Sunday, 19 February 2012

Scottish Government Cover Up of Hollie Greig

A similar case is underway in Australia

The story of paedophiles at the top end of town - politicians, Judges and others in senior positions.

In Australia It is known as the Heiner affair in which a young woman was raped over a period of time by senior people. When it came to light a person who later became Prime Minister was the person who ordered the shredding of official documents to cover up the crime.

Hollie Greig in the U.K. was a Mongoloid who was raped over a long period of time by a paedophile ring of senior people and now every effort is being made to prevent punishment of the criminals even to the point of jailing by a crooked judge the person attempting to expose them.

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If you are hearing a lot of news these days about Robert Green and Hollie Greig and wondering what all the fuss is about, here is a synopsis, sent to me by one of my contacts, of events explaining the seriousness of the allegations made against the hierarchy in Scotland. it explains why they are attacking Robert with such veracity and why the PEOPLE will just NOT stand for this injustice. The Prosecutor who refused to prosecute, or even order an investigation, retired and was made a DAME! She is herself now being investigated for failing to prosecute in a fraud case (of thousands of pounds).
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Scottish Government Cover Up of Hollie Greig Part 1 - How it all came to light

Saturday, 13 March 2010 12:26 Added by PT Editor Maysaa Jarour

SalmondUK, March 13, 2010 (Pal Telegraph) - I have decide to reveal the Hollie Greig's story in fine detail so that you the public can read for yourself exactly how this sordid story came about and how the Scottish Government suppressed this terrible crime. It covers not only Hollie but also includes other children that fell victim to this ring of pedophiles.
This series will not hold back any information and will include names of the offenders and their victims. It will also include articles that were bouncing around at the time. In writing this series.
It is also an open invitation for anyone to write to the Palestine Telegraph who feel they have information relating to this or any other case involving children in Scotland who may have succumbed to the same group of the so called Scottish Justice System.
I thought it would be best to actually let you read the story overview that was put together by the Investigator of this case - Robert Green who has since become a victim of the Scottish Government without just cause.
Robert's article was titled: The Shocking Story of Hollie Greig and is shown in its entirety as per below. I will also include relevant documentation that is part and parcel of this obscene cover-up by the Scottish Government and its Legal System.
The ultimate blame must rest on the shoulders of the First Minister for Scotland - Alex Salmond who is very much aware of this appalling story but still sits on his hands and does nothing.
We at the Palestine Telegraph will continue to support Hollie and her mum Anne with, continued hardhitting articles until Alex Salmond or Gordon Brown bow down to the pressure.
The "Hollie Army" continue to grow and we can say, with great confidence, that we will not need the assistance of NATO to win this battle...we are strong and will not give up until Hollie and the other children involved have their day in court.
Hollies Story by Robert Green to the BBC "The Shocking Story of Hollie Greig"
Grampian_Police22
In June 2000, Mrs. Anne Mackie, as she then was at the time, following a violent outburst by her husband Denis Charles Mackie, was told by her daughter Hollie, who has Down's Syndrome, that she had been raped and sexually abused by her father and brother Greg. The abuses by her father had been going on for fourteen years. Since Hollie was just six.
Anne went with Hollie to Bucksburn Police Station, Aberdeen, to report the crimes, moving out of the family home, of course.
Late that summer, in August, Hollie revealed that her attackers extended far beyond her father and brother. Denis Charles Mackie had shared his young daughter with members of a pedophile ring operating in Aberdeen, including a Sheriff Graeme Buchanan, a police officer, Terry Major and Hollie's own carer, Helen Macdonald.
After contacting the police again, Anne and Hollie were asked to attend at Bucksburn on 25th August 2000, to make their allegations.
Whilst Anne was being interviewed, officer Leanne Davidson, who in turn, left Hollie alone with a social worker, Nicola Foot, questioned Hollie.
Foot immediately called Hollie a liar and assaulted her by injecting a needle into Hollie's leg, which must have contained a drug to temporarily disorientate Hollie.
Anne, of course, knew nothing of this until she was driving Hollie home, when she became aware of Hollie's unusual behaviour, which she could not explain fully to her mother due to the effect of the drug.
Anne returned immediately to the police station, demanding that a doctor examine Hollie without delay. Davidson played for time by saying that a doctor was being sought, but after two hours claimed that no doctor could be found.
Even worse was to follow just a few days later.
On the 5th September, a medical team unexpectedly arrived at Anne's home, on the instructions of Dr. Alistair Palin, to literally drag Anne from her home. She naturally resisted, but her clothes were pulled down and she too was forcibly injected by one of the team. Angiolini
She was taken by force to a mental institution run by Palin, where he described her as "schizophrenic." The object was to return Hollie into the hands of her abuser father.
Anne managed to get out of the institution after a few days and had the foresight to demand a full examination by a mental health expert. Dr Helen Smith, who pronounced that Anne was in perfectly good mental health. A result, even Palin had to concede in writing there was nothing whatsoever wrong with Anne.
The police investigation meanwhile, despite medical and other expert witness support fully vindicating Hollie's story, was eventually dropped on the orders of one of Sheriff Buchanan's associates, Elish Angionlini, the Aberdeen's Procurator Fiscal, now Lord Provost.
Anne and Hollie have carried on their battle for justice ever since the, although no independent Scottish solicitor could be found to even take up their case.
Nonetheless, after a few years, with the assistance of Nicola Smith, Hollie was awarded £13,500 by the Criminal Injury Compensation Authority, despite the fact that officially, no crime had even been committed.
None of the experts spoken to have ever heard of such a thing before, the only possible motive being that the award was made in the hope of buying Anne and Hollie off.
This point was picked up by the News of the World in April this year when the story was finally broken, albeit in a very abridged form. A version of this was also published by the Shropshire Star, the local paper now for Anne and Hollie, as they had to flee Scotland due to the danger posed to them.
The BBC's investigative reporter, Mark Daly, then approached us. After requesting that we deal exclusively with the BBC, he assured us, after numerous discussions and examination of documentary evidence, that two programmes had been commissioned, one to be broadcast on Scotland's BBC TV and the other on BBC Radio Scotland, handled by his colleague, Kathy Long.
With Her, and Panorama's team MacDougall, they came to interview Anne and Hollie on 4th June this year at their Shropshire home. They also informed us that their investigations had led to them to other serious cases systematic sexual abuse of minors and adults with learning difficulties in Scotland.
Buchanan2On 10th June, Mark Daly phoned to tell us that not only had the team been prevented by a senior BBC figure from making any further investigations into pedophile rings, but also that the team would be sacked if they continued to persist.
Despite all attempts, Daly and the others refused to divulge who it was who blocked them and efforts to elicit this information from the Director-General and the head of the BBC Trust have thus far failed to find a response.
However, Grampian police, under persistent pressure, agreed to conduct another investigation into Hollie's case, led by Tanya Leiper. No urgency whatsoever was attached to this, however and it was only when a shot was fired at the window of Anne and Hollie’s home this August that any firm action was taken, after I had written to both the Grampian Police and Alex Salmond, who had previously been informed about the case, that I would hold the individuals concerned personally responsible if any hard should befall Anne and/or Hollie.
Tanya Leiper and Lisa Evans came down to Shrewsbury on 8th September to interview both Anne and Hollie. I was able to listen to the interview conducted with Hollie by Lisa Evans from the next- door room of the house.
It lasted around three and a half hours in which Hollie explained and relived her multiple rape ordeals in precise and intimate detail. It was horrifying, but Hollie was magnificently heroic and remained strong and throughout, answering the questions with tremendous composure, squaring exactly with everything I had understood as a result of my own observations.
Let it not be forgotten that she had already endured such an interview on August 25th 2000.
I have previously written to Sheriff Buchanan with a list of his fellow rape gang visitors to the house, along with Hollie's name and a picture of her. He, denied, in writing, any knowledge of any of them. Below is the list:
Aberdeen Pedophile Rape Ring Members:Denis Charles Mackie
Greg Mackie
Graeme Mackie
Gillian Mackie
Jack Buchanan
Evelyn Buchanan
Sheriff Graeme Buchanan
David Smith
Wyn Dragan
Terry Major (Police Officer, Grampian)
Sylvia Major
Helen MacDonald (Carer for Hollie Grieg)
Ian MacDonald
Carol Low
Known Victims
Hollie Greig
Richard Dragan
Katherine Major
Jennifer Major
Two children of Ian and Helen Macdonald
Two children of Graeme and Gillian Mackie
I know all these names as a result of my extensive investigations and I believe this to be true.
Robert Green
I have recently listened to the most harrowing interview I have ever experienced, where Hollie Greig spent three and a half hours reliving her multiple rape and sexual ordeals at the hands of Sheriff Buchanan and his gang, mainly conducted in the home of his sister Evelyn.
Surely there are highly placed individuals within the BBC with sufficient integrity and courage to help to expose these appalling crimes and protect some of our country's most vulnerable young people.
I expect an answer from you personally, not someone delegated to do so.
Yours Sincerely
Robert Green, Investigator
Cc Sir Michael Lyons
Kenny_122I found the following statement on the city visitor web page concerning Bucksburn Police: "If you find yourself in trouble or wish to report something suspicious you'll need to call the police in Bucksburn. Police here deal with an array of incidents from domestic violence to stolen goods and vehicles and it's always nice to know that there are helpful and sympathetic people to
