"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)
was yesterday placed at the following
Internet
location:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/29July2009/Email.htm==========================
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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