Norway Shooting Andres Breivik The New Europe
July 25, 2011
What do you do when the lunatics have taken over the asylum? What do you do when it becomes crystal clear that any criticism of the EU is forbidden. What do you do when freedom of speech no longer exists ? What do you do when you see a European Superstate being created right before your eyes ? What do you do if , having voted NO you are told that you got it wrong ……? What do you do when millions of people simply don’t give a damn either way because they are doing quite well out of it all ? What do you do when you are condemned as racist because you oppose Islamic racism ?
What do you do when words like Racist or homophobic are used to kill even the possibility of political debate? What do you do when intolerance becomes the order of the day ….when the state and media conspire to kill off free speech ? What do you do when they take your vote away and tell you to shut up ?
The only thing left to do is kill. The young labour party members who were killed by Breivik were part of this thuggish intolerant Europe and no doubt would have been quick to tell anyone who did not share their Fascist world view that they were racist or stupid. Breivik is a strange man with some very odd political views but what he did is totally understandable ……People such as these young people have made it clear that democracy is dead and now they are dead. I for one will not shed tears for them.
“I didn’t know about sexual abuse in Kilkenny and I knew nobody who did know.
S. Kennedy.
I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING. I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING. I KNOW NOTHING I KNOW NOTHING. I KNOW NOTHING. I KNOW NOTHING.
RYAN REPORT. SEXUAL ABUSE COMMITTEE. ALL TOGETHER NOW…… I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING I KNEW NOTHING.
CARDINAL BRADY CHILD SEX ABUSE JESUIT
May 25, 2009
Cardinal Brady would have us all believe that he is sorry and ashamed by the report of child physical and sexual abuse but why should we believe him?. The Sisters of Charity have said much the same thing. The truth is of course that there is no objective reason why any of these people should even be listened to much less believed. The Sisters of Charity trained hundreds of girls to work in laundries. My wife was one of those girls. While doing this they treated the children of the rich in a very different manner. So did the entire Catholic Church. This was an act of FREE WILL by these people. No one put a gun to their heads. Both of these organisation , along with all the others refused in various degrees to help the enquiry into abuse. This was another act of FREE WILL. The Catholic Church fought long and hard to suppress reports of this kind at every stage. ‘Another act of FREE WILL. So let me repeat myself and say that there is no objective reason to believe these people. None.
The media covered up this abuse for decades and continue to do so. The ISPCC were in the front line of the abuse. The Catholic Church actually carried out the abuse. The state were the ones who facilitated the abuse . And these are the ones who control any debate in the wake of this report. The Bishops and Archbishops of Ireland will not go to jail. The Sisters of Charity who forced my wife to work in a laundry will not go to jail. Nothing will happen. Nothing. But if you or I dare suggest that immigration is not the path this country should be taking we will be condemned as racist. There will be no holding back there. There will be a rush , an indecent rush to condemn……
The media are quick to judge anyone who does not embrace the ideology of the European Corporate State as either stupid or racist and they are just as quick to repel any attack on the child abusing Catholic Church. This is not surprising as we have all seen how quick they were to support Cathal O’Searcaigh. The media are eager to give a voice to the victims but only up to a point. If the victim demands the head of Brady or Stanislaus Kennedy he will be given short shift.
Christian Brothers murdered and raped children. Nuns of the Sisters of Charity murdered and raped children. This is now a matter of record. The Catholic Church has consistently done everything in it’s power to frustrate the victims in their search for justice. This is also a matter of public record. Men who achieve the position of Cardinal or Bishop or Archbishop in the Catholic Church are not fools. They are highly intelligent and as such would of course have been very well aware of the horror going on all around them. Cardinal Brady is a criminal liar but he won’t go to jail.
