Prime-movers of the EU Lisbon Treaty- Barroso & Merkel

DEMOCRATIC PEDIGREE - none discernible! TOTALITARIANS - either Fascist or Marxist - you can decide! First let us look at the son of the Fascist regime in Portugal: President of the EU Commission - Barroso "On the morning of April 25th 1974, as tanks rolled into Lisbon under the direction of the young officers of the Armed Forces Movement (AFM), hundreds of thousands of workers crowded the streets to celebrate the overthrow of the hated Caetano regime. This was no mere palace coup. In the words of The Sunday Times, "the crash made the statesmen and nations of at least two continents tremble. For like the single stone that starts an avalanche, Portugal's coup may be more a beginning than an end of things." (Link) Jose Manuel Barroso would have been 18 years old and raised under Fascism. Background information on the President of the EU Commission is not easily found, even such basics as his date of birth are not listed on Wikipedia and in stating he was 18 at the time of the Portuguese revolution I am relying on the sparse detail here in an EU speakers summary! As I posted on Ironies in November 2004, after he was pushed by Tony Blair towards the EU Commission Presidency, read here, how could Europe pick a leader with six missing years from his past. This missing period has become even murkier as the years have passed and his efforts towards the destruction of parliaments across Europe have intensified. I quote from the same earlier source IPSNews, linked here: LISBON, Jun 29 (IPS) - The spirited Maoist student leader at the University of Lisbon, José Manuel Durão Barroso, never imagined during the turbulent years of the Portuguese revolution that three decades later he would become president of the European Commission, where conservative parties prevail. The political history of the conservative Portuguese leader, now 48 years old, began during the leftist military ''Carnation Revolution'' of 1974. He was the student leader of the Movement for the Renovation of the Proletariat Party/Portuguese-Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MRPP/PCP-ML). This was a long name for a miniscule Mao-inspired organisation that had pegged the rest of the political left as ''revisionist'', ''social-fascist'' and ''imperialist sell-outs''. In the official biography of the man who is now Portugal's prime minister, that period of his ''revolutionary outbreak'' was left out. After a brief mention -- ''he began his political activity as a very young man, even before Apr. 25, 1974'' -- six years of his political life were omitted from the official text, which goes on to describe how in 1980 he joined the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which is conservative despite what its name might suggest. Now consider the other moving force behind the underhand EU Reform Treaty now known as the Lisbon Treaty, presumably in a hat-tip to the plotter above mentioned: The daughter of the oppressive East German post-war regime: Chancellor of a united Germany - Merkel The following is from the Wikipedia entry on the web, and thus has to be treated with the normal caution necessary for such a source, but I here do not believe the facts are in doubt, link here: Thus Merkel grew up in the countryside 80 km (50 miles) north of Berlin, in the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR). Gerd Langguth, a former senior member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union states in a book^[1] that the family's ability to travel freely from East to West Germany, as well as their possession of two automobiles, leads to the conclusion that Merkel's father had a 'sympathetic' relationship with the communist regime, since such freedom and perquisites for a Christian pastor and his family would have been otherwise impossible in East Germany.^[2] Like most pupils, Merkel was a member of the official, socialist-led youth movement Free German Youth (FDJ). Later she became a member of the district board and secretary for "Agitprop" (agitation and propaganda) at the Academy of Sciences in that organisation. The facts cannot be disputed. Barroso and Merkel have driven through this elaborate scheme to rob almost the entire European Continent of parliamentary government, both come from apparently totalitarian backgrounds first far to the left then later rightish political movements in their formative years. As I blogged earlier this week there is nothing to differentiate between left and right when authoritarianism is the driving force! Why are any remaining democrats in the West letting them get away with it? Only the Irish seem now able to stop this, and the news from the polls today is not good with the Yes vote gaining three points. Wake up mainstream media! Look into the pasts of the German Chancellor and the EU Commission President, I doubt you will like what you will find! Wake up Parliamentarians and Democrats! Do you really plan to hand your nations to rulers such as these?