Twenty years of the Irish deep state 1997-2017

It is fact that since 1997 the “republic of Ireland” has inflicted the following processes on its “citizens”;

-          an attempted e-voting proposal whose software developer did not actually know how Ireland’s voting system worked. This began in 2002 with a “trial run” at a general election  and ended only in 2009;

-          Two globalizing EU proposals (Nice and Lisbon) were defeated by the citizenry at referenda and promptly represented ie vote until you give us the result we want;

-          An attempt was made, defeated only by mass and occasionally violent protest,  to make water charges compulsory be redefining a citizen as a customer of a private company;

-          Compulsory purchase was used for a private company in Mayo  and Gardai functioned hand in glove with private security;

-          deterritorialization with a pax Americana rescinding  all our land claims on every part of the island;

-          removal of the universities from the rule of law on the basis of a fanciful reading of the 1997 universities act, leading – as one might expect -  to abuse of scholars and theft;

-          allowing music companies operate openly post dissolution, coinciding with the death of the independents;

-          turning the banks into private cash cows for a new elite, who burned through the state’s wealth once their debt was shifted to the sovereign;

-          a quickening of corporatism, leading for example to new hires in the health services for administrators at a time when a freeze on hiring doctors and nurses – trained at great expense – meant there were less of them to administer, as they emigrated;

-          failed attempts at generating IP by dint of centralizing software in the Taoiseach’s office, and indeed music and film in the Taoiseach’s family

-          allowing “vulture funds” insist that the householders they evicted would still have to pay their full mortgage, while NAMA allowed the new elite regain possession of their empires for 40c on the euro on average;

-          deliberate state intervention in the housing market making homes unaffordable again after the 2007-2012 crash had allowed market forces reduce them;

-          In one of the few banking crisis cases that went to court, the defendents were found guilty but not sentenced by the judge because he ruled that the state had ordered them to commit crimes. The agent of the state , Neary, was never charged

-          A private company was corruptly given a monopoly on music rights, and proceeded to privatize all of Irish music, while its chair amassed a horde of pirated copyrights;

-           There was attested abuse of Irish students at the universities, not responded to by the highest authorities when put to them in the Dail, coupled with their replacement for the elite academic jobs by foreigner.

-          When a whistleblowing Garda member revealed (inter alia) abuse of the driving penalty points system, he was not protected; in fact, he had allegations of penetrative sexual assault copied and pasted from another’s file onto his and nobody has been charged for this clear fraud;

-          In an effort to get rid of academic tenure, DCU asserted a bogus contract with fraudulent signatures by dint of an alleged “comprehensive agreement” with the closed-shop union which the union never even discussed. 8 court case later even after  recission of an illegal disciplinary procedure, the illegal contracts are still being asserted and the employees dubiously employed – not to mention the perpetrators – still paid from the public purse


Finally, during unprecedented austerity, the government refused a tax windfall of E15 billion imposed on Apple for its activities in Ireland, but chose instead to appeal the verdict.  when the Minister for finance resigned a year later, the money remained uncollected