Repudiate the debt statement

An appeal to the Irish people

We have a choice:

starve––emigrate––resist

On the eve of voting on the “Fiscal Stability Treaty”––the permanent
austerity treaty––we would like to put forward a number of points for
you to consider before you vote.

All of us have been affected one way or another by the imposition of the
massive socialised corporate debt placed on our shoulders by the EU and
ECB in co-operation with the main political parties in this state.

We are paying a very heavy price with cuts in services. You may have
experienced them directly yourself, or know people who have been
affected, in the areas of health, education, welfare, pensions, medical
cards, and wages.

Every citizen, from the very youngest to the oldest, has to pay back and
is responsible for €41,000 of the “national” debt at present levels.
That can only grow as more of our able-bodied citizens feel impelled to
leave our country to look for work and a future.

We simply cannot afford the price of the present “bail-out” and the toll
it is taking on all of us. So all the talk about voting Yes so that we
can obtain further funding––i.e. borrowing more money from the EU-ECB
loan sharks or from the international finance houses––is simply not an
option. We cannot afford the repayments.

It is a simple fact that 4½ million people cannot pay €150 billion in
debt, which is growing daily.

This treaty would make debt repayment and debt management the primary
policy of the government. No matter how much money will be in the
government’s kitty, the first priority would be to service the debt; all
other matters are secondary.

By putting it into law they hope to close off all other options that the
people may wish to choose, such as repudiating this odious and
unbearable debt. So whoever we may wish to vote for in the future, if we
vote Yes we will be handcuffing ourselves, our children and our
grandchildren for generations to come to only one solution.

So before you vote tomorrow ask yourself: Do you wish to remain in debt
servitude? Do you wish to turn yourself and your family into bonded
labour, whose duty is to pay a debt that is not yours and will most
probably be added to if the political establishment and their masters in
Berlin impose a second “bail-out” on us?

We can stand up as a people and demand that the debt be dumped off our
backs, stand as a free people, or we can lurk in the shadows and watch
as others decide our future, telling us what we can or cannot do.

The choice is ours.

Starve––emigrate––or resist.