call upon during your time of need.
I wonder what went wrong during Hollies years of need!!!
The Hollie story has so far been aired on US Radio Stations, UK and European Radio Stations. Articles have been printed in the US, Middle East and soon in New Delhi. Public demonstrations are starting to get underway in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London.
Many web pages now contain every aspect of Hollie's story and every article written by myself has been forwarded to the following: Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Kenneth Clarke, William Hague, Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander and Ester Rantzen.
Others notified by Robert Green are Alex Salmond - Scottish First Minister, All SNP Scottish Cabinet members, All 43 Aberdeen City Councillors, Colin McKerracher, Chief Constable, Grampian Police, Peter Watson, Levy & McCrae, solicitors, Dr Alistair Palin, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Fiona Palin, Social Work Manager, Ann Begg, MP, George Galloway, MP, Angus Robertson, MP, Ann McKetchin, MP, Jim Murphy, MP and again Nick Clegg, MP, David
Cameron, MP, Gordon Brown, PM.
It must be emphasized that all of the above are "Civil Servants" who are put into office to "Serve the People" and "Listen to the People" and to date not one response...their arrogance will be their failing.... now you know where not to vote at the next General Election!
Part 2 will start to work through the minefield of the Scottish (extremely evasive) legal system. It will show a total lack of duty of care by the Grampian Police and Mental Health etc with appropriate letters relating to Anne and Hollie's case (or should I say no case!).
When one adds the historical lists of pedophiles to the existing FBI list we can see that this reaches all levels of those who are supposed to care for us in Health and Mental Welfare, Schools and Education, Police, Care Homes and Politically... No party is exempt.
There is no limit as to how high this goes in all of the above areas...including of course the upper crust of Freemasons.
We, the public, must remember to keep up all the media activities and the protests until these so-called "Gentlemen of Conscience" (who represent we the people) succumb to the pressure!
The public will be the jury in Hollie's Case, which I will now place before you and you can reach your own conclusions.
Peter Eyre - Middle East Consultant - 13/3/2010
Scottish government cover-up of Hollie Greig, part 2: notification of crime & reaction
Monday, 15 March 2010 11:12 Added by PT Editor maysaa jarour
Buchanan222UK, March 15, 2010 (Pal Telegraph; commentary by Peter Eyre) –
In Part 1 of this series we covered the general overview of the Hollie Greig story as told by Robert Green. We will now continue by explaining the initial notification to the Grampian Police and to other authorities and events that followed after this initial response.
It was back in 2000 that Hollie's mum had been beaten by her husband and she decided to leave him and went to a hostel with Hollie.
It was whilst they were alone together in the hostel that Hollie told her mum that they had to go and get the dogs.
Anne said not to worry we will get the dogs but Hollie insisted that they go otherwise he will kill her two pet dogs.
Anne then started to question Hollie on this issue and the story of abuse slowly came out. Apparently her father used this tool as a leverage for him to carry out his activities...he had also told Hollie that he would also kill her mum. Hollie by this time was 20 years old.
The next day Hollie's Carer came around and so Anne decided to discuss this with her. Anne was shocked with her response to the story...it later came out that the Carer was part of the ring of pedophiles.
Anne then decided to take Hollie to the Bucksburn Police station in Aberdeen to report the incident. At this stage it was only concerning the abuse by her father. Hollie spent around three days with the police who cross-examined her over her sexual abuse.
Hollie had told the police that her father had started doing this when they were on holiday in Brazil, which meant that this was when she was only 6 years old. The police had not given any feedback to Anne during, or after, the three-day's questioning.
Brian Adam MSP also wrote a letter to Elish Angiolini (the Procurator Fiscal in Aberdeen) as an introduction to Hollie's case. This letter is shown at the end
of this article
Anne had been at the hostel from May - 10th of July 2000 and eventually was given accommodation by Aberdeen Council and some weeks after this Anne received a call from the Procurator Fiscal's Office at 6-30pm on night to say that they were sorry, that it wasn't because they did not believe Hollie but the evidence provided was not substantial and the case would not be going to court.
Grampian_Police Anne continues talking to Hollie over the summer break and it was then that the involvement with others started to come out.
Hollie had said that her brother was also involved. It appeared that the father first sexually abused her brother and that he had then become a
pedophile and part of the ring.
Apparently Anne's son had been involved in some other incident in Aberdeen but got away with it after a lawyer called Buchanan handled the case.
This lawyer himself was involved in the pedophile ring and later became the Sheriff of Aberdeen (the office he still holds to this day).
Anne then decided to speak with the police officer involved in Hollie's case and asked if there was an expert that Hollie could be referred but the police notified Anne that there was no funding for this.
Anne became very upset about this and told the officer that if he didn't have the funding then she would do this herself. This cost Anne between 600-700 pounds to get hold of a doctor (DR. Jack Boyle) in Glasgow where Hollie was interviewed.
The doctor eventually wrote a full report and told Anne that her daughter had described to him that Hollie had been subject to sexual activity etc.
On the 25th of August 2000 Anne went back to the police station to tell them about these other people in the hope that something would come out of this. Anne was now aware that many people were involved covering the Sheriff of Aberdeen - Buchanan, police officer involved in forensics, fireman, accountant, lawyer, oil engineer, women etc all amounting to around 14 people approximately.
At times it would appear that Hollie was subjected to what can only be described as "Gang Rape."
Anne eventually managed to access Hollie's Medical Reports and found out that back in 1990 a Dr.Paul Carter who was connected to the Children Hospital in Aberdeen and Hollie's school had reported to her GP and Headmaster that Hollie had contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
Anne was never told about this despite the fact that Hollie was only 9 years old at the time.
No action was taken on this issue, which would indicate some sort of cover up.
Two years later in 1992 her teacher reported to Dr. Carter that Hollie was showing signs of sexual abuse because she was pelvically thrusting. This was also reported to her GP and Headmaster and again Anne was never told. (The Palestine Telegraph holds Copy of this letter as proof).
The Police also accessed her medical notes and Anne spoke with an Inspector Dowell who was asked if he had read Hollie's medical notes...the Inspector stated that he had not read them personally to which Anne said "I think you should" and went on to describe to him that at the age of 9 Hollie Alex_122had a Sexually Transmitted Disease and in 1992 was showing signs of sexual abuse and that nothing had been done about it.
The fact that Hollie was in a Specialist School one would have thought that any wrong-doings would have involved notification of the parents. It became very clear that one big cover up was going on here.
It later became known to Hollie's mum that the Policeman and his wife who were all involved in the Pedophile Ring knew the Headmaster.
Hollie later told her mum that the headmaster had sexually abused her also.
One has to understand not only the size of the ring of Pedophiles but also the level of sexual abuse that took place. Hollie was subject to being raped both back and front. Hollie complained of pain in her bottom and a medical check was carried out which revealed damage etc.
To recap on this story we have all of the above being reported to the Grampian Police.... the list of offenders, list of other victims and the medical records and still the police did nothing.
The Procurator Fiscal Office had said they couldn't do anything.
Later that summer Anne and Hollie went back to the police station and they were both separated from each other.
Anne was interviewed by Leanne Davidson and a Police Sergeant and she explained what Hollie had told her and Davidson took her statement.
After Anne had finished she joined up with Hollie who was sitting with Nicola Foot (a Social Worker) and Hollie was crying.
Mum told Hollie not to worry and took her for her favourite meal at MacDonalds but Hollie was too upset to eat it.
Anne took Hollie home and on the way Hollie told her mum that the Social Worker had stuck a needle in her leg.
Anne immediately went back to the police station and told them what had happened.
Leanne Davidson said she would try and get a police doctor. They both waited for two and a half hours only to be told that they couldn't find a police doctor so they would have to go home.
Anne managed to get an appointment with a new local GP who refused to do a blood test as in her opinion it was not necessary. The doctor did suggest Hollie does a urine test and to go home and post the sample in. Some days later it came back negative.
Just before the 5th of September 2000 Anne got a phone call from the above GP who asked Anne to come up to the surgery. Anne said what for and the GP said we are concerned about your finger (which had been previously broken by her abusive husband when they split up).
Letter_to_Angiolini22Anne became extremely concerned as to why after such a long period of time the doctor would want her to go up to the surgery...it was obvious that the GP had something else in mind.
The following Tuesday Anne was making up some curtains when Hollie asked her to make her a sandwich. Anne opened a tin of ham and made a sandwich.
She then decided to go down to the bin room to throw it away as her own bin was full. She went to the bin room and on the way to the front door she found police and other men and women standing there. Anne walked past them to the bin room and on the way back was approached by the GP.
The lady doctor addressed her and Anne said, "What's going on here" and the doctor asked her to come inside. Anne again asked the doctor why was she here and the doctor replied "We are here to section you" and replied "There is no way, these are just lies from my husband, something has to be done about this as I am the innocent party"...at that stage four men came and bodily lifted me up and taken into the entrance to the building where I was thrown onto the concrete floor, turned on to my stomach, my trousers and pants were taken down,
