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It seems to this observer that not a few people in modern Ireland are not facing up to the reality of what it really means to be under a corrupt tyrannous government. The Covid crisis should have shown people how little rights they have against an oppressive government, and the realisation that the elections are now rigged – as many people now recognise – should further your understanding about how far this corruption goes. But nonetheless you will find many well educated and hard working Irish people quietly going about their business and not seeing the necessity of getting involved in standing up to this corrupt government. Basically they seem to think the corruption won't impact them, that the norms of Western society will continue regardless.
Well I am not so sure, and I will throw out a simple hypothetical here. Many people assume their savings are safe in the bank, that it is their money to do with as they choose, that this Western norm, private property as savings, will continue to be respected. But surely everybody can see that it is getting harder and harder to spend your own money in Irish banks, with ever more intrusive regulations and controls, to guard against money laundering, we are told.
For example just recently the Spanish government, which is obviously also in the EU, banned people from taking out more than 3,000 euro from their bank accounts without that government's express approval.
In any case the current situation is that the EU has mysteriously set up a special organisation to manage the savings of EU citizens as deposited in their bank accounts in the EU, and will somehow use a proportion of this for new defence spending plans of that Union. Yes you heard that correctly, they are somehow spending private citizens savings, in some convoluted manner tied to defence spending. But the obvious implication is that if war breaks out, with a consequent demand for huge defence spending, will they raid all these monies or at least over a set amount that a person might have in the bank?
I will leave you with an example from Lebanon where this kind of thing has happened, i.e. where the state has, in a sense, seized the savings of their citizens. Could it happen here? Personally I would not be surprised to see the EU do this at some future point, not necessarily all that far away.
by Brian Nugent, http://www.orwellianireland.com .
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