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December 16,
2010
Political,
Legal, & Constitutional
Legitimacy?
By William
Finnerty
"Politicians from every political
party (in the Republic of Ireland) know that this deal
does not have the support or approval of the vast
majority of Irish people," said Brian Leeson,
spokesperson for the 1% Network. "Just because a group
of politicians vote for it in Leinster House won't give
the deal any degree of so-called "political
legitimacy'".
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"First Things
First"
In my view the voters of the Republic
of Ireland now, Number 1), need to calmly and
quietly identify all of the TDs who voted in favour of the
85 billion EU-IMF bailout package yesterday (December
15th 2010 that is) in Dáil
Éireann, for the purpose of paying off (at
tax-payers expense) what is possibly just a very, very
tiny fraction of the self-inflicted mountain
of gambling debts the bankers have created
for themselves in dozens (possibly hundreds?) of
jurisdictions all around the world.
2) We
need to accurately identify all those (if any) who
abstained -- for no good reason -- in yesterday's Dáil
Éireann
vote.
3) We then need to do
everything that is peacefully and lawfully possible to
try to ensure that all those who voted in favour of the
85 billion EU-IMF bailout package yesterday, or who
abstained from voting for no good reason, are not
re-elected as TDs in the coming general election in the
Republic of Ireland, which it seems will be taking place
sometime within the coming three months or so.
Is
there -- these days -- any easy, accurate, and
controversial-free way of finding out who
exactly voted which way (or abstained from
voting) yesterday in Dáil Éireann, regarding the 85
billion EU-IMF bailout?
This Diary Entry is
largely based on a "comment" made at the following
Indymedia (Ireland)
Article titled (in part): "Dáil Vote will not
give IMF/ECB deal political legitimacy." To view
the full article, which (in effect) questions the all
important "constitutional legitimacy" of
yesterday's Dáil Éireann vote, please click on: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/98469#comment276314
There
is also a very closely related Open News Diary Entry
dated December 14th 2010 at: http://www.opednews.com/Diary/Main-Opposition-Party-Unde-by-William-Finnerty-101214-679.html
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