The Jesuits are already peddling the pro Brady propaganda. No doubt they would also deny that S. Kennedy was involved in spite of the fact that hundreds have made allegations against her. Fergus O’Donoghue S.J. seems to have forgotten that the Pope himself knew what was going on …To suggest that this man knew nothing is to label him a blind incompetent fool but like I say fools are not elected as Cardinals. There is nothing new in the argument O’Donoghue puts forward to protect Brady. We have heard the exact same lies over and over again. This is also well documented. No matter how people try to square the circle the simple fact is that the Nazi argument ( we didn’t know ) just does not wash. It didn’t hold up at the Nurenberg Trials and does not hold up today …..The abuse and the allegations of abuse had been going on for decades. Nazi war criminals claimed they knew nothing and if we must accept Brady’s word then for the sake of consistency and natural justice we must accept the word of the war criminals. There was ,after all , little if any actual proof that people like Albert Speer knew anything. Children were raped and murdered. The dogs in the street knew what the Sisters of Charity were up to. ….The Nazi argument is just not credible no matter how often a Jesuit might shout it out.
Hitler did many good things for Germany but this does not take away from his guilt. Brady may or may not have done good but this does not take away from his guilt. Brady may not have personally murdered anyone but neither did Speer or Hitler for that matter. There are those who claim that even Hitler knew nothing. If the economic and social norms of the 50′s , 60′s and 70′s still prevailed in Ireland today , if the Church still had the iron control it had then these rapes and murders would still be going on. The only reason any of this is in the public domain now is because of economics. If it was not for the fact that many victim now have economic power ( and the political power that goes with it ) none of this would ever have been officially acknowledged …..If the victims were powerless as they were in the past it would all still be going on. Without the threat of court action not a penny in compensation would ever have been paid. This is also a matter of record.
Children were murdered and raped. Lives were destroyed. And the lie of the good Cardinal , Bishop , Archbishop or Mother Superior is still being peddled. And we have heard this argument over and over and over. Bishops and Arch Bishop have blatantly lied and been caught out in their lies yet the lie is still propagated. Brady knew what was going on because the victims had told him. They told him and they told me. The only difference is that I accepted what the victims said and Brady didn’t ( until he had to ). For decade after decade the victims had been screaming to high heaven of what was going on. The allegation had been going on for 50 years. Brady knew. And those who praise him know that he knew. The Jesuit knew also. Fergus O’Donogue knew. He’s an educated man. He can read the papers. He , I’m sure listens to the radio news. He must have been aware of the endless allegations. He is happy to take the word of Cardinal Brady so why did he not accept the word , the constant repeated word of the victims? And why did he join this branch of the Church when he knew what the Church was doing ? He is I’m quite certain aware of the constant allegations made against Stanislaus Kennedy. I have made them along with many others and will continue to do so untill my dying day. When are the Jesuits going to accept the words of Kennedy’s victims? My wife and children were her victims as were many others.
Will the Jesuits and all the rest condemn Stanislaus Kennedy. The victims (her victims ) have spoken out again and again ….Will the Jesuits accept my word, the word of my wife, the word of my daugher ? Over and over the victims of Kennedy have demanded justice……and the response of the Church and State is to call the victims liars. This is also on public record. How much proof is needed. Just how many dead children do you need before you accept the truth ? Why is the word of Brady to be accepted as fact and the word of my wife declared to be a lie ? Why do the Jesuits accept the word of Brady and not accept the word of the hundreds of victims of Kennedy ?
The Church , in which this man prospered , was involved in criminal activity on a mind boggling scale. It was these same criminals who made Brady a cardinal. These same people had more than once tried to imply that the victims of sexual abuse were perhaps not as innocent as they claimed to be….There is no objective reason to accept the word of Cardinal Brady and a host of very good reasons for at least questioning it. But the Jesuit cannot acknowledge the facts because if Brady is a criminal then what of the Jesuits. The Church has never been slow to question the word of the victims. So why is it so fast to accept the allegation by Brady that he knew nothing? Because Brady’s claim of ‘sorrow’ is no more than an allegation. The allegations of a Cardinal it seems are to be accepted at face value but not the allegations of the victims. Fergus O’Donohue has removed ( censored ) all comments I have made from his blog. Comments which I, on behalf of victims left there have been removed. He doesn’t like the truth and is quick to censor it. No doubt he would claim the Brady is entitled to his ‘good name’. All men are not equal in O’Donohue’s eyes. A Cardinals word has value but not the word of the victim. A Cardinal’s word is to be respected but the word of the victim is an ‘allegation’. Cardinal Brady knew what was going on. But Hitler’s was right – if you repeat a lie often enough you can persuade people to believe anything.
