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Wednesday January 25, 2006 13:54 by Justin Morahan - Peace People (individual)
The absent posters A reflection, as the Dáil returns, on the impossibility of protesting so many things that have gone wrong in today's Ireland Before Christmas, when Joe Costello was addressing his third group outside the Dáil and saw me there again, he asked "Are you becoming a professional protestor?" |
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Jump To Comment: 3 2 1written under my name as well as his own e-mail address, is his comment in full, not mine.
S. O. S. D. C.C. Dublin City Council (Or is it Dublin City Cromwell ??) have come clean, it is refreshing but startling nevertheless, they have posted notices around Dublin stating that ALL POSTERS INFORMING THE PUBLIC OF THE FOLLOWING ARE HEREBY BANNED
CORRUPTION ESPECIALLY- PLANNING-
CHILD ABUSE
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
ALL CAMPAIGNS CRITICAL OF D.C.C. GOVT
OR THE LEGAL PROFESSION
It is printed "BY ORDER" and has all the top suits names appended including the Law Agent for D.C.C. a gentleman by the name of Terry O'Keeffe and the name of the illustrious City Manager is also appended on said notice in all his glory. -Fascinating times we live in.- My neighbour brougt me to College Green to show me this notice. She asked me "Why does our City Council not want the public to know about planning corruption and good god in heavens why do they want to cover up child abuse , what is going on?" she continued "I don't know a lot about the Constitution or Constitutional rights but if someone wants to tell me about them why have the council and all these officials banned them from doing so?" I told my dear neighbour that I was at a loss to enlighten her but that it did sound very strange what was going on. She then said "I will bet you this carry on is unconstitutional". Well you see her grandfather was tortured by the Black and Tans many decades ago and she kind of cherished the notion that he had suffered and nearly died under the methods employed by them in order to achieve even the rudiments of a democracy. Well there is one certain thing, thank god for the Council Official's openeness I checked it out, all this info on council ,ie public property ,is --lo and behold -- banned.
Rory and the rest of them should keep up the pressure on these gents and we will try and get restored a modicum of what passess for "Democracy" so that we can ventilate even in a regulated manner the many corrupt injustices taking place in our country. J K
not sure if you can be a professional protester in Ireland, best thing to do is become a lobbyist in Washington. But you can be a "Career protester", and your career is coming along nicely.
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What gets me is the "amnesia" which institutions of state and media seem to suffer over the cusp of any new year. They come back off their christmas holidays and conveniently forget what they said, stood for, or proclaimed only one month ago. Little things such as "counting those green bottles" and the like. But this year is different, this year is about how FF plan to implode at the forthcoming elections, and what damage Mc Dowell can do in his last 200 days as a government minister.