[ILUG] Eek! McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty

[Frank Peelo]

James McCarthy wrote:
> 
> 
> Frank Peelo wrote:
> 
>> No. If we vote no, we will be made to do it again until we get it right.
> 
> Oh no, our one weakess, nagging. Give in now while we still can!
> 
>> We are kidding ourselves if we think we have the right to reject the 
>> Lisbon treaty, in the face of an overwhelming majority in the Dáil. We 
>> gave up our right to vote on issues such as this, when we failed to 
>> uphold the verdict of the first referendum on the Nice treaty. Whether 
>> that was the right verdict or not is irrelevant - we created a 
>> precedent whereby the Dáil does not have to accept a referendum result 
>> which it does not like.
>>
>> Frank
> 
> I have every right to reject the Lisbon treaty in principle and 
> practice. I voted no for Nice, and so did many others (not much less 
> than 1/2 the turnout).

FWIW, so did I. Turned out not to be worth much.

> Just because they got their way once doesn't mean 
> we lay down and take it, if you do then you truely deserve what you get. 
> I don't give a flying fiddlers what anyone in the Dail thinks and how 
> they voted,  I'm not some  mindless sheep I can think for myself.

Yes, but thinking is /all/ you can do. You only have one vote. The fact 
that there is such a majority in the Dáil means we will be told to do it 
again, and again if necessary, until 50%+1 get fed up and do what they 
are told -- and "Nice2" tells me that this will happen. So vote 
whichever way you like, unless you can get yourself elected dictator 
/first/, it won't make any difference. Wish it would, but it won't.

Frank (grumpy)