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

The Maltese people rightfully expect the Maltese Parliament to do its duty and act without any further delay to stop the illegal immigrants’ invasion in our country.

Instead of decisive action, up to now we had only a lot of talk, long discussions and meetings upon meetings, without any concrete measure that does not allow more illegal immigrants to enter and to send from our country the thousands that are already here.

Nothing has yet been done to overcome this crisis in our country, and there is no indication that the necessary steps for this to occur are going to be taken in the near future.

Therefore we need to continue collecting signatures for the popular petition that asks the Maltese Parliament to take concrete action to stop illegal immigration to our country.

Signatures have already been collected from the residents of

* Marsa,         

* Birżebbuġa,  

* Ħal Kirkop,  

* Ħal Safi, and

* in the coming days signatures are being collected from the residents of Żurrieq.

We can say that the people are responding massively for the call to sign the popular petition.

It is only a few who choose not to sign.

The vast majority understands that Parliament should not stand back from protecting our children and children’s children from the social trouble and the threat to health that thousands of illegal immigrants create in our country.

The people feel that today the greatest problem that we have is illegal immigration.

EU official research itself confirms this.

When the mass of the people is alarmed and angry with the illegal immigrants invasion, it is saddened to see that the Maltese Parliament remains passive and does not do anything concrete to counteract this invasion.

More so when you hear being said that our country cannot do anything, because now everything depends on the EU immigration policy.

Although it is true that our country is in this illegal immigration crisis due to the EU’s fault, it is not true that our country cannot do anything about it.

The EU is guilty for the illegal immigrants’ invasion, because it forced the Maltese Government to renounce to all the reservations that our country had made when it accepted the Refugee Convention.

This fact has been uncovered by Mr Louis Cilia, who was representing the Maltese Government in the negotiations with the EU about Malta’s membership agreement.

In a letter that Mr Cilia wrote on 29 April, 2008, in The Times, he said about the EU discussions that:

“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 positions and characteristics’.

                              
“The Maltese delegation at Brussels in 1998 initially maintained the same position taken by Malta in 1971 stating that in view of the 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.

“Old members had come under a different set of rules and new members were getting in under a new set of rules that were not negotiable if they were of a mandatory nature, as was the case with the said articles of the UN Refugees Convention.”

The Maltese Government yielded to the EU pressure and repealed all the reservations that our country had to the Refugee Convention.

In the document in which are found the Declarations and Reservations on the 1951 Refugee Convention, we found this written:

“25. The instrument of accession deposited by the Government of Malta was accompanied by the following reserva­tion: ‘Article 7, paragraph 2, articles 14, 23, 27 and 28 shall not apply to Malta, and articles 3, 4 and 5, articles 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 21, 32 and 34 shall apply to Malta compatibly with its own special problems, its peculiar position and characteristics’.

“On 17 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 24 February 2004, the Secretary-General received from the Government of Malta, the following communication: (The Govern­ment of Malta) ’declare that the Government of Malta, having received 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 position and characteristics’.”

Thus the EU opened wide Malta’s doors to the illegal immigrants invasion with the complicity of the Maltese Government that did not have the guts to protect the interests of the people and without telling the people what tort it had done to them.

Apart from yielding to the EU pressure and repealing all the reservations that our country had to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the Maltese Government also accepted Council Regulation (EC) 343/2003 of 18 February 2003, known as Dublin II that obliges the country to examine the applications that are made to grant refugee status.

The EU pretends that Malta applies the 1951 Convention and the Dublin II regulations to all the illegal immigrants that come or are brought to our country.

The Government and the Maltese Parliament are submitting to all that the EU wants.

The EU, as well as the Government and the Maltese Parliament are mistaken when they apply the 1951 Convention and the DUBLIN II to the illegal immigrants in our country, because the Convention and Dublin II apply if the immigrants make an application to be considered as refugees.

But the illegal immigrants that are collected from the sea do not want to remain in Malta, because they want to continue their voyage to Europe.

