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Michael D Higgins' "open mind" to NAMA

category national | anti-capitalism | other press author Thursday August 06, 2009 23:48author by Niall Farrell Report this post to the editors

Michael D a Monkey in the Superstructure?

So the Labour Party's conscience - Michael D Higgins = has an open mind to NAMA.. Read the learned man's thoughts in an interview with the Galway Independent:

http://www.galwayindependent.com/local-news/local-news/...r-us/

In the mid-1980s Peadar O Donnell spoke at an Anti-Regan event in Galway (it was in opposition to Regan being awarded an honorary PhD),

Peadar's speech was later published entitled: Monkeys in the Superstructure. The monkeys Peadar was directly referrring to were those TDs that play the politicial game in so-called parliamentary democracy. We all know the point being made. The opposition huff & puff but they certainly don't want to blow the house of capitalism and exploitation down.
The irony is Michael D Higgins wrote the introduction. As he gave Labour's support to NAMA, this monumental folly - a folly that for decades the ordinary people of this country will pay for-one wonders did Peadar's words cross Higgins' mind, Probably not.
I'm sure they didn't cross his mind either last year when he was extolling the virtues of the Lisbon Treaty. One such virtue Higgins told the local Galway media was that under Lisbon the EU will have its own Peace Corps and young Irish people could joint its ranks. Not a word, however, from the Great Old Man of Labour concerning the 20 pages of articles dealing with the militarisation of the EU and Ireland. No talk of the neo-liberal agenda enshrined in the treaty......
And we keep feeding these bloody monkeys!

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Unfair     Montesquieu    Tue Aug 11, 2009 16:48 
   M. D. Higgins is not a left anymore     TJH    Tue Aug 11, 2009 20:53 
   About Michael D     ex-Labour Party member    Sun Aug 23, 2009 01:40 


 
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