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WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

by Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, Campaign for National Independence

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the illegal immigrants that are in our country do not want to be refugees in our country, but want to go to a big country in Europe.

That is why we are making a big mistake when we scrutinize whether they should be considered as refugees, and if not, whether they should be granted humanitarian protection and thus whether we should keep them in our country.

Because once they were not seeking refuge in our country, we should not have applied the Refugee Convention to them and we were not obliged to keep them.

This means that we are making a mistake when we see whether the illegal immigrants who are not seeking refuge in Malta are entitled to refugee status, or whether they should be granted humanitarian status.

We should let them go wherever they want, and if where they go they do not have a right to go, what happens to them should be decided by the country where they go and not by us.

All the immigrants that land in our country make a mistake in thinking that they have arrived in Sicily.

That is why they show that they do not want refuge in Malta.

The other immigrants that are collected from the middle of the sea would not be coming to Malta, but would be on their way to Sicily.

That is why they also show that they do not want refuge in Malta.

It is only after the immigrants learn that they will be sent back to their own countries that they, for this not to happen, apply for humanitarian protection to be allowed to remain in our country.

In many cases we probably tell them ourselves what they should do not to be sent back to their own countries.

We made another mistake when for some time we have decriminalized the presence of foreigners without permission in our country – that is we no longer allowed it to remain being considered as a criminal offence and no longer leads to the deportation of every foreigner who is found here without permission.

Thus we made the presence of illegal immigrants and clandestine people no longer considered as a breach of our country’s criminal law, and instead we started considering them as irregular immigrants.

But the third greatest mistake that we made was when we submitted to the European Union blackmail about illegal immigration.

When the Maltese government was negotiating Malta’s membership agreement, it insisted that Malta must renounce all its reservations that the Maltese Government had made in 1971 when it signed the Refugee Convention.

It was useless that the Maltese Government told the Union that there were other member countries that had the same reservations to the Convention.

The EU insisted that if Malta does not repeal all its reservations that it had made in 1971, it was not going to allow Malta to become a member.

And the Maltese Government submitted to the Union blackmail and accepted to repeal all the reservations that had been made to protect our national interests.

As a consequence of this national betrayal, our country’s doors were opened wide for the invasion by illegal immigrants.

Hereunder we are bringing you an excerpt from what Louis Cilia, who was a delegate of the Maltese Government who was negotiating with the EU Malta’s membership agreement wrote in The Times of Malta of 29 April 2008:

 “One of the issues discussed was whether Malta should ratify some of the outstanding articles of the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. When in 1971 Dr Borg Olivier as Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs signed the instrument of accession to the Convention, he did so with some reservations to a number of important articles in the Convention on the grounds of Malta’s ‘own special problems, its peculiar position and characteristics’.

“The Maltese delegation at Brussels in 1998 initially maintained the same position taken by Malta in 1971 stating that in view of our country’s small size, its situation in the centre of the Mediterranean and critical economic development, Malta was still not in a position to take on an unlimited influx of refugees as would be the case if the Convention was fully ratified. To strengthen our argument we pointed out that some of the most prominent members of the EU had also maintained (and were at that time still maintaining) these reservations (and others) in the said Refugees Convention.

“The EU representatives brusquely brushed away our arguments stating that we as new members would have to comply with all existing rules and regulations and that what was applicable to old members was not necessarily applicable to new members.”

Because of the EU blackmail, the Maltese Government repealed all the reservations that Malta had made to the Refugee Convention. In fact, in the Declarations and Reservations to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, we thus find in paragraph 26:

“On 17th Jan­uary 2002, the Secretary-General received the following communication from the Government of Malta: ‘The Government of Malta… hereby withdraws the reservations relating to article 7(2), articles 14, 27, 28, 7(3) (4) (5), 8, 9, 17, 18, 31 and 32; …and confirms that: ‘article 23 shall not apply to Malta and articles 11 and 34 shall apply to Malta compatibly and with its own special problems, its peculiar position and characteristics.’

“Further, on 23 February 2004, the Secretary-General received from the Government of Malta, the following communication: ‘The Government of Malta declare that, having reviewed the remaining reservations and declaration, hereby withdraws the reservations relating to article 23, and the reservations in respect of articles 11 and 34 wherein these applied to Malta compatibly with its own special problems, its peculiar positions and characteristics.”
 

Thus, prior to Malta becoming a member on 1 May 2004, the EU assured itself that Malta had opened wide its doors to the invasion of illegal and clandestine immigrants.

All this shows that if we really want to stop the invasion of illegal  and clandestine immigrants we have to reactivate all the reservations that we had made in 1971 and have to re-criminalize the presence among us of foreigners without permits, whatever the European Union says.

The greatest certificate of the failure of the European Union economic and social policy is the great number of 18 and a half million unemployed persons that is predicted that there will be this year.

While the Union burns millions in propaganda projects, it does not have the conscience to spend these millions by employing the millions of unemployed workers that it has in its member countries.

The EU pretends that the free market creates work for these 18 and a half million unemployed workers when the free market created the economic recession and the financial crisis that has swept Europe and the world capitalist countries, and when states are having to spend billions to support companies and private industries to not allow them to crumble.

In the face of the financial and economic crisis, the appeals to the governments for massive interventions to prevent the total collapse in the EU countries, it is required that we admit that the European economic and financial policy is unsustainable and is deficient and that we should no longer implement it.

The European Commission and the Union Central Bank can no longer be believed that the policy, directives and regulations that they impose on the member countries, guarantee stability and economic and financial progress, once they have led to the present disastrous economic and financial situation.

The EU, with its economic policy that it embraced, destroyed the manufacturing industry in Europe and instead, increased it in the countries outside the union where the wages are very low and the workers working conditions are very bad.

With its policy, the EU caused the loss of work for millions of European workers.

In our country, the EU policy destroyed the industry that used to produce for the local market because it forced us to remove all aid and protection that we used to give it to be able to compete with the foreign imported products.

They told us that once we become members in the big EU market, we shall be able to increase our sales and exports.

But we ended up with the common market swallowing us and instead of increasing exports, we reduced them and increased imports.

The EU policy caused in our country the closure of a number of factories and the loss of thousands of jobs.

With membership in the Union,

* we became less competitive because everything increased in price,

* the expenses increased and

* we were lumped with many taxes such as VAT,

* the levies on oil products,

* the Eco-Tax,

* the tax on plastic bags,

* the common tariffs on imported products from outside the Union, and

* other expenses that are incurred because of membership.

The Union policy is causing great losses for our country

* because the profits that are made by our big enterprises are going outside the country for foreigners,

* such as the profits of the HSBC bank,

* the company managing the Malta International Airport,

* the telephony company GO,

* the company that manages the Freeport,

* the company that was given the work that used to be made by Sea Malta,

* the company that was given the tug’s work,

* the Post,

* Lotto,

* betting, and

* the company that used to carry out the loading and unloading of merchandise at the Grand Harbour.

Even most of the retail profits go to foreigners who opened their supermarkets in our country.

It is in this state that we have been reduced to by the EU policy that has caused us to lose all the profit that we used to make on all the work and commerce that we have in our country.

The foreigners have again become our economic owners in our own home.

We were not like this before we became members in the EU.

We were owners in our own home.

Thursday 5 March 2009.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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