Rule by Decree in the EU & Democracy Has Ended.
Added: Using-creating gray zones where the burocrates can act/circumvent the legal human protections for individuals if they want and do?
Targeting individuals as way to change their behavior/view points and unable to draw attention to theire views.
Use of power to create change into the behavior of the electorate.
(So-called biblical mark of the beast?) Added.
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The 59 individuals sanctioned by the EU are just the beginning. The eurocrats are only getting started with their campaign against internal dissent. Their unhinged nature is as much a function
of the way they are losing the Ukraine proxy-war as also a direct result of 30 years of End-of-History megalomania in the West. Paired with the loss of the USA as a transatlantic partner, the Eurocrats
are cornered. But instead of reversing course and correcting their anti-democratic actions, they are set to crack down even harder on dissent from within.
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Original video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoF5LSFUaQ
Hello everybody, Pascal here from Neutrality Studies coming to you today from the University of Philippines in beautiful Los Banos.
Merry Christmas everybody. I want to use this opportunity to talk to you about something that concerned a lot of us for the past 10 14 days.
uh the sanctions that were taken against uh my countrymen Shako, against Nataly, also a Swiss citizen, against Hussein dog, a German citizen in Germany and all overall 59
people who now have been put on the sanctions list by the uh EU and who if they are living inside the EU or if they still have any kind of considerable connection to the EU uh have now
completely different lives than before.
They cannot open bank accounts. They cannot have bank accounts. All of their funds are frozen. They are not allowed to buy things. They’re not allowed to sell things.
They’re not allowed to receive gifts. Hussein dog who is a German citizen living in Germany is needs to ask for special permission, humanitarian permission to even pay rent for his house.
In as a matter of fact, uh all of these payments for for his house and so on are being done by his going through his wife whose accounts also have been uh affected by this horrible regime.
Because as it turns out, it’s not just the sanctions that are that are biting, not just what is directly mandated by the EU, but a lot of these institutions like banks and airlines and so on.
They all implement sanctions much wider than they have to just to be on the safe side just to be sure that they are not going to have any repercussions.
That is the long arm of the sanctions. It goes so far that even the even in Switzerland which is not part of the European Union banks will at least partially implement these sanctions and other
institutions might uh implement these sanctions just to stay on the safe side.
these 59 individuals if they are the people who are residing outside the EU this the people who are living in the global south including in Russia or China um they can will of course manage they will get by on them this is not as hard as it is on others but for those who are living in the EU like my countryman Jagu who’s living in uh Belgium;
for him and his entire life is now changed and the the draconian really draconian measures um have have been a topic
Now luckily for about 2 weeks I just want to say one thing you know the Europe the Jagbo he’s not the he’s really not the only one he now blew up Twitter because his case is
so outrageous but um Natali Yam the other Swiss who was already sanctioned in June her she is stranded outside of Switzerland she’s stranded in Africa uh luckily she has connections there and l
luckily she’s she’s also uh able to somehow get by but still the the kind of restrictions that are put on these people is draconian.
And I need to point out one thing because a lot of people try to make sense of this in uh one way or another by pointing to the lack of judicial due process, the lack of all
kind of standards of judicial care, right, that you would expect from a punishment this hard.
The sad matter of the fact is sanctions are not actually punishment. they are and I’ll I’ll read this out to you from the actual uh homepage of the European Union.
Uh if I can just if I can just find it.
You know how the European Union itself describes these draconian measures that that end people’s lives as they knew it.
Let me just read this. This is from the official homepage of the European Union about the sanctions. All restrictive measures adopted by the EU are fully compliant with obligations under
international law, including those pertaining to humanitarian aid, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
So, they are they are already telling you that no, no, no, everything is fine.
There’s nothing to see here. There’s no infringement of human rights. Of course, there’s infringement of human rights.
But get this, when it comes to what these sanctions are, sanctions are not punitive and instead seek to bring about a change in the policy or conduct of those targeted with a view to promoting the objectives of the EU’s common foreign and security policy.
