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If only it were a soft day - Twitter, social networks & the Lisbon 2 referendum
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Thursday October 01, 2009 23:32 by o as if - ( o as if = iosaf mac diarmada - it's an anagram thing....... don't worry about it)
All good children are now washed and asleep in their cots and ought have little idea how their parents & elders intend to vote tomorrow in Ireland's 2nd referendum to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Theirs is not the duty nor the concern to weigh local political and national debate with the long term consequences of a potential post-Lisbon European Union. For the most part they will have noticed the plethora of posters and the volume of bilge wash which the Irish voters have seen and been brought through since immediately after they voted No! in the first Lisbon referendum and which has continued unrelentlessly as a tsunami until this last evening of reflection.
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Jump To Comment: 1The BBC tells us that some looney rightwinger with a dodgy Irish surname and even dodgier blogging moniker has succeeded in winning an injunction on Twitter. He's very smug about it as a quick visit to his blog will attest, but his victory in obtaining this legal ought raise any eyebrow on any head / face attached to a legally trained brain (such as the bloke has) to the lack of injunctions ruled against Twitter in the past or more importantly the lack of follow through on the part of electoral watchdogs and public bodies who winsomely routinely complain that twitter posts have usurped elections in western democracies & played an unfair role in manipulating the results .
The BBC report notes that Mr Donal Blaney is "right wing", whereas he describes himself as being "thatcherite". His musings would mostly appeal to anti-Darwinists without any formulated political philsophy whose parents had the sort of second rate genes to ensure their birth occured overseas from the USA. Although he does appear to be proud of his Irish ethnicity & heritage, however else could we explain the name on his blog "Blaney's Blarney"?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8285954.stm
The first illustration is taken from his blog - just for the heck of it. http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/
the second illustration first appeared on this newswire as an attachment to a variety of articles on the phenomona of neonazi activity in the eastern states of the EU, of which perhaps "Spooky German mainstreet viral Racism : Pizza & Hitler a Miscellany" sums the problem up best : http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83942
Should Twitter tweet or twit tomorrow - whoever amongst you has the resources to challenge the results has the opportunity to do so..,
For none of us can predict nor should be allowed sway the future, as Mr Blaney Blarney in his smelliness noted in one his blog entries which examined how the EU assumed changes made to the British 1951 Fraudulent Mediums Act .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7351199.stm http://donalblaney.blogspot.com/2009/08/europe-controls....html The move had the full support of the British Humanist Society & in 2008 saw EU law regulate on the quality of fortune tellers................... I think that's pretty wonderful. But I doubt you need the EU to do tell people either tarot card hucksters, opinion pollsters, astrologers or rapture awaiting christians are feeding vampire like on the gullible...............
fortune cookies are another matter of course.
vote No to Lisbon coz u know what Europe is about & have gone to the bother of considering your European identity.
vote No to Lisbon because the EU is only about local matters for local people & you know nobody who isn't local & wouldn't even harbour a passport.
vote No to Lisbon coz u know what Europe is about & have gone to the bother of considering your European identity.