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"The
Constitution is just a goddamned piece of
paper." -- Remark
allegedly made by former US President George W.
Bush.
"In a few dozen words, Article 6.1 of
our Constitution (Bunreacht na hEireann) appears to me
to capture the essential essence and ingredients of a
genuine "democratic
government": of the kind so very ably defined
by former US President Abraham Lincoln in his now
famous "government of the people, by the people, for the
people" speech of 1863."
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Challenging the
"Neo-Liberal
agenda"
by Lugh Tue Jul 28, 2009
14:53
By vigorously opposing the
second referendum on the Lisbon
Treaty, it seems to me that the people of the Republic of
Ireland now have an excellent opportunity to
challenge the
global
"Neo-Liberal agenda" - which appears to
be the wish of Joe Higgins MEP (as stated by Ronoc
above).
In a few dozen words, Article 6.1 of
our Constitution (Bunreacht na hEireann) appears to me
to capture the essential essence and ingredients of a
genuine "democratic government": of the kind so
very ably defined by former US President Abraham Lincoln in
his now famous "government of the people, by the people,
for the people" speech of 1863 (for more on this
please see at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22government+of+the+people%2C+by+the+people%2C+for+the+people%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
For those not already familiar
with it, the text of Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na
hEireann reads as follows:
"All
powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial,
derive, under God, from the people, whose right it is to
designate the rulers of the State and, in final appeal, to
decide all questions of national policy, according to the
requirements of the common good."
It seems to me
that the rejection
of the "final appeal" decision of
the people on the Lisbon Treaty of last year,
and the holding of a second referendum
for the purpose of trying to reverse it,
is a straightforward violation of this core principle of
genuine democracy, as represented by Article 6.1 of
Bunreacht na hEireann, which literally means "The
Basic Law of the Republic of Ireland" in the Celtic
language. (For other violations please see at http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/5July2009/Email.htm#Finally
)
Ironically, it is of course worth noting too
that
there
is nothing (that I know
of) to be
found in the text of the Lisbon Treaty that could even
remotely be considered the equivalent of Article 6.1 of
Bunreacht na hEireann: which, if the truth was
fully known, is (I suspect) what probably lays at the root of
the very deep worries so many people across Europe
and in the rest of the world seem to have about the Lisbon
Treaty.
The holding of a "Second Lisbon Treaty
Referendum" now looks like a pivotal issue
to me: not just for the people of the Republic
of Ireland, and not just for the people of Europe
even: but for the people of the entire world, and for
the future of genuine democracy throughout the entire
world.
I believe it is "government of the people,
by the people, for the people" that the
WORLD needs, and not "government of the
ruling-elites, by the ruling-elites, for the
ruling-elites".
Article 6.1 of Bunreacht
na hEireann and The Second Lisbon Treaty Referendum:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Article+6.1+and+Second+Lisbon+Treaty+Referendum&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
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The
above text has been copied from the following Indymedia
(Ireland) address:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/93308#comment256661
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For
future reference
purposes a copy of the above text (in
the form of an e-mail to Dr Jeffers and several others)
has been placed at the following Internet location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/29July2009/Email.htm
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The Global Cesspit of
Corruption, Crime, Cover-Ups, Impunity, and
Tyranny:
"The Constitution has been
hijacked" (Registered letter to P.M. Brian Cowan T.D. dated
May 9th 2008):
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/9May2008/Email.htm
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