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The campaign group SANITY (Subjects Against the NIce TreatY) today
issued the following statement.

More than 100 courts across the country have now received documents
drawing the attention of magistrates to the clear and present danger
that the Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and
Attorney-General are about to commit treason.

The majority have been rejected on various grounds, most commonly that
the information laid does not (yet) amount to a crime.  Several courts
have, however, asked for time to consider the matters raised, and others
have not yet responded. 

Meanwhile, a new amendment to the draft Treaty has reinforced SANITY's
concerns.  The danger from the EPP and Corpus Juris, which the Lord
Chancellor claimed in an article in the Magistrates Journal in September
was non-existent, was suddenly crystalised in a new amendment to the
draft Treaty tabled by the EU a few days ago.

As a result, it is now beyond doubt that, if the UK government signs the
upcoming Nice Treaty as presently envisaged, without retaining the UK's
veto over justice and home affairs (freedom, security and justice as the
EU has it), the EU will be free to overturn our constitution.  In law,
to permit such thing is treason.

It is now clear that the Nice Treaty will contain clauses which - if
agreed - will allow the introduction into the UK of a European Public
Prosecutor backed by armed police acting above the law, and a system of
criminal justice called Corpus Juris which will abolish centuries-old
British protection against the tyranny of the state, including Habeas
Corpus and the right to trial by jury. 

As a result of this development, SANITY has drafted a reply to the
courts who have so far refused to take the matter further, and this is
now being forwarded by the several hundred individuals currently
supporting the SANITY campaign.  (The full text follows below.)

A spokesman for SANITY said: "The negative reaction to our campaign so
far just about sums up the state of the nation. Hundreds of people lay
misprision of treason charges against the most devious government of
modern times, and most are immediately turn away.

"But an Englishman wanting to sell English goods to English people in
English measures is now faced with criminal prosecution.  It must be
obvious to anyone with the eyes to see that SANITY in the English legal
system is currently in very short supply.  Over the next few weeks and
months we intend to do everything we can to correct the situation."

(ends)



Full text of follow-up letter to Magistrates ('Notice of Treason'
information)

Dear Magistrate,

The Offences of Treason and Conspiracy to Commit Treason.

Thank you for your response to the information I gave you about the way
in which the Prime Minister, Rt Hon Tony Blair, and his cabinet
colleagues, are planning to commit treason.

It is disappointing that you are not proposing to take any further
action, because I believe that in my 'Notice of Treason' I gave adequate
particulars that either the offence of treason had been committed, or
that conspiracy to commit treason was taking place.

I gave clear details that if the Treaty of Nice is signed as presently
envisaged, then the British criminal legal system can be replaced by the
European Union's 'Corpus Juris' legal system by Qualified Majority
Voting, since the British government does not propose to retain the
British veto over home affairs and justice.

New Information, and More Evidence

Since I presented my 'Notice of Treason', the European Union has
published a paper entitled  "Additional Commission contribution to the
Intergovernmental Conference on institutional reforms. The criminal
protection of the Community's financial interests: a European
Prosecutor".  In it, the EU Commission has introduced into the draft
Nice Treaty an amendment under article 280a by which Corpus Juris, with
the European Public Prosecutor, can subsequently be introduced.

Corpus Juris, described by the Commission as "an embryo of a future EU
criminal code", will eliminate over time not only habeas corpus, trial
by jury, safeguards against double jeopardy and other freedoms enshrined
over 800 years of Common Law, but it will also purport to abolish Common
Law itself.

The present Labour government has already made three separate attempts
to introduce elements of Corpus Juris.  The Home Secretary has attempted
to reduce the use of trial by jury (on the alleged grounds of cost).
The government has enacted legislation to stop football hooligans going
abroad on the grounds that they might commit an offence when they get
there - ie: merely on suspicion that they might commit an offence
abroad.  The Home Secretary has also proposed to give the prosecution
the power to appeal against a not-guilty verdict, which will abolish our
freedom from double jeopardy.  That same proposal will also have the
effect of eroding the obligation on the prosecution to provide the
burden of proof before the accused stands at risk, contrary to common
law.  Finally, as a further step towards Corpus Juris, magistrates are
now called District Judges, so preparing the way for the eventual line
of control from the European Public Prosecutor and his professional
judges in Brussels to courts in the UK, as Corpus Juris is introduced.

As reported in my information, in the September issue of the
Magistrates' Journal Lord Irvine wrote of Corpus Juris:  "I should also
make clear that the Corpus Juris recommendations have not been formally
presented to any meeting of the Council of the European Union. Many of
the recommendations, if adopted, would conflict with the legal
traditions of many member states, including the United Kingdom; however
as matters stand they do not even have the status of a formal proposal."

