In short: There weren't protests during the 'Celtic Tiger' and subsequent economic crash and "That's what's make them [Plantation protests] so wrong and dangerous" today
When Paddy and Biddy got the scent of cash money on the breeze, they declined to do any of the jobs they felt were 'below' them. As a result, a few hundred thousand immigrants arrived to scrub your toilets, cook your food, serve your food, clean up after you, sell you your smokes and newspapers, your diesel and petrol, and everything else that needed done while Paddy and Biddy sat around selling each other houses like there was no tomorrow.
Paddy and Biddy then decided to go into the speculative property market buying up even more properties abroad. They called this 'investment'. Large amounts of cash money was both held offshore and taken offshore. They were eating out four nights a week, taking winter and summer holidays abroad, buying up fast cars and high-end watches/jewelry/technology. Massive new shopping centres were built and staffed by foreigners. Paddy and Biddy threw their money at bling and shiny stuff. They borrowed money from Frank to pay Paul. They buried their heads and decided that the good times were here to stay.
I went home to Ireland more often during the noughties: there was money flying through the air. I took the contracts I was offered and pulled numbers out of my arse to see how thick things were. People I previously worked for a hundred euros per day were now willing and able to pay four and five times that. So I grabbed everything I could and used every minute grafting, then taking the cash money back here at less than the ten thousand in cash allowed. I'd usually bring €9,999,
and declare it. That way, the Finnish system knew I was flush and didn't rely on them for anything. The minimum you had to have back then to be granted citizenship was €7,500. A bank statement was enough evidence, so I had no problems and neither did Finland.
But I saw how Paddy and Biddy were setting themselves up for a massive fall. It was a fucking clown show. I charged whatever I liked and it was handed over with a smile and a handshake with an invitation to come back next season. Irish rents were fucking ridiculous. I left in late 1999 and was paying €800 a month for a poky but clean and bright little two-bed flat I did up myself (and was then forced to pay a higher rent) which I sublet when I was away. It took until the beginning of this year for my Finnish rental fees to match Irish rents in 1999. I now pay €800.75 for an amazing apartment in Finland's most desirable areas. For seventy-five cents more today than twenty-five years ago in Ranelagh, Dublin 6.
So when you say there was no protest, you're wrong: I protested by leaving the fucking shit-hole island altogether. I protested online, through the blogs, through local groups for Ballyfermot, Dublin, and Ireland in whole. I told you how I made a difficult move rather easily by doing things my own way. My protest was to goad you and poke at you. To keep on laughing at you until you saw through the lies you'd been forced to swallow and had to puke them back up again. I protested by reminding twats like you that even with an industrial quality education, this Ballyer man decided he wasn't going to be played by your puppet government and taken to the cleaners. I kept on writing, I accumulated a near-ten thousand following of Ballyfermot natives now spread out across the world. I protest today by laughing at your complete fucking ignorance and your pathetic fear of the world at large. You stayed because you hadn't the balls to even consider anything else. Spoon fed and on strong alcohol and antibiotics. Letters in the mail that make your skin freeze when they land on the hallway floor. Kept in the dark and lied to still. Looking for people to blame. Looking anywhere, even to telegram. Fake names, cowards who refuse to even contemplate going public about their thoughts. They gang up and circle their wagons every time I poke at them with a long stick.
They want me dead.
Carved up into tiny pieces.
Because they're jealous.
Of a boy from Dublin 10.
I'm free, I'm out - and I'm in the best place I could possibly be: the happiest nation on earth. Where everything works and is on time, where the sun shines bright in summer and snow lays thick in winter. Where the girls are the prettiest. Where the cost of living is easily manageable and everything is fair and equal to all persons therein. Where the monthly bills are paid over without
any qualms - because I see all around me how it's spent.
Then I look at you: your canals lined with the world's outcasts, your parliament overrun with rednecks and cowboys. Your hopeless public services. Your world's most
excellent expensive children's hospital. The highest paid Prime Minister in Europe. Your filthy and run-down capital city with a portal to Manhattan so they can see how Ireland's working out. Your knackers, your junkies, your endless lists of dead people day after day using your shitty little roads and making you pay to use them after paying to build them at top dollar. Your elderly left to fend for themselves. Your youth staring hopelessly and angrily back at you because there's fuck all to look forward to except them paying your bills by the time you peak and retire, no money in the bank and a sliver clock as retirement present so you can hear the few remaining years you have tick your days out. Contemplation of suicide: is it even worth sticking around? Likely not.
Your children are going to learn to fucking
HATE you when they see the scale of the mess you made.
And you
DID make it - you're still sitting there at the scene of the crime wondering where all this blood is seeping from.
Paddy, Biddy, and money.
What a dupe.
Suck it up, Loser - it's you that's suffering, not I.