More proof that Ganley is returning to politics. From the mouth of Bruce Arnold.

Ganley's hired hand and "journalistic" mouthpiece the ageing British journalist, formerly thought to be a British intelligence service asset based in Ireland, Bruce Arnold, called last week for Ganely to return to the "battle".
This is no doubt a statement made with the approval of his pay master and is part of the softening up of public opinion and designed to give Ganley a chance to claim he has been asked to return in the public interest.
Arnold's complete lack of credibility as an independent journalist was proven with his nasty defence of his master during the run up to the European election and his ridiculous article in The Village magazine that purported to be an interview with Ganley but was in fact an attack on writer Kevin Barrington and the Irish government.


Now Arnold is part of Ganley's advance publicity. He has also "written" Ganley's self published book which as Ganley tweeted last week is available free to download.


Arnold, you are in the sights of Irish people who love their freedom once again. Your sick promotion of the far right adds further cracks to your flawed pedigree. You can email him at barnold@independent.ie. Coming the day after Ganley re-entered the Lisbon debate on Twitter this further example of Bruce Arnold's journalistic fellatio is from Irish Independent 3 July
see below
We are no longer crucial. We are marginal again -- unless we say 'No' to the Lisbon Treaty


By Bruce Arnold

Saturday July 04 2009

Cowen and Martin espouse a wishful idea of Ireland at the centre of Europe. This will never be

The implications of this week's judgment on the Lisbon Treaty by the German Constitutional Court are profound for the whole of Europe and raise many questions, both for Germany and for all member states, whether or not they have it ratified. In light of the many sober messages given 'in the name of the German people' by the seven judges, it is difficult to see how the largest state in the European Union can rush headlong into the political processes that the court requires of the state, though this seems to be the intention and may well be the outcome. After all, Germany is at the heart of the European Union and the Lisbon Treaty undoubtedly strengthens its power -- at the expense of Ireland, it has to be said -- making even more impressive the safeguards the judgment imposes on Germany's politicians.

Moreover, the country, more than any other European power, was itself the overwhelming reason, following the Second World War, that inspired those who fashioned the European Economic Community, as a way out of the successive conflicts that had torn the continent in pieces. Why would they not now consider carefully and comprehensively the future of Europe from their point of view?

What the judgment does for the rest of Europe, in terms of 'sober messages', has implications for all countries, none more so than Ireland.

It is difficult to imagine a more humiliating or embarrassing contrast between the two countries. While Germany has considered, in the Karlsruhe Judgment, its relationships with the EU and with the treaty, our leaders, Brian Cowen and Micheal Martin, have acted like corner boys and rabble-rousers, rushing to Europe for a quick fix designed to get a 'Yes' vote. There was no serious thought or dignity at all.

It would lessen the damage of their deception and slyness if one could point to the main opposition parties and show they had handled things better. No such claim is possible. Lemming-like, they have followed those in power, offering their own dishonest description of 'Yes' vote benefits and raising dishonest prescriptions about a 'No' vote outcome.

They espouse a wishful idea of Ireland at the centre of Europe. This will never be. Ireland is small and peripheral. It has slavishly attended EU meetings looking for a cheap set of answers for a rerun of a totally unchanged Lisbon Treaty.

Compare this with the sobriety and intelligence of the German Republic's response to challenges to its Basic Law, or constitution, and you have a picture of representation running out of control.

It was a grave surprise and disappointment that Declan Ganley withdrew from this increasingly unequal debate after his defeat in the West. He should not have done it. He needs to return to the battle, one that has been fundamentally, even irretrievably, changed by the German judgment.

This all raises questions about the judgments made by Cowen and Martin. These two men are not in the same class of constitutional thought about the nature of sovereignty as the Germans, where a powerful lead, given by the Constitutional Court, is taken with serious thought and debate by the German people.

Our ministers do not consider -- as the Germans clearly do -- the need for the drawing of a line across the path of Europe's onward march towards anti-democratic centralisation and bureaucratic consensus. Yet it was the vital element in the referendum's defeat and will become central again.

