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FEUDAL DEMOCRACY

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1 Introduction
2 National Independence
3 Feudal Monopolies
4 Political Parties
5 Politicians
6 The Justice System
7 The Financial System
8 The Fianna Fáil Party
9 Summary (Conclusion)

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This Feudal Democracy section is a set of 9 chapters explaining why present political systems are not, and can NEVER be, truly democratic. The flaws are embedded within the design of the system itself. The only solution is true Democracy.

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The Dominant Political Party (Fianna Fáil)

I have explained how having a political system based on the existence of political parties is self-defeating and destructive to the Nation. Because of the nature of the Feudal Democratic system the most corrupt political party will nearly always be the dominant political party. The Fianna Fáil political party is the dominant political party in Ireland. It is the most corrupt. It has literally destroyed this Irish nation and continues to threaten it.

Conception

The first Dáil was established in 1919 by Irish candidates who had been elected in the Westminster Elections, in Ireland, but who had refused to take their seats in the House of Commons, in London. This Dáil oversaw and directed the 'War of Independence', fought between the Irish guerrillas, lead by Michael Collins against the British forces in Ireland.

Éamon de Valera was The President of Dáil Éireann (though he considered himself as President of Ireland despite the fact he had never been elected to that position by the citizens of Ireland), and Michael Collins was the Minister for Finance, as well as guerrilla leader.

When the British offered a truce in 1921 an Irish delegation was nominated by Éamon de Valera but it didn't include himself. He did include Michael Collins in the delegation despite the fact that his effectiveness as guerrilla leader - based on his anonymity, would be neutered and destroyed should the War of Independence need to be restarted, for the British had no photograph of him on record. By sending him as a delegate it effectively destroyed Michael Collins as a future guerrilla leader.

An important point to note is that the Irish guerrilla army were very nearly at the stage where they had run out of ammunition anyway and could not have fought much longer.

The Angle-Irish Treaty gave Ireland some semblance of Independence but it divided Ireland into two separate entities Southern Ireland which would be semi-independent and Northern Ireland which would remain a part of Britain. When Michael Collins signed the Treaty he commented I have signed my own death warrant.

This First Dáil lasted until 1921 when the Second Dáil came into being, as a transition Government, as a result of the debate and Dáil vote whether to accept the Treaty or not and lasted till 1922. Some members of the Dáil, Éamon de Valera and others, wanted the debate about the Treaty to be held in private, whereas Michael Collins and others wanted it to be public.

Michael Collins:
I am not in favour of a private session in so far as anything that the Dáil has a right to know, and in so far as anything that the Irish people, who are our masters, have a right to know.

As Mr Griffith, a member of the delegation who signed the document stated:
I hold that what we brought back from England frees us from aggression. It gives us the power to mould our own life, and it frees us from the only permanent form of aggression we can have - the occupation of Ireland by the army of another country.

Michael Collins (during the debate):
In times of change like that, when countries change from peace to war or war to peace, there are always elements that make for disorder and that make for chaos. That is as true of Ireland as of any other country; for in that respect all countries are the same.

Needles to say this Treaty caused divisions. Éamon de Valera and some members of Sinn Féin considered it as treachery. The Dáil debated the matter bitterly for ten days until it was approved by a vote of 64 to 57. It was passed by a majority in the Dáil. Those who supported the Treaty saw it as a stepping stone to more freedom.

Éamon de Valera refused to accept the decision of the Dáil in passing the Treaty. Thereafter a General Election was held in June 1922 where the pro-Treaty candidates won the election. The pro-Treaty candidates won 58 seats, the anti-Treaty candidates won 36 seats and others (many pro-Treaty) won 30 seats. According to some figures - The pro-Treaty parties had secured support from over 75% of the electorate. The citizens of Ireland had decided to accept the Treaty despite the fact that it hadn't actually given them a Republic.

But as you may be aware, there are some freedom fighters who, despite their public declaration to be fighting for 'the people', nevertheless fail to acknowledge, recognise, or be ruled by, the wishes of those very same 'people'. This has happened before and it will happen again.

Some freedom fighters see themselves not as servants to the will of the people but rather as rulers of the people. They refuse to accept the decision of the citizens. They feel they have a right to dictate to the citizens - after all, wasn't it 'they' who won the freedom (eg: Castro, Mugabe, Mao, and many others).

So, one could say, the Fianna Fáil (anti-Treaty) party was conceived by rejecting the democratic decision of the Dáil, and thereafter by rejecting the democratic decision of the citizens. Éamon de Valera and his anti-Treaty colleagues refused to recognise the Dáil as elected by the citizens of Ireland and boycotted it. This laid the groundwork for the Irish Civil War.