The Catholic Church is a powerful organisation ( an empire ) that has perverted the message of Jesus Christ for 2,000 years. In it’s mission to save the poor from sin ( sexual sin for the most part ) it has destroyed the lives of hundreds of millions of men , women and children. After the last great slaughter (the Holocaust ) it was they who did all in their power to facilitate the escape of Adolf Eichmann and the rest of the Nazi murderers. The depravity of this church is without limit. Hitler had a high opinion of the Jesuit Order and claimed to have used the same template to build the Nazi Party. It was the Jesuits who said , “Give me the child and I’ll show you the man”. They understand only too well how power can be used and abused.
Jesuits like O’Donohue and Cardinals such as Brady are responsibe for the abuse just as surely as if they had done the deeds themselves. It could never have happened on the scale it did without their active support. And to continue to support the myth of the Cardinals or Bishops who knew nothing is to ensure that it will happy again.
note: since posting this my comments on the Jesuit’s blog have been reinstated….like God , he moves in mysterious ways……
THE CRUELTY MAN STANISLAUS KENNEDY ISPCC
May 20, 2009
For decades the ISPCC was involved in the wholesale abuse of children in Ireland. The Cruelty Man was the ISPCC man who decided who would and would not end up in care. He did it for money. He was paid to do it. He’s still doing it today. The ISPCC , The Irish Christian Brothers , the Catholic Church , the Sisters of Charity and the state were all involved in this. Stanislaus Kennedy was also involved. Kennedy not only is not now in jail but has been elevated to the position of Member of the Council of State. In fact no one of any significance has been sent to jail.
The report on abuse in Ireland just published is a sham. It does not name those who are guilty. Not only does the report not mention the names of the guilty but it was in fact edited (censored) by those same guilty people. Victims of this church/state abuse were today locked out of the press conference called to launch the report. The Catholic Church still control the national school system in Ireland. They control much of the services for the homeless and vulnerable in Ireland. None of the abuse was carried on against children. The abuse was carried on against poor children. The church treated the children of the rich and the middle class in quite a different manner.
Anyone who claims that the ISPCC today is a different organisation is missing the point. The ISPCC , the Sisters of Charity , Stanislaus Kennedy , Christian Brothers etc etc would all like to move on …….what they don’t want is for one of their own to go to jail. And none of these people will in fact go to jail. To date not one single person in a senior position in any of these organisations has gone to jail. The report is as I’ve said a sham. We knew all these things before the report. We’ve known all about the business of abuse for years. The ‘dogs in the street’ and all that……
The media has played a large part in all of this. For decades they refused to report the facts. They continue to this day to refuse to report the facts. For years victims of abuse have accused Stanisluas Kennedy and others of being involved but anyone who tries to say this on air is soon shut up. On the other hand a bishop who quite openly perverts the course of justice is treated like an honored and indeed honorable guest on every other talk show. We are told that it’s all quite different now and that there are laws to protect children. But as I have already stated children are not and never have been at risk. It’s poor children who need protection. Give every poor person , child or adult the service of a good barrister and just about all social ills would vanish overnight. It’s as simple as that. It always has been just as simple as that. The ONLY reason that children in care were abused is because they (and their parents) had no power or were perceived as having no power…..Lets be brutally honest here. The rich are not called the beautiful people for nothing and the same applies to their children. A good diet , a healthy self image etc etc can have a dramatic effect on the physical appearance of a person….the beautiful people do indeed often have beautiful children but they don’t get abused by Christian Brothers……..
