If I were Dictator of this country

CillianL

In the last few years we've seen a collapse in the public's faith in the justice system seeing how elites in the boom years bankrupted this country and yet have got away unscathed.

So I keep thinking that a dictatorship could deal with such problems much more effectively...

I for one would stick the heads of the Anglo-Irish board, financial regulator pre-2008, and the successive Fianna Fáil cabinets on O'Connell Bridge as an example to wanton traitors....

Has anyone ever had these megalomaniac thoughts ever?

And what would you do in power????

alchemist33

I would stick the heads of anyone else who ever had megalomaniac thoughts on O'Connell Bridge as an example to others.

carly_86

Make everybody work including children

antodeco

Remove the R and you have a gay flavoured packet of crips.

Dick Tayto

CillianL

CillianL wrote: »

In the last few years we've seen a collapse in the public's faith in the justice system seeing how elites in the boom years bankrupted this country and yet have got away unscathed.

So I keep thinking that a dictatorship could deal with such problems much more effectively...

I for one would stick the heads of the Anglo-Irish board, financial regulator pre-2008, and the successive Fianna Fáil cabinets on O'Connell Bridge as an example to wanton traitors....

Has anyone ever had these megalomaniac thoughts ever?

And what would you do in power????

Power Corrupts and Absolute Power corrupts absoultely! But i like your idea of putting traitors heads on sticks in fairness

oldat31

Make myself rich!!!! Then live it up.... Oooops thats what they are doing now...

davet82

kill public sector unions, cut the dole, kill all public servents, kill all politicians, make it law to have any woman i want, bring in the death penalty for even petty crime, legalise drugs and that pretty much covers the rest of the replies to this thread, did i miss any? :P

zenno

I'd have all you people confined to quarters (work) and cleaning chores 12 hours a day and the slightest grump off any of you would be 3 days in a detention facility without food or water while i spend my time converting the rest of you to alienomics.

Chuck Stone

Tax the pensions of the politicians and civil servants who presided over the economy during the celtic pyramid at 99%.

Seize all the assets and property of property speculators/banksters who screwed up.

Seize all church property and give it to the victims of clerical abuse.

Tax the wages of anyone who gets paid from the public purse over 80K PA at 70%.

Burn the bond holders.

Reduce corporation tax.

Increase minimum wage.

Do away with VRT.

Reduce the price of petrol/diesel by 20c per litre.

DonkeyStyle \o/

CillianL wrote: »

I for one would stick the heads of the Anglo-Irish board, financial regulator pre-2008, and the successive Fianna Fáil cabinets on O'Connell Bridge as an example to wanton traitors....

Missing an opportunity there, you could just put them in stocks and charge people €50 to give them a punch in the face, €30 for a kick up the arse and €10 to spit on them. Can we do this instead of inventing new taxes? You'd get a lot more voluntary compliance.

Mr.Crinklewood

I`d introduce...

A one cent tax on texts.

A fifty cent tax on every GB of data downloaded by the home user.

A household tax linked to the total square footage of your windows.

A twenty cent tax on all alcoholic drink on St.Patricks day.

A ten Euro annual tax on all mobile phone / laptop / tablet devices.

A Two Hundred and Twenty Euro tax on silly ****ers who stop at the landing at the top of escalators and refuse to move, even when there is a massive queue building up on the bloody escalator.

Curly Judge

I wouldn't mind laying my hands on the chancers involved in this fiasco.

:http://www.independent.ie/national-news/siptu-slush-fund-still-shrouded-in-mystery-2372992.html

Two years gone by and still no one in jail or any substantial proportion of the money paid back.

Not a "heads on spears" man myself but if you are short handed for a bit of tarring and feathering give me a shout.
Leaving the perpetrators of this outrage without a pot to piss in, would also be highly appropriate.

swimming in a sea

clean up Dublin, knock down all the 1960 prefab looking buildings like the esb building, get some building going put back in the nice Georgian buildings where they were knocked.

For derelict buildings I would serve all the owners a "use it or lose it" notice.

Zero tolerance on beggars and junkies in the city.

Lawrence1895

- Ban of all motorized traffic on the way, that I'm using into work and back
- Night curfews for minors
- Make it compulsory to support Shels and to go to Tolka Park at least very second match with a minimum spend of 10 Euro in the Bar

Zebra3

Proscribe the Roman church, FF and FG.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Burn the bond holders.

I'm with you on that so long as you are talking literally. :pac:

abba twar screams

make everyone earning over 200k per year live on social welfare rates for a month to give them a bit of perspective

Lawrence1895

Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa

Jarren

would send all junkies/zombies to Aran Islands:pac:

zenno

Lars1916 wrote: »

Yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa

He's destroying cannabis plants, that's out of order. :rolleyes:

hatrickpatrick

All of the banking system fraudsters could easily be dealt with without a dictatorship, if our current government had any f***ing balls.
If it wasn't illegal, MAKE IT ILLEGAL. Draft NEW legislation to make sure nobody can ever get away with that golden circle crap again.

zenno

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

All of the banking system fraudsters could easily be dealt with without a dictatorship, if our current government had any f***ing balls.
If it wasn't illegal, MAKE IT ILLEGAL. Draft NEW legislation to make sure nobody can ever get away with that golden circle crap again.

