Cyprus needs a Second Amendment

THE SECOND AMENDMENT to the American constitution gives the right of every citizen to bear arms. The founding fathers were not mad and their reasons for writing it into the constitution are as valid today as they were then. Every law abiding citizen could own a gun in order to defend themselves and their family from any internal oppression, as well as any external threats to the nation’s sovereignty.

            

            On the small island of Cyprus, the government has proposed introducing a 10% levy on the savings of everyone of its citizens as part of the country’s deficit reduction. The proposition will be voted on today, and the likelihood is that it will be rejected by the island’s parliament.

            

            Now imagine for a moment President Obama imposing such an act of theft on the American saver. It would prove a perfect example of why there is a need to allow every law abiding American citizen to own guns; and they would be swiftly brought out from locked cupboards in order to oppose such larceny. Which is why no American president would dare even consider what the government of Cyprus is about to try and do, pressured by the EU, but, in particular, Germany.

            

           I bet the people of Cyprus, at this moment wished they also had a second amendment to fall back on. It would have certainly made the politicians think twice before considering such a levy; and if I were the leader of Americas National Rifle Association, I would call a press conference and explain to the American people what was happening in Cyprus, as it is a perfect example of an internal compulsion by the state on the citizens of Cyprus, which crosses the democratic Rubicon.

I HAD A REAL sense of anger when I heard what was being attempted in Cyprus against its people by the government they elected. I had even heard it suggested by a European politician that such a theft may prove necessary in Italy, France, Spain, etcetera, in the future.

            

            No doubt, if the Cypriot government gets away with this almost medieval form of taxation, then other governments in the rest of the euro zone will be tempted to follow.  Every trick is being considered by the Europhilic emperors that now oversee the continent of Europe.

            

           We have had legitimate governments being replaced by technocrats  – and where was the outrage?  Because of  people’s  apathy it never came; which left their political masters secure in their attempt to rob people’s savings from their bank accounts. This is what happens when politicians, like playground bullies, go unchallenged by an indifferent electorate.

            

           That such a thought of such a levy should enter the mind of a member of the Cypriot government, only confirms that it was considered because of the indifference of the electorate.

            

            There is nothing in any democratic constitution, in any part of the Western world, that permits politician to raid their electors bank accounts in order to cover for their failures.

BUT IN CYPRUS there was an even more sinister purpose a-foot, and one which may explain why the Cypriot people were chosen by Europe’s gangster politicians. They, it seems, knew that among the deposits in Cypriot banks, were sums amounting to many billions of dollars; and 10% of which is estimated to accrue some $3 billion to the European Union.

            

            Now, as we know, the rich are disliked by those who are not. Which, by playing on such prejudices, the Cypriot government believed that citizens throughout the rest of Europe would understand once they gained access to the knowledge that some $21 billion belonged to Russian billionaires, and was being held in Cyprus’s state bank.

But the problem is, that the ordinary depositor will also be forced to pay-up. People who have worked hard all of their lives for their children to have a future. Such depositors (unlike the Russian oligarchs) have paid the taxes demanded of them. They have abided by every tax law the island of Cyprus has presented them with…but this outrage goes well beyond the pale of legitimate revenue collection.

            

            Penalise the Russian oligarchs if you must; but only if you separate their deposits from the ordinary Cypriot citizen whose (by comparison) negligible deposits should not be part of the same raid. Those politicians seeking to take a percentage of ordinary depositors money are no different from the Russian oligarchs that they want us to believe are rich tax avoiders, and they themselves as acting as Robin Hood.

I HOPE THAT THE vote in the Cypriot parliament today will go against such a pernicious act of pilfering, as, if the latest from the news rooms are to be believed, will be the case. If such, then the politicians both Cypriot and European must look elsewhere for the billions needed to save their wretched euro.

It were they, after all, that got the continent into this mess in the first place, and the people, such as those Cypriot depositors, had better take notice of what these rascals are prepared to do to cling ever more tightly to the European Union regardless of  such futility.

           

             After the Cypriot experience, if it proves successful for the politicians, other European nations may be teased in the same way. Every means of financial procurement will be considered by the euro zone to keep this failed currency afloat. Nothing will stand in the way of those European politicians that run the union and those politicians of national governments that support the union.

            

             What the lesson of Cyprus teaches us is the length and determination to which those believers in a European Union are fully prepared to go in order to realise their dream.

THANKFULLY,THE ONLY THING Gordon Brown managed to call right was when he refused to join the euro zone. Such a decision goes a little way at least to exonerating him for his many other failures as both chancellor and prime minister.

            

             The mess brought about by a single European currency enforced over such widely diverse economies in order to bring about political and monetary union, was a disaster from the beginning. Such a union should never have included Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy…and yes, Cyprus.

            

             It is no good going over old ground; suffice to say, Cyprus should never have been allowed such an economic foothold in the euro zone. It was a political decision, as was Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy, a decision born of idealism rather than any empirical judgement - which will end in the rupture of Europe.

            

             Cyprus’s case exemplifies the extent to which the European Union are prepared to go in order to realise its euro dream. A dream that will harbour a nightmare for Europe, and leave those Europhile pontiffs, not sitting astride a United States of Europe, but astride an anarchy of belligerence, standing out against every imposition they, the people, have had imposed upon them by such pontiffs.

IF THE EXAMPLE of the imposition of  technocrats on Italy and Greece, as well as the Cypriot experience, does not persuade the people of the European nations that they have entered a twilight zone, better known as the euro zone; then nothing will. Therefore the UK must distance itself further from the whole European project until the continent relieves itself of its idealism and concentrates far more on the pragmatism of any such project.

            

             The sooner pragmatism and empiricism replaces idealism, then the sooner Europe may attain some kind of unity. A unity based not upon the denial of the nation state, but upon a commonwealth of European nations working together, not through centralised dictate, but by means of national self interest.

            

             Such a commonwealth of European nations will allow each nation to determine its own national self interest, seeking alliances among other members. But when it is perceived that the whole continent of Europe is threatened; then each and every nation should be brought together to deter such a threat to the European continent.

            

             This and only this is expediency will accommodate the unreality proposed by the European Union. Unity through self interest has always been the orchestrator of Europe. Alliances between nation states, instead of dictate by the European Union of all one time sovereign states, has always been the preferred option, and so it should continue…as with Cyprus.