OscailtArticle 136 TFEU amendment, the ESM and the Fiscal Compact Treaty<p>Once again we are being asked to vote on yet another EU treaty. This time it is the Fiscal Treaty otherwise known as the permanent austerity treaty. Most of the people of Europe are against this treaty and they are once again relying on us although as usual most of the governments of Europe are for the treaty because well they represent the people in power -the large banks, corporations and financial elite in general. As we know they call the shots these days in every country and it has got to the stage where "investors" will lend money to governments and charge a nice rate of interest too and in this way they get to decide how much they will allow governments to spend on luxuries for the middle class and poor like health, education, social welfare, pensions, water and sewage etc. And since the financial crisis they have come to the realization that none of this is neccesary. In fact the only arms of government really required are the police, army, courts and prisons.
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Anyhow in this feature the folks from <b>People's Association Watchdog</b> have done a really good job in going through the Fiscal Treaty line by line and doing alot of other research and analysis to discover and explains what it really means. And don't forget if enough of us vote No, the government will be back to give us plenty of more chances to vote Yes, just like they did with the Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty.</p>
Breaking news: Italian MP, Sgarbi denounces the Statistical Fraud on COVID-19. The speech of the Member of Parliament Vittorio Sgarbi in the session of the Italian Camera, Meeting no. 331 of Friday 24, April, 2020. Vittorio Sgarbi, denounces the closure of 60% of the businesses for 25,000 COVID-19 Deaths, of which the National Institute of Health says 96.3% died NOT of COVID-19 but of other pathologies. That means only 925 have died of the virus. 24,075 have died of other things.2012-04-21T14:39:06+00:00Indymedia Irelandimc-ireland@lists.indymedia.iehttp://www.indymedia.ie/atomfullposts?story_id=101741http://www.indymedia.ie/graphics/feedlogo.gifESMhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892852012-04-21T14:39:06+00:00opus diablosExtractive Suction Mechanism....siphons out the services other treaties cannot r...Extractive Suction Mechanism....siphons out the services other treaties cannot reach....c'mon turkeys, get out there and vote for Christmas for the EUsual wuncha EUsorous bankers....<br />
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Give us your hositals, your schools, your pensions and your children...we'll pay you for our golden cushions in 24 carat austerity...we can spell it, we can shout it, we can praise it, we can even sell it...but not through anyone who will experience it themselves.....austerity for our menial minion mediot delivery boys 'n girls??...not this year...thats strictly for your one in five hungry children as we boom agribusness export profits to pay the gambling debts of the last posse of poseur pussies who fed you earlier neo-liberal bait. <br />
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Lie down croppies...Britannia and the offshore havens rule...you had your fifteen years of independence...Warhol only skimmed the surface.Impunity is to become lawful in the European Union?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892912012-04-21T18:22:45+00:00W. FinnertyTREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN STABILITY MECHANISM
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Immunities o...TREATY ESTABLISHING THE EUROPEAN STABILITY MECHANISM<br />
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Immunities of persons<br />
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"In the interest of the ESM, the Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Governors, alternate Governors, Directors, alternate Directors, as well as the Managing Director and other staff members shall be immune from legal proceedings with respect to acts performed by them in their official capacity and shall enjoy inviolability in respect of their official papers and documents."<br />
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The above excerpt is from:<br />
<a href="http://www.european-council.europa.eu/media/582311/05-tesm2.en12.pdf" title="http://www.european-council.europa.eu/media/582311/05-tesm2.en12.pdf">http://www.european-council.europa.eu/media/582311/05-t...2.pdf</a><br />
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Impunity: <br />
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"Impunity means the impossibility, de jure or de facto, of bringing the perpetrators of violations to account - whether in criminal, civil, administrative or disciplinary proceedings - since they are not subject to any inquiry that might lead to their being accused, arrested, tried and, if found guilty, sentenced to appropriate penalties, and to making reparations to their victims." (From: <a href="http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html" title="http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html">http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html</a> )<br />
