THE BATTLE OF THE PEOPLE AGAINST THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THEIR UTILITIES SUCH AS WATER CONTINUES, BUT THIS TIME IT IS IN IRELAND
WE FACE IT HERE IN NEW JERSEY, AND THE CORPORATE INTEREST WILL STOP AT NOTHING.
HERE WE DEFEATED A PRIVATIZATION BILL AND A FEW DAYS LATER A ROAD CONSTRUCTION CREW PUNCTURES THE WATER MAIN. THIS LEFT MOST OF THIS TOWN WITHOUT WATER. MANY DO NOT THINK THAT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT.SO READ HERE WAS APPEARED ON WAKEUPFROMYOURSLUMBER.COM
Irish politician compares protests against water charges with ISIS
During a debate on reforms to the highly unpopular water charges, Fine Gael TD for Tipperary North, Noel Coonan, made the fantastical claim that the Irish State was facing “what is potentially an Isis situation” if protests against the water charge were not “nipped in the bud”.
Not content with displaying his complete detachment from reality and showing his utter contempt for popular protest and dissent, he then went on to attempt the classic “divide et impera” by pitting rural communities against those from the capital city when he claimed that Dublin protesters “act like parasites” who wanted to “live off country people” who had been paying for their water for years.
He has since retracted his comments regarding ISIS, but still attempted to vilify popular protest when during an interview with Newstalk FM he said “I certainly would withdraw that comparison, but I think those people, I suppose probably anarchists would be more appropriate than ISIS.” In an interview with Tipperary FM, Coonan also claimed that he had been on the receiving end of death threats because of his remarks.
Coonan’s use of hyperbole and unsubstantiated allegations of death threats is not the first in this saga and probably won’t be the last. Earlier in the month, Government minister Leo Varadkar claimed that a “sinister fringe” had hijacked the protests and Environment Minister Alan Kelly claimed that he had received death threats not once but twice.
Not content with displaying his complete detachment from reality and showing his utter contempt for popular protest and dissent, he then went on to attempt the classic “divide et impera” by pitting rural communities against those from the capital city when he claimed that Dublin protesters “act like parasites” who wanted to “live off country people” who had been paying for their water for years.
He has since retracted his comments regarding ISIS, but still attempted to vilify popular protest when during an interview with Newstalk FM he said “I certainly would withdraw that comparison, but I think those people, I suppose probably anarchists would be more appropriate than ISIS.” In an interview with Tipperary FM, Coonan also claimed that he had been on the receiving end of death threats because of his remarks.
Coonan’s use of hyperbole and unsubstantiated allegations of death threats is not the first in this saga and probably won’t be the last. Earlier in the month, Government minister Leo Varadkar claimed that a “sinister fringe” had hijacked the protests and Environment Minister Alan Kelly claimed that he had received death threats not once but twice.
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