Our interests and Germany's are quite clearly opposed. Germany will be strengthened by what is now happening, Ireland will be weakened. Their voting strength is enhanced, ours is lessened. They want to be at the heart of Europe, and can be. They are already dominant there. We want to be at the heart of Europe without knowing what it means, still less knowing how we achieve it.

On one thing both countries are together, Germany through considered purpose, ourselves because of our 1973 constitutional commitment on signing ourselves into the EEC: this is the desire for involvement in a trade and market union that gave us advantages without undermining sovereignty.

That debate has been overtaken by events and is fundamentally changed by Germany taking a lead in redefining itself and Europe. However, though Germany's Constitutional Court delivered a strong message, the message was finite. On the issue of whether the EU is becoming a federal state and whether a new EU citizenship is being created, it is no more a matter for the German Constitutional Court to decide than it is for a group of diners at a private dinner party. The decision becomes one for that biased institution, the European Court of Justice. They will take a view totally different from the German judgment. And that should frighten all of us.

What is likely to happen now is the following: the German judgment will go to the Bundestag. There, the drafting of the legislation demanded by the Constitutional Court will be challenged again, taking us into the early part of next year.

Behind this there looms a fresh Czech constitutional challenge and a situation where Kaczynski in Poland is unlikely to ratify before the German process is completed, which will almost certainly not be in September. It is unlikely that the process, in real terms, will be completed before next year when the logic and fairness of considering the post-election circumstances in the UK will arise, President Klaus will ensure this. This will demand an open and fair approach and not the pre-empting of the situation. Thus, a UK referendum is increasingly likely.

Ireland's debate, between now and October, has changed. We are no longer crucial. We are marginal again -- unless we say 'No' and start to map a properly reformed Europe.

barnold@independent.ie

- Bruce Arnold

Libertas want to introduce work permits across Europe valid for a maximum of two years. Irish also denied freedom to work North or South without visa

Libertas candidate Caroline Simons has unveiled the new Libertas plan to end freedom of travel in the EU. The new proposals will affect millions of Irish emigrants in Britain, and Europe. Under the new proposals Libertas say that EU citizens will be required to get a Blue Card in order to work in other countries, This will entitle them to work for only two years in another country. If a person is unemployed then they will receive social payments directly from their country of origin only.
Even more bizarrely Libertas state that Irish citizens will be required to get a Blue Card /work permit to work in Northern Ireland if they are from the south and vis a versa.
She made these statements on Irish national radio Today FM matt Cooper show on Friday 15th May. http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Matt-Cooper/listen.aspx see The Last Word 5pm hour Friday: 15/5/2009 after the news and sport

I'm not twisting anything. Simmons said the proposal would apply "across the board", including to Irish people in Britain:

Caroline Simmons: "We have proposed...a Blue Card system for all EU citizens...".

Matt Cooper: "Would this apply to Irish people...who go to England?"

Caroline Simmons: "Yes..."

Question: "Would someone coming from Newry to work in Dundalk have to apply [for a Blue Card]?"

Caroline Simmons: "...Well if you're going to apply it, you've got to apply it across the board...".

So Simmons has said that it would apply to all EU citizens, including Irish people going to live and work in Britain, and including people from Northern Ireland coming to live and work in the Republic.

That'll really play well in the North West especially!

Well done Caroline!

You can listen to the interview yourself here:
http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Matt-Cooper/listen.aspx

It's the second segment 5pm (The Last Word 5pm hour Friday: 15/5/2009), about 7 or 8 minutes in after the news and sport.

She explains that a proposal for a Blue Card system across the EU in
Ganley's book would mean that workers would only be able to live and
work in another EU state for two years before their entitlement to
work runs out: after that it would depend on the labour market in
their host country.
http://www.politics.ie/elections/69082-libertas-branded-fascist-party-mep-de-rossa-2.html#post1661847

In their race to the bottom introducing race issues and xenophobia into Irish political life Libertas have also declared that Ireland should be divided and that those in the North can not work in the south without visa. It is interesting that on Libertas candidate in the UK fought in Northern Ireland in the British Army during the troubles, and Libertas Uk is run by a recently retired British Officer Robin Matthews.

