Gulp.

The 39th Amendment to the Constitution.

Proposed by People Before Profit TDs Richard Boyd Barrett; Paul Murphy; Mick Barry; Bríd Smith, and Gino Kenny.

KN writes:

Who’s for full blown communism? Anyone?

Fight!

Thirty Ninth Amendment (Oireachtas.ie)

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27 thoughts on “The 39th Step

  1. ANO

    We’re coming for your mansions and your fancy apartments, capitalist pig dogs.

    Don’t worry Nick, your bedsit over a long ago boarded up Golden Discs is safe.

    For now.

    1. Kin

      To be honest there is as much chance of this bill established as the man on the moon
      Imagine the cases that would go through the courts and the bottom feeders in the legal profession
      We would be doubly bankrupted
      What’s needed is housing
      Maybe just like the brits did after WW2 in prefab housing for all left without a roof over their heads after the blitz

      But no government just allows the corrupt greedy palms take their cut
      All these homes were erected in the 1940s when we had no high tech but the thousand
      But in the 21st century the powers at be are not capable
      156 thousand were erected during the period of 1946 and 1947
      They were not slums
      Google 5 things you do not know about prefabs the historic England blog

  2. doobee23

    For anyone who’s interested. the dictionary definition of ‘delimit’ is ‘determine limits or territorial boundaries of’. What are the chances of this piece of legislation passing I wonder?

    1. K. Cavan

      Well, in the US Presidental election, an unprecedented 27 million people who’d never voted before wafted Biden & Harris into the White House, so who knows?

      1. Kin

        Cavan man you forget many were postal votes
        You know votes posted in and no checks as in standing in front in line showing proof of who they were like passports

  3. hmmm

    “Common good” is ominous in the way “Public Health” is: Orwellian concepts from the crypto-commie-fascist agenda.

    1. freewheeling

      Common good has been corrupted to mean “what the government says is good for you”, whereas a common good in the original sense is a good that everyone (without exclusion) can participate in and benefit from. So if the right to private property for some involves removing that right from others, then this Bill renders it no longer a common good at all, and the clause is nonsense – like so much of our garbage laws and Bills these days, that are drafted by idealistic idiots.

  4. SOQ

    I am in two minds about this sort of thing. On one hand I have a deep suspicion about state overreach into such areas, because you could soon end up in a situation where the state has an interest in every home in the country. The UK rates system for example, where you never actually own your home outright. It is claimed to be for the provision of services but 2-3 grand a year would collect a lot of bins.

    But on the other, walk around any town or city and see the amount of delict buildings which the government and local authorities has done frig all to bring back into use. Then there is the land hoarders like CIÉ, Guinness, AND the state itself, sitting on huge swaths of land- which is downright criminal in the middle of a housing crisis.

    And that is not even mentioning the cuckoo funds who have been allowed if not encouraged to elbow an entire generation out of the market- so no matter, which way the average young person looks at it, they are not going to own a home either way.

    1. Mr .T

      Actually enforced vacant land unit taxes would address the dereliction problem – removal of property rights for all citizens will not.

      1. Nigel

        Not just that – the policy of encouraging investment funds to buy up property is a huge problem – and it’s official policy!

        1. K. Cavan

          I assume, Nigel, you have no problem with US Tech giants censoring us on social media, US NGOs dictating that we ignore Irish & EU Immigration Laws, A US software oligarch dictating lockdowns & forcing experimental drugs on us, other US NGOs being allowed to groom our children, our neutrality being cast aside to support yet another American War, etc?
          Why baulk at Corporate America using lines of credit to price us out of property ownership & into renting for life, when you’re so supportive of their activities in other areas?

      2. K. Cavan

        Most of the vacant property is owned by shell companies with no assets other than the property itself, Mr T, the State is not capable of finding the beneficial owners & taxing them, that’s a dead end.

    2. K. Cavan

      The problem is, SOQ, in what way is the “Housing Crisis” a problem for the government? The State gets half the rent by taxing the landlords, though not the American corporate multinational ones, of course, State employees, from the politicians down, are insulated by outrageously generous wages & pensions & the MSM are obedient servants of the regime.
      They’ve clearly allowed this situation to deteriorate, in the hope that their proffered solition, Communism for thee, will be accepted. It’s amazing how much of our suffering they are prepared to endure, to enforce The Great Reset.

  5. ce

    Isn’t there a constitutional right to education which for many kids with special ed can’t be fulfilled…

    Can’t see how it would be carried out even if it passed…

    Anyway, we’re giving 100,000 per apartment to people who paid too much for land as part of the speculation game so that they can complete affordable housing… good times…

  6. K. Cavan

    I’m looking forward to seeing how the agents of Neoliberal Capitalism we employ to manage our country will try to sell us this pup. Perhaps with a snappy slogan, like “You Will Own Nothing & Be Happy”? If, stripped of the right to private property, we remain unhappy, they could run with “Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves”.
    The upcoming EU Vaccine Passport legislation could be introduced by “You Can Have The Right To Bodily Integrity Or To Travel But Not Both”.
    I wonder why the State wishes to remove our right to private property, to travel, to express opinions or to have bodily integrity.
    Of course, when this fails to go through, they will be forced to ensure that next year’s Home Tax is 100% of the value of your home, job done. It’s amazing how many Conspiracy Theories become government policy.

    1. Nigel

      Richard Boyd Barrett is in the government? The great and powerful overlords of neoliberal capitalism who have FF/FG in their pocket as their absolute slaves are executing their grand plan via… Richard Boyd Barrett?

      1. K. Cavan

        Boyd Barrett has been in total lockstep with the government parties regarding almost every important issue or decision they’ve made, during the lifetime of this parliament. He’s certainly does not represent any sort of Opposition, neither does Sinn Fein, on any important issues.

        1. Nigel

          Still wouldn’t explain needing the opposition to forward your evil agenda when you have absolute control of the government.

  7. john f

    This amendment would be a disaster. It would transfer even more power and control from the individual to the state. The public have been worn down so much over of the past couple of years that this might get voted through in a referendum.
    It’s vague and dangerous, there are a couple of parts of the text that are particularly worrying.
    Common good – that basically means what ever the government or establishment of the day wants.
    Appropriate to need – this may as well be straight out of the Communist manifesto. Who decides what a person needs?
    The average person will be told that this only really applies to people with holiday homes or whatnot. However, official’s will eventually turnaround and say to elderly parents whose kids have moved out that they have too many vacant bedrooms in their lifelong family home and need to move out.
    Residents of Ireland – pretty much anyone in the country, working, nonworking refugee et cetera. With the levels at which our open borders government is flooding the country with refugees. there will be an insatiable amount of need. This will give the politicians of the day ample cover to change society in any way that they want.
    It’s doubtful that this amendment will get through the dail at the moment. And people before profit are putting on a show for the audience. But the fact that we are even having this conversation is worrying.

    1. jonjoker

      I think the words “common good” or something very similar are already in the constitution.
      Private property is already limited by the constitution – it is just the case that our FFG governments (with a little help from Lab and GP) aren’t interested in applying this because it might affect their ability to get handy little numbers on the boards of big companies after they retire.

      Just look at Kimmage, Crumlin, Finglas, Ballyer and similar around the country: do you think they got built without limiting the right to private property in some way?

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