As Lord Irvine must now know, as a result of the new proposed article
280a to the draft Treaty, that formal proposal is now in place, and is
due to be signed in December in Nice. 

The clear intention and effect of this crucial amendment is to seek to
legitimise the EU's attempts to sidestep the protection of national
systems of criminal justice, to introduce the European Public
Prosecutor, to allow the European Council subsequently to draw up the
rules under which he may operate, deciding this by the procedure laid
down by article 251 - and that means majority voting.

So once this (new) article 280a is signed, sealed and ratified in the
new Treaty, the EU Council of Ministers will be able to adopt any rules
they like for the new EPP - and of course they will be looking in the
direction of the rules provided in the Corpus Juris study published in
1997 under the aegis of the EU itself.   With the Nice Treaty signed,
any British objection will be over-ruled by QMV.

The Crime of Treason

I have further researched the offences of treason and conspiracy to
commit treason, and would like to bring to your attention the following
matters:

First, the Treason Act 1351 is still in place.  This states that the
offence of treason is committed, inter alia, "when a man be adherent to
the King's enemies in his realm, giving them aid and comfort in the
realm".  This of course remains good law despite the amendments to the
various Treason Acts in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.  The proposals
for the forthcoming Treaty of Nice show that its proponents wish to
undermine the British constitution.

Under the Treason Felony Act 1848, it is treason if "any person
whatsoever [including the Prime Minister] shall, within the United
Kingdom or without devise or intend to deprive our most gracious Lady
the Queen from the style, honour or Royal Name of the Imperial Crown of
the United Kingdom".

It also states that it is treason if "any person whatsoever shall,
within the United Kingdom or without devise or intend to put any force
or constraint upon both Houses or either House of Parliament".

My 'Notice of Treason' showed how the powers of Her Majesty will be
severely limited by the draft Treaty of Nice and transferred to the
European Union.  In addition, I demonstrated how essential features of
our legal system, such as the right to jury trial and the right to
appear before a Magistrate in a public hearing soon after arrest, would
be eliminated by the European Union's Corpus Juris system.

May I refer you to the Treason case of R. v Casement (1917).  In that
decision, it was stated that "the offence of treason is committed by
persons adhering to and giving aid and comfort to the King's enemies".
As my earlier 'Notice of Treason' documented, the agenda of the European
Union is to dismantle the constitutions of the nation-states of the
European Union.

The Casement decision referred to the Treason Act 1543 which I believe
still to be good law.  It may be unprecedented for the Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom to commit Treason, but then the Court itself said:
"The Court is not much impressed by the fact that there is very little
precedent for a trial the nature of which we are dealing with today"
(All ER Reports [1916-17] page 216).

It is further stated in this decision that "The subjects of the King owe
him allegiance".  To transfer powers from Her Majesty and Her Majesty's
Government to the European Union to the extent that is envisaged
suggests that the Prime Minister and his cabinet colleagues do not owe
Her Majesty full allegiance and indeed are seeking to undermine her
authority.

May I also respectfully refer you to Archbold, Section 25, dealing with
"High Treason".  There, the Treason Act 1351 is cited with approval.  In
Section 25.9, the following is a quotation from the case of Fost.C.L.
(183):  "High Treason, being an offence committed against the duty of
allegiance, it may be proper to consider from whom and to whom
allegiance is due.  With regard to natural born subjects, there can be
no doubt.  They owe allegiance to the Crown at all times and in all
places natural allegiance is founded on the relation every man standeth
in to the Crown considered as the head of that society whereof he is
born a member the duty of allegiance ariseth out of it and is
inseparably connected with it."  The commentary in Archbold continues:
"The subjects of the King owe him allegiance".

Treason may be committed by words spoken or in writing - see the cases
of R. v. Wedderburn (1746) R. v. Francia (1717) and R. v. Watson (1817).


Conspiracy to Commit Treason

According to Section 25-16 of Archbold:  "Where a conspiracy is laid as
an overt act, the acts of any of the conspirators in furtherance of the
common design may be given in evidence against all".  Seven cases are
listed in support.

Section 25-28 of Archbold states this:  "Every assistance given by the
Queen 's subjects to her enemies, unless given from a well-grounded
apprehension of immediate death in case of a refusal, is high treason
within this branch of the statute:  1 Hale 159".