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"Once our grossly corrupt legal profession decides to deliberately ensure that the targets of government crime cannot get any legal representation of the kind which would stop the government crime they are being subjected to, then the targets of such crime are totally on their own, and their situation is completely hopeless at the present time: as far as 1) stopping the Government crime is concerned, and 2) also as far as receiving justice and reparations in connection with the government crime (and associated C-PTSD injuries) in question."<br />
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The excerpt immediately above is from an e-mail dated March 16th 2012 which was copied to (among several others) Republic of Ireland Chief Justice Susan Denham, Republic of Ireland Prime Minister Enda Kenny TD, and Republic of Ireland President Dr Michael D. Higgins (Principal Guardian of the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland). The full text of the e-mail in question can be viewed at:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/InjuriesBoardIreland/16March2012/Email.htm" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/InjuriesBoardIreland/16March2012/Email.htm">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/InjuriesBoardIreland/...l.htm</a><br />
Obsfurcation.http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892922012-04-21T18:36:38+00:00Computer Grnius.Shows you how the Legal Profession use long sentences to make money.Shows you how the Legal Profession use long sentences to make money.€1 trn awaiting resulthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892932012-04-21T20:41:07+00:00southern comfortI'm waiting to see what good the loan of a further €1 trillion to the EU banks h...I'm waiting to see what good the loan of a further €1 trillion to the EU banks has done by voting day. The loan was paid in two stages at the back end of 2011.<br />
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If I see neighbours dancing in the streets and everyone smiling and honking their horns, then I'll know that our Masters in Brussels are clever people who had their finger on the pulse all along. Their paperwork is messy but I'll live with that. Inviolability - sure we should all embrace that. I'll vote Yes. I'll tug any forelock you put in front of me. I'll marry a son off to Michelle Mulkerin and vote for Innda next time.<br />
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If I see much the same as today, then I'll know that our Masters are not clever enough to run the financial system, never mind the tortuous legal process at the back of it. I'll vote No.<br />
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I don't think, SC..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892952012-04-22T11:06:21+00:00opus diablos..that there is any question of their cleverness and ability to run the financia.....that there is any question of their cleverness and ability to run the financial system effectively and highly efficiently...<br />
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The questions are about who's interests the system is designed to foster, and the escalating global collateral damage from their centripetal asset-stripping of the earth into their offshore reservoirs of liquidised resources and labour. <br />
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The trajectory of the program is unidirectional, and the managers have invested their egoistical existences in the program's furtherance of what they label as 'wealth creation'. <br />
They have the population convinced that it is an inclusive general prosperity they serve, when it is, behind the Newspeak, the diametric opposite; an exclusive extraction of monetised and abstracted credit, a purely psychological numerological pseudo-scientific scam.<br />
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As the old chestnut puts it, when we've poisoned the last river and exterminated the last fish we'll realise we can't get nutrition from our coins and plastic cards. But in the meantime the system feeds its advocates. And the pro-ESM campaign has been running for months...with a unanimous consensus that we must get the right answer and there is only one right answer. <br />
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If they argued that we have to accept the shackles, but they are taking the case for fixing the problem to Brussells and other fora, and will demand reform and adjustments to ensure the now fading subsidiarity(anyone remember that carrot?)is ensured there would be some hope they give a shit about anything other than their petty careers. They are as happily in lockstep as Bertie ever was, and while they wont overtly say it, their sole wish is that all critics follow Bertie's suicidal prescription, and get gone."Not everyone despairs"http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2892972012-04-22T11:56:07+00:00W. Finnerty"Not everyone despairs. Some argue that the Internet and social media may prompt..."Not everyone despairs. Some argue that the Internet and social media may prompt a new era of transparency, raising the reputational risks for governments that fail to clean up their act."<br />
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"It's a bit like the beginning of an avalanche where it is very hard to predict where it will end up," said Tim Hardy, a left-wing blogger describing himself as a cheerleader for the officially leaderless group."<br />
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"It's not just Britain. A Reuters investigation this month showed how some U.S. states -- notably Wyoming and Delaware -- were failing to meet international standards, offering "shelf companies" to help hide assets and avoid tax."<br />