The controllers are all involved so why would they draft new legislation that would hurt them ?.

Lawrence1895

zenno wrote: »

He's destroying cannabis plants, that's out of order. :rolleyes:

He destroys everything, you want. it's just a question of imagination

Soups123

I'd remove the letters A and O from the alphabet

Lawrence1895

Soups123 wrote: »

I'd remove the letters A and O from the alphabet

You would end up with the user name 'Sups123' then

Mr.Crinklewood

Soups123 wrote: »

I'd remove the letters A and O from the alphabet

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Soups123

Lars1916 wrote: »

You would end up with the user name 'Sups123' then

Thats an improvement on the randon Soups123 I chose, would appear more like a drink of Guiness than Campbells

eth0

Make sex education a compulsory leaving cert subject. I'd see how that goes for about 2 years, then I'd bring in a practical exam.

No good in bed == no place in college. That'll learn em.

fishy fishy

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

All of the banking system fraudsters could easily be dealt with without a dictatorship, if our current government had any f***ing balls.
If it wasn't illegal, MAKE IT ILLEGAL. Draft NEW legislation to make sure nobody can ever get away with that golden circle crap again.

they won't do that because they are themselves probably in the midst of one this very minute.

OldNotWIse

antodeco wrote: »

Remove the R and you have a gay flavoured packet of crips.

Dick Tayto

I actually looked at your post for 7 seconds trying to figure that out

Napper Hawkins

Soups123 wrote: »

I'd remove the letters A and O from the alphabet

There is n wy tht culd fil.

OldNotWIse

I'd make striking a sackable offence.

kincsem

• All prisons on islands off the west coast. If you want to stay warm wear a jumper. No TV. Read a book.
• Tax of 1000% on hoodies, spray paint, piercings, and tattoos.
• SUV and 4x4 drivers have to prove their need for those vehicles, and their ability to drive them off road in the mountains. Also prove you can dig or winch out the vehicle. Repeat test every year.
• Cars confiscated and sold at auction if the driver uses a phone when driving.
• No parking within half a mile of schools (unless a resident.)
• TDs and senators paid by the hour, and they have to swipe in. Daily checks by citizens to see that TDs are not being swiped in by their mates. Dismissed if fiddling time or expenses (expenses backed by receipts.)

OldNotWIse

I'd have ATM's that can dispense coins for all those "day before payday" days when you have nine euro in your account.

tayto lover

davet82 wrote: »

kill public sector unions, cut the dole, kill all public servents, kill all politicians, make it law to have any woman i want, bring in the death penalty for even petty crime, legalise drugs and that pretty much covers the rest of the replies to this thread, did i miss any? :P

I'd have you committed to a mental asylum.

OldNotWIse

kincsem wrote: »

• All prisons on islands off the west coast. If you want to stay warm wear a jumper. No TV. Read a book.
• Tax of 1000% on hoodies, spray paint, piercings, and tattoos.
• SUV and 4x4 drivers have to prove their need for those vehicles, and their ability to drive them off road in the mountains. Also prove you can dig or winch out the vehicle. Repeat test every year.
• Cars confiscated and sold at auction if the driver uses a phone when driving.
• No parking within half a mile of schools (unless a resident.)
• TDs and senators paid by the hour, and they have to swipe in. Daily checks by citizens to see that TDs are not being swiped in by their mates. Dismissed if fiddling time or expenses (expenses backed by receipts.)

I'd make them do the same with their inbred, over priced pedigrees too. "Say, do you actually need that St. Bernard? There's no snow forecast this winter. Oh and you there, whats with the husky on a lead? Lose your sleigh?"

Curly Judge

It's been proved that the death penalty doesn't prevent murder.
So I'm against it!
However, I would introduce the death penalty for illegal parking because that would most assuredly work.
I mean, it's only logical

zenno

kincsem wrote: »

• All prisons on islands off the west coast. If you want to stay warm wear a jumper. No TV. Read a book.
• Tax of 1000% on hoodies, spray paint, piercings, and tattoos.
• SUV and 4x4 drivers have to prove their need for those vehicles, and their ability to drive them off road in the mountains. Also prove you can dig or winch out the vehicle. Repeat test every year.
• Cars confiscated and sold at auction if the driver uses a phone when driving.
• No parking within half a mile of schools (unless a resident.)
• TDs and senators paid by the hour, and they have to swipe in. Daily checks by citizens to see that TDs are not being swiped in by their mates. Dismissed if fiddling time or expenses (expenses backed by receipts.)

I can agree on this for sure. The tattoo part though would destroy me from a €1,000% TAX.

Cars confiscated and sold at auction if the driver uses a phone when driving.

I agree with this completely. Who would trust a driver to drive a stick with one hand ?.

Pompey Magnus

When voting in a referedum your ballot paper will have 3 randomly selected basic questions relating to the referendum. Any ballot paper which gets less than 2 correct answers will be deemed invalid.

Perhaps something similar for general elections. 3 questions relating to basic national policies of the various major parties or indepentent candidates.

