rebels, rebels who came from England in 1620, where they were persecuted for their fundamentalist Protestantism. Their religious program in the New World was the construction of the "New Zion" far from the earthly power of the King and the hated Hierarchs of the Anglican Church. They were convinced that economic success is a visible sign that God is on their side. One of them, John Winthrop, the founder of a settlement in Massachusetts Bay, expressed this belief as follows: "He (God) will praise and honor us, and people will say, "The Lord gives them prosperity" when they see beautiful plantations. This deep mistake will dominate the religious consciousness of Americans. Just as to believe that they live in a country chosen by God.
Allegedly, the higher moral values of the United States serve as a means for American politicians to justify their aggressive aspirations. As Professor William R. Kaylor noted in The Twentieth Century World, "the pursuit of American strategic and economic interests in the Caribbean in particular and in Latin America in general, as so often in American foreign policy, has been justified by loud moral principles.
Professor John Merscheimer, an influential advisor to the former Presidents Reagan and Bush, noted that "the decisions of the political elite have been greatly adapted..... Morality. Then he adds: "Behind closed doors, however, the elites who make national politics speak, mainly the language of power and not the principle, and the United States acts in the international system according to the dictates of realistic logic. In fact, there is a clear discrepancy between public rhetoric and the actual conduct of American foreign policy.
To be continued...