Members of the anti-Treaty guerrilla army took over some buildings in April 1922, and then in June the Four Courts in Dublin were taken over and this forced the hand of the Government - the Irish Civil War had begun. But who was the war against? The Treaty had been ratified. The anti-Treaty guerrilla army were in fact fighting the Government and the citizens of Ireland. They were so determined to have a Republic it didn't matter to them whether if would result in the ashes of the Nation - for the new fight with the British? could never have succeeded as positively as the War of Independence.

This, in fact, is the same attitude Hitler had as regards Germany at the end of WW2. If he didn't get HIS way he would rather see Germany destroyed. It was a case of - his vision or destruction. It was never ever a case of what was good for the German citizens themselves. There are leaders who talk of the Nation, but only think of themselves.

In 1922 fighting the British, in Ireland, made no sense, as such, they had left. In effect the anti-Treaty forces were fighting the Irish, not the British. The best that could have been achieved had been achieved, but blind Republican goals took precedence over the Nation itself, over the decision of the citizens, and over the wellbeing of the Irish citizens.

Mr de Valera made a speech at Thurles, saying that the IRA "would have to wade through the blood of the soldiers of the Irish Government, and perhaps through that of some members of the Irish Government to get their freedom."

This was the very un-democratic birth of the Fianna Fáil political party.

I have already outlined the sorry story about Ireland's journey towards democracy.

Different Outcome To The Irish Civil War

I do need to mention something here which many Irish people will have never contemplated, and that is the question of what would have happened if the anti-Treaty side had ‘won‘ the Irish Civil War. This has never been discussed, as far as I know, and I think the answer is interesting.

The only logical reason for having the Irish Civil War in the first place was to reject the Treaty - if the anti-Treaty faction won. In other words, Éamon de Valera and the anti-Treaty forces would have FORCED Ireland (the Irish people) to reject the Treaty, despite the fact that both in Parliament and in a General Election the Irish people had accepted it.

In other words, Ireland would have ended up being a de facto DICTATORSHIP under Éamon de Valera and the Republicans. This actually makes sense. Take a look at Cuba - Castro had a viewpoint and he forced it on the Cuban people - as far as he was concerned he knew what was best for the Cubans. Éamon de Valera's attitude towards the Irish people was not that different - according to his speeches he knew what was good for them. He had already demonstrated that he would not allow dissent, or disagreement with HIS ideas - even to the point of directly causing the Civil War.

So this was the man who founded the Fianna Fáil political party - a man who would be dictator to the Irish Nation at the point of a gun.

Elections In Ireland

When Fianna Fáil came to power in 1932 Éamon de Valera set up the commission to write a new Constitution as already mentioned and that Constitution of Ireland 1937 was 'passed' by a minority of the citizens of Ireland.

One of the major setbacks for the Irish citizens was the fact that the Fianna Fáil party was in power too long for the periods 1932 to 1948, then again in 1957 to 1973, and finally 1997 to 2011.

This was a party which attracted those members of Irish society whose aim is to better themselves by 'tagging' on to a political party which rewards its members and followers to the detriment of the Nation. This party polluted the democratic system by encouraging a system of cronyism where appointments are made based on loyal support and allegiance to the party, and where ability, intelligence, competence and selfless ideals were not required, expected, desired, or encouraged.

As I mentioned about Mugabe in Zimbabwe, the worst selfish dictatorial leaders and the most corrupt political parties will always have loyal followers, and will always attract the dregs of that Nation - those who hang on to the hem of those in power in order to get preferential treatment - their loyalty has a price, a selfish price, and at a very high cost for that Nation.

Because of their long tenure in power the Fianna Fáil party spread its tentacles of rottenness throughout this Nation and promoted those who were loyal to the 'party'. There was always funds and appointments for those loyal to the party. Incompetence, selfishness, stupidity, greed, and lack of any ability were the attributes of those who were appointed and promoted to public positions and the slow but sure destruction of this Nation was the inevitable outcome.

When Charles Haughey was in power the only suitable description of the Government of Ireland was that of a gang of the most disreputable criminally corrupt politicians one could find in any Nation anywhere in the world. Bribery was how the Government of Ireland functioned. If you wanted planning permission - you bribed the politicians. The little that we do know of this period is frightening and distasteful enough - one can only imagine the level of corruption and bribery that took place in every corner of the Nation. The Irish citizens will be paying the price of this period of Fianna Dáil mis-rule for decades to come.

Eternal Cycle Of Destruction

When a political party wastes and wastes the Public Funds they have no alternative but to borrow and borrow. Many citizens may be surprised to know that this is not the first time this Nation has been bankrupt, either because they are too young to have been around the previous times the Fianna Fáil party destroyed this nation, or have forgotten that period. This Nation has been destitute before.

