President of John Birch Society warns on Democracy in Danger

The concluding paragraphs of a report by John F. McCanus, President of the John Birch Society, linked here, are are as follows: Across Europe, many are awakening to the EU's steady, even formal, acquisition of power. In January of this year, former German President Roman Herzog suggested that his country's immersion into the EU had likely cost it the right to be labeled "a parliamentary democracy." He pointed out that in a recent five-year period, "84 percent of the legal acts in Germany stemmed from Brussels." He is one of many who now realize that the European Union, deceivingly sold to the people as a trading agreement, had transferred sovereignty to the EU bureaucrats in Brussels. Many other Europeans, who now find themselves already gripped by this historic consolidation of political and economic power, are awakening to their plight. Whether they can extricate themselves and their nations from it remains to be seen. Many hope that the Danes will be allowed to hold a referendum regarding the new treaty. The feeling is that the Danish voters might torpedo the new attempt at formal entanglement, just as French and Dutch voters did with the proposed EU Constitution in 2005.