I was screaming blue murder at the time and all my neighbours were out shouting leave her alone she has not done anything. I was injected in my backside and knocked out. Hollie was watching all this and must have wondered what the heck was going on.
Anne woke up in a mental hospital with two doctors talking blood out of my arm.
This became the start of another battle for Anne, as she was very concerned as to what had happened to Hollie.
Anne later found out that I was taken away in an ambulance and they went into my home and took Hollie into care. Whilst in care they took her to see her father, despite the fact that they knew that the father had abused her.
It was Social Services who had done this and one would ask why on earth they would do such a thing?
Anne, in the meantime, got a lawyer and also at this time she noticed a board with numbers on it so she phoned help line. The adviser said to her that if she does not agree to what they are saying, they would slap another section on you. She had already been sectioned for three days and if they had done another section it would have been for possibly another six weeks and if you still do not agree they will slap another 6 months on you.
After Anne got out after the three days she accessed her medical notes, under the freedom of information. Whilst she was in the hostel Anne was being watched with an intended plan to section her.... which is what they did...all of this information was in the medical notes.
The two Doctor's watching her were a Dr. Henderson and a Dr. Sweeney.
Anne drove down to Fife to see a lawyer and she put her in touch with a top psychiatrist and both Anne and Hollie went down to Glasgow for that appointment. She spent the whole day with the Doctor and a report was written.
The psychiatrist told Anne she was a normal person and issues a report accordingly. Her lawyer then complained to the authorities that Anne was perfectly ok.
The Mental Health Commission wrote back to the lawyer and said that Anne would have to make this complaint herself.
Anne then wrote a letter of complaint and she got her letter back stating they had received my letter of complaint. Anne lawyer did get a letter back eventually which stated that they had no record of Anne sectioning and no reference to Anne being seen by a Dr Palin or the legal people in Aberdeen etc. One can sense here a total cover up by the Police, the Scottish Legal System and the Mental Health.
It is at this stage that I will stop this story right there and return with Part 3, which will reveal the next horrific chapter in Anne's life concerning the death of her brother Robert under very suspicious circumstances. I again repeat that each of these articles is copied to the Prime Minister's Office, To David Cameron and Nick Clegg with no response whatsoever. It should be noted that on TV last night (The Politics Show) Gordon Brown again said we have to protect our children...So Mr. Brown go and do it. It is left to we the public to continue applying the pressure in order to bring justice for poor Hollie Greig and her mum.
Peter Eyre - Middle East Consultant - 15/3/2010
Scottish government cover-up of Hollie Greig, part 3 – The death of Robert GreigTuesday, 16 March 2010 16:18 Added by PT Editor maysaa jarour
Alex_Salmond_copy UK, March 16, 2010 (Pal Telegraph)-
In my previous article I discussed the initial notification to the Grampian Police and their response in regard to Hollie’s allegations.
Before moving on into the final part of this terrible story we must look at another family tragedy when Anne lost her Brother Robert under very suspicious circumstances.
Anne was preparing for Hollies 18th Birthday and Robert came around for a visit. Anne eventually had to nip out and told Robert. That was the last time that Anne saw her brother.
On the 17th of November 1997, long before any of this had erupted, Robert was found dead in his burnt out car on the outskirts of Aberdeen,
Anne received a knock at the door at around 2130 and found two policemen at her door. They asked Anne if she was the sister to Robert to whom she replied yes and the policeman then requested if they could step inside. They then reported to Anne that her Brother Robert had been found in a burnt our car etc.
Anne eventually went to see the coroner, regarding the death of her brother, to be told that they had found a length of pipe besides the car (which was not attached) and indications show that he was two and a half times over the limit and that they suspected suicide.
Anne obviously was extremely upset and couldn't imagine that Robert would do this.
She later checked her brothers bank transactions and noticed that he had only put 5 pounds worth of petrol in the car, which to Anne was normal for the small amount of running around he did. She did however think that if he had wanted to carry out this act he would have fuelled his car much more.
She was not shown the autopsy report and only received a death certificate; with the cause of death being smoke inhalation and not carbon monoxide poisoning that one would associate with the pipe etc.
Kenny222One year on she received a call from the undertakers to say that Roberts's funeral had still not been paid for and that she would be put on their Black List.
She was shocked to learn this and immediately contacted Ian MacDougall as to why.... he said he would look into it.
What should be pointed out here was that the instructions in the will would reveal that the main bulk of any monies would be paid to Anne and her Husband and any residue would go the children.
It transpired that the funeral was eventually paid out of the children's money and there were clear signs that some sort of fraud had taken place.
Anne decided to investigate this and started to take photocopies of all the dealings.
It was at this stage that her husband beat her up very badly and this caused Anne to leave home with Hollie and go to stay at a hostel
Z9Hollie had revealed to Anne, after her brother's death, that Uncle Robert had walked in on them one day and caught her father interfering with her. He had warned her father that he must never lay a finger on Hollie ever again.
Anne tried to ask Hollie when had this taken place and it would appear it was after their return from Canada in September of 1997.
Anne worked out that her brother actually found out only weeks before his death, which caused Anne to investigate further.
It became obvious to Anne that Robert knew too much and may have died because of this.
She tried to obtain the Autopsy report but without success and it was only on New Years Eve 2009 that she managed to obtain the report. She didn't want to read it as it was New Years Eve celebrations but she decided to take a look.
She was shocked to read that Robert had a fractured skull, broken ribs and a broken Sternum, which is extremely strong and difficult to break.
It became apparent to Letter_to_Alex222Anne that her brother had been brutally attacked and then dumped in the car before it was set alight.
The autopsy revealed that he was still alive at that stage and that burning plastic had dropped onto his legs etc. The report also found brown liquid in
his stomach, which apparently was Whiskey, which Robert hated.
We can see a major cover-up on all fronts and no one can do anything about it because Scotland is controlled by Alex Salmond and by two powerful legal supporters, namely, The Cabinet Secretary for Justice - Kenny MacAskill and The Lord Advocate for Scotland - Elish Angiolini.
These three partners in crime are totally aware of the Hollie Case including the mystery behind the death of Robert Greig and do absolutely nothing.
It is clear that should Hollie's case move forward this could cause the current Scottish Government to collapse.
The manipulation by MacAskill, Angiolini and one of the offenders, Aberdeen Sheriff Buchanen is obscene to say the least and all should be removed from office without delay pending a full inquiry (don't hold your breath).
One should also add that Peter Watson, Levy & McCrae, solicitors has also played a major role in gagging those that may want to talk about this case and
is a disgrace to his profession.
This is a "Name and Shame" list of all those informed to date by various people and still they all sit on their hands and do nothing.
All of my articles are copied to all the political leaders - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg. The full list is:
Alex Salmond - Scottish First Minister
All SNP Scottish Cabinet members
All 43 Aberdeen City Councillors
Colin McKerracher, Chief Constable, Grampian Police
Peter Watson, Levy & McCrae, and solicitors
Dr Alastair Palin, Royal Cornhill Hospital
Fiona Palin, Social Work Manager
Ann Begg, MP
George Galloway, MP
Angus Robertson, MP
Ann McKetchin, MP
Jim Murphy, MP
Nick Clegg, MP
David Cameron, MP
Gordon Brown, PM
Mrs_CurrieThe letter to Mrs. Currie as described in the letter to Alex Salmond is shown to the left.
We will take a closer look at the response to these letters and other topics relating to Hollie's fight for justice.
In Part 4 we will look into this response and some other interesting aspects of the Dunblane Massacre that took place some years ago.
One can draw one's own conclusions as to who is or was abusing their power of authority and who is still clearly in office manipulating the law for their own hidden agenda.
It is ironic that Scotland will host the ICC Conference on the 7-10 October 2010, which is advertised as follows:
Scotland to host ICC BiennialScotland is to host a major international conference for National Human Rights Institutions.
The 10th International Conference of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) will take place at the Scottish Parliament from 7 - 10 October 2010.
Delegates from over 80 countries including national human rights institutions (NHRIs), international and regional experts, United Nations officials, government representatives, civil society and business organisations will discuss human rights issues on the theme of Business and Human Rights, and the role national institutions can play in improving human rights in a globalised world. It will be the first time an official United Nations-supported event has taken place in Scotland.
I am sure you would all agree that if the Hollie Case does not come before the courts by the time this event takes place.... we would all know where to hold a protest.
It would be impossible, given normal circumstances, for this case not to be before the courts based on current available evidence. The big question now is can we all continue to maintain the pressure in order to gain a result. The pressure must remain relentless and timely protests should be maintained.
There is extremely good international support now and I believe we are close to having some sort of action in the pipeline that will force this out into the open.
Remain strong and with your determination we can turn this around...we owe this to Hollie and her mum and not forgetting dear Uncle Robert who paid for his life as a result of knowing too much.
Bless you all and keep up the good fight.
Peter Eyre - Middle East Consultant - 16/3/2010
Scottish government cover-up of Hollie Greig, part 3 – The death of Robert Greig Tuesday, 16 March 2010