For those who are only capable of short term memory, and unfortunately this seems to include a majority of Irish citizens, this is how the never ending cycle works:
Fianna Fáil get into Government. They waste Public Funds, sometimes to gain electoral support (as already explained, which also includes the hidden cost of its repayment - hidden from and paid by the citizens themselves) and also by appointing those who do their utmost to line their own pockets at the expense of the Nation, and also by bloating the Civil Service. They run out of money and the Nation becomes destitute and bankrupt.

Then the citizens, realising that the Fianna Fáil party has destroyed the Nation through their ever eternal incompetence and greed elect the Fine Gael and Labour coalition. This coalition then has the unenviable task of making the harsh decisions and cutting back on everything in order to attempt to 'balance the books' of the Nation. (This does not infer that I consider them to be any more competent than Fianna Fáil, just less corrupt, for various reasons.)

For example, at present, in 2012, the Government is cutting back on the numbers working in the Public Sector but this is nothing new. It has all happened before with many civil servants getting generous pensions and generous redundancy payments - until the next Fianna Fáil Government 'comes around' and increases the numbers working in the Public Sector, round and round, again and again, boom and bust.

Gradually the Nation's debts improve under the Fine Gael and Labour coalition but the citizens become angry with the cutbacks, and the inevitable incompetence, and begin to blame the coalition for the hard times, as usual stupidly forgetting that it was the Fianna Fáil party which actually caused the financial problems in the first place (as already explained). The forgetful citizens then decide to elect the Fianna Fáil party again.

As I've already explained, time is on their side. Time is always on the side of the political parties - especially that party which destroyed this Nation before. They never lose - in the long run. They can never lose - in the long run. The foolish and stupid citizens will put them back into Government, time after time, devastation after devastation, failure after failure.

In the next General Election 2015 or 2016 how many citizens eligible to vote will be old enough to remember the terrible period during Charles Haughey's tenure in Government. We were bankrupt then and he went on television to announce to the Nation that 'we are living away beyond our means'. The fact is that the Irish weren't living beyond their means - it was the Fianna Fáil party which was wasting and squandering beyond the means of this Nation.

Then Haughey rather than cutting back on borrowing actually INCREASED it. The Fianna Fáil party borrowed and borrowed until they could borrow no more because our repayments were making this Nation destitute. The citizens were taxed more and more. At one stage the low rate of PAYE was 35%. After reckless public spending he decided to call an early election - when it suited HIM, or so he thought.

It turned out that the Fine Gael and Labour coalition were elected into Government but were soon defeated in Government, by an individual politician, when they tried to bring in tough taxation (including VAT on children's shoes) to help the overall attempt to balance the books.

The General Election in 1982 saw the 'Gregory deal' - where Charles Haughey promised an estimated £100 million of investments in the Dublin inner city in exchange for Tony Gregory's backing for Mr Haughey to become Taoiseach. This was a time of National bankruptcy and yet Charles Haughey promised millions to secure his elevation to feudal lord.

During this period in office, Charles Haughey bled the Nation dry. He lived life like the most wasteful feudal lord, spending Public Funds like it was his own. Nothing was too expensive for him. It was one long party for this individual and his entourage. There was phone tapping. The bribery in Government circles was obscene. These politicians were selling this country away for wads of cash. Charles Haughey personally received millions of pounds of 'donations' and was living like a feudal lord over all he surveyed. That is not to say the other Fianna Fáil TDs did not also receive brown envelopes with generous 'political' donations inside. There was planning corruption on such a scale it is impossible to describe.

Apart from the poverty caused by the huge repayments because of Fianna Fáil mis-rule, there was a worse price to be paid. The hemorrhaging of this Nation occurred yet again when so so many young Irish citizens had to leave this Nation to get employment elsewhere. It bled the Nation of its best. All that we were left with, usually in well paid positions of authority, were the Fianna Fáil party hacks and their lackeys.

How many citizens voting in the next election will remember all this?

Then we come to the property boom on the early 2000s. When you have a political party who owes favours to big business, and this most certainly includes property developers, they will do their utmost to 'look after' them. The property bubble was encouraged even more by the tax breaks for developers (repaying financial donations), so rather than attempting to cool down the madness the Irish Government, under Fianna Fáil, decided to throw petrol on the fire and encourage even more reckless borrowing by the developers.

The more the developers made - the bigger the political donations! And because of their criminally lax supervision of the financial sector - appointees of Fianna Fáil, there was more and more reckless lending by the banks. This Nation crash dived into the financial black hole we are now imprisoned in.

