"Yes, but how do we get that
MOST important
point across to the
Executive? - and the
Legislative, and the
Judicial?"
"Especially about something as
important as the
giving away of our
oil and gas
reserves (for example), at a time when we need to be
making the most of them (they have been valued at
5.4 trillion
Euros), and when our judges are jailing and
criminalizing peaceful and law abiding protesters, and calling
one of them (
Pat
O'Donnell that is) a '
thug' and a
'
bully' in one of our public court
rooms?"
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" 'State' Sovereignty is not
true Sovereignty " (to "We the People")by
Realist Mon Mar 15, 2010
10:21True or not, "
state
sovereignty" (in one form or another) is a reality
for the vast majority of people, both here in
Ireland
and elsewhere in the world.
Look up the word
"
sovereignty" in any fairly large dictionary and you
will find definitions of the following
kind:
"supreme and unrestricted power, as of a
state".For those who accept such definitions, the
BIG question which naturally arises for them is who (if
anybody) has the right to use such "
unrestricted
power"?
As far as the
Republic of Ireland is
concerned, the answer to this "big question" appears to have
been decided in
1937, via
Article 6.1 of
Bunreacht na hEireann, which 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." (Original
text available at:
http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/upload/static/256.htm
)
Unfortunately,
something appears to have gone very
badly wrong -- in our
Government
(Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) -- regarding
the enforcement of Article 6.1 (and indeed regarding the
enforcement of some other very important sections of our
Constitution as well).
All "powers of (our) government"
now seem (to me at least) to be in the hands of a
group of
largely unknown despots and plutocrats, who appear
to be very closely connected with the
"big banks" of the
world, and many of them I imagine would never have even set
foot in Ireland.
To make matters
far worse (and
much more dangerous), the group
of despots and plutocrats in question also appear to share a
passion for secrecy, and to have nothing but
contempt for human
rights.
All of which leaves me wondering what (if
anything?),
by way of peaceful and lawful means, can
the
people of the
Republic of Ireland now do to
get back the power they gave
themselves when they enacted
Bunreacht na
hEireann on
July 1st,
1937.
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"She
said the political and economic crisis can never be dealt with
unless the political and administrative classes undergo a
profound change."
Recent statement from
Dr Emily
O'Reilly (Republic of Ireland Ombudsman) at
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0309/politics.html==================
"The
universality and indivisibility of human
rights":
To date (i.e.
March
16th 2010),
no acknowledgement of
receipt for the set of
three registered
letters referred to at the
Internet address
immediately below has been received from
Lady Ashton
(European Union Foreign Minister),
from
UK Prime
Minister Gordon Brown MP, or from
Republic of Ireland
Prime Minister Brian Cowen TD: which seems to suggest --
maybe? -- that all three have decided to completely ignore the
entire
existence, and
contents, of the letters in question (all
dated
December 21st 2009, and all sent to
them through the
registered post).
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/BaronessAshton/21December2009/Email.htm==================
For
future reference
purposes a copy of this e-mail will later today be
placed at
Internet location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/HermanVanRompuy/16March2010/Email.htm==================
Human
Rights (Ireland):http://www.humanrightsireland.com==================
