Pacta sunt servanda; the end of the first Irish republic

With that Latin tag – a gerundive construction no less – Commissioner Rehn rolled the death knell for a whole generation of Irish politicians. Only Sinn Fein are free to make a few simple and cogent arguments

The first is that voting “no” on this treaty, we are warned, expels us from the safety net of the EFSF. But we've already been told we'll be back in the bond markets in two shakes. So that argument is won by SF

Upping the stakes a little, we are warned about the Argentina scenario. Yet the carrying capacity of Ireland suffices for as population a multiple of what we have now. Would we be able to pay the myriad “public servants” and other parasites who draw up schemes? Thankfully, not any more. The teachers, nurses, etc? Yes – and it would weed out those who are uncommitted if they were paid for a short time in a non-convertible currency

As for losing Google, Facebook, Paypal, don't make me laugh. The “technology” in the latter two is a joke; and Google might even have sufficient cultural roots at this stage to want to stay. The alternative would be to prohibit its crawling state-funded websites until our own computer scientists demonstrate that they have caught up. That would take 2 months or so

We can also start to demolish the congeries that Irish official society has become, with scams held in place by gigantic and vicious legal firms; Enterprise Ireland acting as a front for bootleggers at international trade fairs; and so on. We could do a deal with our European friends - and we have no enemies in the Eurozone – that involves giving up our corporate rate and its associated scams and replace it with normal corporate formation (the original “universitas”) and enforcement.

The alternative? From the Wiki entry on Locke;


“The concept of the right of revolution was also taken up by John Locke in Two Treatises of Government as part of his social contract theory. Locke declared that under natural law, all people have the right to life, liberty, and estate; under the social contract, the people could instigate a revolution against the government when it acted against the interests of citizens, to replace the government with one that served the interests of citizens. In some cases, Locke deemed revolution an obligation. The right of revolution thus essentially acted as a safeguard against tyranny. “