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December 14, 2010
Main Opposition Party Undecided
About Bailouts
By William Finnerty
Following
recent reports of "leaks" involving the mobile phone
numbers of TDs (Republic of Ireland Elected
Representatives), it appears the leaked information "has
gone viral", and that several TDs (including government
ministers) have been "flooded" with abusive calls from
members of the public during recent
days.
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"FINE GAEL (Main Opposition
Party) APPEARS to remain undecided on how to vote in
Wednesday's Dáil ballot (Wednesday December 15th 2010
that is) on whether to ratify Ireland's bailout deal
with the European Union and the International Monetary
Fund, today's Sunday Times reports."
"The paper
says that while Labour has committed to voting against
the plan when a division is taken this week, Fine Gael
are less unequivocal in their proposed stance on the
€67.5bn deal."
The two excerpts above appear at:
http://www.thejournal.ie/fine-gael-undecided-over-dail-bailout-vote-2010-12/
Maybe
a few phone calls from voters, which gently but firmly
point out to our "elected representatives" that, if they
wish to hold onto their very lucrative positions as TDs,
they might need to start listening a lot more to the
people of the Republic of Ireland, and a lot less to the
people who are behind the European Union and the
International Monetary Fund, and their proposed €67.5bn
bailout for the self-inflicted gambling debts of the
bankers?
This now seems particularly important on
account of the fact that, the people of the Republic of
Ireland who the TDs are supposed to be representing, are
not being given the opportunity to "have their say"
directly on this extremely important matter through the
use of a referendum, a matter which involves a huge
financial burden for tax payers (in "bad times"), and
which appears (to me at least) to have been deliberately
designed to plunge present and future generations of
Republic of Ireland citizens into a "perpetual debt"
situation (of crippling magnitude), which they might
never be able to free themselves from. This is not very
good for the "common good"
mentioned in Article
6.1 of our written Constitution (Bunreacht
na hEireann), is it?
Add to the above
the fact that, as an internationally well-recognised,
independent, and sovereign nation state of long
standing, there is nothing whatsoever to prevent the
Republic of Ireland Government (Executive,
Legislative, and Judicial) from creating its own
COMPLETELY "debt-free and interest-free" money, by the
means already referred to and outlined at: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98299#comment275816
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Copy at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IndyMediaIreland/1December2010/Post.htm#comment275816
These
notes derive largely from a "comment" which appears at
the following Indymedia (Ireland) www
location: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98444#comment276274
Incidentally,
the controversially "leaked" TD phone numbers
have all been printed, as part of the main article, at
the www address immediately
above.
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Closely
related Open News Diary Entry ...
"The BIG
political lesson of recent times"
:
http://www.opednews.com/Diary/The-BIG-political-lesson-o-by-William-Finnerty-101209-552.html
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Copy at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IrishSmallAndMediumEnterprises/11December2010/Email.htm
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The
above text is based on the December 14th 2010 Diary
Entry at the following Open News
www location: http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Main-Opposition-Party-Unde-by-William-Finnerty-101214-679.html
For
a limited period of time, facilities for commenting on
the issues in question are available at the www address
immediately above.
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