Deirdre Wadding addresses the "Save our Forests" gathering outside the Dáil - 27th Feb '13
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2013
- Deirdre Wadding addresses the "Save our Forests" gathering outside the Dáil - 27th Feb '13
This is her poem:
The government is like ivy
Strangling our nation
If the law stands in the way
They draft new legislation
They'll sell off our forests our water gas and oil
While they earn fat pensions
For sitting in the Dail
They cut at the citizens
Til there's nothing left to give
While the rich keep getting richer
We can barely live
I cant understand how they seem to feel no shame
But many of us stand and shout
Not in our name !!!
We will fight you
And we'll stop you
Whatever it may cost
We know we have to bring you down
Before all is lost!!
So people stand together
And raise your voices loud
Lets stand up like the tallest tree
Empowered strong and proud!
Well done yesterday guys great turn out and a cracking poem!! I really can't believe how their getting away with these crimes against their own people. I tried to bring up the fact that it was unconstitutional either way so the sale of the forests could not legally done but certain people even ones supposed to be on our side didn't seem to take much notice?!? Let me share some lines from the constitution with you.
Article 45
3.
2° The State shall endeavour to secure that private enterprise shall be so conducted as to ensure reasonable efficiency in the production and distribution of goods and as to protect the public against unjust exploitation.
Article 9
3. Fidelity to the nation and loyalty to the State are fundamental political duties of all citizens.
Article 10
1. All natural resources, including the air and all forms of potential energy, within the jurisdiction of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution and all royalties and franchises within that jurisdiction belong to the State subject to all estates and interests therein for the time being lawfully vested in any person or body.
Article 45
1. The State shall strive to promote the welfare of the whole people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice and charity shall inform all the institutions of the national life.
2. The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards securing:
ii. That the ownership and control of the material resources of the community may be so distributed amongst private individuals and the various classes as best to subserve the common good.
iii. That, especially, the operation of free competition shall not be allowed so to develop as to result in the concentration of the ownership or control of essential commodities in a few individuals to the common detriment.
iv. That in what pertains to the control of credit the constant and predominant aim shall be the welfare of the people as a whole.
Article 6
1. 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.