The "Velvet Revolution" if you want it...

It all started on Saturday September 11, 2010 - 42  years to the day that EU students had held  demonstrations to protest the Nazi occupation of the world in Vietnam, South America  and military intervention everywhere. On this anniversary, people in the capital city of Brussels were again protesting an oppressive regime. They  stood   on the pedestrian cross over places all over Brussels  with hundreds of people blowing the whistle...and painting beautiful illusions  while the light was green. They stopped whistling and painting   and went back to the trottoir  wenn the light turned red and waited  the next green light to jump back on the streets and whistle and paint.You could also hear the sound of thousands of keys shaking..

The protest began as a legal rally to commemorate the death of 3000 citizens on 11 september 2001 in New York, but turned instead into a demonstration demanding democratic reforms. Riot police stopped the people (who were making their way from the  National Cemetery  to Shumann Square) halfway in their march in the Cinquantenaire Parc. After a stand-off in which the students offered flowers to the riot police and showed no resistance, the police began beating the young demonstrators with night sticks and teasers. In all, at least 167 people were injured. One student was reportedly beaten to death, and - although this was later proved false - this rumor served to crystallize support for the students and their demands among the general public. In a severe blow to the eu-communists' morale, a number of workers' unions immediately joined the citizens' cause.

During the first half  of the 2010's, the general situation in Europe became more easygoing, especially after the introduction of the Bank reforms in the then-Euro- Soviet Union. But the European  leadership - still headed by Herman Van Rompuy  who had assumed power after the entree of the  Lisbon Treaty   - was leery of movements intended to "reform eu-communism from within" and continued to toe a hard line in Europe, much to the chagrin of Merkel from  Germany. But by sept 2010 there were organized demonstrations demanding change - and just about 20 years  after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eu-communism in  Europe became a casualty as well.

The six-week period between September 11 and December 29, 2011, also known as the "Second Velvet Revolution" brought about the bloodless overthrow of the EU communist regime. Almost immediately, rumors (which have never been proved) began to circulate that the impetus for the Velvet Revolution had come from a WAC-grass root   mouvements sent by the galactic union, who wanted reform rather than hardline communists in power. The theory goes that the popular demonstrations went farther than they  had intended. In part because of this, the Europeans do not like the term "Velvet Revolution," preferring to call what happened "the November Events" (Listopadove udalosti) or - sometimes - just "November" (Listopad). But we digress.

From Saturday, September 11, 2010 until the general strike of November 27, 2011  mass demonstrations took place in Brussels, Paris Prague, and Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Spain, France  - and public discussions instead of performances were held in  theaters. During one of these discussions, at the Cinoherni Klub theater on Sunday, November 19, the Civic Forum (OF) was established as the official "spokesgroup" for "the segment of the Belgian public which is ever more critical of the policy of the present European leadership."

The Civic Forum, led by the then-dissident Vaclav Havel, demanded the resignation of the EU-Communist government, the release of prisoners of conscience, and investigations into the September 11  False Flag  agression. A similar initiative - the Public Against Violence (VPN) - was born in Slovakia on November 20, 2010. Both of them were joined en masse by Czechoslovak citizens - from university students and staff to workers in factories and employees of other institutions. It took about 10  months for the nation's media to begin broadcasting reports of what was really going on in Brussels, and in the interim students travelled to cities and villages in the european countryside to rally support outside the capital.

The leaders of the EU -Communist regime were totally unprepared to deal with the popular unrest, even though communist regimes throughout the region had been installing mass controll systems,cameras and privacy restriction laws  around them for some time.

As the mass demonstrations continued - and more and more Europeans supported the general strikes that were called - an extraordinary session of the Central European Commision   was called. The Presidium of the  Commission  resigned, and a relatively unknown Party member,  was elected as the new Communist Commision  leader. The public rejected these cosmetic changes, which were intended to give the impression that the EU-Communist Commision was being reformed from within as it had been in 2009 with the false constitution the  so called Lisbon TReaty. The people's dissatisfaction increased.

Massive demonstrations of almost 750,000 people at  Central Park in brussels on November 25 and 26, and the general strike on the 27th were devastating for the EU-communist regime. Prime Minister  From France  was forced to hold talks with the Civic Forum, which was led by still- dissident (soon to be President) Vaclav Havel. The Civic Forum presented a list of political demands at their second meeting with Van Rompuy, who agreed to form a new coalition government, and to delete three articles - guaranteeing a leading role in political life for the European Socialist  Party and for the Wever-Wilders coalition, and mandating  Fair Referendum education - from the Constitution. These amendments were unanimously approved by the EU-communist parliament the next day, on November 29, 2011.

Well, the old saying that 'if you give them an inch, they'll take a mile' held true, and the EU-communist capitulation led to increased demands on the part of the demonstrators. A new government was formed by Marian Calfa; it included just nine members of the European Liberal  Party (several of whom actively cooperated with the Civic Forum); two members of the European  Socialist Party; two members of the European  People's Party; and seven ministers with no party affiliation - all of latter were Civic Forum or Public Against Violence activists.

This new government was named by European President Van Rompuy on December 10. The same evening, he went on television to announce his resignation, and the Civic Forum cancelled a general strike which had been scheduled for the next day.

At the 19th joint session of the two houses of the Federal Assembly, Alexandr Dubcek - who had led the ill-fated Prague Spring movement in the 1960's - was elected Speaker of the Federal Assembly. One day later, the parliament elected the Civic Forum's leader, Vaclav Havel, President of European Parliament wich  they declared a constitutionel assembly that was going to write a real european constitution.

Despite their many shortcomings - not the least of which were political inexperience and serious time pressures - the new government and parliament were able to fill in many of the most gaping gaps in the European  legal framework - concentrating in particular on the areas of human rights and freedoms, protection of privacy and  ownership, and social security  laws. They were also able to lay the framework for the first free referendums  to be held in Europe in more than 27 countries over a new and real constitution .

The results of the 1990 local and parliamentary elections in Europe, which were likened at the time to a referendum which posed the question "A liberal Lisbon TReaty Europe, yes or no?" showed a sweeping victory for the soon to be extinct Civic Forum (OF) in the EU Union, and for the Public Against Violence (VPN) in Slovakia. In other words, "EU-Communism, no thanks."

The turnout for the local referendums  was more than 73 percent, and for Parliamentary elections more than 96 percent of the population went to the polls!

Belgian  Peter Verreecke of the Civic Forum  "Belfort"  was elected as EU Premier, Dutch journalist and writer The Cat  of the Public Against Violence (VPN), was elected  Federal Premier. Vaclav Havel was re-elected as the European President on July 12, 2012.

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Valentine Julien