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Fine Gael TD Finally Has To Listen, but Attacks Elderly Gentleman Afterwards
- Published_at:2013-03-09
- Category:Nonprofits & Activism
- Channel:Carlow CAHWT
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- description: (Attack was not caught on video) A weekly Saturday morning picket commenced this morning on the constituency office of Fine Gael's Pat Deering the Carlow/Kilkenny TD. Around 50 people were in attendance along with massive passing support. Five or six members of the campaign entered the TD's office at the start to voice their disapproval at his actions since being elected. He hasn't been willing to listen over the past year and the activists explained the mandate he was elected under to him, how on the 31 of March the deadline for registration of the household tax, the boycott stood at 70% in Carlow, yet he represented the minority - crony 'democracy'. It was explained that people simply cannot pay what is an 'annual recurring' family home tax. Fine Gael's 2011 election manifesto stated that an "annual, recurring residential property tax on the family home is unfair." It was described to him that a sustained Saturday morning picket was commencing on his office and also that the people who were standing outside were now at breaking point, at the most recent committee meeting the majority of people were advocating taking the picket to his home, all that stood in the way of such action was a reasoned but heated debate based on the fact that he had a family in the house. It was said that if he didn't champion the cause of his constituents, and the family home tax was not repealed, the picket would be following him home in the near future. All of this was done in a peaceful and non-confrontational manner and finally he had to listen. He later accused a member of threatening him about the visit to his home but it was never a threat, simply a warning that that's where people were at now, and that was what he could expect if people were pushed any further and if the home tax was taken from struggling people's means of subsistence. Yet, as the protesters were leaving the office in order to join the protesters outside, the Fine Gael TD physically manhandled a 72 year old man in the course of trying to remove the man's mobile phone from his hand. The man who is recovering from treatment for prostate cancer and a knee operation had his neck grabbed in the attack and one activist had to get involved to stop what could have been a much more serious incident. These TD's on their lavish salaries and expenses find it very easy to preach and speak on TV and radio, telling the people to suck it up, that things aren't that bad. Pat Rabbitte of the Labour party this week when challenged about wind turbines, their health implications for people in or near their vicinity and the obvious resistance said, "Why is the emphasis on the protest and not that we are creating new jobs in a sector that is renewable and brings down the cost of energy to Ireland? It creates a whole new possibility, it's a sector that wasn't there before." The utter contempt these people have for democracy and people's lives is appalling and as the anger rises across the country and as families are further targeted by government -- It's only the next step that people should be bringing their protest and anger to the doors of the excessively comfortable members of this government, living in a bubble, who are not working for the people of this state, but for the troika and banking interests. If they are not willing to listen then they'll be made listen. Enough is enough. We'll be back next week, and the next, and the next...There is no let up on the pressure and strain on the people, it's not our debt, and there will be no let up on the agents of the trioka until the millstone is lifted. (The Gardai arrived on the scene and a statement has been given regarding the attack.)
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