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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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