Raymond O'Malley the Libertas candidate for Ireland east also wants to halt all immigration to Ireland. Denying Irish people freedom of movement is a new innovation in the \Libertas program for a Nationalist xenophobic racist Europe.

Libertas candidate in Czech Republic, Vladimir Zelezny, forced to pull out after conviction for fraud

Another of Declan Ganley's pals has been convicted of fraud. Vladimir Zelezny defruaded the Czech state. So much fro transparency accountability and an end to corrupt elites.
Libertas should be run out of politics. Among Ganleys corrupt pals were and are Ted Stevens and Liam Lawlor.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Libertas candidate convicted of tax evasion

JAMIE SMYTH in Brussels

CZECH REPUBLIC: LIBERTAS’S CAMPAIGN in the Czech Republic has suffered a setback following the conviction of one of its candidates for tax evasion.

The Prague High Court has confirmed a two-year suspended sentence with four years probation for sitting MEP Vladimir Zelezny, who is second on Libertas’s list of candidates. The conviction relates to the non-payment of VAT to the Czech authorities by Zelezny on the import of paintings by Emil Filla, Andrej Nemes and Alfred Justitz The Prague court confirmed the ruling of a lower court in the case on Monday, although it cancelled a five-million-crown fine handed down in an earlier ruling.

In a statement to The Irish Times last night, Libertas said that Zelezny would today tender his resignation as a Libertas candidate for the European Parliament elections to the council of the Libertas party in the Czech Republic.

Zelezny is a controversial figure in Czech politics and was founder of the country’s first commercial TV station in the early 1990s. He has been embroiled in multiple legal actions for 11 years in cases involving tax evasion and the sale of the TV station. He could not be contacted yesterday for comment.

Ode to Declan Ganley

Adrian Weckler has come up with a fine marketing device. Create poems and art that parody Libertas and Declan Ganley well done.

Ode to Declan Ganley

Declan Ganley: a modern major general
(With apologies to Gilbert & Sullivan, HMS Pinafore)

I am the very model of a modern major Europhobe
I live in Eastern Europe and have dodgy links around the globe
I have a thing called Libertas
With funding clear as toilet glass
From US hawks and army brass
And pensioners in Ballinrobe

He has a thing called Libertas
With funding clear as toilet glass
From US military brass
And pensioners in Ballinrobe

My business interests range from Ballybeg to northern Kyrghistan
I've contracts with the CIA, the Russians and the Taliban
My interest in democracy
With full accountability
Is limited to men like me
With millions stashed in krugerands

His interest in democracy
With full accountability
Is limited to men like he
With millions stashed in krugerands

My eurosceptic plan is for a Europe full of nation states
With minimal protection from big business and from Billy Gates
I'm sick of meddling Eurocrats
Enforcing regulations that
Prevent my bank in Montserrat
From hiding my taxation rate

He's sick of meddling Eurocrats
Enforcing regulations that
Prevent his bank in Montserrat
From hiding his taxation rate

Predicting Irish misery and hardship is the key to this,
Commission seats will go and we'll be terminating foetuses
Our jobs will scarper, crime will soar
We'll all be fighting foreign wars
And women won't shave anymore
Their garlic breath will smell like piss

Our jobs will scarper, crime will soar
We'll all be fighting foreign wars
And women won't shave anymore
Their garlic breath will smell like piss

My cultivated image as a fuhrer is deliberate
My suit is grey and stiffened with a kilo full of starch in it
My boots are black, my hair is tight
I drill in uniform at night
My secret bunker's quite a sight
Beneath the sea off Ballybrit

His boots are black, his hair is tight
He drills in uniform at night
His secret bunker's quite a sight
Beneath the sea off Ballybrit

Oh I'm the very model of a modern major Europhobe
Don't want no regulators with their 'legal rules' and 'market probes'
I'll fight with fury, shock and awe
You'll never catch me, bunch of daws
Mu haw haw haw haw haw
No closer, please: I'm rigged to blow.

