THE ONLY ECONOMIC SOLUTION: WRITE-DOWNS FOR ALL

The pillars of society are intent on saving the banks. Not because they think the banks are good (according to them), but rather we are told that to not do so would bring compounding economic tragedy to our little nation. This is the "Institutional attitude" to both banking debts weighted upon the taxpayers shoulders, but also the "mortgage arrears" of home-owners, SMEs and Farmers.

The politicians present the spectre of moral hazard when ever "debt-write down" is mentioned. The response from the debt repudiation camps usually involves highlighting the true immorality of evictions and the twisted bastardisation of the meaning of the word "moral" by the banks and government.

The Judiciary, considering their social policy responsibilities (I kid you not) hold in their minds an "appalling vista" if home owners are not forced to give up their homes and life's works to the banks. Their sleepless nights (ahem!) are filled with apocalyptic visions of empty ATMs and food riots, the Judges haunted by the whispers of those that appointed them, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. The anti-eviction movement's usual response describes genuine social policy concerns and a mass of legal-banking pathology embraced by a willing Judiciary.

Rarely in the milieu of arguments do participants acknowledge the economic realities that will result if an across the board write down on mortgage debt is not agreed soon between lending institutions and mortgage holders. A failure by those in debt to collectively agitate and negotiate an across the board write down will only continue and exacerbate the suppression of our domestic economy; here are some visions of the future to consider....

•  Surely 100,000 homes and 1,000s of SME properties and farms hitting the markets over the next two years will only lead to a further collapse in property prices, irrespective of whether they are sold as bonds or not.

• Surely jobs created over the next five years will not benefit the domestic economy as a significant amount of earnings that should normally be disposable income is instead sent to foreign finance houses in repayment of extortionate loans from another time and place.

• Surely the intentions of banks, government and the judiciary to take possession of 100,000 homes over the coming eighteen months will cost the tax payer an enormous increase in spending on emergency housing, and this will only benefit the banks and sales industry who will gain further from the public purse.

•  It is surely the case that in refusing to agree to an across the board write down on mortgage debt, government and banks are committing a large swathe of the population, including the most energetic of our domestic business people, to long-term isolation from credit markets.

The next time you meet a mouthy member of the "Institutions" that uphold the rottenness of this state, the I'm all right Jack sort, and they say "people should pay or face the consequences", let them know how illogical their position really is. Morality and economic necessity are on the side of a write-down on mortgages.... they won't listen unless those still able to pay but living as paupers join those who can't pay and demand mortgage justice for all.

K-TECH BOYCOTT AT MUSIC AWARDS UPDATE...

Press Statement
National Land League
 23/01/15

High Court injunctions were granted against members of the National Land League of Ireland by Paul Gilligan in the High Court on Thursday evening. The injunctions remove the named members rights to attend a boycott assembly at the Irish Country Music Awards,City West Hotel. The Boycott is aimed at K-Tech who are a permanent feature at the hotel. We are proud to say none of our members made a commitment to the court to relinquish their natural born right to free assembly and free speech. All of our members and supporters salute you. 

In the teeth of the injunctions against named members, and despite claims that K-Tech will not be working specifically at the music awards - we were aware of this- but will continue to provide security to the hotel complex, the boycott assembly will be going ahead. There are numerous groups involved in organising the event which promises to be very peaceful but impressive for it. We love country, we don't like asset stripping.... The boycott continues....

Boycott Co-ordination Team

MEATH EVICTION EMERGENCY APPEAL

EMERGENCY EVICTION APPEAL...... The National land League and others recently halted an eviction of a family in Co Meath. The family are on the cusp of a deal with the banks in which they purchase the house back for the current value. The only thing holding the deal back is that the bank want to see E1,200 in their bank account for one month before signing. Obviously they don't have that kind of money, but can afford the repayments on the new deal.

The National land League of Ireland are appealing for you to donate through Paypal whatever you can to push this past the line and save this family home. When the donations are returned to the National Land League after one month they shall be put back into a general fund for the spread of the League and other emergencies of this nature.

You can donate by logging onto the main Paypal page, clicking the "send" option and sending your donation to

nationallandleague@gmail.com  

We shall keep you updated on the fund and how the family in Meath fair out, many thanks. Together we are strong.

The National Land League of Ireland Press Statement

The National Land League of Ireland

Press Statement

17^th of January 2015

West Court Hotel

Drogheda

The following statement is the official response of the National Land League of Ireland to recent High Court injunctions granted by Paul Gilligan to K-Tech Security against supporters of the League and indeed the National Land League of Ireland itself.

The injunctions in question were granted at a hearing in which none of the named individuals or the National League Provisional Committee were informed or present to defend themselves. The injunctions are tantamount to the removal of the right of citizens to peaceful protest and free expression and should be of concern to every right-minded citizen in Ireland.

The injunctions relate to a boycott-protest aiming to convince K-Tech Security to desist from their continued and increasing participation in evictions and the receivership of small and medium businesses and farms in Ireland. Across the nation, 100,000s of men, women and children face eviction or receivership and K-Tech Security have proven themselves the Security firm of choice within the industry.

The National land League of Ireland is in possession of video footage, photographic footage and testimonies revealing paramilitary styled K-Tech personnel intimidating, assaulting and harassing homeowners and farmers. One film shows K-Tech personnel communicating with a homeowner through the home front door whilst at the same time smashing the door down with a sledgehammer. It would appear that K-Tech is the Yeomanry and Militia of today. Only this week the owner of K-Tech, one Mr. McGarry, and his henchmen have been stalking the families of pro-active League members, photographic evidence of which we hold in our possession.

