Irish Citizens alone will determine fate of all Europeans ?

It is not widely known that Irish Citizens alone will determine the fate of all Europeans when we take to the ballot box on the LISBON TREATY.

We are the only country forced to hold a referendum on the new Constitution. This isn't a responsibility to be taken lightly ..no one should vote to enactment laws they do not understand.

We should also bare in mind that this re-written Constitution - in it's previous guises - was rejected previously by the people of Europe. How can you morally justify a vote that would reverse their decision unless you understand the proposed-treaty word-for-word.

If you fully understand the consequences of voting Yes, and agree with the changes, then so-be-it vote yes, but it is irresponsible and fool-hardy to approve laws that you do not fully understand purely on the basis of major political party opinion - they don't even understand it.

Voting NO does not reject Europe, it merely forces the EU to re-write their proposed changes in a language that is not designed to confuse.

The ‘father’ of the constitution, GISCARD D'ESTAING said: "Public opinion will be led to adopt, without knowing it, the proposals that we dare not present to them directly... All the earlier proposals will be in a new text, but will be hidden and disguised in some way...What was [already] difficult to understand will become utterly incomprehensible, but the substance has been retained."

Political leaders also admit that they will not allow their people a vote on the Lisbon Treaty because they know it will be rejected. French president NICOLAS SARKOZY says: "France was just ahead of all the other countries in voting No. "It would happen in all member states if they have a referendum. There is a cleavage between people and governments...A referendum now would bring Europe into danger. There will be no treaty if we had a referendum in France, which would again be followed by a referendum in the UK." So basically what we have is fundamental change without the consent of the citizens.

If the GREENs were not in a coalition government they would be calling for a NO VOTE - sadly that leaves only SINN FEIN calling for a no, tainting the against lobby as radicals. However Green MEP PATRICIA McKENNA spoke about it clearly here.