It’s all about money and power and the poor had neither. That’s what it’s all about. That , and nothing else. It was the poor who today were refused entry to the press conference. It was the poor who were abused. European Human Rights law does not protect the poor. In spite of the obvious fact that the poor are the single biggest minority group in any society there is no provision in law to protect them against discrimination. Discrimination against the poor is historically the oldest and most common form of discrimination. Poor children were abused. Not just in their hundreds but in their thousands. It was the poor and not the middle class who suffered. Children in private catholic schools were not abused. Nuns , Christian Brothers and such people made a deliberate conscious choice to give the middle class or wealthy child the best education possible but they had something else in mind for the child that was poor. They knew what they were doing. They knew only too well. 8 or 10 years in the hands of such people and most girls were fit only for the laundry or the streets and that’s where most ended up. Talk to any young girl selling her body on the streets of Dublin and there is a good chance her mother or grand mother was in the ‘care’ of these people.
At a fundamental level this report changes nothing. The ISPCC refused to hand over information requested by the inquiry. The ISPCC have shown the same contempt for the victims as the Christian Brothers have. They are complicit in the abuse. But they will not go to jail for trying to frustrate the justice system. No , nothing has changed. The abusers are still running the show.
Paddy O’Gorman The Moral Vacuum Mooney RTE
April 23, 2009
It’s never a good idea to lecture others on morality but when those others use the national airways to abuse the less fortunate in our society then we really have no choice. A new brutality is seeping into the national consciousness and for the most part it goes unchallenged. It’s become normal. It happens slowly bit by bit and many don’t even notice. It creeps up on us. It chips away at our very humanity. Men and women who should know better ……..Pride before a fall…wealth leading to arrogance. A liberal society becoming less liberal by the second. Brutality and intellectual vulgarity feeding off each other.
This afternoon( 22/4/09) on RTE Radio Paddy O’Gorman (speaking on the Mooney Show) declared that the homeless were to blame for being homeless. He said a lot of other things too…that the homeless were all drug addicts , alcoholic and mentally ill….. It was unpleasant listening to say the least. He spoke quietly as a man of some authority might…..when challenged by Mooney he held his ground ….he was sure of his facts ……he might have been an intellectual with that detached air of his. But this reasonable man was wrong in his facts. A display of intellectual vulgarity ….sloppy thinking…enough to impress the new landlord class but not quite enough to stand up to the cold light of day.
O’Gorman is a sort of itinerant nosy-parker. He will walk up to people in a charity shop or dole office and speaking in a somewhat whining social worker tone of voice talk to them as if they were for the most part half wits. It’s entertainment , show business and he, I imagine gets well paid for his trouble. But he doesn’t speak to just anybody. I’ve seen the man in action many time , indeed I’ve stood shoulder to shoulder (literally) with him but he never shoved his microphone in my direction. He studies the crowd , looking in all directions at the same time and then swoops on anyone who seems in any way in awe of him or at least of his microphone. As I say it’s entertainment …..
On the particular programme in question O’Gorman visited some dinner house ( run by Capuchins I think) and spoke to some people who described themselves as being addicted to drugs or alcohol. For some reason or other he jumped to the conclusion that all homeless people are addicts etc. I say he jumped to this conclusion because there is no evidence anywhere to back up this statement. I have been homeless myself in the past on more than one occasion as have some of my family and many of my friends and none of us are drug addicts or drunks. Being homeless is quite different from for example being unemployed. An unemployed person becomes visible to the state as soon as they claim benefit but this does not apply with regard to the homeless. O’Gorman seems to think that all homeless people present themselves at their local penny dinner hall but this is just not true. Why would the homeless want to do this in the first place ? The Government might tell you that they get their statistics from the records of the numbers who present themselves as homeless to Dublin City Council but yet again there is no reason to think that most homeless people actually do present themselves anywhere. When I was homeless I didn’t. Why would I?. O’Gorman repeatedly stated homelessness was not caused by a person not having money. Well , in my case it was purely about having no (or not enough) money. There are no shortage of drug addicted pop stars and the like but few if any ever end up homeless….and why ?……money…The reality is that it’s very easy to become homeless. A request for a rent book from the landlord can be enough to get you pushed out on the street and once on the street it’s not so easy to get a flat even if you can afford it.
Thousands of landlords will just not let a flat or room to anyone they perceive as ‘working class’. I have lived in or near bedsitter land most of my life and have lost count of the number of people who I met who were homeless. I didn’t ask them if they were drug addicts or the like but I’ve no reason to believe that they were. And I don’t recall seeing any of them queing outside the dinner house which I would pass on an almost daily basis.