Thursday, 16 February 2012

The coming Joys of the EU

A Brief Mention…
We thought you would like to know…….


EU plans….
1) HST (trains) to Birmingham and all cities in UK
2) Boris Island airport hub is also EU instruction.
3) Seizure of empty housing and dispossession of old folk ‘persuaded’ to live in a home for aged while their own is rented out to homeless.
4) This may or may not be a prelude to making all private property publicly owned as by Brussels with local authorities given oversight of sale and rent and application to local social needs.
5) Sales tax on all property
6) Increase in inheritance tax with view to preventing transfer of wealth in to private hands but into EU coffers. Eventually all housing will be state controlled.
7) Deployment of foreign Police into Britain including Eurogend.
8) Use of British Army to police streets.
9) ‘Tobin tax’ on all financial transactions.
10) Birth permits- prior assessment for all couples of single people to have children that will be deemed ‘state property’ (already are). The child will be ‘loaned’ to successful couples and monitored until adulthood with appointed state mentor.
11) Limitation on size of families.
12) Abolition of Christmas and Easter (Yes this is true) and official encouragement of state secularity with active discouragement of displays of Christian symbols in sensitive migrant areas.
13) Migrant areas to live under own laws.
14) Migrant holidays to be given official recognition as ‘national’ festivals.
15) Further reductions in British armed forces.
16) Closing down or limitation of Internet.
17) Licensing to use Internet (who can who cannot)
18) Compulsory viewing of adverts for products. This is a proposal that first saw light in United States demanded by big corporations. Overturned in Congress but currently being proposed in EU. Expected to go through by 2020.
19) Council officials given powers of arrest and confiscation.
20) ‘Citizen Communities’ Champions’ given powers to fine.
21) European Corps of Youth- similar to USSR ‘Young Pioneers’.
22) Increased restrictions on free speech (already happening).
23) Making it a criminal offence to deny Global Warming.
24) Making it a criminal offence to criticise migrant and sexual minorities.
25) Classification of Christians and Nationalists like UKIP and BNP as Terrorists.
26) Sales of meat products to be discouraged in a replay of the ban on cigarettes, the latter itself to be outlawed by 2017.
27) Encouragement of ‘vegan’ lifestyles.
28) Limitation on what one can own- ‘inappropriate’ hoarding of ‘old goods’- house inspections by council operatives with power to seize goods they deem ‘not needed’. It is planned to recycle and redistribute.
29) Increasing restrictions on use of motor vehicles with a view to all people using public transport. Ban on cars over 10 years old. This will be law by 2022.
30) Increasing measures to discourage small private companies and entrepreneurs by penal taxation and paperwork but also costs like pension schemes and Human rights that are totally unaffordable and meant to be so, leaving a clear field for the corporations.
31) Public bank accounts, removal of cheques (EU orders) and public control of all expenditure by private citizens. End of cash society but a system of credit. All will be supplied with ‘public’ credit cards. The Oyster Card is the first step in this process.
32) The above means that criminals or people who have upset the authorities will be ‘de-socialised’ (actual EU term used) and refused access to state credit to buy food and pay bills.
33) State internment schemes for ‘mentally ill’ citizens who object to all the above.
34) Severe limitation on vehicle ownership and access to fuel that will be rationed.
35) Classification of all cars into new ‘pollution codes’.
36) Encouragement of children to ‘try out’ alternative sexual lifestyles.
37) Compulsory sex education from 3 years old.
38) Formal abolition of all marriages, even existing ones and instead a looser scheme based upon current Civil Partnership schemes first used for same sex ‘couples’.

Just thought you would all like to know the coming joys of membership of the EU.

Guy

Sunday, 22 January 2012

The socialist aim

Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 10:48 AM

Subject: The socialist aim.. Reprinted from political ad in the Western Australian Sunday Times, December 3, 1995


Some of you have seen this before, but good to be reminded..
The left will want to stay in government as long as possible and even though they are not popular they will want to make sure that they get as much of their agenda in as possible.. the left world wide are the same.
Hitler said
What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.
Adolf Hitler
All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
Adolf Hitler
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.
Adolf Hitler
If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler

So after the population wakes up to the wool that has continually been pulled over their eyes, they would have their agenda all finished...
...
The socialists aim, (see a portion below) and they are well ahead of schedule.. Gaye

Reprinted from political ad in the Western Australian Sunday Times, December 3, 1995

In 1944, Democratic U.S. Congressman Samuel Pettengill warned America that socialists would endeavor to have the U.S. spend itself into bankruptcy, with a view to making citizens totally dependent on a centralized government.

Pettengill detailed TEN POINTS of the socialist manifesto that would destroy free government. Almost 50 years later, down under in Australia, it is disturbing to reflect on Pettengill’s 10 points.

1) People must be made to feel their utter helplessness and their inability to solve their own problems. While in this state of mind, there is held up before them a benign and all-wise leader to whom they MUST look to the cure for all their ills.

2) The principle of local self-government must be WIPED OUT, so that this leader or group in control can have all the political power readily at hand.

3) Constitutional guarantees must be swept aside. This accomplished in part by RIDICULING them as outmoded and an obstruction to progress.

4) Public faith in the legal profession and respect for the courts must be undermined. The law making body must be intimidated and from time to time rebuked, so as to prevent the development of public confidence in it.