He'll fight with fury, shock and awe
You'll never catch him, bunch of daws
Mu haw haw haw haw haw
No closer, please: he's rigged to blow.

May 06, 2009 | Permalink

http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/05/ode-to-declan-ganley.html

Abortion is becoming a confused issue for Libertas

Abortion is a confused issue for Libertas. Emails I have received from Libertas people recently gave out to me for saying that Libertas were right wing, they cited Libertas in Holland and Spain as the examples of liberal Libertas parties. however in Ireland libertas say that the Spanish Libertas are just as against the right to choice as themselves.According to a Libertas spokesperson

Our list of candidates in Spain is headed up by Miguel Duran who is a totally committed pro-life campaigner. Dr Jesus Poveda, another of our candidates, is one of the most prominent pro-life activists in Spain for many, many years.

“Our party in Spain has recently signed a policy agreement, binding on all its supporters, to promote the right to life at all its stages.”

Ganley is running in a constituency where he hopes pushing an ultra conservative personal policy on social and moral issues will gain him the support that previously elected Dana to the EU parliament. However , Libertas anti abortion activist and candidate for Dublin just this week said that Libertas Holland were free to be pro Abortion. Mixed messages from Libertas are becoming a daily occurrence.

In a statement yesterday, Ms Harkin accused Libertas of “hypocrisy” on the abortion issue.

“Mr Ganley himself has personally chosen Eline Van den Broek who is pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia to top his list [of candidates] in the Netherlands,” said her statement.

Speaking to The Irish Times, Libertas candidate for Dublin Caroline Simons said: “Eline van den Broek has not taken a public position on any of these matters. Marian Harkin has plucked it out of the air.”

Refusing to accept this, Ms Harkin responded: “If she [Ms van den Broek] goes on Dutch TV and says she supports life from conception to natural death and is opposed to embryonic stem-cell research then I will take it all back.

Ganley at a recent meeting of the John Paul II society an ultra conservative Catholic group stated his ultra conservative views on personal issues in the hope that he would get that anti abortion grassroots to campaign for him in his bid for Europe,

Libertas and Harkin clash over abortion

DEAGLÁN de BRÉADÚN, Political Correspondent Irish Times


THE LIBERTAS party headed by Declan Ganley has accused Independent MEP for Ireland North-West Marian Harkin of “throwing mud” with her claim that some Libertas supporters in other EU member states are in favour of the right to abortion and euthanasia.

“Libertas has linked up with Cuidadanos a Spanish party and they have formed a coalition to fight the European elections,” Ms Harkin said, in a statement yesterday. “Yet according to their manifesto, this party, Cuidadanos, favours the right to choose when to die and the right to abortion, even up to nine months in certain cases.”

A Libertas spokesman said: “Our list of candidates in Spain is headed up by Miguel Duran who is a totally committed pro-life campaigner. Dr Jesus Poveda, another of our candidates, is one of the most prominent pro-life activists in Spain for many, many years.

“Our party in Spain has recently signed a policy agreement, binding on all its supporters, to promote the right to life at all its stages.”

Libertas leader Declan Ganley is a rival of Ms Harkin in the European elections in the North-West constituency. There has been charge and counter-charge between the two on the abortion issue.

Ms Harkin said earlier this week the Libertas candidate in the Netherlands, Eline van den Broek, was “pro-abortion and pro-euthanasia”.

Libertas said Ms Harkin was a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the European Parliament which was an “active promoter” of abortion and euthanasia.

Ms Harkin responded: “The ALDE group in the European Parliament, contrary to allegations made by Mr Declan Ganley and Libertas, does not have any policy on abortion and regards it as a matter of individual conscience.”

The Libertas spokesman said: “Having baselessly smeared a young lady in the Netherlands, Marian is now throwing mud elsewhere. Our party policy on these issues is clear – Libertas in the European Parliament will defend Ireland’s position on these issues.”