The same can be said of the illegal immigrants who land in Malta mistakenly, because they think that they have arrived in Italy.

None of them has the wish to be a refugee in Malta and once they know that if they request refugee status in Malta they cannot request to go as refugees in Europe, it is not to their benefit to apply for refugee status while in Malta.

Notwithstanding this, it is happening that all the illegal immigrants that come or are brought to Malta are examined to see whether they are entitled to be considered as refugees, or to be given humanitarian protection and until this is decided, they are kept in detention centres.

We have no obligation to do so, because the illegal immigrants do not have the intention to remain in our country and therefore neither to be considered as refugees in our country.

The illegal immigrants’ problem is being created for by ourselves because we are wrongly interpreting both the 1951 Convention as well ad Dublin II, because we are doing what the EU wants us to do not to allow the illegal immigrants to go to the other EU countries.

The best help and the greatest help that we can give to the illegal immigrants is not to keep them forcefully in our country, and to allow them to go wherever they want in Europe.

If the EU does not want them, it can stop them itself from entering into its member countries and not force us to keep them here and also against their will in Malta.

Therefore the EU is doubly guilty for the illegal immigrants’ crisis that we have.

First because it had forced our doors wide open for their invasion when it forced us to repeal all the reservations to the Refugee Convention.

Secondly, when it is forcing is to keep them in forcefully in Malta and not allow them to continue going to Europe where they want to go and where they had the aim of going when they left their country.

If the Maltese Parliament does its duty towards the Maltese people and decides that the illegal immigrants be allowed to go wherever they want in Europe, it would be doing what the EU wants us to do in the case of birds migration.

The EU dos not want us to trap them, but it wants us to keep the illegal immigrants and not allow them to lave our island.

We should do as it says regarding bird migration, that is allow it to continue on its way.

The same with illegal immigrants we should allow them to continue going wherever they want.

Our country should not and need not be bound by the EU policy on immigration.

Because we should adopt a policy that does not cause us damage by neither applying the 1951 Convention nor Dublin II, once the illegal immigrants have no intention of remaining in our country.

On 1st May this year will be the fifth anniversary of the greatest shame for our people, because they have lost Independence and Freedom by becoming members in the European Union.

It’s good to do the sums of what we have lost when we gave our destiny in the EU foreigners’ hands.

Not only what we have lost, but also how much is membership is costing us.

It is costing us so much that although we have insisted many times to tell us what is exactly the expense for our country,

* they never give us information neither what our country is paying the EU

* nor what expenses our country is incurring to keep up with all those things that the EU wants from us.

Because if this information is given, the people will become aware that we are spending much more than we are receiving.

It’s good to remember all the trouble that membership in the EU has brought us.

First and foremost

* it has created us the greatest crisis that we have

* that of the illegal immigrants.

We also remember

* the great burden of the cost of living

* that has increased heavily after we became members in the EU,

* without the wages and

* salaries

* being increased

* to maintain the same step with the cost of living.

We cannot forget

* those thousands of workers that have lost their job

* as a consequence of EU membership and

* policy.

Not only

* most of the many factories that we had to close down,

* but also the oldest industry that our country had,

* the Shipyards,

* where according to the EU policy

* hundreds of jobs

* of the best tradesmen were lost.

Many other workers that did not lose their job

* suffered a reduction in their working conditions,

* also because of membership in and policy of the EU.

The EU has crushed us

* with the burden of new taxes,

* beginning with the 18% VAT on services and

* products,

* the eco-taxes,

* the levies on oil products and

* the great crunch of the removal of subsidies

* such as in the case of the electricity and water rates,

* because that is what the EU wants.

And we also know that this is not all,

* because the worst is still coming in the coming years,

* with the threats to the pensions,

* social services and

* free hospitalization.

The next thing

* is the increase in prices

* due to the liberalization of the market in house letting.

Above all,

* membership in the EU

* has made us lose our honour as a sovereign nation and

* made us again a colonial people led by the foreigners.

That is why we should cry and not be happy on May First.

Thursday 30 April 2009.

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