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A right to protest
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Tuesday April 04, 2006 05:42 by Seán Ryan
What does the Constitution have to say about our right to protest? Our right to protest is derrived from Article 40.6. We have freedom of expression (with one or two limits), the right to peaceful assembly and the right to form associations. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8We should be preparing for the revolution of the proletariat who will seize the means of production from the beorgeoise class and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat - the interim between capitalist society and the establishment of pure communism.
The consitution is bourgeoise document - a rag.
We shouldn't be protesting.
We should be fighting.
Iraq and Ireland are both countries occupied by a foreign power.
Both have their natural resources stolen - Shell steal the gas from Rossport while Haliburton steal the oil from Iraq.
We both have insurgent groups fighting the foreign invader.
We both have rigged elections and puppet governments established by the foreign power.
We both have collaboraters working for the enemy - the Gardai and PSNI and Dail Eirinn and Stormant while in Iraq it is their assembly and their security forces.
Shannon is used by American troops and Baghdad International Airport is used by American troops.
For centuries our people were victims of imperialist genocide and now Iraqis are the victims of imperialist genocide.
If Iraqs can fight back then Irish people can do it too.
We should unite with our Arab brothers in the stuggle against the profit system.
You cannot be for real. You always write in slogans and seem to be incapable of applying a transitional approach. No way are you a member of the SP or any type of Leninist. Are you a Situationist?
There's no evidence that he / she is a situationist but there's plenty of evidence that he / she is a troll. Witness his most recent article at http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75188
Well Socialist I see your point, but your hardwiring seems to be somewhat short circuited.
You realise that our participation in war as being bad; so you wan't to start another one to fix it.
What you call for goes well beyond what freedom the Constitution affords you, and the Constitution is the law until the people of Ireland say otherwise. It is what you've had to say on the matter that should be relegated to the status of a rag. And some joke you are.
I sincerely wish you hadn't used my piece to spew your stupidity.
ahhh dail eireann and stormont. make sure you spell them properly or the boys might storm the wrong buildings
Well done Sean. This is where it is at. Why is the Constitution used as weapon by the establishment when it confers certain "FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS" to all citizens, yet the left etc do not use it as a weapon. As Mick O'Reilly ATGWU put it "Why do the right get to play all the best tunes..." and I would add we are stuck in 2006, with an illegal ban on notices of public meetings or assemblys in our capital city. And the "LEFT" are silent again.
It says something about the "LEFT" if they cannot regain a core base line human right guaranteed by the Constitution. Its there for the taking but it is not it seems on their radar, nor on the radar of most media who do get excercised about Freedom of Expression, but not here at home !!
Although I am not an expert in this area, I don't see this clearly showing the rights to a protest in the way our constitution was designed. It seems very one sided and not showing the the real protection of our constitution. I feel the information is handpicked and biased.
Hi my name is ken Halnon and I wish to return a Protest coffin Prop .
I helped carry it on last Saturdays March but when everybody left after the march I was left holding it .
I couldn't just leave it their outside Mount-Joy to the elements so I brought it home with me .
Somebody spent time and money on making it and had made such a wonderful effort of creativity .
So Please contact me kenhalnon@gmail.com for its next outing at Protest .