Diary: Legal profession trickery to watch out for in connection with "bankers bailout" situation

"At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded by the public at large; that these decisions, nevertheless, become law by precedent, sapping, by little and little, the foundations of the constitution, and working its change by construction, before any one has perceived that that invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance. In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life, if secured against all liability to account."

The above quotes are by Thomas Jefferson.

(Principal Author of the American Declaration of Independence, 3rd President of the United States of America, and arguably one of the most talented, accomplished, and influential lawyers of all time.)

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Trickery to watch out for in the days and weeks ahead regarding the developing "bankers bailout" situation
by W. Finnerty Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:59

I have noticed in recent weeks that some of our senior politicians are issuing statements in public which could easily give the impression (in my opinion) that the Attorney General (MÃ �ire R. Whelan SC) is in a position to infallibly and finally decide what is, and what is not, constitutional in the Republic of Ireland.

To the very best of knowledge, she is no such thing.

She is of course fully entitled to give her opinion on all such matters, and indeed would have a duty to do so regarding extremely important "common good" issues of the kind in question: but, that's as far as it goes.

Far more importantly, there is nothing in our Constitution (Bunreacht na hEireann), that I know of, which gives the Supreme Court the right to decide what is constitutional either. They also -- in reality -- are restricted to expressing their beliefs and opinions in connection with all such subjects.

It is Bunreacht na hEireann, not the Supreme Court, or the Attorney General, which is the Supreme Law of the Republic of Ireland; and, the only body that can lawfully -- and finally -- decide what is constitutional for the Republic of Ireland, and what is not, is "the people": as is very clearly stated in Article 6.1 of our Constitution.

For anybody to argue otherwise, would be to argue that 1) the Judicial Branch of our Government, has (in effect) more power than the other two of the three main Branches (i.e. the Executive and Legislative), which would be a violation of the Tripartite Separation of Powers Principle that is deeply embedded in our Constitution, and 2) that the Judicial Branch of our Government has more power than "the people": which is totally absurd altogether.

However much our Judiciary and our legal profession might like to believe it is for them to finally determine what is constitutional in the Republic of Ireland, and to act in the pretence that they really do have such enormous powers, all amounts to nothing more than a complete pack of lies (to the very best of my knowledge): unless of course our legal profession can successfully manage to hoodwink the general public, with the help of our grossly corrupt Establishment Media, to believe their cunning lies and deceptions to be the "truth".

Related Link: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/3February2012/Email.htm

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The above text is from a comment at the following Indymedia (Ireland) location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/101168&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment287615

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