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All three of the above excerpts are from a Reuters News Agency Article titled "Analysis: Is Britain more corrupt than it thinks?", which can be viewed at the following Internet location:<br />
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-pht-newscorp-britain-corruption-idUSTRE76J25L20110720" title="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-pht-newscorp-britain-corruption-idUSTRE76J25L20110720">http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/20/us-pht-newsco...10720</a><br />
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Related Link:<br />
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no system..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893012012-04-22T14:26:15+00:00opus diablos..rooted in war and pillage can be other than corrupt, by definition..it means t.....rooted in war and pillage can be other than corrupt, by definition..it means the fundamental foundation of the economic system is sociopathic, and its apologists wilfully ignorant in refusing to accept any analysis that points to its origins and inherent values of 'might is right' uber-competition.<br />
Its like John Cleese's crack about how many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?Just the one...but the bulb must really want to change..these white collar crims are HAPPY in their golden nappies.<br />
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A good map of the corrupt networks is provided by Nicholas Shaxson's 'Treasure Islands', tax havens and the men who stole the world(The Bodley Head, London, 2011).<br />
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<a href="http://www.treasureislands.org" title="http://www.treasureislands.org">http://www.treasureislands.org</a><br />
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Holy Trinity?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893342012-04-23T19:49:35+00:00southern comfortAh now OD, Sonya is trying to educate us on the complexities of the solution, an...Ah now OD, Sonya is trying to educate us on the complexities of the solution, and you go off on the tax angle. Don't we live in a tax haven? Booklet launched on the EU Austerity Treaty - Fiscal Treaty and Euro Crisis - Reasons to Vote Nohttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893382012-04-23T23:35:22+00:00TOver at the link below, it has been announced that Kieran Allen has launched a n...Over at the link below, it has been announced that Kieran Allen has launched a new bookelet on the EU Austerity Treaty. Having obtained a copy, it is certainly a very good analysis of what is in store. Here's some extracts from announcement:<br />
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<em>The Treaty imposes permanent austerity on countries like Ireland while at the same time the European Central Bank is engaged in an elaborate manoeuvre to hand out money to private banks.<br />
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Under the Long Term Refinancing Operation, EU banks have received €1.1 trillion in soft loans at an interest rate of 1 percent per annum. This money has been mainly invested in government bonds which have interest rates of between 4 percent and 6 percent. This guarantees huge profits in an elaborate scam known as the ‘carry-over trade<br />
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One of the purposes of the Fiscal Treaty is to lock down spending on basic public services so that money is set aside for the repayment of these government bonds. Financial interests are driving the agenda of Europe and have promoted this treaty to ensure they get their pound of flesh,<br />
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Ireland is particularly vulnerable because the current debt to GDP ratio stands at 120 percent. Meeting the terms of the Fiscal Treaty will require cutbacks of between €5 billion and €6 billion a year.<br />
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People should think about this last sentence above. These cuts are greater than the cuts made each year over the past three years and these could well have to be made indefinitely because you can be sure cuts like that would destroy the economy so much that the GNP would sink further and our ratio of debt would still be high.<br />
TIAGA (There Is A Great Alternative) ...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893482012-04-24T08:11:51+00:00W. Finnerty"Some believe that there IS an alternative, and that it might be a lot SAFER, HE..."Some believe that there IS an alternative, and that it might be a lot SAFER, HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, and GENERALLY FAR MORE SENSIBLE to what we've got now."<br />
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The above excerpt is from the following location:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IndyMediaIreland/22bApril2012/Article101694.htm#comment289309" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IndyMediaIreland/22bApril2012/Article101694.htm#comment289309">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IndyMediaIreland/22bA...89309</a><br />
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Related Link:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/TDsDail30/Group1/24April2011/Email.htm" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/TDsDail30/Group1/24April2011/Email.htm">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/TDsDail30/Group1/24Ap...l.htm</a>@scomforthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893562012-04-24T12:01:07+00:00opus diablosSimplifications sc.
