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This essay goes to the subject of rule-of-law dispensed with like a used condom in an encounter with a familiar prostitute. In this case, the ‘johns’ are the ruling politicians, several media outlets (pornography distributors) of differing persuasions are the pimps, the European Union is an obsessed voyeur of x-rated film, Council of Europe is the whorehouse, and the Venice Commission is the prostitute-pornography star.
So, it’s more than about political leadership, it’s the media they control, and sometimes, it’s the color-revolution media they must sleep with as well as the political fellatio they perform to survive as a mafia entity. Prepare for a bit of insanity that resembles nothing so much as a corrupted neighborhood’s orgy habits where dysfunctional couples in wife-swapping arrangements never break free of the blackmail potential.
First we’ll break down the color-revolution platform reporting; courtesy of a favorite EU and NATO states intelligence agencies’ pimp, N1, a subsidiary of CNN (also known as Counterfeit News Network.)
^ “The Venice Commission welcome the initiative by the Serbian authorities to adopt a draft law on referendum and people’s initiative but said that it has more recommendations
“The Venice Commission said that the revised draft law has followed, totally or partially, most of the substantive recommendations of the previous urgent opinion, aimed at ensuring its conformity with international standards. This is a positive development which is welcomed,” a press release said adding that some issues still need to be addressed
“The new recommendations include abolishing or significantly reducing signature authentication fees, extend the right to appeal to all voters, giving election commissions the authority to check signatures, address the decision-making power of the bodies dealing with proposed referendums, complaints and appeals in a more precise way, provide more detailed rules applicable in the case of emergency, consider reasonably extending the deadlines for lodging and deciding on complaints and appeals” [1]
Just, exactly, what did ‘The Venice Commission’ ACTUALLY “welcome”? Well, it won’t really enter the minds of most people, because the core of the subject isn’t dealt with. Everyone, the ruling party at the parliament, the ‘liberal democracies’ backed opposition, The Venice Commission itself, and certainly not least, media on both sides of the fight over a nation’s future are overlooking (or didn’t bother to read) what is supposedly being implemented, in its reform of so-called referendum law; with the Venice Commission (faux rule-of-law enforcer for the EU & NATO states) saying (in effect) ‘Great job! Now, we just need a bit of tidying up around the issue.’
Meanwhile, over at former color-revolution collaborator turned the regime’s lover, B92 (English translation courtesy of Serbian Monitor)
“At yesterday’s session, the Government of Serbia adopted the draft Law on Referendum and Popular Initiative. This proposal abolishes the mandatory threshold of the required number of voters as a condition for a referendum to be valid” [2], [3]
And then, over at the ‘regime friendly’, Serbian oligarch owned, Telegraf:
“in order to the change the Constitution, that is, for the success of a referendum, it is no longer required for 50 percent of registered voters to turn out” [4], [5]
Ok, to now, summed up, we have: the Council of Europe’s Venice Commission patting Serbia on the back for bringing Serbian law into compliance with the commissions updated (2020) “Revised Guidelines on the Holding of Referendums” and we find the heart of the matter under the subheading III “specific rules” where there are very non-specific rules that are not binding (rules that actually are not rules) in subsection 7:
“7. Quorum and special majorities
“a. It is advisable not to provide for:
“i. a turn-out quorum (threshold, minimum percentage)
“ii. an approval quorum (approval by a minimum percentage of registered voters),
“b. An approval quorum or a specific majority requirement is acceptable for referendums on matters of fundamental constitutional significance.
“c. The requirement of a multiple majority (the majority of voters taking part in the referendum plus the majority in a specified number of entities) is acceptable in federal and regional states, in particular for constitutional revisions” [6]
In other words, if your law calls for 100% citizen-voter registration (a level of participatory democracy that is practically unknown) and it requires more than half of the electorate to approve a change in this model of what would have been a true participatory democracy, this is NOT recommended according to point a. i. & ii.
BUT, according to points b. & c. if this level of participatory democracy is required in existing law to decide any matter of fundamental constitutional significance or to revise the constitution itself, the Venice Commission can’t argue with that but they certainly won’t require it.
Restated in the most simple logic: when a kleptocracy has so alienated its core electorate you can’t get 50% of the eligible voting public to turn out to support changes that will be fundamentally lied about (the alienated electorate know this), the ‘rule of law’ enforcing Council of Europe offers loopholes in the rules enabling the kleptocracy to pursue future changes in law greatly enabling/empowering the kleptocrats.
Never mind this is ostensibly about changing the constitution in regards to ‘reforming’ Serbia’s judiciary to reflect the Council of Europe’s ‘best practices’, the precedent set here points to easier thefts in the future. It is what is on the horizon is why the Western color-revolution propaganda arms like N1 avoid the core issue and assist regime media in concealing the facts; whereas without this ‘rule change’ it would be nearly impossible to change Serbia’s constitution to, example given, surrender sovereignty over Kosovo (an irritation in the Western empire’s plans for the future of Serbia), but now with the rule change, following the next Western intelligence agencies’ color-revolution in Serbia, there should be no problem, if the new regime gets 16% approval determining the national direction (surrendering the entirety of Kosovo), in a vote where 30% of the people turned out to vote, the problem is solved! (for empire.)
Furthermore, if only one half of the eligible people are registered to vote, in a case where this one half of the populace being registered constitutes the whole of the electorate and 30% of this registered electorate turned out to vote in referendum, it is actually 8% of the nation’s people can determine the future of any nation in this ‘liberal democracy’ model (not to mention how this model smooths the way for multinational corporations future consolidating their grip on nations like Serbia.)
This arrangement with the European Union aligned institution, Council of Europe, enforces a ‘democracy’ model that is worse than some so-called ‘banana republics’ and resembles nothing so much as the corrupt tribal politics imposed on certain indigenous nations by the USA. [7]
Now, ask yourselves, are these people you could trust to make law & policy in a multinational, corporate, big pharma enriching pandemic? [8]
[2] https://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2021&mm=11&dd=09&nav_category=11&nav_id=2054075
[3] https://www.serbianmonitor.com/en/no-threshold-in-referendums-required-any-longer/
[4] https://serbia.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/individual-owners/detail/owner/owner/show/veselin-jevrosimovic/
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Ronald Thomas West 