We have been informed by owners of other security firms that K-Tech are abandoning and rejecting morally sound contracts for better paying evictions and receiverships. We have time and again communicated with K-Tech asking them to desist from participating in such immoral activities, but to no avail. In response, the National Land League set itself on a course travelled by the original founders of the League in 1879; we decided it necessary to peacefully boycott K-Tech security.

As K-Tech are not a business householders would have a relationship with, we decided to identify K-Tech clients as our medium of boycott. We chose the Sunday World Irish Country Music Awards to be hosted in the City West Hotel on the 26^th of January 2015. K-Tech Security is a permanent feature at the City West Hotel and although our boycott is not directly aimed at the Awards, it is aimed at highlighting through the awards and to the City West Hotel the unethical and immoral practices of K-Tech Security.

In an effort to prevent us from acting upon our constitutional right to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech, K-Tech have successfully applied for a High Court injunction preventing us from doing so. We in the National Land League of Ireland refuse to recognise the Order of any Court in which we as Defendants were not informed of our trial and were prevented from defending ourselves. Such is not a court or a trial but rather an unjust decree from the apparatus of tyranny. To obey such a decree would be to cower in the shadow of injustice, we shall never do that. To accept the removal of our right to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech would be to insult the memory, bravery and determination of the original founders of the League. We shall not desist. We cannot desist.

We declare that we shall not be diverted from our course with the threat of imprisonment. We shall not be called to heel whilst half a million men, women and children face eviction and homelessness. We do not encourage or wish to see our supporters jailed for exercising their right to peaceful protest and freedom of speech, but we shall endure whatever we must to uphold those rights. If we are imprisoned we shall be prisoners of conscience and history shall know our accusers as criminals.

We say to K-Tech security that we have not yet reached the midnight hour. Our consistent offers of discussion and negotiation remain extended to you, but we ask that you refrain from participating in evictions and SME and farm receiverships during talks. This is our only condition to negotiation. If you continue to refuse our offer to talk we are left with no choice but to continue the planned boycott protest at the City West Hotel, but to also escalate the K-Tech Boycott campaign nationwide, encompassing all K-Tech customers throughout the nation.

We call on all our supporters to attend this first boycott protest at City West Hotel on the 26^th of January at 5pm, the first National Land League of Ireland boycott in 120 years. We ask our supporters to be at the ready for a further escalation of this boycott against K-Tech over the coming months. Also expect and prepare for the broadening of the boycott net to local Solicitors and Barristers who assist financial institutions in the asset strip of homeowners, small business people and farmers.

As our forefathers in the National Land League of Ireland freed themselves from the greed of the landlords, we shall free ourselves of the shackles of banks and their agents. No matter the threats against us we shall make real the words of Michael Davitt…

“Let justice be done tho’ the Heavens fall”!!!!

BOYCOTT BATTLE KICKS OFF: ARE K-TECH SECURITY ON THE ROPES ALREADY?

The National Land League of Ireland has begun its first nation-wide boycott campaign and the recipient of that dishonour is none other than K-Tech security whose main office is in Walkinstown, Co Dublin. K-Tech have contracts with family-brand retailers and businesses throughout Ireland including at CityWest Hotel. The National Land League and other groups such as local Says No groups and the Sean Heuston 1916 Society have decided to protest K-Tech's involvement in the Sunday World Country Music Awards to be held in the CityWest Hotel on the 26th of January. Peaceful protesters will start gathering at the hotel from 5pm.

K-Tech personnel in public-friendly disguises

Boycott is a peaceful protest technique started in Ireland over 130 years ago and involves informing the public of the immoral activities of an individual or business and asking concerned citizens not to engage with them until they desist from such activities. It wasThe National Land League of Ireland that first used the technique that became a central tactic of independence movements world-wide. Mahatma Gandhi made clear the influence that the tactics of The National Land League had on the Indian Independence movement. Recently in Ireland the National land League have conducted a number of small scale boycott's in Louth and elsewhere but the campaign against K-Tech Security is the first time what might be described as a nationally significant boycott has been launched since the National League's reformation.

K-Tech Security personnel have been involved in some of the most thuggish behaviours witnessed in recent years at evictions. The National League has possession of a dossier of video footage and images that portrays the day-to-day activities of personnel as they intimidate homeowners, farmers and small business owners. One such piece of footage is of K-Tech "paramilitary" workers, at the request of the Louth County Sheriff Mairead Ahern, dressed in their usual paramilitary garb and using sledgehammers to smash in the door of a home whilst at the same time talking to the person inside whose head was at the other side of the door.

A recent protest at K-Tech offices

The National Land League has exchanged numerous emails with K-Tech management asking them to desist from their activities but to no avail. Indeed, K-Tech have recently attempted through their solicitors to intimidate National Land League members into silence. Irrespective of such attempts at hiding the truth The National Land League of Ireland will be going ahead with the peaceful protest outside the CityWest Hotel at the Sunday World Country Music Awards. The intention of this protest is to highlight the darker side of K-Tech to the nation, but also those who do business with K-Tech Security. In many respects the National Land League is not only using lawful people power to achieve its aim of keeping people in their homes and free of intimidation, but is also using the power of the markets.

The National Land League expects that a little public embarrassment will go a long way towards convincing K-Tech that there are more moral ways to make a living. Unconfirmed reports from another security company recently conveyed information to the effect that K-Tech were abandoning current contracts to take contracts involving eviction and receivership. If this proves the case then evictions and receiverships may be where the money is at, but we at the League must ask "Will such Judas money be worth it in the long run?"

CityWest Hotel, Dublin

The National land League are hoping that this first national boycott protest is a resounding success. To achieve this will mean having at least two hundred people in attendance. As such, the League is asking all of its supporters to spread the details of the protest wherever and however possible. Together we are strong.