Rebelling against the demonstration

Sitting against the march.

Looks like Luca might have too much of the French Protest Gene after all.

He decided to form a splinter group within 75 minutes of the 43 of us marching against NAMA.
I'm exaggerating, there may have been 1,500 when we arrived in front of the Dáil.
Or to be more precise Molesworth Street, which happens to be close to the Dáil (where the Dáilai Lama rules with an iron fist) and with little traffic on a Saturday afternoon. Little disruption for the hordes of shoppers who were marching up and down nearby Grafton Street in much greater number than the anti-NAMA brigade.
After all, who would care about the death warrant for the Irish economy...

The starting point was the Garden of Remembrance (normally a peaceful druggies den) at 2.00pm and the Raheny crew were running a little late.
I called Pépé on his mobile and sure enough about 23 people had answered the call: him, 14 hard core Sinn Feiners and a few anarchists... Not exactly Pépé's scene, let me tell you!
But in the end the march was not overly politicized, there was some high-jacking by the No-to-Lisbon crew but that was to be expected.
In the end, the majority of people were non-professional activists worried that the Irish taxpayers (and their children and possibly their grandchildren) will pay a massive price for a rushed and moronic piece of legislation that is designed to save the arse of bankers and property developers, by buying the bad debt from the reckless financial institutions.
No matter how a panel of so-called experts (the same shaggin experts that never saw it coming in the first place) try to sell it, common sense tells me that buying bad debt may not be the wisest of all purchases...

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