Now, this is why uh they these sanctions circumvent all and any usual standard of judicial care because they’re not traditional measures.
They’re executive measures. They’re they’re in fact educational or uh uh uh they’re educational measures.
The EU is telling you that you did something that we don’t like and we now going to educate you.
We’re going to tell you how you should adopt your behavior because these individuals didn’t do anything illegal.
Jac didn’t do anything illegal. Jac didn’t break a law. He just did something in a way that the European Union doesn’t appreciate. and therefore the European Union is now trying to to
take disciplinary measures to force him to change
. So that’s also why uh it is so difficult to fight this uh approach through the judicial process because the most courts in Europe are not actually competent to deal with it.
it falls outside of their of what they usually deal with just because these sanctions are taken based upon what in international law and uh international relations is called sovereign right.
The idea that states when it comes to their external affairs can take measures as they please. They don’t need to ask anyone. Sometimes we mistakenly think that governments go to
the United Nations in order to, you know, apply for something or that the United Nations regulates what states can and cannot do and that states need to adhere to adhere to that.
And while in theory that is true, while in theory the United Nations has the capacity of generating international law, in practice what states do when they want to take measures to the outside world is
they base it upon their sovereign right.
They are the largest uh they are the ultimate um lawgiver when it comes to their territory. Therefore, they take the right of making law. So, uh the sanctions are in the in this sense a
sovereign measure of the European Union saying what’s going to happen inside the EU.
Now, of course, the EU is not actually a nation state, at least not a classic one. Uh the EU is a is a very is a very actually fascinating project that is now going horribly wrong of uh member
states that gave certain powers up in the treaty of Lisbon in uh in other international through other international uh uh treaty instruments and de delegated these powers to the European Union.
One of these powers is the uh is this common foreign and security policy. So the the sad thing is that what they did levying sanctions against uh against uh uh institutions against companies and
individuals is legal in the sense that it is it is formally correctly done.
It is the the formal legality of this of these sanctions is given because the European Union kept to its own process internally that it’s structured and laid out in order to levy them.
Now that doesn’t mean that the content of the sanctions is also adhering to legal norms and standard. On the contrary, the substance itself um is is not only highly problematic, it is and I’m
absolutely sure about this uh in contradicting human uh human rights law and under certain circumstances maybe even humanitarian law, although probably rather not, but human rights law for sure.
And if you challenge this in front of a human rights court, the I am pretty certain these individuals will win. The problem they have in order to bring this to a human rights court is that uh under the the the the standards of these courts be it within the United Nations or outside you must uh first take all possible remedies on a local level and the local level actually grants one one remedy and that is the European Court of Justice.
So these 59 individuals can appeal to the ECJ and say like hey we want a review of our case but in the end the uh the ECJ then what it what it actually checks is highly unclear to me whether
it just checks the form whether the formal requirements are kept or whether it also checks on the substance of the matter because you’ve seen probably how flimsily constructed these claims are
right.
The there’s a tiny little paragraph about six, seven uh lines long on each of these individ individuals on why they are being put on this sanctions list.
Now whether the content of that is true or not actually doesn’t really matter that much because the European Union has the right to put anyone onthis list for any kind of reason out of sovereign right.
That’s the that’s the draconian and horrible thing because it’s not a judicial process. It doesn’t need to adhere to judicial norms. it it must only adhere to the to the internal formal norms of formulating
such sanctions.
Naturally, the sanctions were not sanctions were officially not designed for this. They were not meant to be uh targeted inward. They’re meant as a foreign policy tool.
And what we are witnessing is of course the uh the deterioration of any kind of um adherence to standard norms when it comes to foreign policy.
And it is sadly enough a something that is expected. Well-known tactics used in any kind of to totalitarian system or shaping totalitarian system increasingly and becoming part of a totalitarian system any one of
exposed at some point.
