State stole from the dead and now they want to make it look legal

OFFICIAL Ireland has turned its back on basic morality and fundamental decency.

Mon, 16 May, 2005 - 01:00

The Tanáiste and the Government have decreed that theft is legal and that restitution is no longer an accepted principle of a society that claims to be civilised and democratic.

The dead from whom money was stolen while they resided in long-stay community hospitals/nursing homes are to be erased from public consciousness. They are to have their years of toil ignored and their paltry pensions greedily retained by a thieving state.

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