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'End Of
Transfer Fees Is First Step To A Global Fascist
State'
HANDS UP everyone
who thinks they are free. Oh, almost everyone then?
And of
course they are right. They are free to pay whatever the government
chooses they should pay for a pint of beer or a litre of petrol.
They are free to buy a lottery ticket and see their money used to
save the government's face at the Millennium Dome while others
suffer, go hungry or die through lack of finance. They are free to
see laws passed in which they have had no say and they are free to
obey those laws or face the freedom of being arrested and fined.
They are free to be told what they want to hear by politicians
seeking their votes and they are free to watch those politicians
ignore everything they promised once they get into office.
Now we are free, it would appear, to see the game of
football turned into a farce.
Have you ever met a European
Commissioner? Do you know what they look like, where they work, who
controls them and to what end? Have you ever had the chance to
question any of them or put your point of view to them? Can you name
any of them? Have you even had the chance to vote for one?
No, no, no, no, no. And yet, these are the guys who are
imposing their dictatorship on the game of football in a way that
will destroy the professional sport. Can you imagine what football
would be like if a player could leave a club at a month's notice?
How would Alex Ferguson sort out his squad for the games ahead? -
"Hey Beckham, we've got a match in Barcelona next month, are you
going to still be here or will you be playing for them by then? Do I
plan to use your talents or to stop them? And what about you
Barthez, Stam, Giggs and Cole, where will you be next month? Any
thoughts?"
Changing the names on the replica shirts would be
a 24-hour-a-day industry and the vans of revolving door
manufacturers would be a common site at clubs all over Europe. The
game would be dead in the water. All the best players would
gravitate to the clubs who could pay the biggest wages and this
would happen on a scale that dwarfs even what we see today. The
Premiership in England would be like the Premier League in Scotland
is now and smaller clubs who depend for their survival on transfer
profits would go under in droves. The domestic professional game
would collapse and football would comprise of the few top clubs in
each country playing in their own European League.
Of
course, when Jimmy Hill led the players' revolt against their
financial abuse by football clubs in the 1960s, the changes that
followed were perfectly justified and long overdue - why should
there be a maximum wage while the income of the player's club goes
on rising? But there is a balance in all things and the abolition of
transfers and contracts that commit a player to a club for an agreed
period would devastate football as a spectacle and eventually bring
an end to the professional game in towns and even some cities all
over the UK.
How would Wimbledon have survived as a
Premiership club, for instance, had they not received more than they
spent in transfer fees?
And what incentive would there be to
invest money in youngsters if you knew that the moment they made it
big, they could walk out and join a bigger club paying bigger wages
and you would receive no compensation for the investment in that
player's development? Best to save your money and spend it on wages
yourself.
The whole structure would fall apart.
Players have the freedom to sign contracts for periods of
time and they have the freedom to say no if the club wants them to
leave. On the other side, a club does not want an unhappy,
under-performing, player on the wage bill and they leave pretty much
as they want to even now. But at least their club is compensated and
has the choice to decide when the player will leave, according to
the agreed contract and the needs of the team. What is planned now
is ludicrously over-the-top.
So who has made these
proposals? Football administrators? The players' union? No,
bureaucrats in Brussels, many of whom would not know a football if
it bit them on the backside.
This is not just an issue for
football and its fans. Anyone with a mind should be looking at this
situation with alarm bells going off at every turn.
So long
as no-one is being abused or forced to sign contracts they don't
want to sign, it is nobody's business how football is organised
except for those who play it, administer it and pay for it (the
fans). It is certainly no place for over-paid grey suits in Belgium
to stick their oar in.
I wonder how many of us realise just
how far we are along the road to a global fascist state?
We
are, in truth, almost there. The illusion of freedom is the greatest
threat to real freedom. You don't complain about not being free when
you think you are. The very foundation of taking your freedom away
is to kid you that you are more free than ever before.
