A NEW PROCLAMATION
Poblacht na h ÉireannTM
The Temporary Government
To the people of Anglo-IrelandTM.
IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of Mammon and of the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of subservience, we declare the name of this country to be Anglo-IrelandTM, and through us, Anglo-IrelandTM summons her children to aid her banks and abandon their old illusions about so-called freedom.
Having organised and trained her economists through her secret capitalist indoctrination system, and through her open propaganda organisations, the Irish Media and the subaltern intellectuals, having patiently turned citizens into punters and made of a society a mere economy, having resolutely waited until the people couldn’t tell the difference, she now seizes that moment, and, supported by her exiled children in America and by gallant allies in Europe, but relying in the first on the control of the press and the power of capital to manipulate public opinion, she abandons whatever pretence she had to being a republic and opts instead to become a local branch of the IMF.
We declare the nonsense about right of the people of Anglo-IrelandTM to the ownership of Anglo-IrelandTM to be so much hot air, ditto the unfettered control of Irish destinies insofar as it ever existed. The long usurpation of these rights by the governing elite has extinguished them completely, nor can these rights ever be reignited except by the destruction of that governing elite, which I wouldn’t hold my breath for. In every generation the Irish people have asserted their willingness to follow the gentry, even so far as to give over their independence from imperialism to their own gombeens and shoneens, proof positive that we are a nation of slaves or fools. Now, standing by that fundamental abrogation of the rights of the People and reasserting the rights of profit before the rights of the people, we hereby proclaim Anglo-Irish Republic IncorporatedTM to be a banking, real estate and auctioneering business, and we pledge the lives of our one-time citizens (now punters or tax-payersTM) as collateral for the debts of their masters. Anglo-IrelandTM calls on the poor, the old, the infirm, the young, the students, the workers, the unemployed, the public servants, the householders, the small businesses, the small farmers, the fishermen, the tradesmen and women, to pledge their lives and the lives of their children and their children’s children to saving the corporate elite and the Fianna Fáil party whose long sacrifice in the name of holding onto power has finally borne fruit in this declaration.
Anglo-Ireland IncorporatedTM guarantees the freedom of capital, the right to make profit out of other people’s suffering, and declares its resolve to pursue the prosperity of the rich at the expense of the poor with special emphasis on the benefits of emigration, balancing the obvious benefits of keeping our children at home against the equally obvious savings to be made by exporting our demographic problems to other nations, and proud of the differences carefully fostered by Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats, which have divided a minority from the majority and given us one of the biggest rich-poor gaps in the world.
Until we are forced by time into a general election, the Temporary GovernmentTM, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of the Republic in trust for the corporations and IBEC, determined to put down by force of arms if necessary, as already demonstrated, any attempt by the people to reassert any of the rights they mistakenly thought they had.
We place the cause of the Anglo-Ireland IncorporatedTM under the protection of the The ECB, the EC and the IMF, whose blessing we invoke upon our banks and businesses, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will endanger it by doing anything precipitous such as resigning his Dáil seat. In this extreme hour the Irish NationTM must, by its squalor and passivity and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the standard of living of the few, prove itself worthy of the august austerity to which it is called.
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Comment by: Pat Ruane
Nov 19th 2010 at 17:11
I abhor this kind of negative slur on the great people who’ve ‘just got a job to do’. At this terrible time we need to trust in our political masters and let them get on with the job. Alternatively, should somebody… anybody? please take away the matches from them?
Comment by: John Meehan
Nov 20th 2010 at 12:11
UNITE Calls for immediate resignation of failed political establishment
Statement by Jimmy Kelly UNITE Regional Secretary (Ireland)
*Go in a week and let the people decide who will negotiate
*People urged to join national protest on November 27th
A leading trade union figure has called on the people of Ireland to make their views known clearly to those who are presently deciding the economic landscape likely to frame the next decade.
“Our government has finally surrendered control after two years of what can only be described as incompetence and lies,” said UNITE Regional Secretary, Jimmy Kelly. “Yet still they go to cut ribbons and profess anger at being questioned on whether they are ashamed of their performance. They have treated the Irish people like fools and must step down immediately.”
“We have heard that it is the markets fault, that the banks lied to them and that it was somehow our fault for questioning them and undermining confidence.”
“This is the sham politics to which we have descended and the country deserves better.”
“The IMF is now running the rule over figures which the Department of Finance have had from the banks and elsewhere for two years. They will evaluate and plot a course of action that has nothing to do with the future of our country and is only concerned with financial equations.”
“Our politicians could have steered towards a path of growth but they chose instead to bow down before their beloved markets. They were the fool in the room and now families that are struggling to survive will be burdened with debt and a generation lost to emigration.”
“There is no place left at the table for disgraced politicians that have only thought of themselves. They should be forced to step down immediately, relinquishing their fancy cars and crazy expenses and allow the people to decide who it is to negotiate our way out of the mess they have created.”
“If they are not gone within a week then the people of Ireland who are staging a national demonstration on Saturday 27th at the GPO in Dublin, a symbol of what we fought for and have now put at fatal risk, must make them do so.”
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Comment by: Robert
Nov 20th 2010 at 14:11
Really if we look to history, real change against injustice and political corruption in favour of an elite (in this case the politico’s and their banking masters)only occurrs in the wake of popular uprising. Whether we are at this stage yet we will know in the very near future. If folk dont ‘rise up’ and proclaim ‘enough’ in this near fututre they may never again have the chance, and we will be forever chained to a life of penuary and serfdom. The great popular up-risings that have shaped this nation will have been in vain, We not only have a responsibility to ‘fight’ for the legacy of our forefathers, but also for this young generation and future generations. We must hold our head in shame if we allow the politicos whose self interest and the interests of the market are able to walk away from this catastrophe with-out retribution and is it enough just to vote them out? We hold our heads up high if bring them to justice and as the market is merciless in favour of profit, must we be merciess in favour of the gallows? No lets niot stoop to that level, lets shine a light on ‘the good’ and banish ‘the bad’, showing example to those that we in Ireland have said ‘enough’, follow us you good people of Ireland ‘enough’, ‘enough’…