----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 2:28 PM
Subject: "Long Walk to Freedom" - away from the "Elected
Dictatorships" based in Dublin, London, Brussels (?),
Washington, etc.
Dear Brendan,
As I mentioned to you this morning, I
believe we should now all try to help Ciaran as best we can
regarding the Legal Aid application for Ann Marie.
This may be our last chance to try and
stop the Kilconnell superdump by LAWFUL
means?
As I believe we both agree,
what we are now involved is NOT by any means just
about superdumps. There is the much wider issue of
the State of the Republic of Ireland heading further, and further,
down the road of what I personally tend to think of as
"elected dictatorship" (which is fraudulently and
very skilfully being dressed up look like democracy, by the
armies of Government spin-doctors and multi-national-big-business
media tycoons such as Sir Anthony O'Reilly for example);
or, of turning around and heading in the opposite direction:
i.e. towards genuine democracy - based on the
combination of Article 28A
Principles (mostly for the use of our elected local government politicians),
and the Aarhus Convention Agreement Principles
(which are mostly for the use of the individual citizens of all
our local communities, in this and all of the other 40 or so
European States who have signed the Aarhus Convention
Agreement).
As I also mentioned to you this
morning, I think it is highly likely that the Legal Aid
personnel concerned will do their utmost, all be it in VERY subtle
ways perhaps, to prevent and/or delay Ann Marie making her
application for Legal Aid: which, in effect, will (if
successful) result in challenging the wrongful acts of the
MANY "public servants" who are responsible for
altering our Waste Management Laws in a manner which violates
Bunreacht na hEireann (the written Constitution of
the Republic of Ireland). The group responsible includes
President Mary McAleese of course (The
Chief Offender as I see her), as well as
scores of Oireachtas members
(Republic of Ireland parliamentarians),
whose numbers include ALL of the
Government ministers I
suspect. Having this very disturbing and very
serious case of ongoing maladministration debated in the
High Court might not be that easy to arrange
(as some of us already know), and I feel we should all keep this in
mind at this very early stage of preparing Ann Marie's application
for Legal Aid - if we are to avoid being easily
fobbed-off, baffled-by-bullshit, etc.,
etc,. These people have many ploys to divert us from what
I now see as the "Primary Purpose" of our
group at this time: which is to get
this whole rotten mess regarding Articles 28 and 29 of our Republic
of Ireland Constitution discussed and decided upon in the High
Court.
The main ploy the Legal Aid people will
use I suspect is to TRIVIALISE the whole
matter. Without wishing to be disrespectful to him in any way,
that (I suspect) is what lawyer Danny Callanan may
have already been doing for several weeks now possibly(?)
- having due regard for the way he appears to
have completely ignored Ann Marie's e-mail request to him for
guidance dated August 31st 2004 (copied at: http://www.finnachta.com/Hotmail13Oct2004/RequestForAdvice.htm). To
me, he seems to be acting as though he was dealing with a parking
fine - or some other relatively trivial offence of that kind.
One way or another that has to now stop in my view - if we are ever
to succeed in getting our case heard in the High Court. I
hope Ann Marie will discuss this with him; and, if necessary, and as
a last resort, replace him with another lawyer in the
friendliest way possible if he is not prepared to start acting
responsibly regarding this whole business: which impacts on
every man, woman, an child in the country, and on
children not yet born, or conceived even, when the deadly array
of cancer-causing toxins connected
with incinerators are taken into
account. I suspect he may try to play the "loyalty" card
- loyalty to him, loyalty to his political party, and so on.
As far as I'm concerned, that's all crap at this stage - crap that
badly needs to be very rapidly swept to one side: and without
emotion, apology, or regret - now that Celtic Waste / Greenstar have
actually moved onto the Kilconnell site.
We are dealing with the most basic
natural needs and rights of
individual human beings: all the way down to the level of being
allowed to use our own brains to make our own lawful choices,
regarding our own local environments. Loyalty to political
parties is something entirely different, which for many (including
myself) is certainly not a basic need - something which will
actually make us seriously ill (and/or very
anti-social, violent, and so on) if we are deprived of it
for long enough. And who can sensibly argue that out society
is not growing more violent, more depressed, more suicidal, more
inclined to turn to mind-altering drugs to escape from the pain of
the sick impositions and demands of those groups of ignorant,
half-mad tyrants and megalomaniacs who arrogantly demand the right
to do all of our thinking for us regarding major local issues such
as waste management, toll roads, heritage protection, contents of
our forests, local health-care arrangements, etc., etc.? I
have heard it said many times that it was a small group of
Government ministers who took it upon themselves to make all of
the really major decisions regarding these matters (some years
ago) in a matter of a few hours possibly - which they now want to
force-feed and bully us all into
accepting. The National Development Plan (or something
like that) they called it I think; and, if I remember
rightly, it was largely funded by European Union money I
believe? There is very little doubt in my mind
that it probably was the same group of people
who also decided, in or around the same time possibly, to
ensure that the Aarhus Convention Agreement was
NEVER "laid before Dail Eireann": which is of
course a straightforward, blatant, and completely
unlawful violation on their behalf of Article
29 of Bunreacht na hEireann. (Incidentally, I would
not be
in the least bit surprised if we later hear some crooked and
completely false argument that they did so "in the interests of
the common good".)