About the policies and weapons used against individuals and usually meant to guard the system toward both inward and from te outside.
That’s what we are seeing and I just want to also mention uh that the while this is new to Europeans the or Shenhen area members like Shagbul in Italy .
Also that Switzerland is inside shenan and the common area, where people can’t no longer freely travel.
What is new is that these sanctions are being used as tools to target individuals inside the EU, for a long time actually been used to target people outside.
Nataly told me in an interview that I did with her and that you will find on this channel from a few days ago that you know Africans are very used to um being put on EU or US sanctions list for no crime other than opposing EU colonial policies or the colonial policies of some EU states like France.
The UK has a track record of this. The United States has a track record of this uh of using these foreign policy tools to target activists, activists in Africa who are trying to get rid of the neoc colonial
uh remnants of uh of you know what this what still um system of abuse and extraction is where the wealth of Africa is being is being basically taken for nearly free by western companies and
there have been for decades.
You’ve had people who’ve been trying to fight this. But for decades, these western states have been using sanctions to target uh especially the leaders of any kind of such movement.
Naturally, the next step after this if sanctions fail is what states do is they levy terrorism charges against people. And we are really at this point only one step away from the
EU designating individuals as information terrorists or whatever other kind of phrase you want to come up with in order to use even harsher uh policing measures against them.
Right now we’re at a state where the EU is trying to get rid of voices it doesn’t like by basically denial of service or denial of any service of making these people outlaws.
That’s already horrible enough. the next stage will be by to proactively um uh uh persecute them, right?
To to send out the police forces, maybe the military forces in order to apprehend people. We are not there yet and I pray that we don’t go that route, but it is the route that systems chooses
and spiral into totalitarianism are doing.
So um the sad matter of the fact is that the European Union um is able to circumvent even the entire law process of every member states and it is using executive power to crack down and it’s not doing so as part of a of a legal mechanism is doing so as part of the uh of the governing process of the entire construct and that is you know uh Adolf Hitler at some point just declared that the acts that his government did were legal.
They were called that you just need to take the power/charge and you can just declare that things are legal.
The EU is by no way by no stretch of the imagination yet at that point. But it is highly problematic that such um actions are being taken.
So don’t take me wrong. The the EU is not a Nazi state yet, but it needs to stop doing this.
Now that brings me to maybe the last point, which is what can we do?
Um these are essentially political measures and political measures cannot be fought or can only very hard can be fought with judicial processes only very diff in a very difficult way.
Um and while these individuals who are now sanctioned must actually take legal action and try to get some of their basic human rights back, what we need to do is we need to start a political process.
We need to call this out and luckily on Twitter the Jac case is now being discussed very much. Um I am very happy about that.
Uh we need to discuss it further. We need to uh talk about it. We need to send letters we petitions. We need to make it clear to the EU leadership that this is one bridge too far and that it will not
be accepted.
Um, including political demonstrations and in Switzerland, maybe we have to think about uh forcing our government to protect uh our rights toward the European Union with a uh with a a a popular referendum.
That would be a route. So, we need to take political action. judicial action can not fight a political system of repression.
So the other thing is stand together. I mean connect connect with others create support groups uh create support uh mechanisms for people who land on this sanctions regime because if the European
Union doesn’t actually get it that it needs to stop this otherwise it undermined everything it stands for.
If it doesn’t get that then this repression regime will get worse and more and more and more people are going to land on that list and more and more lives will be abandoned.
So what we need to do is to create mechanisms to at least help somehow uh in in these circumstances.
One of the first ones you know um gathering in online forums exchanging information legal advice from lawyers from uh from uh former from judges who who do not agree to give advice of what
what can be done to mitigate the worst of the effects but to get rid of this that can only be done through um through political action in various ways.
So with this thought, I’m going to leave you from the University of the Philippines from Southeast Asia where I must say life still feels free.
Life still feels uh very much unhindered.
Um and I will see you from back in Japan very soon.
Goodbye.