5) Economically, the people must be ground down by high taxes, which under one pretext or another they are called upon to pay. Thus they are brought to a common level and all income above a meager living is taken from them. In this manner, economic independence is kept to a minimum.

6) A great public debt must be built so the citizens can never escape its burden, making government the virtual receiver for the entire nation.

7) A general distrust of private business and industry must be kept alive so the public may not begin to rely on its own resources.

8) Government bureaus are set up to control practically every phase of the citizen’s lives.

9) The education of the youth of the nation is taken under CONTROL so that all may be indoctrinated at an early age with a spirit of submission to the system.

10) To supplement and fortify all the foregoing, there is kept up a steady stream of GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA designed to extol all who bow the knee and to vilify those who dare raise a voice of dissent.

Samuel Barret Pettengill U. S. Congressman 1886-1974 Reprinted from an article in Ken Hamblin ‘Talks with America’ News letter Feb. 19. 1996
P.O.. Box 562 Castle Rock, CO 80104

PETTENGILL, Samuel Barrett, (nephew of William Horace Clagett), a Representative from Indiana; born in Portland, Oreg., January 19, 1886; in 1892 moved to Vermont with his father, who settled on a farm in Grafton, Windham County; attended the common schools; was graduated from Vermont Academy at Saxtons River in 1904, from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1908, and from the law department of Yale University in 1911; was admitted to the bar in 1912 and commenced practice in South Bend, Ind.; member of the board of education of South Bend, 1926-1928; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1931-January 3, 1939); was not a candidate for renomination in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress; resumed the practice of law; newspaper columist 1939-1948; vice president and general counsel of the Transportation Association of America, 1943-1945; national radio commentator, 1946-1948; attorney for the Pure Oil Co., Chicago, Ill., 1949-1956; consultant, the Coe Foundation, 1956-1965; resided at his boyhood farm near Grafton, Vt.; died in Springfield, Vt., March 20, 1974; interment in Grafton Village Cemetery, Grafton, Vt.

_________________
To those who have fought for it, freedom has a
flavor the protected will never know. -- Scrawled on a bunker outside Khe Sahn, RVN

"We will fight them there or we will fight them here."
Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Medlicott(KIA Aug.25,2007)

Remember that socialism is a twin to communism and under the guise of saying that they want to help poorer people they destroy us... Gaye

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

The Legal Fiction - How They Control Us

The Legal Fiction - How They Control Us
Throughout the ages mankind’s ingenuity has allowed one group of people to control others. The creation of the ‘legal fiction’ is a superb example – it is the very foundation of how we are controlled today and yet the knowledge of its existence eludes all but a tiny few of us.
Judges know how the ‘legal fiction’ applies to each of us, but barristers, solicitors, Magistrates and politicians mostly do not – it is a closely guarded secret. Our courts impose their will on us using the ‘legal fiction’ and it is through this imposition that governments are able to control every facet of our lives. Without the ‘legal fiction’ governments and an array of authorities have no power over us whatsoever and with this in mind it is perfectly clear that understanding the ‘legal fiction’ is a prerequisite to understanding how the world around us really works as distinct from how we think it does. Knowledge and understanding of the legal fiction is the first step on the road of freedom.

So What Is The Legal Fiction & How Does It Impact On Our Lives?

If you tried to explain the concept of the ‘legal fiction’ to the average individual in the context of how it applies to them, there is a high degree of probability that they would stare back at you as though you were quite mad... explanation rarely attracts a demand to know more, which it should, generally people find comprehension beyond their scope of understanding and they prefer therefore to dismiss it as an absurdity. The creators of the legal fiction knew this and have used our own ignorance to further their aims to control and dominate us, their ultimate weapon being ‘plausible deniability.’ But suddenly we are waking up to what is really going on and as we do the shackles of control are starting to loosen.
Imagine having a conversation in the 10th century in which you were describing a mobile telephone to an audience... they would to a man and woman think you were a complete lunatic... despite being able to explain the science behind it, and so it is with trying to explain the ‘legal fiction’ today. Fortunately, thanks to people like John Harris, Winston Shrout, Robert Arthur Menard and others, the secret of the ‘legal fiction’ also known as the ‘strawman’ has been laid bare and as a consequence those of us who are prepared to learn are now able to take advantage of this very important knowledge.
But bear in mind this... the ‘powers-that-be’ have a vested interest in us not knowing how they effect their control over us... and this translates into them being adamant that you must not know of the existence of the legal fiction, never mind understand it. So if you are thinking about writing to the government and asking them to confirm the existence of the legal fiction, may I suggest that your time would be better spent writing to the mafia and asking them to confirm in writing that they are indeed engaged in organised crime. Please let us know if you get a reply.
The legal fiction is described briefly as ‘a means by which something can be done in law, which, without the legal fiction, would not be possible.’ Look it up in a law dictionary. There are many applications of the legal fiction concept and only through study will you get to grips with the extent of its functions. It is not complicated, just confusing and understanding it requires that you resist the urge to dismiss it as a nonsense. Because we have limited understanding of the origins of the universe, that does not mean that it does not exist - and so it is with the legal fiction.