The case of R. v. Casement is also quoted in support of the following
proposition:  "Any act done by a British subject which weakens or tends
to weaken the power of the Queen and of the country to resist or attack
the enemies of the Queen and country, constitutes giving aid and comfort
to her enemies within the meaning of [The Treason Act 1351]".

Human Rights Act 1998

I have been informed - and you may wish to take legal advice on this -
that under the provisions of the Human Rights Act and indeed the
European Convention on Human Rights, all courts, including Magistrates,
must give full reasons for reaching their decisions.

In my case, being aware that treason is about to be committed and that
conspiracy to commit treason may be taking place at present, I have
discharged my common law duty to my fellow subjects and to Her Majesty.

I have given detailed evidence of how this treason is being committed.
I have quoted the relevant legislation.  I have quoted, above, relevant
case law.

My understanding of my common law duty is that anyone who knows that
treason is being committed has a solemn duty to Her Majesty to ensure
that those concerned are brought to justice.

May I make it clear that I am not making a formal application to the
Court, nor am I necessarily seeking that a summons be issued.  I am
asking you as a Justice of the Peace to take whatever action you
consider appropriate to ensure that treason is not committed by our
government by signing the Treaty of Nice as currently drafted.  I
believe that it is part of your duty, now that I have provided you with
relevant information, to make appropriate enquiries of the Prime
Minister or the Attorney-General as to whether what I say about the
Treaty of Nice is correct.

If you decide, after reading and considering this letter, that you
propose to take no action at all to stop treason being committed by Tony
Blair signing the Treaty of Nice in December 2000, please be kind enough
to give me the full reasons for your decision that I understand I am
entitled to under the Human Rights Act.

Thank you for considering the matter further.  I await your reply in due
course.

Yours sincerely

(Name)
Subject of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

08/10/2000
If Tony Blair fails to retain the UK's veto over matters of
freedom, security and justice when the EU's forthcoming Nice Treaty is
signed in December, we shall risk losing all our legal safeguards
against state tyranny (Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, etc). 

We shall also stand exposed to the danger of a future invasion of armed
foreign police acting above the law and on the orders of a European
Public Prosecutor.

These and other constitutional changes proposed in the Treaty will be
acts of treason, beyond doubt.

Many people are already planning campaigns of vocal opposition.  We
intend to use the law itself.

We are a group of activists acting together under the acronym SANITY
(Subjects Against the NIce TreatY).  We are determined to fight this
threat by every legal means available.

The timetable is tight, the danger clear and present.

Already, several hundred documents telling magistrates that the
government is conspiring to commit treason at Nice in December have been
laid before some 100 courts across the country.

Reactions have varied.  Some have been refused, others have been
misunderstood as private prosecutions, while others are being
considered.  One court, in Warrington, wants a month to think about it!

Eventually one of our documents may be taken seriously, and we need to
be able to fund whatever is then demanded of the individual concerned.

Alternatively, we may apply for a judicial review, appeal to a higher
court, or take action that ultimately leads to parliament, which
constitutes the highest court in the land.

We have the interest and potential support of two leading barristers,
one specialising in constitutional matters, the other being the only QC
who has direct experience of a case of treason - against the IRA some
time ago.  (The Attorney General threw it out, surprise, surprise.)

So we need a fighting fund.  Cash.  Quite a lot of it! 

If you are willing to help, would you please send a cheque to SANITY,
at 66 Chippingfield, Harlow, Essex, CM17 0DJ.

The account has been set up solely to fund legal actions aimed at
stopping a UK signature on the Nice Treaty.  The co-signatories on the
SANITY account are Tony Bennett acting in his personal capacity, and
Ashley Mote.

The SANITY project is backed and managed by the same group which set up
and is still running the CARP initiative, plus several other well-known
activists.  The CARP four are Mark Croucher, Idris Francis, Tony Bennett
and Ashley Mote.  The SANITY project also includes Torquil Dick-Erikson,
Malcolm Wood, Maurice Blackburn, Rodney Howlett and Richard Buttrey.

However, the two projects, and their respective funds, are deliberately
being kept separate, and any surpluses will be returned pro-rata after
the conclusion of our actions. 

If you can help, we thank you.  And please pass this message on to
anyone else whom you think might be interested in helping us.

Ashley Mote
(on behalf of the team mentioned above)

PS: If you wish to stay abreast of developments via the net, please ask
to be added to the SANITY e-group.  Send your e-mail address to Richard
Buttrey at his e-mail address, which is: richard@buttrey.u-net.com

The SANITY treason document can be found on the web-site:
www.silentmajority.co.uk/eurorealist/treasonact1795

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