Ratification of The Lisbon Treaty is Undemocratic

No matter what you think about the contents of the treaty, its ratification is an unprecedented violation of democratic principles. If you fail to see this, dig this.

In 2005 the French and Dutch rejected the EU Constitution which is why its ratification was canceled. This has clearly shown that there is not enough support for the United States of Europe. Which is why, right at that point, Brussels should have started working on an alternative to the superstate idea. As we all know, this was not the case. The self-proclaimed visionaries of so-called EU integration instead of following the will of their employers devised a recipe how to avoid the annoying people's opinion.

The word "constitution" was scraped; the document was bloated into unreadable proportions and is now known as the Lisbon Treaty. Dropping the word "constitution" was a purely strategic move, the Treaty still has a constitutional character but it's quite awkward to bypass a referendum if it's called a constitution. Making the document unintelligible enables the debate about the Treaty to be carried on unrelated issues. For instance the Irish "YES" campaign was in the name of "Yes to jobs." The irrelevance of this statement was demonstrated by Intel which axed 300 jobs right after the referendum despite putting 300,000 Euro into the YES-campaign.

The Treaty has been ratified without a referendum in all states (with the exception of the 2 tragicomic referenda in Ireland). Not only there were no referenda staged, but they were not staged because the politicians knew that the Treaty would not fly. The politicians are knowingly going against the will of people. If this isn't screwing with democracy then I don't know what is.