A Company Is A Legal Fiction

If we assume that your name is Roger Hayes... you could create a legal fiction called ‘ROGER HAYES LIMITED’ which you could own lock, stock and barrel. You could lend the company money and it in turn could buy and own plant, machinery and stock and build up an array of assets and wealth through trade - all of which would then belong to the company... but not you. Yes you would own the company, but the company would own the assets. If on behalf of the company you sold some stock, you would be required to put the proceeds into the company’s bank account and not your own private account. The company would be obliged to pay back the money that you lent it, but apart from that the only way that you could take any benefit from the company would be if it paid you a wage as a manager or a dividend as a shareholder and if the company went bust with net liabilities, you would not be liable for its debts.
It is easy to see then how despite you being the only owner and thus the controller of the legal fiction ‘ROGER HAYES LIMITED’ that it remains an entirely separate entity to you. You could sell the company and somebody else would then control it, despite it keeping your name. Now to deliberately confuse you... this entity was also given the generic name ’person’ and yes, it is meant to confuse you. In legalese (the language of law) the word ‘person’ means company or corporation; it does not mean man or woman. In an ordinary dictionary ‘person’ is described as an individual human being. In a law dictionary ‘human being’ is described as a monster. Do you think they were trying to bring clarity to the meaning of words or do you think they were trying to create confusion? Obviously it was the latter and it was both deliberate and calculated.
When you were born (still assuming that your name is Roger Hayes) and your parents registered your birth, the government set up a company which they called ROGER HAYES. If you look at all your official documents you will see that they are all represented with capital letters as a means of distinction. It is important to remember, that as it was the government that created this company, it is they that own and control it – despite it having your name. The deceit was in the fact that they did not tell you, nor did they want you to know, that they would use this company (person) as a tool to attach liabilities to the real you.
Thus, ROGER HAYES the company was created and existed alongside Roger Hayes the flesh and blood boy created and named by your parents. But in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of the former everybody was led to believe that everything applied to the latter – as devious a plan surely as selling land on the sun to the unsuspecting.
When officialdom then asks the question ‘Are you Roger Hayes?’ What they are really asking is ‘Do you accept the liabilities for ROGER HAYES the company (i.e. the person)?’ and when you say YES – you are unwittingly accepting the liabilities placed upon the ‘person’ (company) that they own and through which they establish their authority over you . How very clever and devious is that?
Roger Hayes is a flesh and blood man. ROGER HAYES is a person (company) – and they are separate entities. You control you, they control the person, if you accept the liability of the person – then they control you.
All Acts of Parliament are applied to the ‘person’ (the company), and not the man or the woman. This is self-evident in that the words man or women are never used in Acts of Parliament. So Acts do not therefore apply to the flesh and blood man or woman, if they did, they would say so. Acts of Parliament extend to you the man or woman only if and when (through your ignorance) you accept the responsibility and liability of the ‘person.’ When a policeman or a judge asks you for your name – they are tricking you into accepting their authority over you, because you have unwittingly assumed responsibility for the legal fiction (despite them also being ignorant of this fact) and the fact is that they must get you to acknowledge ‘the name’ i.e. ‘the person’ i.e. the ‘legal fiction’ ‘ROGER HAYES’ before they can assume their authority over you. When you say YES my name is ROGER HAYES, you are submitting/consenting to their authority, and conversely if you deny the liability of the corporate entity then you deny them the control that they need to enforce their penalty charge notices upon you. Denial of consent is denial of authority which means no penalties. It is as simple as that.
So now you know - government secures its authority over you by simply asking your name, or by getting you to fill in one of their forms. If you understand this then you can start to adjust the way in which you respond to their demands. Learn how to respond to this deceitful tyranny and your life will change; you will become freer in mind, in spirit and in reality. And the more of us pushing them back the faster we will take back control of our nation.
By denying the control that the legal fiction creates, you will be making an enormous stride in securing your freedom.
The fact remains that the Government and its institutions, i.e. the police, the courts, the taxman have authority over you by virtue of you unwittingly giving them your consent. But, whilst statutes (Acts of Parliament) apply only to the legal fiction – common law most definitely applies to YOU - the flesh and blood man or women. Be very careful to understand the difference. Common law which the police monitor as peace officers (constables) protects our natural rights, common law are the rules that govern how we behave towards our fellow men in order that we can all to live in peace and harmony with others without the threat of harm or loss.
So speeding, parking, council tax, VAT, PAYE etc all apply to the ‘legal fiction’ which you have an absolute right to reject if you so choose, but if standing up for your rights is too much trouble, you can chose to continue to remain compliant and obedient. Take your choice.
I have no objection to paying my fair share towards running a system of which we are all beneficiaries, but I will not be dictated to. If refusing to pay my council tax, speeding and parking fines is the way to bring about change that will benefit us all, then that is what I am going to do. Hopefully many more people will start thinking and acting like free men and women, the sooner we do then the sooner we will close down the tyranny and the sooner our lives will start to improve.
BUT... and there’s always a but, the ‘legal fiction’ has benefits as well as liabilities. The NHS, schooling, child benefits, land and home ownership, bank accounts etc, all come to you courtesy of the ‘legal fiction.’ If you want to dump the liabilities, you are potentially going to have to dump all the benefits as well. So you have to have a clear understanding on what it is you are letting yourself in for before you start messing with the system.
Dear reader, our controllers are not stupid... they have been working their scheme for a long time. They have devised a system that gives as well as it takes and it has been a careful balance of both of these that has allowed them to maintain their control. So if there are benefits as well as liabilities and we do not want to throw the baby out with the bath water, where do we go from here?
The answer to that dilemma is simple. The system can be used for our overall benefit. The bad guys have taken control of it and they are quite deliberately using it for their benefit at our expense. They are using it to fine us excessively and needlessly to feed their greed, to tax and persecute us; keeping us on a tread mill of servitude and making our lives a misery in the process. We have a right to take the benefits and reject the liabilities when the balance has been distorted to our detriment – which clearly it is.
The writer has been in court (on numerous occasions) denying the liabilities of the legal fiction – to date 100% successfully. There have been some feisty moments - it has been an interesting journey during which compliant servants of the system have watched in bewilderment (and ignorance) as we (many friends and activists) have turned up at court and said NO... we do not accept your authority. The shock to authority is palpable; they respond by shouting, barking orders for us to obey, they use threats, intimidation and occasionally they call their security guards and the police to try and force us into submission – all to no avail. We have stood our ground and witnessed the weakening of their resolve and have watched as they have instead slowly started to submit to our authority. In court now, we ask the questions and they do the responding. They become particularly more compliant when we remind them that the courts belong to the people... not them.
The flesh and blood man is considerably more powerful than their legal fiction controls; it is just a matter of discovering how it is that we can demonstrate our authority over them. It has been and will continue to be a bumpy ride, made smoother with the support of those who attend courts as witnesses. The British Constitution Group is pushing the tide of tyranny back slowly but surely, we do it with the knowledge that we are right and they are wrong as evidenced by their gradual submission to our demands. But we still have a long way to go. The more of us that join the fight, the faster we will take back control. We do not need elections or referendums or any other controlled mechanism to free ourselves from corrupt government be it in the UK or in Brussels, we just need the spirit, determination and courage to stand up and say NO.
We, the British people have right to govern ourselves, we have a natural instinct to want to preserve our sovereignty and our independence... but we have been lulled into thinking that we need the permission of a powerful elite to secure it... we do not.
We have become confused about our identity and our nationhood - we no longer understand the purpose of our constitution and the rule-of-law. Some of us have been fooled into thinking of ourselves as European, a universal description with as much meaning as calling ourselves earthlings. We are British – English, Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. We have amongst us people from every country on earth, here to share in what is unique to these islands and the British people – a nation of tolerance, compassion, fortitude, fair play and justice. We have taken these values to the world – and it seems that the time has come to do so again.
Our future will not be determined by a political party, it will not be determined by puppets like Clegg, Cameron or Brown (remember him?)... our future will be forged by those amongst us who find the courage to stand up for our rights and declare them to the world.
The tyranny that has been build up around us will crumble when we stand up and defend ourselves. This is a game of numbers... when there are more of us than there are of them... the job will be done.

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Smart Meters -


Smart Meters - PG&E Blinks After Lawsuit Is Filed
By Cassandra Anderson
1-14-12



EMF Consultant & Regulatory Advisor David Wilner of Novato California filed a lawsuit against utility provider PG&E concerning SmartMeters that have been deployed to over 8 million homes, at a cost of $2.2 billion. PG&E contends that SmartMeters are safe, yet they have asked the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to give customers an opt-out choice of radio-free SmartMeters or returning to analog meters. The CPUC's decision is still pending.
It is hard to imagine how PG&E could defend itself against the following causes of action in Wilner's lawsuit:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/71744476/Untitled?secret_password=fd3kc3baxugt98masp9#full
· SmartMeters emit radio frequency (RF) radiation which is a health danger.
· PG&E said that their SmartMeters emit only 1 watt of RF radiation, but they really emit more than 2 watts, so the radiation cloud in the entire network area is more than 16 million watts of RF pulsed radiation! Wilner's lawsuit seeks to reduce the radiation down to PG&E's stated level of 1 watt.
· The mesh network is a 2-way data collection system with collection points on some homes that may serve up to 5000 customers' meters. The collection points are assigned to certain homes without customers' knowledge or consent; the customer is exposed to higher levels of continuous radiation. Additionally, it is unlawful to use one customer's premises to service another customer.
· Some customers who complained on video at PG&E meetings were offered replacement analog meters while others were discriminated against and refused a return to analog meters.
· PG&E failed to consider the health risks and complaints against their SmartMeters.
· SmartMeters pose other dangers that include dirty electricity that can interfere with home wiring, some of the meters were defective and some were not registered with the Underwriters Laboratory to ensure safety and reliability.
· The Home Area Network (HAN) is an option that allows appliances enabled to communicate with SmartMeters to shut down remotely to save energy during peak energy use times. The HAN duty cycle is 100 times greater than the SmartMeter duty cycle because it is on 100% of the time. PG&E has failed to warn people about the additional radiation.
PG&E has offered to replace SmartMeters with analog meters as an opt-out if the CPUC approves it.
PG&E may have made the offer because they would have trouble defending their actions listed above and the lawsuit threatens other monopolies like cell phone communications towers and the Wi-Fi industry that also emit RF radiation.
PG&E has also run into opposition from local governments that have banned SmartMeters, which are supposedly voluntary. The PUC in Maine backed down from forcing SmartMeters on citizens because they have not been proven safe, so they offered an opt-out (for a price) to limit avoid liability.
PG&E does not want to admit any liability as there will likely be future injury claims from the radiation, so the opt-out is a way around assuming responsibility.
Even if analog meters are offered as an opt-out, Mr. Wilner will still pursue the reduction of RF emissions to 1 watt.
The analog meter option may cost customers a $90 fee and monthly charge of $15, which is a form of extortion. Analog meters were safe and perfectly efficient in billing customers, so why should the customer assume the cost of PG&E's mess?
http://marinscope.com/articles/2012/01/12/twin_cities_
times/news/doc4f0df5e2df24d963893967.txt
The big picture threat of SmartMeters is that they are planned for electricity, gas and water with a remote shut off feature designed for power over resources. Imagine a utility company and the government rationing your water, which is a stated strategy/goal for control under UN Agenda 21.
http://vimeo.com/28247826

Sunday, 8 January 2012

Is this our get out clause?