The tax havens(and the book mentions the IFSC in its lists)...Simplifications sc.<br />
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The tax havens(and the book mentions the IFSC in its lists)are multiplying fractally to keep ahead of the under-resourced agencies attempting to track them and hold them responsible. They are a major factor in that manufactured complexity.<br />
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YOU may live in the IFSC, most of us are on the outside, trying to squint against the mirrored glass mask.<br />
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Will anyone bite the bullet and provide real answers, Default nowhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893572012-04-24T12:04:27+00:00hard questionThere will be a lot of booklets produced on this mad austerity treaty but will w...There will be a lot of booklets produced on this mad austerity treaty but will will anyone bite the bullet and provide real answers? Ireland needs to stop paying the debts of bondholders and builders and have a default. It worked for the people of Iceland, all you need is courage and firmness? any takers out there? SF? SP? SWP? Etc EtcT. is correct. This carry trade game is key to what is going on here..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893672012-04-25T01:55:50+00:00leftyhere's a concrete example that what T. is referring to (the carry trading game) ...here's a concrete example that what T. is referring to (the carry trading game) is a reality<br />
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Here, the author is referring to the yen carry trade but the principle is similar within the EU. There is a lot of easy money to be made this way but it relies on the fact that countries are kept under great threat if they default on their soverign debt for the sake of their citizens. <br />
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This "scaring the shit out of countries into conforming and paying up on their bonds" is the job of sharks like "The Troika". <br />
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They do this through "memoranda of understanding", more binding treaty alterations like the ESM, by getting corrupt ex goldman sachs technocrats in place, by fostering and corrupting key government actors or by manipulating snivelling forelock tugging puffed up self important servile "useful idiots" into betraying their citizens (as is probably the case in Ireland) <br />
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wake up and smell the coffee people! VOTE NODr Michael hudson interviewed on keiser reporthttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893822012-04-25T13:00:42+00:00wageslaveDr Michael hudson interviewed on keiser report talks about the esm measures and ...Dr Michael hudson interviewed on keiser report talks about the esm measures and the profit made on "carry trade" etc. interesting and very relevant to this whole treaty debate.<br/><br/>
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nice one, ws..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893852012-04-25T13:59:10+00:00opus diablosIt should be on the Six One news every evening until the vote.
Can you send it ...It should be on the Six One news every evening until the vote.<br />
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Can you send it to Noonan&Co?And a copy to that Dermot Lacey troll and his pack of jokers. As he said, the money would go to the Nazis if the war debt had not been wiped..i.e. Swiss cheese, bankers to generations of warmongering parasitic vampires."Can you send it to Noonan & Co?"http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2893932012-04-25T18:07:53+00:00W. FinnertyReply to Opus at Wed Apr 25, 2012 13:59:
Job done (earlier this afternoon). For...Reply to Opus at Wed Apr 25, 2012 13:59:<br />
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Job done (earlier this afternoon). For details please see at:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/25April2012/Email.htm#KeiserReport" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/25April2012/Email.htm#KeiserReport">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/25April...eport</a>"Thoughts on Government" relating to compatibility with ESM principles ...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2894432012-04-27T11:39:21+00:00W. Finnerty"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosp..."Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."<br />
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Statement by John Adams (Second President of the Republic of the United States of America).<br />
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Related Link:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/27April2012/Email.htm" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/27April2012/Email.htm">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/27April...l.htm</a><br />
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default nowhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2894462012-04-27T13:08:55+00:00curious voterI think "hard question" asked the hard question this time. it is the elephant in...I think "hard question" asked the hard question this time. it is the elephant in the room!<br />
Ireland does indeed need to stop paying the debts of bankers, bondholders and builders and go for a default.<br />
