The EU and the republic (or the lesser of two evils)

I had a conversation with an elderly street performer last weekend, he had quite the history; lifer in the army, member of sein fein, poet and in general he is a very wise man.

But that's not the point I'm trying to make, last time I spoke to him we spoke about the crisis in Ireland and Europe in general and what he said really hit me hard.

Biffo was the head of the most corrupt organisation in Ireland

"Europe has now become an empire," he said to me with quite a noticeable tone of biterness in his voice. "Europe like all empires is one of corrupt values and lax morals."

This stood me back a little but then I got to thinking what about our corrupt system at home, people like  Brian Cowen; a prime minister so uneducated and ignorant in the ways of political science that he turned up to a radio interview completely rat arsed drunk.

I also thought about how our current government seems willing to throw away any shred of economic sovereignty for the meagre price of euro-bailout funds.

This is not what the freedom fighters led by Collins and the "chief" fought and gave their lives for, to see the country they loved become the whipping boy for a whole fucking continent.

Now I'm not the most patriotic of people and let's face it here folks after the succession of two absolutely incompetent morons (one of whom lost his mother this week may the gods keep her well) I of course will use my right of freedom of expression to air my dissatisfaction with the way this country is being governed.

the Pathetic failings of a group and the death of a movement

Well the reason I started this new blog is because there was something I wanted to get off my chest and that is this.

For the last three or four months I have been watching the #Occupy protests with interest and even approval  but over the last few weeks as the wall street incarnation fell apart I changed my views.

The protesters say that the aim of #OWS is to create revolution but I say that they couldn't have been more wrong.

I'll put it to you this way did real revolutionaries like Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara topple a government in Cuba with an iphone??

Did Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels write the communist manifesto with a $1500 imac??

Were the principles of Socialism founded so that everyone could buy things they don't need??

The situation that sparked off the Occupy movement was largely created by the protesters themselves, they (that is to say you) thought that buying those pointless little fucking gadgets would make your lives better you spend $500+ on that flimsy shit which more than likely got broke when you got beat upside your capitalist hipster head when your camp was raided.

You people claim to be socialists BULLSHIT. Real socialists wouldn't need that kinda shit to spark off a revolution against corporate greed or economic inequity.

I'm a dedicated revolutionary I have never bought an iphone, never owned an ipod never used a mac or never felt the need to buy any of that over priced shit. I'm a part of the welfare state of Ireland and due to a fuck up at the welfare office I'm not going to have money for food or transport for two fucking weeks try and live for two weeks with no money or food only a fucking ipad and then we'll see how fast your philosophy changes.

That's all I have to say on that subject I hope you realize in time that while your intentions were good you like many other socialists with "good intentions"  were lead astray by human nature and the greed of consumerism.