Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Having Committed to Adopting the Euro Currency, Lithuania's Constitutional Court Simply Declares That "anti-european" Efforts Are Unconstitutional

(Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)




Read the announcement here.
REPUBLIC OF LITHUANIA 
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT 
PRESS RELEASE   
On 2014, 24 January 
Amendment of 125 Article of the Constitution is incompatible with Constitution
[By the way, amendments to the Constitution which alter the Constitutional decision to join the EEU [and adopt the euro] are [so far] deemed unconstitutional - unless  paired with termination of EEU membership.]
Information about the LCC is given in English here, but it is not up to date.

So "anti-euro" dissent is unconstitutional, and therefore preempted? Do they even recognize how nonsensical that is? What's next? Thinking is unconstitutional? How about feeling?

Heck, maybe even receiving net wages-minus-taxes for labor will soon be unConstitutional too? Only euro-denominated capital will be allowed to keep a profit?  Where? In Sherwood Forest, guarded by a "reformed" Robin "Control-Fraud" Hood?

Someday, only silent serfdom will be legal?

Most readers will have to rely upon translation services to read the Lithuanian document. I'm told by sources in Lithuania that Google-translate leaves a LOT to be desired - at least when translating from Lithuanian to English.

For now, I'm trusting the interpretation received from Vytautas Vakrina in Vilnius - who agrees that the existing Lithuanian Constitutional Court decision constitutes an oxymoron. They're essentially saying that the original wording of some Constitutional clauses precluded Lithuanian citizens from changing said clauses.

Vytautas says: 
"The main [opinion of the Courts] is [the] impossibility to dispute any Lithuanian euro-obligations without leaving the European Union first."
Good luck with that argument!

Sounds like the key intent of the original Constitutional wording was guaranteed income for lawyers? Especially Lithuanian lawyers who had bet heavily on Lithuania adopting the euro, and enacting crippling austerity and depression?

Why should said Lithuanian Lawyers care? They're off to their quid pro quo jobs at the European Parliament, or at the European Central Bank.

Who says that Control Fraud doesn't exist? It does, and it works, wherever a foolish population and it's fiat are being separated.

ps: Rumor is that writing of key sections of the Lithuanian Constitution was outsourced to a mysterious woman named TINA, who resides in Brussels.



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