March 21, 2008   ECrisis today commends the Northern Europeans for reawakening to the fact that socialist-Marxist tricks, recently notable in the plethora of global so called plebiscites, "new" democracies and constitutions, and so called treaties to enforce constitutions which no one approves, is not new and it is not democracy. Indeed, none of these constituent assemblies are necessary nor do they successfully deliver the greater good of better government- only more massive over-regulation, sometimes called the Marxist state and sometimes called legitimizing that which should never be legitimized. With no effort at all- and no transparency- to compare and contrast these "populist" [ aka socialist Marxist to varying degrees] constituent assemblies for populist constitutions with acceptable constitutional scholars from first and second rate nations, one would assume that the deception is afoot to bring forward more laws to insure that Marxist socialism returns one and all to failed states. And it is.
 
The March 19, 2008 WALL STREET JOURNAL reported, "Plebiscites are rarely justified or necessary." In fact, Ecuadoreans could have easily and with full transparency, easily amended the extant constitution. Instead, Ecuadoreans threw out their freedoms, along with their full freedoms,  in order to let a group from Caracas control their futures in a hidden, closeted so called constitutional reform effort in the City of the FARC, also called Ciudad Alfaro, also called Montecristi- now a living shrine to legalizing the narcostate in Ecuador.
 
Some nations are waking up to what is transpiring in Montecristi and some are not. In Europe, the British are rousting from their slumber a bit- a bit late.

Here is a superb piece on state-sponsored corruption: read it all here- regarding disturbing new EU corruption by constitutional caveat. The authors note, "The European Union has an interesting definition of theft, David Abbott and Catherine Glass write: multiculturalism. How else to account for the billions of euros pilfered by EU civil servants?

Corruption, a word that comes to English via Latin and the Romance languages, has long meant the death, putrefaction and disintegration of physical, moral or social bodies, but this is not the gloss bestowed on it by the President of the European Union’s Parliament, Hans-Gert Poettering. The European Union has had a troubled relationship with the taxpayers’ money that pours into its coffers and is in turn redistributed to peoples and projects in 27 different nations. The most recent example of malfeasance, which the EU tried to bury, was MEP expenses. We received a summary of the internal EP Audit Report on EU parliamentary assistance allowances, which the EU had gone to extraordinary lengths to keep secret. That it tried confirms a perennial problem in the EU – lack of transparency. The audit was based on a random sample of 167 of the 4,700 total payments made to MEPs in October 2004.

Should corruption be identified, the Court of Auditors has no legal power to act. Instead it informs OLAF, the EU’s anti-fraud investigative body, which was created in 1999 after its predecessor, UCLAF, was racked by scandal. But, mirabile dictu, OLAF has no judicial or disciplinary powers, either, and it cannot oblige prosecutors to prosecute. Corruption is encouraged by lack of transparency, poor accounting practices, lack of enforcement, and by a political culture that suggests that lining the pocket – otherwise called fraud, theft, insider deals, graft, kickbacks, bribes, and nepotism - are part of the European Union’s varied multicultural charms. The temptation is obvious: the EU is awash in unaccounted-for billions. It collects money through such schemes as Emissions Trading and Value Added Taxes (VAT) which reportedly are being siphoned away by “crooks, fraudsters, and even terrorists”.

These difficulties are the natural result of a principle that has the force of physical law, but is ignored by proponents of big government. The principle is this - men, and women, are not angels; no law will keep all people honest; given the opportunity, some people will become corrupt; the more money that flows through government, and the farther away from its source, the greater the risk of corruption.

This is why sensible people want government to be local, small and competent. They saw and rejected the corruption of powerful European empires and their parasites. They want local funding and administration of schools, fire and police departments, water and sewage and private, competitive health care because they understand this means local accountability from the neighbor they know, not the MEP or EU bureaucrat they have never met. They advocate national defense and countries working together on a few shared issues as exceptions that prove the principle.

The infection of corruption spreads, and destroys the trust between people. It poisons relationships, and threatens communities. The trust that supports and flows out of incorruptible government is essential to freedom and prosperity, and to you and your children."
 
Can you even imagine Ecuadoreans raising the very expensive problem of corruption which is an infection? Can you imagine free speech in Ecuador- and open media- to raise these issues? TO be sure, such talk would land the speaker in an Ecuadorean jail today, with no due process, no legal counsel and no way out because, like Congress, there is no free courts or justice in Ecuador under the Correa-Chavez take over plan which has removed all human rights.

Ecuadoreans are so lazy and ridiculously irresponsible that they seriously refuse to stand up for the rights- their right to liberty. Ecuadoreans have a choice- very soon to vote YES to Chavez's special brand of economic fascism and neo communism a la Correa or they can vote NO to the Correa constitution.
 
As such, there should be no vote- no vote at all on the Correa-Chavez communist plans until justice is served over the Correa-Chavez-Farc intentions to solidify Ecuador as a state sponsor of terror in a full narcostate. The new constitution will legitimize this.

Here is an effort in England...today...to stop the shady EU constitution brought to Europeans not by vote but couched inside a Treaty, signed in to law by diplomats and not by vote. The Irish, and some hope the Polish, with some from the UK, are mobilizing to demand true democracy- not this shady treaty effort.

Ecuadoreans should be mobilizing to say YES to democracy and NO to the narcostate under Chavez and Correa out of their shrine to the FARC in Montecristi where all sensible law and order is assiduously being stripped from Ecuadorean soil. This is not what Mariscal Sucre envisioned for Ecuador.

There is no reason to not press for full rights in Ecuador and to say NO to the Chavez-Correa narcostate; here is a sample flier from Europe:

Stop the treaty





Disrespecting those who fought hard to bring what few liberties exist in the Andes is a behavior that we each must reject.

 -Pedro Camargo for ECrisis