Friday night fun
     Posted by Laura Kuenssberg. 6 January, 2012 

For those who like nothing more than poring over the detail of complicated legalese, then the full text of the latest draft of the treaty that will pull Eurozone economies closer together, essentially giving wise spending Germany more control over the rest of the continent is below.
If you have more fun ways planned to spend your Friday evening, then I’ll forgive you, and tell you the two things that jump out at me.
The last paragraph appears on first reading, the most significant -
.”Within five years at most following the entry into force of this Treaty, on the basis of an assessment of the experience with its implementation, an initiative shall be launched, in compliance
with the provisions of the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union, with the aim of incorporating the substance of this Treaty into the legal framework
of the European Union”

It seems whatever the PM’s position was, the rest of the Eurozone, at least those drafting the treaty, are looking at making every single country in the union, not just those in the single currency, sign up to rules that would allow more scrutiny, or interference, depending how you look at it, of each other’s budgets and policies. The aim in this document is to do this after five years, after the arrangements have been reviewed. This could of course also operate as a sunset clause, that could potentially allow a get out after the same period.
It also seems that there is a plan afoot to raise the level of deficit that the first draft was designed to allow. The original plan was that countries who signed up would only be allowed to run deficits of 0.5% of their GDP, the total amount of everything they make and produce. This draft includes the possibility of deficits running at 1%, although there would be tougher sanctions for those who break the rules.
In any case reading through the draft makes clear how far reaching the changes are, and far the rest of the continent could pull away from the UK if it goes through. This draft is still that, a draft, but there is very real change on the way.
PS For the many who have applauded the stance the PM has taken so far, and there are very many, don’t there don’t be mistaken that there are very real risks too. There are fearful rumblings from City sources I’ve been speaking to in the last couple of days. I’m told that big financial firms are starting to pull away from using the UK’s official representatives in Brussels, UKRep, choosing instead to go direct to talk to other countries’ teams, because ‘no one wants to be wrapped in the union flag right now’. There are suggestions that one very significant financial institution is moving away from describing itself as a UK institution, instead choosing to emphasise itself as a ‘global brand’. Another source told me even Poland, who the UK has often built alliances with is starting to drift away, some saying privately they can’t do business with the UK anymore. And I’ve been struck by the shock that some still feel at the tactic the PM chose. Not least by a source who attended a meeting with a senior minister on the day of the summit itself, who was told that the negotiating position was ‘very soft’. The same source was shocked when next morning it emerged that David Cameron had used the veto – ‘he didn’t protect us while he left the room’, and ‘he stopped the eurozone from sorting itself out’, comparing his stance to Mrs Thatcher’s on Europe, ’she was intelligent enough to stay in the room…he left, and shot himself in the foot’. Ouch! In reality the whole situation is so uncertain that it’s impossible to predict the eventual impact the PM’s position will have but the domestic political success it has brought him is not without its risks.
Here is the full draft – if you spot anything I’ve missed then tweet me at @ITVLauraK
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DRAFT
INTERNATIONAL TREATY ON A [REINFORCED ECONOMIC UNION]
THE CONTRACTING PARTIES………..
[CONSCIOUS of the obligation of the Contracting Parties, as Member States of the European
Union, to regard their economic policies as a matter of common concern,
DESIRING to promote conditions for stronger economic growth in the European Union and, to that
end, to develop ever-closer coordination of economic policies within the euro area,
BEARING IN MIND that the coordination of the economic policies of the Contracting Parties, as
Member States of the European Union, is based on the objective of sound and sustainable
government finances as a means of strengthening the conditions for price stability and for strong
sustainable growth underpinned by financial stability, thereby supporting the achievement of the
Union's objectives for sustainable growth and employment,
BEARING IN MIND that the need for governments to prevent a government deficit becoming
excessive is of an essential importance to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole, and
accordingly requires the introduction of specific rules to address this need, including the need to
take necessary corrective action,
CONSCIOUS of the need to ensure that their deficits remain below 3 % of their gross domestic
product at market prices and that government debt is below, or sufficiently declining towards, 60 %
of their gross domestic product at market prices,
RECALLING that the Contracting Parties, as Member States of the European Union, should refrain
from adopting any measure which could jeopardise the attainment of the Union's objectives in the
framework of the economic union, notably the practice of accumulating debt outside the general
government accounts,
BEARING IN MIND that the Heads of State or Government of the euro area Member States agreed
on 9 December 2011 on a reinforced architecture for Economic and Monetary Union, building upon
the European Treaties and facilitating the implementation of measures taken on the basis of Articles
121, 126 and 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
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BEARING IN MIND that the objective of the Heads of State or Government of the euro area
Member States and of other Member States of the European Union remains to incorporate the
provisions of this Agreement as soon as possible into the Treaties on which the European Union is
founded,
TAKING NOTE, in this context, of the intention of the European Commission to present further
legislative proposals within the framework of the Union Treaties regarding a mechanism of ex ante
reporting of debt issuance plans of the Member States of the European Union, a procedure of
economic partnership programmes detailing structural reforms for euro area Member States in
excessive deficit procedure as well as a new coordination procedure at the level of the euro area for
major economic policy reform plans,
TAKING NOTE that, when reviewing and monitoring the budgetary commitments under this
Agreement, the European Commission will act within the framework of its powers as provided by
the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union, in particular Articles 121, 126 and 136
thereof,
NOTING in particular that, for the application of the budgetary "Balanced Budget Rule" described
in Article 3 of this Agreement, this monitoring will be made through the setting up of country
specific reference values and of calendars of convergence, as appropriate, for each Contracting
Party,
NOTING that compliance with the obligation to transpose the "Balanced Budget Rule" into national
legal systems at constitutional or equivalent level should be subject to the jurisdiction of the Court
of Justice of the European Union, in accordance with Article 273 of the Treaty on the Functioning
of the European Union,
RECALLING the need to facilitate the adoption of measures under the excessive deficit procedure
of the European Union for euro area Contracting Parties whose planned or actual government
deficit to gross domestic product exceeds 3%, whilst strongly reinforcing the objective of that
procedure, namely to encourage and, if necessary, compel the Member State concerned to reduce a
deficit which might be identified,
RECALLING the need for those Contracting Parties whose government debt exceeds the 60 %
reference value to reduce it at an average rate of one twentieth per year as a benchmark,
RECALLING the agreement of the Heads of State or Government of the euro area Member States
on 26 October 2011 to improve the governance of the euro area, including the holding of at least
two Euro Summit meetings per year, as well as the endorsement of the Euro Plus Pact by the Heads
of State or Government of the euro area Member States and of other Member States of the
European Union on 25 March 2011,
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STRESSING the importance of the Treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism as an
element of a global strategy to strengthen the Economic and Monetary Union,]
HAVE AGREED UPON the following provisions,
TITLE I
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
Article 1
1. By this Treaty, the Contracting Parties, as Member States of the European Union, agree on a
“fiscal compact” and on a stronger coordination of economic policies, involving an enhanced
governance to foster fiscal discipline and deeper integration in the internal market as well as
stronger growth, enhanced competitiveness and social cohesion.
2. The provisions of this Treaty shall apply to the Contracting Parties whose currency is the
euro. They may also apply to the other Contracting Parties, under the conditions set out in Article
14.
TITLE II
CONSISTENCY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LAW OF THE UNION
Article 2
1. This Treaty shall be applied by the Contracting Parties in conformity with the Treaties on
which the European Union is founded, in particular Article 4(3) of the Treaty on European Union,
and with European Union law.
2. The provisions of this Treaty shall apply insofar as they are compatible with the Treaties on
which the Union is founded and with European Union law. They shall not encroach upon the
competences of the Union to act in the area of the economic union. In accordance with the case law
of the Court of Justice of the European Union, European Union law has precedence over the
provisions of this Treaty.
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TITLE III
FISCAL COMPACT
Article 3
1. The Contracting Parties shall apply the following rules, in addition to and without prejudice
to the obligations derived from Union Law:
a) The budgetary position of the general government shall be balanced or in surplus. The