It did indeed work in Iceland. Now as a voter I want to know what have the alternative and small left wing parties in the opposition to say on the issue of a default?"Politics is the Science of Human Happiness."http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2895202012-04-30T09:23:32+00:00W. Finnerty"Why is it that the summation of such political, legal, and corporate corruption..."Why is it that the summation of such political, legal, and corporate corruption appears to have already crossed some invisible line, and taken on a monstrous and self-destructive 'life of its own': so that it now looks to many (including myself) as though the worsening situation relating to corruption may in fact be unstoppable, and impossible for humanity to ever reverse?"<br />
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The above excerpt is from an e-mail sent yesterday, which was copied to (among others) Republic of Ireland President Dr Michael D. Higgins. The full text of the e-mail used can be viewed at the following location:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/29April2012/Email.htm" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/29April2012/Email.htm">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/CelticParty/29April20...l.htm</a><br />
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Related Link:<br />
<a href="http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Thoughts-on-Government-by-William-Finnerty-120429-528.html" title="http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Thoughts-on-Government-by-William-Finnerty-120429-528.html">http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Thoughts-on-Government-by....html</a><br />
Russia is watching the highly dangerous IMPUNITY developments in Europehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment2895832012-05-03T12:45:13+00:00W. FinnertySome recent additional information relating to the comment at Sat Apr 21, 2012 1...Some recent additional information relating to the comment at Sat Apr 21, 2012 18:22:<br />
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“Considering the destabilizing nature of the [American] ABM system, namely the creation of an illusion of inflicting a disarming [nuclear] strike with impunity, a decision on pre-emptive deployment of assault weapons could be taken when the situation gets harder,” Gen. Makarov told the audience.<br />
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The excerpt just above has been copied from an article titled "Russia 'retains right' to pre-emptive AMD strike" dated 03 May, 2012 (i.e. today). The full text of the article can be viewed at:<br />
<a href="http://rt.com/news/russia-pre-emptive-strikes-abm-488/" title="http://rt.com/news/russia-pre-emptive-strikes-abm-488/">http://rt.com/news/russia-pre-emptive-strikes-abm-488/</a><br />
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I am firmly of the view that the people of the Republic of Ireland would need to be VERY cautious indeed regarding the impunity clauses -- there was MORE THAN ONE than one the last time I looked -- connected with the ESM treaties, when they think about which way they will vote on May 31st 2012.<br />
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Personally, I intend to play safe (regarding the ESM impunity clauses in question), and enter a nice big, fat "X" in the "NO" section of the May 31st Referendum Ballot Sheet. <br />
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It's very hard to beat a clear and simple approach to our ESM Referendum (and its slyly embedded impunity clauses), especially when such a very simple approach is readily available on Referendum Day.<br />
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I believe it's worth keeping in mind also the AMAZING fact (as I see things) that we are the ONLY EU nation (as far as I know) that is being given the opportunity to have our say -- as individual voters -- on the ESM business (and its impunity clauses): a fact which speaks volumes about the quality of our "genuine democracy", compared to that of our unlucky and less fortunate fellows in all of the other EU member-states.<br />
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Long live Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann (the written Constitution of the Republic of Ireland), and the supreme POWER it very clearly ENTRUSTS to the PEOPLE of the Republic of Ireland: for the purpose of having the FINAL say (where FINAL means FINAL) regarding such important social matters: matters which cannot -- at the present time at least -- be lawfully decided by the politicians and/or the lawyers, acting dangerously on their own in isolation of the PEOPLE, or by any other individual or group of individuals either.<br />
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Related Link:<br />
<a href="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/19July2009/Email.htm" title="http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/19July2009/Email.htm">http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/19July2...l.htm</a><br />
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read morehttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/101741#comment3021532022-04-02T00:32:15+00:00HeimesLegislatureIf you want to read more about this topic you can visit https://www.heimesforleg...If you want to read more about this topic you can visit <a href="https://www.heimesforlegislature.org/" title="https://www.heimesforlegislature.org/" >https://www.heimesforlegislature.org/</a>