Provided we genuinely do exhaust ALL
legal avenues in our search for a lawful solution to the Kilconnell
superdump situation, and provided we have good-quality evidence that we have actually
done so, and that it is placed on Ann Marie's web site for
all the world to see, I do believe we would then have a legitimate
"final" option - which hopefully will NEVER become necessary -
for adapting the approach South African lawyer Nelson Mandela was
reluctantly forced to use, as described in his book "Long
Walk to Freedom". In so far as I can recall, and
ONLY after all lawful means could clearly be seen to have failed
them, he and his group of people (the ANC), decided that they simply
had to start breaking the law in ways which did not cause
injury to people. His approach, which was restricted to
damaging property I believe, worked very well for him (and his
people) eventually; and I believe we would do well to keep
this proven tactic in mind, for guidance in our own particular
situation relating to the Kilconnell superdump.
We are the blacks of the Republic of
Ireland it seems, and Kilconnell and New Inn the "Soweto" of the
Republic of Ireland. We are beneath the law, while our
political leaders are above it. We are now struggling to
collect EUROS 1800, in a very small, demoralised, dejected and
bewildered community, to try and get legal advice regarding the
possibility of initiating a legal challenge, which, assuming we
ever get the chance to have it presented in the High Court, our
very courageous political leaders will defend using the
billions of taxpayers money which they have at their disposal. They don't even have to spend a cent of their own money regarding
these matters: which contrasts very sharply with the Euros
700,000 or so this situation has personally cost me to
date (when lost earnings are taken into account).
There is also the diabolical and
outrageous matter (in my case) of being forced to go
"on-the-run" from the Republic of Ireland for a 7 month period
to another jurisdiction: for the purpose of side-stepping an
extremely determined attempt to saddle me with a criminal
conviction for assault (by the authorities here) - because I
tried to bring the Article 28A matter to the attention of the public
during the run-up to the 2002 General Election (using the
www.finnachta.com
road sign). As local lawyer Gearoid Geraghty will confirm,
there is still an extant warrant for my arrest in
existence relating to this matter, which the authorities here
appear to be afraid to do anything about now: for fear of all their
shocking and appalling behaviour coming out in a court of
law.
After spending somewhere in the region
of EURO 30,000 (I understand), it seems the
local Kilconnell community has now been knocked out of the legal
ring completely: because they have not been able to find the
EURO 500,000 it would possibly cost
to challenge the An Bord Pleanala decision they regard as
unlawful (on several counts). As we both know, An Bord
Pleanala completely ignored ALL of the 5 points that I raised in
writing (as shown at http://www.finnachta.com/BordPleanalaAppeal.htm),
together with all of the additional points the two of
us raised during the three day hearing we both sat through (in
vain) earlier this year in Oranmore. I very clearly recall the
An Bord Pleanala Chairman asking at one point what the Aarhus
Convention Agreement was? He had obviously never even
heard of it until we mentioned it.
Hopefully, I believe it might never be
necessary for any of us to have to make the very extreme sacrifices
Nelson Mandela (and his close associates) had to make to get social
justice in his own country, for himself and his people. We now have the Internet to make our
case in public, while he and his people had nothing
remotely approaching the power of the Internet to get passed
the well organised and well ordered censorship barriers of the
traditional media. Justice for him and his people was delayed
for many years by government censorship and propaganda, not to
mention the fact that he came extremely close to being hanged
for treason by the Government of the Republic of South African during the long drawn out struggle he had to go through to
reach his particular goal. In all, I think he spent 27
years, no less, in captivity. Fortunately, our 2004 situation
here in the Republic of Ireland does not seem nearly so severe as his.
Our sacrifices, to try and have our natural political
needs and rights responsibly met by our so called "public servants",
do not have to be anywhere nearly so great (I hope!!).
I believe the last thing we talked
about this morning was the Constitution of Europe. If that
goes through in its present form (i.e. with no direct mention at all
of the Aarhus Convention Agreement in the Environment Section), then
it is my view that we can all - both the younger and the older
members of our group - bid a sad farewell to any chance of ever
living in a genuine democracy. It is also my view that the
MAIN reason our political
leaders contrived (successfully)
NOT to have a presidential election this month, is because
our leading "public servants" desperately want a "Guardian
of The Constitution" who will ease the passage of the
Constitution of Europe (in its present form) into law, as
quickly and as easily as possible: which, once accepted by a
population that has been hoodwinked by the traditional media and the Government
spin-doctors, will then override Bunreacht na
hEireann (the Primary Law of the Republic of
Ireland). In so far as I can judge, the Aarhus Convention
Agreement is rendered completely ineffective (by subtle means)
for all individuals who might need to act quickly regarding
environmental concerns: as a result of "small-print" statements
included in parts of the present Constitution of Europe
text. Similarly, I suspect, with regard to
our Constitution's Article 28A benefits (which are only
theoretical at the present time of course). I have not looked
into that particular aspect of things. In any case, once the
Aarhus Convention Agreement is fully neutralised for individual
citizens who need to act quickly regarding local environmental
concerns, as it would be I believe by the present small-print
contents (and omissions) of the Constitution of Europe text as
it now stands, I don't think the situation regarding Article
28A really matters very much.
Best wishes,
Billy.
