South Korea and Selling Our Regions?

Day 2,375, 04:54 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Brian Boru


In case you didn't realise, our President has decided to give South Korea two regions via airstrike in order to insure they have a congress this month.

You might be forgiven for being unaware of this, considering that the little fact is buried in a Presidential update concerning other matters, that no consultation with the public has been made on the matter, and that no referendum on the rental was even planned. So today, the Irish people wake up to find two of their regions have been given to another country without so much as a word towards asking them whether they want such an arrangement.

The response to these problems

The President's response to criticism along these lines has been to say that there was no time to hold a referendum, that the South Koreans came to us too late. My response is relatively simple: That's not our problem.

The South Koreans could have come to Aurora earlier, giving us plenty of time to organise a referendum. They could wait a month while we organise one now. There was plenty of time to consider the wishes of the Irish people, and there still is plenty of time. The current state of affairs is therefore unacceptable.

The President of Ireland has exactly zero right to hand regions of the country to other nations without consultation with the people by a referendum, with the exception of war manoeuvres for the direct defence of our country. The reasons for this are dead easy to understan😛 Such measures by necessity require the cooperation of the Irish people, they can have consequences for our country that have to be considered publicly, and the President cannot be given the power to sell parts of our country off alone because that is a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of one person. Similarly, the Dáíl cannot do the same collectively as territories are too important to exclude the people's wishes, so leaving it to a vote of congresspeople would also be a dangerously unrepresentative move.

Presidential Power

I'm sure there will be people who say the President has some right to do this given the alliance implications, that he is Supreme Commander of the Irish Army, and that the South Korean cause is just.

The alliance doesn't have the right to claim our regions without our consent, and the President giving them that right is another dangerous power balance issue. The Supreme Commander of the Irish Army cannot order our troops to fight against our nation without a clear strategic need for it, and as this can easily be done next month after we've talked about this, there is no strategic need for it. The South Korean cause may be just, but there are possible consequences for our nation as well, factors that the people themselves should decide upon.

There is also the problem of the impeachment. Mirek has no popular mandate to do anything this radical, he was not elected and he is a caretaker President. His job was to keep things ticking over until we could select our President democratically.

Óglaigh na hÉireann
As no referendum on the loss of our national territory has been held, as no information as to the price we have been given for our sacrifice, and for the utter arrogance shown by the current administration towards the people for not even bothering to have a separate article explaining the situation in detail, there is only one thing a conscientious Irish person can do.

The minute the South Korean AS lands on our soil, I will fight it like any other foreign invasion; with everything I have.

That may not be much, it may just be a raindrop in the ocean of damage, but the government has given me no other choice. Our traditions and principles of government have been violated, and soon, our national territory will too.

Éirinn go Brách, comrádaí.