Contracting Parties may temporarily incur deficits only to take into account the budgetary
impact of the economic cycle and, beyond such impact, in case of exceptional economic
circumstances, or in periods of a severe economic downturn, provided that this does not
endanger fiscal sustainability in medium term.
b) The rule under point a) above shall be deemed to be respected if the annual structural deficit
of the general government does not exceed a country-specific reference value, that is in line
with the country-specific medium-term objective referred to in Article 2(a) of Regulation
(EC) No. 1466/97, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1175/2011, and which ensures an
adequate safety margin with respect to the 3 % reference value mentioned under Article 1 of
the Protocol (No 12) on the excessive deficit procedure annexed to the Treaty on European
Union and to the TFEU (hereinafter ‘Protocol No 12′) as well as rapid progress towards
fiscal sustainability, also taking into account the budgetary impact of ageing. The
Contracting Parties shall ensure convergence towards their respective country-specific
reference value. The country specific reference value shall not exceed 0.5 % of nominal
GDP.
c) Where the debt level is significantly below the 60 % reference value mentioned under
Article 1 of Protocol No 12, the country-specific reference value for the annual structural net
deficit may take a higher value than specified under point b), but in any case no more than
1.0% of nominal GDP .
2. The rules mentioned under paragraph 1 shall be introduced in national binding provisions of
a constitutional or equivalent nature. The Contracting Parties shall in particular put in place at
national level and on the basis of commonly agreed principles, a correction mechanism to be
triggered automatically in the event of significant deviations from the reference value or the
adjustment path towards it, as specified under the law of the Union. . It shall include the obligation
of the Contracting Parties to implement a programme to correct the deviations over a defined period
of time. It shall fully respect responsibilities of national Parliaments.
3. For the purposes of this Article, definitions set out in Article 2 of Protocol No 12 shall
apply. In addition, “annual structural deficit of the general government” refers to the annual
cyclically-adjusted deficit net of one-off and temporary measures.
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Article 4
When the ratio of their general government debt to gross domestic product exceeds the 60 %
reference value mentioned under Article 1 of Protocol No 12, the Contracting Parties shallreduce it
at an average rate of one twentieth per year as a benchmark, as provided for in Article 2(1a) of
Regulation (EC) No. 1467/97 as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1177/2011.
Article 5
1. The Contracting Parties that are subject to an excessive deficit procedure under the Union
Treaties shall put in place a budgetary and economic partnership programme including a
detailed description of the structural reforms necessary to ensure an effectively durable
correction of their excessive deficits. The content and format of these programmes shall be
defined in the law of the Union. They shall be submitted to the European Commission and
the Council for endorsement.
2. The implementation of the programme, and the yearly budgetary plans consistent with it,
will be monitored by the Commission and by the Council.
Article 6
The Contracting Parties shall coordinate their national debt issuance. For that purpose, they shall
report ex-ante on their national debt issuance plans to the European Commission and to the Council.
Article 7
While fully respecting the procedural requirements of the Union Treaties, the Contracting Parties
whose currency is the euro undertake to support the proposals or recommendations put forward by
the European Commission where a Member State whose currency is the euro is recognised by the
European Commission to be in breach of the deficit or debt criterion in the framework of an
excessive deficit procedure, unless a qualified majority of them is of another view. A qualified
majority shall be defined by analogy with Article 238(3)(a) TFEU and with Article 3 of Protocol N°
36 to the EU Treaties on transitional provisions and without taking into account the position of the
Contracting Party concerned.
Article 8
Any Contracting Party which considers that another Contracting Party has failed to comply with
Title III may bring the matter before the Court of Justice of the European Union. The European
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Commission may, on behalf of Contracting Parties, bring an action for an alleged infringement of
Title III before the Court of Justice of the European Union. The judgment of the Court of Justice of
the European Union shall be binding on the parties in the procedure, which shall take the necessary
measures to comply with the judgment within a period to be decided by said Court. The
implementation of the rules put in place by the Contracting Parties to comply with Article 3(2) will
be subject to the review of the national Courts of the Contracting Parties.
TITLE IV
ECONOMIC COORDINATION
Article 9
Building upon the economic policy coordination as defined in the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union, the Contracting Parties undertake to work jointly towards an economic policy
fostering the smooth functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union and economic growth
through enhanced convergence and competitiveness. In this context, particular attention shall be
paid to all developments which, if allowed to persist, might threaten stability, competitiveness and
future growth and job creation. To this aim, they will take all necessary actions, including through
the Euro Plus Pact.
Article 10
In accordance with the procedural requirements of the Union Treaties, the Contracting Parties
undertake to make recourse, whenever appropriate and necessary, to measures specific to those
Member States whose currency is the euro as provided for in article 136 TFEU and to the enhanced
cooperation on matters that are essential for the smooth functioning of the euro area, without
undermining the internal market.
Article 11
With a view to benchmarking best practices, the Contracting Parties ensure that all major economic
policy reforms that they plan to undertake will be discussed ex-ante and, where appropriate,
coordinated among themselves. This coordination shall involve the institutions of the European
Union as required by the law of the Union.
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TITLE V
GOVERNANCE
Article 12
1. The Heads of State or Government of the Contracting Parties whose currency is the euro,
(hereinafter “the euro area Heads of State or Government”), the president of the European
Commission, the president of the Euro Group and the Commissioner responsible for Economic and
Monetary Affairs shall meet informally in Euro Summit meetings. The President of the European
Central Bank shall be invited to take part in such meetings. The President of the Euro Summit shall
be appointed by the euro area Heads of State or Government by simple majority at the same time
the European Council elects its President and for the same term of office.
2. Euro Summit meetings shall take place, when necessary, and at least twice a year, to discuss
questions related to the specific responsibilities those Member States share with regard to the single
currency, other issues concerning the governance of the euro area and the rules that apply to it, and
in particular strategic orientations for the conduct of economic policies and for improved
competitiveness and increased convergence in the euro area.
3. Euro Summit meetings shall be prepared by the President of the Euro Summit, in close
cooperation with the President of the European Commission, and by the Euro Group. The follow-up
to the meetings shall be ensured in the same manner.
4. The President of the Euro Summit shall keep the other Member States of the European
Union closely informed of the preparation and outcome of the Euro Summit meetings. The
President will also inform the European Parliament of the outcome of the Euro Summit meetings.
Article 13
Representatives of the competent Committees within the Parliaments of the Contracting Parties will
be invited to meet regularly to discuss in particular the conduct of economic and budgetary policies,
in close association with representatives of the relevant Committee of the European Parliament.
TITLE VI
GENERAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 14
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1. This Treaty shall be ratified by the Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective
constitutional requirements. The instruments of ratification shall be deposited with the General
Secretariat of the Council of the European Union.
2. This Treaty shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the deposit of the
fifteenth instrument of ratification by a Contracting Party whose currency is the euro.
3. This Treaty shall apply as from the day of entry into force amongst the Contracting Parties
whose currency is the euro and which have ratified it. It shall apply to the other Contracting Parties
whose currency is the euro as from the first day of the month following the deposit of their
respective instrument of ratification.
4. By derogation to Paragraph 3, Title V of this Treaty shall apply to all Contracting Parties
whose currency is the euro as from the date of the entry into force of the Treaty.
5. This Treaty shall apply to the Contracting Parties with a derogation as defined in
Article 139(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, or with an exemption as
defined in Protocol No 16 on certain provisions related to Denmark annexed to the Union Treaties,
which have ratified it, as from the day when the decision abrogating that derogation or exemption
takes effect, unless the Contracting Party concerned declares its intention to be bound at an earlier
date by all or part of the provisions in Titles III and IV of this Treaty.
6. Within five years at most following the entry into force of this Treaty, on the basis of an
assessment of the experience with its implementation, an initiative shall be launched, in compliance
with the provisions of the Treaty on the European Union and the Treaty on the Functioning of the
European Union, with the aim of incorporating the substance of this Treaty into the legal framework
of the European Union.
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