One thing, If the Yes vote is supposed to be the right (as in correct, AND good) Vote. Why is so much money being spent to Buy the Yes Vote!
Shouldn’t the Yes be self evident? And don’t say that it’s because there is a ‘No!’ campaign on, that must be countered. Opposition occurred second.
The Gardaà raid offices of Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin in the first positive step in restoring confidence in the Irish Government. It’s a shame that that it took almost violent public outcry from the people to stir action from the lame corrupt ministers. It’s also a shame that any incriminating evidence has probably been destroyed and disposed of.
I’ve been just watching The Root of All Evil on RTE, of all places, I’m surprised that the Catholic Church allow them to broadcast it.
I more or less believe this to be the case for years, there is Reason and then there is Religion, Good verses Evil. Christian Fundamentalists, Islamic Jihadist’s and any other religious belief system taken to an extreme is evil. Plain and simple, lesser measures of religion are merely irrational.
You can have morals without religion, you can have the rule of the laws of man without religion.
Brian Lenihan, should be fired! Plain and simple, because he does NOT understand the terms or meaning of GOVERNMENT. Today in an interview he mentioned that the banks were not being bailed out by recapitalization using taxpayer money, that they were using other government funds from retirement accounts. Where does he get the idea that the government HAS ANY money that is not the property of the taxpayers? GOVERNMENT IS NOT A BUSINESS! I’ve said it many times before, the Irish Government only manages the finances of the people of Ireland, THE TAXPAYING PEOPLE OF IRELAND! The Irish Government does not, and never will have independent funds separate from Irish citizen taxpayer money.
In a culture where Metaphor and Allegory are lost in Rugby Passions, even while spoken bluntly, and perhaps crudely. When attentions spans are only extended through to the next match, change becomes the least motive action. Passions that flared misguided are now quelled in the pub, and the call for mob violence by others, regretted, the guilty remain unbridled. Nothing worthy of speech and action surmounts the desire for drink and play, and life, such that it has decayed, continues. This is Ireland!
One effect of the Lisbon treaty is to bring into stark relieve the different perceptions of politicians and citizens. More than a century ago in the United States there was a Civil war. And while the popular belief was that this war was over slavery, it was not. It is an issue which Europe faces now and in the future. What faced the U.S. was not an issue, but a right to deal with an issue locally, within the individual states representing the members of the United States. A confederacy of independent but unified States joined in common defense. The E.U. is currently just such a confederacy, but the Lisbon treaty seeks to move that into a Federalist, Centralist Nation. In the U.S.A. the Federalists sought to force the freeing of slaves on all the states, a centralist decision, which the State governments of the South had previously supported Slavery and while the topic was abhorrent, the subject could just as well have been health food or something. The central Federal government forcing decisions on State governments.
This is the fundamental goal of the Lisbon treaty, to allow the creation of laws created in the Federated European Parliament to be issued to member State/Countries superseding local control. Just as in the U.S., this was the trigger for the Civil War. The Confederacy lost the argument, and a more ridged Federal, Central government was established. As in the U.S. a decision will have to be made, will Europe be a Federal Government, or will it retain it’s individual Nations in a loose Confederacy of United Nations. War is an alternative to this decision making process.
The only government that has allowed it’s citizens to vote, to allow them to choose what they wanted, were the Irish. But the politicians of the member states want a federal government and have decided that their citizens shouldn’t be allowed to choose. They now seek to ignore the ‘No” and force another vote again until they get their ‘Yes’ because a for them, a ‘No’ will restrict their power. There is no up side for the peoples of Europe, very government seeks to restrict and control it’s citizens the question is who will do the controlling. Will the Irish control the Irish, or will Brussels.
The choice is ours!
One other outcome from the Lisbon ‘No’ vote is a general presumption of a vote of ‘No Confidence’ of Brian Cowan and his government. Having set as a principal goal of his administration, a ‘Yes’ Vote for the Lisbon Treaty. The utter failure to attain this goal constitutes a complete failure of Mr. Cowan’s leadership. Couple this with his inability to present this before the EU Commission as the definitive response of the Irish People, he now seeks to nullify the voice of his own people.
It’s time now to vote directly for a ‘No Confidence’ of Brian Cowan in the Dáil.
Why did all the politicians believe that a constitution that had been voted down by the French, could be rename and sold to the Irish?
Why do Politicians now try to pass off the Irish No vote as not representative of the rest of the population of Europe who didn’t get to vote?
Why did the Politicians believe that a childish ‘Because it’s good for you‘ argument that doesn’t work on children, would work on the Irish Adult population?
Big questions. Questions that will never be answered by the current crop of Politicians because they don’t know any part of the Why in these questions.
I can think of a few, here’s one
It looks to be time to form a new government in Ireland that respects Freedom of Speech and maybe elect some new (less corrupt) politicians that respect the law, don’t take bribes of English Money, and don’t perjure themselves before a judicial tribunal. Politicians that don’t try and censor Blogs that have an opinion contrary to theirs.
For voting to violate their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States I present you with Traitors;
Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Wayne Allard [R, CO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Robert Bennett [R, UT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Samuel Brownback [R, KS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. C. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Norm Coleman [R, MN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Larry Craig [R, ID] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R, NC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Pete Domenici [R, NM] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Ensign [R, NV] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Charles Hagel [R, NE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Isakson [R, GA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mel Martinez [R, FL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ken Salazar [D, CO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Gordon Smith [R, OR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Arlen Specter [R, PA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ted Stevens [R, AK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. George Voinovich [R, OH] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Warner [R, VA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Rep. Roger Wicker [R, MS-1] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Please remember these names when you next vote for a representative that will honor their oaths.
Bush’s friendly co-conspirator in the White House Lies and deception club has come up with something he can really sink his teeth into, The U.S. Propaganda Agency to quote;
…the United States is losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, and the answer to that, in part, is through the creation of this new government agency
Whatever happened to the truth? If the truth isn’t there, someone will discover that it’s not the truth, and no amount of lying is going to make anyone listen to it. Mind you if you can control all sources of information (MSN, radio, TV, Internet), and either censor or block the truth, what does it matter what you say?
Radio Free Europe has been identified as one of the most useful tool to bring down the Iron curtain, on a simple principal, that even under political pressure, it would ONLY broadcast the truth.
But this administration doesn’t know the truth, to them, the truth is the enemy, and so we have what we have. A world of spin and deception.
It looks like the truth does come out, in the end, but why are we surprised when someone does a Study: False statements preceded war about something we already knew. That the President of the United States wasn’t telling the truth. Can we impeach this administration now? Does anyone doubt the need to demonstrate to the world that America CAN be trusted again, by eliminating the liars, and restoring the trust?
This article is a sure sign that warrant-less spying pays off as, Bush Signs Law to Widen Reach for Wiretapping. This reeks of the smell of blackmail, from all the Democrats caught dirty, or at least with their hands in the cookie jar. We all want to believe that most politicians we elect are honest, but in reality everyone has something to hide. And Bush pulled them all out of the closet to grant himself more imperial powers. Rather than grow a spine, and call Bush’s bluff, they gave up the constitution, that ‘Dammed piece of paper’ so he could wipe his arse with it. Come the next election, time to clean house, and senate of the crap politicians who have no idea who pay’s their wages.
If the obvious has not yet been demonstrated clearly, then Bush not ruling out Libby pardon should come as no surprise.
But from here on out all crimes done by Bush Administration Politicians are now above the reach of the law.
It’s no wonder that the Taoiseach Bertie and President Bush are such great friends. They both believe that the ruling class do not observer the same laws as common folks.