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“It is like sending a bunch of marauding foxes that had raided a henhouse back to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to their previous victims.”

Joe Higgins

The Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1012/1224305642161.html, Sunday Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/shane-ross/shane-ross-paddy-confronts-banker-cabal-2907448.html, Sunday Independent http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/john-drennan/john-drennan-unrealistic-promises-but-minimal-change-2907428.html

“The overall agenda here is quite simply the ruling classes, or the classes of Europe intend to stride on to the world stage as a powerful economic entity. And they want to be as powerful as the US, meaning they want a stronger foreign policy and a military wing to back them up. But I can assure the Government that the debate will be a very intensive debate, a very vigorous debate and I think the benefit perhaps this time is that certain distractions that were raised the last time would be set aside, and therefore we can concentrate on the more fundamental issues. […] Take for example this notion that Irish youth would be conscripted into an army. The only people I heard that from was Government ministers in the course of the campaign who said this is being said. Nobody here raised any such red herring. These were the so-called concerns that were being addressed. But the major concerns as to what the Treaty was really about has not been changed one iota.”

Joe Higgins

breakingnews.ie http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/eykfojojqlkf/

People , Youth , World , Thinking

“If this conversion was genuine, we would have to go back 2,000 years to find another as rapid and as radical. Saul’s embrace of Christianity on the road to Damascus stood the test of time but the Taoiseach’s [Bertie Ahern] embrace of socialism on the banks of the Tolka hardly will.”

Joe Higgins

Last Man Standing http://www.socialistparty.net/pub/news/villageprofilejoe22-06-05.htm

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