At one point in the programme a couple of homeless drug addicts praised both the charities and government for the service they were providing for the homeless and O’Gorman simply took what they said on face value. Now if these people had for instance been raised in Catholic Orphanages , if they had been victims of abuse and they implied , as many have , that someone like Stanislaus Kennedy had been implicit in the abuse would he have simply accepted that ? No he would not. He would do what so many have done and told them ” Oh you can’t say that” etc. etc. O’ Gorman is quite happy to slander the less fortune and even give them a voice but they are on a short leash and they know. So they do what people in their position always do , they tell the man what he wants to hear. And they are not stupid , they know the game and know it well…….they have learnt the hard way. If O’Gorman was a serious journalist he would understand all this …..If he had been a fellow homeless drug addict himself he might have heard some very different opinions expressed. The poor have long since learned that charity comes at a cost and a high one at that. We all know that there is no such thing as a free dinner and there is nothing , NOTHING so vicious as a charity worker who is reminded of his prejudices or the fundamental ‘racism’ of his attitude to the poor. Tell any of these kind folk that you don’t like strangers being over familiar with you or that you don’t like being talked down to and you’ve got an enemy for life. O’Gorman would be far better employed if he were to ask some our fine upstanding bishops a few pertinent questions instead of inflicting himself on the less fortunate.
No reasonable person would deny the fact that addiction and poor mental health can contribute to homelessness but to claim that all homeless people fall into this category is pure nonsense. O’Gorman generalises about the homeless and is happy to do so. But his mistake comes from a fundamentally ‘racist’ attitude to those on the bottom of the social ladder. The poor , the less privileged can be , and are , spoken of in a manner that would never be tolerated if they were black or Polish. Substitute the word Blacks or Jewish or Romanians for Poor , Working Class , Homeless etc and most of our journalists would be in jail long since. O’Gorman might claim that he was doing no more than stating a truth but Derek Mooney for one was clearly disturbed by what O’Gorman was saying. Mooney showed great restraint and professionalism not to mention humanity but he couldn’t quite disguise his distaste for what he was hearing. Be it O’Gorman generalising about the homeless or some landlord/home buyer declaring that he/she worked hard to buy their home and now don’t want council tenants within a country mile of it the message is clear. Beggars on horseback. A dirty penny coin looking down on a farthing.
O’Gorman views must not go unchallenged. I have in the past had occasion to criticise Mark O’Halloran for laughing at drug addicts on RTE Radio and just today on the Joe Duffey Show yet more of this kind of thing was to be heard. I was only half listening to Duffy’s programme but at some point they were discussing the problem of anti social behaviour on the Dart. A woman called in and described how she and her husband saw some young woman buying drugs from this fellow. They (the fellow and girl) were ready to get off the train at the station and for some reason or other as soon as the guy got off this woman’s husband prevented the girl from getting off with him. She (the wife) then described how funny it was to see this girl dash off the train at the next station and go running for her drugs. She said the whole thing was very distressing for ‘respectable’ people (like herself) but repeated that the bit about the girl running for her drugs was funny. Duffy himself was not hosting the show but the man standing in for him apparently found nothing wrong with any of this. And this kind of thing is becoming far too common. The O’Hallorans , O’Gormans of this world may not know any better and clearly they don’t but RTE really should.
We see and hear the race card being used on a daily basis to stifle political debate. Anything that might ‘offend’ any group within society is VERBOTER ( regardless of it’s truth or relevance ). Anonymous bureaucrats inform us that we may not say this or that. The last time Europe visited all this on us a man called Hitler was running the show. But you can say what you like about those at the bottom of the social ladder. They no longer matter………….But , in a world where dead bodies are put on display in the local cinema and the popular will of the people (referendum) can be put aside I suppose anything is possible. I’ve said it before , the babarians are no longer at the gate. They’re all in the RTE canteen sipping tea.
