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'Cu'Cullen strikes again

category national | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Thursday August 19, 2004 00:48author by John McDermott - R.F.F.P.(remove fianna fail party(new members always welcome)author address Leinster Houseauthor phone 999 Report this post to the editors

Don't Fuck with Fianna Fail

Power corrupts ,and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Could I be permitted to interpret Fianna Fail’s latest press release,in plain english,so that it is comprehendible to the average unsophisticated mug in the street.
What the Minister really said…’read my lips…’
’The Minister for the Environment, Mr Martin’Cu’ Cullen,in August 2004 announced that he was seeking to introduce a standard planning service in an attempt to end regional disparities in the planning system. While the Minister will not seek uniform requirements for planning for developments such as rural one-off houses, this is an area he said he wants to see "evened out" to bring "some coherence" to the State's planning system.
(read;-‘It will be open season for developers, and farmers selling sites,because I’m taking over now…!’)

He insisted that "a county border should not be the determining factor in the planning process.(read;-you can build in Donegal even if you happen to live in Kerry)

Mr Cullen said there was a tendency among planners to behave "extremely arrogantly, acting like demi-gods”.(read-you shaggers won’t interfere with our speculative activities any more’)

“The process has to be open, transparent and consistent”.(read;- wide open ..rubber stamped and no refusals.!)

“It is all about balance. Local authorities themselves have identified unnecessary requirements”
(read;-Planners in some areas are very troublesome,and all these section 140 motions are getting us bad publicity)

“They are processing 80,000 planning applications a year and need a simple administrative process. e-planning, where basic principles are well-established, could bring certainty and coherence to the system," the Minister concluded.
(read;-You won’t even have to go down to the local county council with troublesome plans and petitions ,anymore-just e-mail my new one-stop shop for instant permission-and who says I haven’t learned a thing or two about electronic voting!!)

author by iosafpublication date Sat Aug 28, 2004 01:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

;-)
every now and again we see a politician who wishes to launch himself on a geo-political "cultural" career.

We always clip that type of wing.

we have you by the synapse.
we have you by the synapse.

author by John McDermott - R.F.F.P.publication date Sat Aug 28, 2004 01:11author address Leinster Houseauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Do you want to be rich,… beyond the dreams of Avarice.?
Please recite aloud, and send a copy of this prayer to five people you know,and a Miracle will occur.
Do it now. You will receive a large amount of money if you follow these instructions.
Please don’t break the chain.
God bless you .

‘ The Beatitudes, according to Saint Bertie.’
Bertie led his followers ,wealthy farmers,despised tax collectors, building speculators,and rich merchants-up a high mountain,where they paused to rest. He addressed them in these words;
‘Look around you,my disciples…all this, I give to those of you who worship me.
Verily I say to you;-
Blessed are the young people , who have been priced out of the home ownership market,by corruption,nepotism,stroke politics, and well connected builders and land speculators.

Blessed are those who labour without profit; who pay 70% of the price of motor fuel in government tax; who suffer the highest vehicle purchase taxes in Europe;the highest alcoholic drink taxes;the highest V.A.T.taxes; stealth taxes of every kind; new rubbish taxes;water taxes(pending);road toll taxes;private V.H.I.taxes;credit card taxes,… all this, after 42% income tax ,is first deducted at source.!

Blessed are those who walk in the countryside for recreation,and are hindered and persecuted;blocked by the barbed wire fences of landowners and farmers, who take vast sums of the common people’s taxes , throughout the E.U. Empire,-and give nothing back in return.

Blessed are the Anglers who wait all day by the lakeside –and catching nothing!
Their stocks are destroyed,their labors wasted.Patiently they endure agricultural pollution,nitrate poisoning,and legalized drift net fishing by rich men in the coastal estuaries.

Blessed are those who endure lawlessness, greed, and anarchy,all around them. .;those who are the victims of crime; scourged by illegal dumping; illegal quarrying,and illegal development,smuggling,and racketeering of every sort.Blessed are those in the working class communities –abandoned to joy riders and drug purveyors.

Blessed are those communities where ribbon road development; one off housing; section 140 motions;- are commonplace in the councils.Where houses are quickly sold off, in the speculative frenzy of the times.
Cursed are the civil servants who are passed over for promotion,because of their refusal to obey my law .I shall scatter them ,and their families,and their descendents,across the land of Erin to occupy the new houses and offices built by my Elect;- Martin ‘Cu’Cullen,

Blessed are those who shun the local councilors .Watch how they act,these councilors,- always full of their own importance; purporting to represent the common people while in reality rezoning lands for one another’s advantage; doing deals in dark corridors where money changes hands; profiting themselves at every opportunity; grasping and greedy -like pigs;travelling to foreign places and living in luxury hotels;ever feeding from the public trough and on the public purse, while devising new ways to tax the poor.

Blessed are those who suffer the injustice of elected leaders who have abused the trust placed upon them by the people.;Blessed are those who must evermore witness the spectacle of arrogant criminals-full of bluff and bluster-strutting defiantly before the Courts,and justifying themselves daily to the Sanhedrin,in Dublin Castle.

Blessed are the victims of penalty points for minor infringements,and ludicrously low speed limits;-while drunken drivers nightly traverse our highways and fill the car parks of public drinking places with impunity.

Cursed are those who have sent their wealth to foreign lands ,or falsely colluded with rich bankers to avoid the tax collectors-for they shall wish they had never been born.!

Happy are those who have no connection with;and who have never voted for; and who have never profited by;- the corruption,the wasteful spending,or the pre- election largesse of the Soldiers of Destiny.

Blessed are those who cherish our ancestral burial grounds,and all traces of our rich history,and heritage;-though it shall be laid waste,in my generation.
Another Cuchulainn has arisen, in the South,and his army of mechanized chariots will desolate the land and destroy all before it.All this must come to pass.
But I tell you truly,you need not despair. Now is your hour of darkness.Now is your time of suffering.The Soldiers Of Destiny will sift you like wheat,with your own money.
All this you will suffer for my sake.

But your reward will be great in Heaven.’This is the Word of Bertie.

author by e-plannerpublication date Fri Aug 27, 2004 01:41author email irishheads at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

We won't let you Down!

author by Webwatchpublication date Tue Aug 24, 2004 00:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

John,

Well spotted and well said, you've got a lot of people talking 'round here.

Don't worry about 'Random' ....he's well known for that type crap he comes up with.

He got the nickname 'Random' because of how he applies his intelligence. people say it was something to do with his childhood, poor boy.

Thanks John.

author by randompublication date Thu Aug 19, 2004 03:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

no other comments, maybe because your sarcastic tone scared them away. Just like you and the ladies, eh?

 
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