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Over 50,000 on March against IMF cuts and Bailout in Dublin on Sat Nov 27th
national | anti-capitalism
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Saturday November 27, 2010 20:56
by Eye witness
 Report on the protest against IMF/EU cuts and FF who have helped ruin the economy There was a huge turnout on the march today to protest against the IMF/EU Cuts FF Government despite the freezing weather.
By the time this author got to O'Connell St circa 1.30pm,
the speeches were already underway outside the GPO and the crowd filled
the Street all the way back to the bridge. There were groups representing
all of the Left political parties and grouping, many unions and numerous
other groups and organisation. As is the norm, may individual placards
showed they were way ahead of the offical ICTU union stance, with a
general theme of make the bondholders pay or clearly identifying the
preying nature of the IMF on this country.  printable
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6A relatively large group of people later on assembled outside the Dail this afternoon where presumably the talks between the FF government and the IMF about the carve up of the country and economy for private capital, continued to take place.
This series of pictures hopefully gives some sense of the crowd present today
More placard commentary
Placard urging people to educate themselves and understand how money works since thats the key to all of this.
Crowd gathered just down from the GPO.
Crowd outside Easons near GPO
I ventured out today and can say i took part in this demonstration , great crowd but anger and bewilderment is rife and who
could blame us .
Video link in article -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11849568
'Organisers said more than 100,000 people took part in Saturday's protest, while the Irish police (Gardai) estimated that "in the region of 50,000" people marched to Dublin's General Post Office, site of the nationalist uprising against British rule in 1916."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/nov/27/ireland-bailout-dublin-protest
"One of the largest demonstrations in the Irish Republic's history brought more than 100,000 people on to Dublin's streets in protest over the international bailout and four years of austerity ahead."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/27/ireland-bailout-angry-demonstrators-dublin
Unknown to the vast majority of citizens, the Tripartite Separation of Powers Doctrine has secretly been completely abandoned by the Government of the Republic of Ireland years ago, and with it "they" (the grossly corrupt and ignorant group of people who make up our overall Government) have completely abandoned the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland (Bunreacht na hEireann) as well -- apart of course from paying lip service to it in ways designed to fool people.
The Constitution of the Republic of Ireland, according to O'Dalaigh CJ. in In re Haughey (1971), is founded on the doctrine of the tripartite division of powers of government - 1) Legislative (Oireachtas), 2) Executive (Government Cabinet Ministers), and 3) Judicial (Courts).
Why has this core-issue doctrine, which is designed primarily to protect against the well known and all too frequent horrors associated with government bullying and tyranny -- despotism in other words -- and the origins of which can easily be traced back to the "golden" days of Ancient Greece, been abandoned by the legislative and judicial branches of the Republic of Ireland's overall Government (as well as the executive of course); and, by the Republic of Ireland's entire legal profession as well apparently: including former law lecturer President Mary McAleese?
Related link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers
I would agree that our Government (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) has indeed let the people of the Republic of Ireland down very, very badly in a whole range of ways relating to the SUPREME LAW of the land, and that it has done so over a period of several years.
However, that is not a good reason for us, the people of the Republic of Ireland, to let ourselves down.
We, the people of the Republic of Ireland, still have Bunreacht na hEireann -- which literally means "The SUPREME LAW of the Republic of Ireland" -- and Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann very clearly states:
"All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people, whose right it is to designate the rulers of the State and, in final appeal, to decide all questions of national policy, according to the requirements of the common good."
Now, more than at any time in the history of the Republic of Ireland, we need to gently but firmly insist (by all the lawful and peaceful means available to us), that our "public servants" respect Article 6.1 of our SUPREME LAW in relation to the dozens of billions of Euros they are planning to borrow for the purpose of bailing out the bankers (in connection with the self-inflicted gambling debts of the bankers).
I believe we simply MUST stand our ground on this particular issue, at this particular time; otherwise, it is very difficult to predict what will happen to us all.
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Celtic Queen Boudica
I'd be inclined to second that, B
and as for W Finnerty's 'why' regarding the sidelining of judiciary and legislature, could it be anything to do with the clientelist nature of our creaking half-way-house demockkracy?
We need to stop the navel-gazing conviction that we are in some unique unprecedented condition that has not been visited on anyone else. Its a global system, and we(nationally) are quite fucking comfortably inside the 'western' tent. Half the trouble with the pricks running us is that they are not even half-decent gamblers, or they would be calling the ECB/IMF bluff and remembering that if you owe the bank a grand you are in trouble, if you owe them a zillion, they are. Thats their 'too-big-to-fail' stick that they are trying to protect their mega bondholders with. All we have to do is reverse the fucking charges and tell them go ahead, make our day and pull down their Euro. Why do you think they are in such a fucking hurry? Get it signed and sealed by monday before the market rates go any higher? Fuck them, we are NOT in the market this monday, or next. Thats their bluff.
They fed the cheap credit deliberately(read Naomi Klein foir the formulaic program)and now its net-haul time. Unfortunately our fucking mis-leaders are so into going with the dictated flow they've forgotten it takes a live fish to go against it.
Those of us who spent the last half century trying to point out the natural trajectory of marrying oursleves to imperial policies(through the height of the fuck-off-we're-booming dismissals) will not be upping our anxiety levels too much over the current shit.We are quite used to the culprits prescribing the remedy for their crimes, and realise Rome(holy Rome)will not be burned in a day. QWe are nlot so much run by clever gangsters as rather thick altar boys.Hence the earlier bailout of Rome over the compensation to abused children, again dropped on the taxpaying low-paid while Father and Mother Superior tucked into the cabbage and bacon.