Muslim Robs Poor Irish Catholic
April 23, 2009
Religion is like beauty…it’s only skin deep….But you have to keep an eye on those Muslims. That an innocent Irish Catholic should be robbedd by a Muslim in this manner must be a great concern to us all…..
Towards Integration. A City Framework
June 23, 2008
The Dublin City Development Board (along with some others) have just launched “Towards Integration. A City Framework” , a plan to aid the integration of immigrants into the wider community of Dublin. What it aims to achieve is however not very clear. Part of this plan is concerned with fighting racism (presumable YOUR racism) and the ignorance from which it stems (YOUR ignorance).
I first became aware of this campaign this morning when I went into Dublin City Council’s offices to pay my rent. Having passed the ample evidence of homelessness on our city street I arrived at the council offices only to be confronted by a whole display of literature on integration but nothing of course on homelessness…in fact the council are , by selling off our housing stock , not only making the homeless situation much worse but of course making things rather difficult for immigrants as many of them need social housing as they cannot afford private rented accommodation. (which is not surprising as many have to work for the minimum wage).
As I say , I saw all this literature and took the trouble to read it but it was all a bit vague ( except the bits about ignorance ,YOURs of course). Is all this to mean that those middle class journalits/politicians who engaged in ‘white flight’ are to be sent back to where they came from? Are the middle classes going to be forced into integrating ? No , of course not. It’s YOU , the ignorant , racist , bigoted working class who must integrate.
But the real question that needs to be asked is what is behind all of this. Why this constant bombardment , why this endless insistence that we must be ever vigilant against racism when the vast majority of immigrants make a point of saying that they have never been subjected to any kind of racism ?. In spite of the propaganda to the contrary the fact is that racism is not common in Ireland nor is it likely to ever be a problem . The working class of Britain , many of whom have been marginalised , who have seen their jobs disappearing , their wages cut , who have often been subjected to the worst kind of racism themselves have never voted in any significant numbers for the National Front. This however can not be said for the middle classes who will vote extreme right wing at the drop of a hat if they feel they are loosing out. It is interesting to note in passing there are very few convictions for racism in Britain where a white indigenous British person is the victim in spite of the fact that there are now many ‘no go’ areas for white people where if for example you are not a Muslim you will not get accommodation or employment and where in many cases you will be asked to leave the neighbourhood….. This is not some racist chant but a serious question that is constantly asked but never answered. Why this constant , endless , relentless attack on working class ‘racism’ and ignorance’ in spite of any real evidence to back it up and much evidence that contradict all this ?. Why this atavistic compulsion to shout “racist’. Indeed , as I have often remarked , the attitude in the media and elsewhere towards the working class is becoming more and more racist itself…
I am not a racist. I say this not as some kind of defence but simple as a statement of fact. It’s just a fact quite independant of what anyone might or might not think. I have never had a racist thought in my head. And no one had ever suggested that I might be one untill quite recently. And most important of all , no one has ever called me a racist to my face. It’s not that I might hit them but more the fact that it would make no sense for anyone who knows or has met me to think , even for a second , that I might be racist. I am not offended by those who call me a racist. Why should I feel offended by someone else’s ignorance ? But if such a person has political power and sets about depriving me of my right to free speech then I have a problem with that. And when such people come togeather and pass right wing laws in the name of ‘human right’ but laws which have more to do with the ‘free movement of labour’ than anything else then I have an even greater problem.
When these same people demand that I respect anti semites I have an even greater problem.
I am called a racist and a fool as I have said by people I’ve never met. Journalist and politician who would not dare to say it to my face. And this has to do with power. They are powerful , strong , while I am weak. Bullies always act from a position of strengtht. Bullies , who let fall from their lips the foulest insults against a whole class , who constantly parade themselves as ‘liberal’ while building an economy on cheap labour and landlord-ism , bullies who condemn a class because they don’t feel assured enough to argue their case face to face , bullies who presume to pass laws to protect you against your own supposed ignorance !!! ……..what can one say of such people ?.