Not only that but when the times were 'good' and there was a enormous increase in the tax takings the Public Funds were wasted and squandered. The public sector received increases. The numbers working in the public sector increased. The pensions were increased. The Government couldn't find enough ways to get rid of the money. This was a time of waste, waste, waste. It took the Fianna Fáil party less than 13 years to thoroughly bankrupt this Nation. Though it must be a world record that the Fianna Fáil party financially destroyed this Nation TWICE in a span of less than thirty years.

The Taoiseach at the time (2008), Bertie Ahern, now retired from politics and the Dáil, can afford to smirk outside Dáil Éireann when confronted by an angry citizen - angry at the ruination of this Nation - yet again. He has his pockets well stuffed and will be receiving an enormous pension while the Nation withers because of his, and his party's criminal wastage and mismanagement over the years. In fact:

ALL THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS NATION'S BANKRUPTCY WILL RECEIVE MASSIVE PENSIONS.

How many citizens voting in the next election will remember, or be aware of, all this?

Fianna Fáil Skulduggery

Apart from their continued destruction of this Nation, the Fianna Fáil party has TWICE tried to get the citizens to change the voting method in the General Election from Proportional Representation to one of 'first past the post' which would have practically ensured a permanent Fianna Fáil Government for ever.

"At present, members of Dáil Éireann are elected on a system of proportional representation for constituencies returning at least three members, each voter having a single transferable vote. It is proposed in the Bill to abolish the system of proportional representation and to adopt, instead, a system of single-member constituencies, each voter having a single non-transferable vote."

The total number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal contained in the Bill was 453,322 and the total number of votes recorded against the proposal was 486,989. The proposal was not, therefore, approved by the people.

It was a close call but thankfully the citizens of this Nation weren't THAT STUPID!

"proposes - (1) To substitute for the present system of voting at Dáil elections the 'straight vote' system in single-member constituencies; (2) To establish a Commission to determine constituencies, subject to the right of the Dáil to amend the constituencies as so determined; and (3) To provide that whenever the Dáil is dissolved the outgoing Ceann Comhairle may be returned, without a contest, as a second deputy for a constituency chosen by him which consists of, or includes a part of, the constituency he represented before the dissolution."

Proposal number one of three proposed amendments to the Constitution, in a case of accept all or reject all - a despicable act of treachery and attempted subversion of the political process in Ireland.

The total number of votes recorded in favour of the proposal was 424,185 and the total number of votes recorded against the proposal was 656,803. The proposal was not, therefore, approved by the people.

This shows Fianna Fáil for what they are - conniving, deceitful, tricksters and only too willing to betray the citizens of Ireland at any opportunity. They are destroyers of this Nation of Ireland.

A Terrible Legacy

I don't know whether Éamon de Valera, in his old age, ever looked back upon his period in Irish history with deep regret. To a certain extent I hope in fact he didn't, because if he had truly looked upon what he had done to this Nation through his rejection of the Treaty and the setting up of the Fianna Fáil party and the cycles of destruction it has subsequently heaped upon this Nation it surely would have been so painful. It would have been too much to bear.

As far as I know at one stage, after he retired, he turned down a proposed increase in his pension - so I will give him the benefit of the doubt - very reluctantly.

Summary

What can I say at this point to suitably describe the Fianna Fáil party?

The Fianna Fáil party is poison to this Nation and to all of its citizens . . . . except those loyal party faithful, who fill their pockets with Fianna Fáil generosity, robbed from the Nation, every time that party is in Government.

The inevitable fact is, that after the destruction of this Nation by the Fianna Fáil party - YET AGAIN, they will be back in Government, ready to bring this Nation to its knees again, within another five or ten years time.

Because of the wanton incompetence, criminality and corruption which is the Fianna Fáil party, this Nation, in 2012, is being forced to sell State assets - ASSETS BELONGING TO THE IRISH CITIZENS - in order to slow down this Nation's inevitable bankruptcy.

This is the legacy of the Fianna Fáil party.

As long as there is a Fianna Fáil political party in existence in Ireland this Nation will experience an inevitable continuous, repetitive, destructive cycle of 'wastage, ruination, semi-recovery', 'wastage, ruination, semi-recovery', 'wastage, ruination, semi-recovery', time after time after time, decade after decade, generation after generation, to a point where this Nation will bleed itself dry.

NOTICE

It is VITAL to understand just how destructive the existence of political parties is to the chance of ever having a true democratic system in place for the benefit of the citizens of that Nation. The chapter Chapter 4: Political Parties MUST be read by every citizen in all so-called democracies. It explains why political parties like Fianna Fáil can not only exist but actually THRIVE within our political system.