Anyone who just unquestionly votes for the party that they inherited from their parents or for the guy who filled the pothole outside the house should have no say in the running of this country.

Rothko

All the scobes and skangers in the country would be forced to move to Aran island where they will all fight it out in a Battle Royale-like tournament.

abba twar screams

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I'd make striking a sackable offence.

Is that yourself, Michael O' ?

CillianL

I think I'd also have to deal with the PC trolls who take offense too easily
I'd make them cut all the grass in the phoenix park...with a nail clippers

I like the stocks idea, it could actually make more money than executions and I agree with the destruction of the junkies idea it would save a fortune for this country!

Stained Class

Make Motor tax 100euro a year, regardless of vehicle.

Drug dealing punishable by death. (No Compromise on this).

Sale of size 16 clothes & over banned.

Compolsory Irish in schools abolished with immediate effect.(wasta money)

Long term Dole scroungers given food vouchers instead of cash.

Zero special benefits for the Travelling Community.

Mr_Right

This thread is pointless!

Rigol

Any male aged 7 - 18 who satisfies any 2 of the following criteria is given a suspended sentence of 10 years.

1. Can pull a wheelie on a bmx.
2. Presently has or ever had a 1 blade haircut.
3. Is named Anthony or Damien.
4. Wears or has worn no top ourdoors during summer.
5. Is related to someone who has a rothweiller.
6. Has dined outside a chip-shop more than once.

noxqs

I would introduce:

1) A two tiered judicial system, one for my fellow banksters and one for the average joe.

2) Massive pensions to all top public sector workers

3) Private slush funds for union officials, backed by government cash such as the HSE.

4) Hire my pals to top positions within the government and quangos, and party hard with all the money we funnel out.

.. wait a second, this sounds familiar...

- Nah, lets just put poison in Dutch Gold beer, that should remove half the social welfare bill.

EclipsiumRasa

The Weekly Organised Religion Egg & Spoon Race:

• Every religion operating in Ireland has to send a member to perform an egg race the length of O'Connell Street in Dublin, every week on Saturday morning. Otherwise, it gets written into law as a dangerous cult and gets hunted down by the army, who could use a little excitement (I am a dictator, I want a happy army who are looking forward to the weekend).
• Statistics are published weekly and updates given during the Lotto. Whoever is losing the most is not protected by the blasphemy law and journalists are allowed discuss the religion as "least likely to endorse an actual diety"
• Most consistent winners are not allowed to be called a religion, and must instead call themselves "profession egg-and-spoon-racer team"
• There are no laws against the open carrying of water pistols on O'Connell street. This extends to foreign TV crews, who may now represent a significant source of national income.
• Anyone who drops the egg has to start all over again from the start. Rules are rules!
• The event is never called off, regardless of riots, hurricane conditions, several feet of snowfall. Plainly the one true diety works in mysterious ways.

Additionally, I can be voted out without need for a violent popular uprising, but I demand a golden parachute before I'll leave. Not a large cash sum: I want an actual parachute made of gun. Doesn't have to be 1:1 scale, I'm not in it for the money; I'm a patriot.

Alan_Curry

If I were dictator of this country, I would rejoin Ireland with the United Kingdom, force the Irish the accept British rule and force them to identify with Britain. I would outlaw the Irish language and anything that symbolizes the Irish culture. Alcohol would have to be banned, too, along with GAA matches. Ireland would have to directly answer to Westminster and Irishmen would be eligible for conscription into the British army.

I would also have gingers sent to extermination camps and have them wiped out.

eth0

Pompey Magnus wrote: »

When voting in a referedum your ballot paper will have 3 randomly selected basic questions relating to the referendum. Any ballot paper which gets less than 2 correct answers will be deemed invalid.

Perhaps something similar for general elections. 3 questions relating to basic national policies of the various major parties or indepentent candidates.

Anyone who just unquestionly votes for the party that they inherited from their parents or for the guy who filled the pothole outside the house should have no say in the running of this country.

But for now i can just buy a few wheelbarrows worth of tar and fill potholes for a day or 2 while telling people to vote for me?

Doesnt seem like a bad gamble, couple of quid for the tar and 2 days actual work with a good chance of getting a 5 year dos job and 450k

hightimes1

if i were dictator of this country i would place a voting button in every household of this country and make them vote on everything that affects them

Wee Willy Harris

i'd enforce my own distinct flavour of crisp on you all

jugger0

First off id ban alcohol and cigarettes. Every man in the country would have to do a minimum of 1 years service in the Army which i would turn into the most elite ass kicking force in the world, id buy a shed load of vehicles and long range missiles. All women would be required to have at least 3 children to give us a decent supply pool of human resources. The best soldiers would be sent undercover into the occupied counties to shoot and blow up the enemy, then when things were really getting close to civil war up there id send in the entire army and carry out cruise missile strikes against as many military installations in mainland Britain as i could. Once the Brits were blown back to the stone age we'd move in and start the plantations, id ban the English language and the playing of cricket, all ulster Scots would be sent to Barbados as slaves, the welsh would be sterilized, everyone would work as slave labor for the rest of their lives...