The European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) exists It is a transnational body of armed, militarised, centrally-commanded riot police, such as we have never seen in Britain, but which are quite common in continental European countries. They are training in Vicenza, Italy, for the moment. Their only mention in the British media have been an article in the Sunday Express (9.9.07) and a letter in the Daily Telegraph(12.2.08). If you missed these, you won’t have heard of them.

Yet they can be seen on their own official website www.eurogendfor.eu

FACT

The EGF is an EU initiative, even if all member states are not yet taking part. Its legal basis is the little-known Treaty of Velsen, signed in Holland on 18th October 2007 by five states. You can read the full text of this treaty on www.eurogendfor.eu

FACT

Under Article 6.3 of the above Treaty, the EGF may be “stationed and deployed” on the “territory of a third state” with that state’s “agreement”.

Lord Pearson (UKIP) and Bob Spink MP (Con) asked Foreign Secretary David Milliband and also Lord West and Jim Murphy for an assurance that the present British Government would never agree to the EGF entering Britain. THIS ASSURANCE WAS REFUSED BY EACH OF THESE THREE.

FACT

Since the EGF is officially a “police” force - although to us Brits it looks more like an army of occupation - it comes under “Justice and Home Affairs”(JHA). Up until now, JHA has always been a national prerogative. This will change with the Lisbon Treaty, which places JHA under the supreme control of the European Court of Justice.

CONCLUSION

Unless the Lisbon treaty is stopped, Britain will sooner or later see units of the EGF , recruited from all over Europe(even Turkey) patrolling our streets, with powers to arrest us and to impose alien laws on us , such as the EU’s project of a single criminal code based on Napoleonic principles. This will wrench away our age-old safeguards of Habeus corpus and Trial by Independent Jury.

THE PRESENCE OF THE EGF ON OUR STREETS WILL BE WHAT MAKES ALL THE TREATY ARRANGEMENTS IRREVERSIBLE, FOR IF OUR BRITISH AUTHORITIES EVER TELL THEM TO GO, THEY WILL NOT LEAVE.THEY WILL ONLY OBEY THEIR MASTERS IN BRUSSELS.

Torquil Dick-Erikson

Torquil lives in Italy not far from the Vicenza training camp of the EGF