I
have spent a long time in the United States in recent years. It is
called the Land of the Free and yet it is one of the most controlled
countries in the world. Most Americans don't see that because they
are bombarded daily by the mantra that tells them they enjoy greater
liberty than any other nation on the planet.
In my books And
The Truth Shall Set You Free and The Biggest Secret, I have exposed
the force behind the systematic erosion of freedoms and the steps
they have taken, one after the other, to create a global fascist
state masquerading as freedom. When this dictatorship reaches the
point where its directives can turn the people's game into a
Whitehall farce, it shows just how advanced we are in our journey to
servitude.
Let me give you some background to the power
structure of these Brussels bureaucrats.
If you want to
introduce something you know the people will reject, you don't do it
all at once. Instead you implement your plan in stages and you
promote each stage as totally unconnected to all the others.
There is the old story that if you place a frog in a
saucepan of boiling water it will immediately try to jump out. But
if you place it in a saucepan of cold water and slowly bring it to
the boil, it will happily sit there and cook until it's too late to
do anything about it. I have just described how a "free trade area"
called the Common Market became the fascist dictatorship called the
European Union. We, the people, are the frog.
I am often
accused of being a "conspiracy theorist" (among many other things I
will not repeat here). The truth is, however, that I can prove it.
Anyone here ever heard of the Bilderberg Group? I keep
asking journalists on major newspapers, radio, and television
stations about this organisation and the reaction is always the
same: 'Er... who?'
The Bilderberg Group is a covert private
body which co-ordinates the same policy through apparently
unconnected political parties, countries, bankers, transnational
corporations, media, and bureaucrats. This is why you see the same
laws being introduced everywhere. It's all co-ordinated behind the
scenes.
The last six Secretary Generals of NATO have been
members of the Bilderberg Group and so has everyone of significance
who has formed and expanded the powers of the European Union since
the 1950s! Tony Blair, who is seeking to take Britain into the
European single currency, is a Bilderberger and so was Ted Heath and
Alec Douglas Home, who signed us into this fascist web in the first
place.
The very world fascism comes from the fasciae, a
symbol used in the Roman Empire. It is a series of rods (countries,
individuality) tied tightly together with an axe head at the top. It
symbolises from-the-top-down dictatorship by the few over the rest
under common laws and common policies. Does this fascist symbol,
from which the very name came, remind you of anything? The European
Union for instance, which has now spreading its tentacles into
football?
Fascism hates diversity and freedom. For the few
to control the many, they must centralise power and decision-making.
And here we have proposals which would destroy football's diversity
and hand all the power to the strongest clubs - the very foundation
of the fascist "philosophy".
The Nazis in Germany believed
in removing the weak and infirm from society and allowing only the
strongest to survive and prosper. So it will be in football soon if
this, or anything like it, goes ahead.
Now I know this is a
football website and not the place to expose at length the political
and economic conspiracies that are unfolding all around us, but they
are now beginning to affect football in a most fundamental way. If
the bureaucratic front men for the force behind this conspiracy can
devastate the game with one show of their unelected hands, how can
we possibly claim to live in the "free world"?
I have been
exposing their agenda for a decade now and more and more are opening
their eyes to the enormity of what is happening and where it is
rapidly leading. Others, however, say they just want to have enough
money for a pint and a ticket for the game: It's not their problem
and they are not interested in what politicians, big business, big
banks, or big bureaucrats are doing. What David Beckham is doing is
far more important to them. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Well, look at
the price of your pint, matey. Look at the price of the petrol to
get you to the game. Look at the cost of your ticket to the game.
Look at what the bureaucrats want to do to your game. And it's not
your problem?
What is happening to this world and our basic
freedoms affects all of us and unless we wake up - and fast - we
have seen nothing yet.
HAVE YOUR SAY...
Is
David Icke right to say the proposed end to transfer fees will put
us on a slippery slope to God knows where? Should football fans take
petrol blockade-style direct action to protest against the EU ruling
if it goes through? Or is David over-reacting just a little bit? Let
us know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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