A sad day for Ireland

national | politics / elections | opinion/analysis Thursday June 14, 2007 16:39 by paul o toole

What now for the government

To-day is a sad day for politics, for Ireland and for what is left of our democracy. My skepticism is deepened further by the fact that, above all else, we have elected a criminal government which has completely undermined the Irish Constitution, our domestic law's and international law, all in one fell swoop.
In doing so they have participated in a war. The greatest crime of all from which all other war-crimes are comitted, - rape, murder, plunder, torture, destruction, desecration, inhillation.
While they shake each others hands to-day in Dail Eireann congradulating each other on their success I am sickened at the pretence of civility. A carnival of corteous decorum, ritual and tradition to fill the empty moral void that eminated from that House in March 2003, and continnues to do so.
So far they have assisted in killing 750,000 civilians. Destroyed their country-bombed a first world country back to the stone age, and probably the worst of all is the unspoken legacy of this war - that there are still 850,000 unexploded landmines/clusterbombs which will mostly be found by children, and that the whole country is poisoned for the next 4.5 billion years from using banned Depleted-Uranium shells. Nuclear war. There were seven times more Iraqi civilians killed by sanctions, supposedly to prevent the production of WMD, than have ever been killed by WMD, this was before 'Shock and Awe'.

Bertie laughably said, it would be "a hostile act to remove facilities at shannon".
Mary Harneys friends the McElvaddy Brothers are the main profit takers from re-fuelling at Shannon. And she says that Irish weapons manufacturers are ..."probably making kettles for all I know"
Willy O'Dea is invested into Petrel Resources In Iraq whos profit multiplied exponentially after the invasion-the web site read after the invasion...'no point crying over spilt BLOOD'...specially if it is not Berties, Marys or Willys kids.
Our government are a disgrace to humanity, and anyone who supports them. Im sure the greens are happy with an 'assurance' that planes will be inspected...by the Irish Army, in certain circumstances. They let the police off the hook.
Better luck next time..................