www.petitiononline.com Help sign the petition please. Only takes about 15 seconds, 10 if your a fast typer. All you need to include is: – Name – E-mail and – Optional Comment The preface of the peition reads as follows: To: Irish Government On the 23rd of July 2009 the president of Ireland, Mary McAleese, signed a new Defamation Act into law. It includes a law against ‘blasphemy causing outrage’. The maximum fine is 25000 euro. This law amends one which was found in 1999 to be too vague to be enforced ‘in accordance with the law’. The new specification seeks to make blasphemy punishable again. This petition is for the repeal of the law against blasphemy in Ireland, in line with the view taken by the holy see and the Irish government in international bodies such as the UN (Irish Times, May 2009). Both the holy see, represented by Msgr Silvano Marie Tomasi, and Irish government at the UN hold that the proper legislation to address such issues is human rights and equality law, not laws against blasphemy. We hold, along with the a fore mentioned bodies that the blasphemy law is essentially anachronistic; surplus to requirement at best and a danger to constitutionally protected free speech at worst. Because there is a provision for a blasphemy law in the Irish constitution a referendum may be required to if the Irish people are to repeal this law. This repeal should be carried out by national referendum if necessary at a suitable time . Sincerely, The Undersigned —– Also …
Book RapportEoin Colfer love, I recently read loved your book “Half Moon Investigations” and much, because the mood of the characters and settings of the book. I thought it was really interesting how you came up with the names of the characters and thought you had a great job, because the character sets for which they do what they do. I really liked the action because he had many twists and turns that we do not judge by reading the summary. I really thought the best part of the book was when he wakes up in hospital after he became a club hit, and he finds his hook nose, if there was a shot as he will stand-by to remove the nose, but the weapon does not work as effectively as it should of. Actually the whole book was funny for me because parts funny, sad, parts, and even some things that can not even imagine you. My favorite character is Red Sharkey. It works really dangerous, because he and his family are known for stealing other things, but what he does is a good thing is even greater than it was, if he be not decided how his family and to be honest and do not steal things. But if you know him well, he has a really good personality. I must admit I thought the book would be quite different, because I it is about a child, a detective who is good, but not very good, but it is clear that we can see both, thinking I was very wrong . Looks like he did all these terrible things, but guess what he did not. I liked how it starts, when all the crescent badge disappears. Then there will be more than just a badge and crescent, a detective of twelve, should know what happened in the locks, Ireland. Sincerely, Christopher Gallegos
Product DescriptionWhen George W. Bush screamed ‘You’re either with us or you’re against us’ in the war on terror’ he eradicated the right of anyone to question his logic or challenge his new list of ‘terrorist’ organisations. These included as diverse candidates as Colombian coca farmers, Basque separatists and Kashmiri independence fighters. Lazily bandied around, the emotive, political and inflammatory word ‘terrorism’ has accompanied everything from ecology, narcotics to nuclear weapons. But one would do well to recall George Orwell and ‘new speak’ and to treat the headlines, the spin and the political justifications with the objectivity they deserve. By infiltrating the most inaccessible political resistance groups over the past 20 years, Phil Rees has sought to understand what motivates the ‘terrorist’ or ‘freedom fighter’ and to balance this against the context of the current world events and the sweeping power of US military might. Through the sharing of refreshment and discussion with ‘terrorists’ in such diverse countries as Colombia, Algeria, Kosovo, UK, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Iran, Lebanon, France, Cambodia and Ireland, Rees was able to pierce the headlines, the propaganda and the official government line to discover the human story behind the faceless, hooded caricature. As entertaining and intriguing as it is polemic and timely, this is the only book that challenges our preconceptions of just what the word terrorist actually means and how dangerous a weapon it is.
Dining with Terrorists: Meetings with the World’s Most Wanted Militants
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