In the USA torture is now legal. The implications of ‘waterboarding‘ go far beyond the activities of the individuals involved in this dreadful practice. America has inflicted upon itself a moral blow from which it may never recover. When we in Ireland , for whatever reason accept the practice of anti sematism in mosques or cultural centres (out of fear perhaps at being labeled racist) we loose the moral high ground. Words are important. And certain words (racist/homophobic) should not be devalued through misuse or downright abuse. When we devalue words in this way we run the very real risk of devaluing humanity. Recent history has some dreadful examples of this.
Cathal O’Searcaigh Mark O’Halloran The Moral Vacuum
March 16, 2008
I have written quite a bit in the last couple of weeks about Cathal O’Searcaigh and the movie , ”Fairytale of Kathmandu“. I have not seen the film and to be honest I have no interest in seeing it. O’Searcaigh is not important to me , nor are the opinions of those who choose to justify him in their various and pathetic ways. So this is my final word on the matter , for what it’s worth….
On Wednesday morning last I got up and had my two cups of coffee , flicked on my laptop and checked my emails. I had my little Sony radio sitting beside the laptop and , as is my habit , I switched it on without any real intention of listening to it…..I like a little ‘background noise’ , I’m one of those people who cannot concentrate without something at least murmuring in the background. The Tubridy Show was on and he , Brian Tubridy was talking to the Irish screen writer Mark O’Halloran but I wasn’t really paying much attention….at least that is , not to begin with.
O’Halloran had been involved in the Irish movie , “ Adam and Paul“, I think he may have acted in it but I have not seen the movie , he may have also written the script , I’m really not sure. The film is about two drug addicts . It’s a ‘day in the life ‘ kind of thing and we are invited to watch as they wander around the streets of Dublin looking for their next fix……It’s a comedy…… Before making the movie O’Halloran had followed drug addicts ( Junkies , as he called them) around the streets and he found it all a great laugh… We know this because he tells us so and he was having a good laugh while recounting the story.
He told a story about two young women , obviously stoned out of their minds , in the middle of O’Connell Street fighting over a choc-ice. He mimicked their voices ……he laughed as he recounted how these women (we can imagine them ) fought in the street like two zombies…..and this was just one of his stories…. He had lots of them , he went to great pains to explain to us how you could have great fun following human derelicts on the streets of Dublin… For , what seemed to me like an eternity , this man laughed and invited us to laugh at the spectacle of those ghost like figures we see wandering the streets of our capital city…..He went on and on ……while still laughing he told us about the young man trying to hold a cigarette in his hand while a needle was hanging from his hand at the same time…..and he laughed and laughed yet again. It was relentless….I sat in my room horrified and sickened hardly believing what I was hearing…..and still it went on …..and on… At one point there was a reference to Beckett and the absurd….but that didn’t diminish the horror of what I was hearing…..
- And O’Searcaigh ? …People keep referring to the fact that he did not feel that he was actually doing anything wrong. …How he was , in his own way , rather innocent….even vulnerable. They wonder why he seemed only too willing to hang himself in front of the camera……We all know the story by now.
But the truth of all of this is really quite simple. O’Searcaigh , like O’Halloran is a moral degenerate. These men have no moral compass to guide them. They are not even aware of the sin they commit. They are , in their own way , truly innocent….but in the wrong way….They do not understand , indeed are incapable of understanding that it is wrong , yes wrong to laugh at , or exploit those who are less fortunate than ourselves. And those who feel the need to say we must not judge in this way (they’ll judges us as ‘racist’ or ‘homophobic’ at the drop of a hat themselves) are no less morally compromised. These media hacks , the paid minions of their media bosses attempt to impose a new morality. Far from being independent they are the lumpen proletaritat in the service of the New European Corporate State. Their morality is ‘modern’ and , when necessary , flexible…….and you need a new morality when trying to justify the ‘free movement of labour’ itself the harbinger of the New European Corporate State. These , the paid servants of their press baron bosses warn of the dangers of racism while our most fundamental rights are being negated by the day…..without as much as a whisper from them. The right to strike abolished for all practical purposes as is the right to free speech….the homeless litter the streets , the sick and aged are treated with contempt , Ireland becomes an economy in place of a country and they have nothing to say…….nothing that is apart from the stock phrases , ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ and ‘RACIST’………….and like O’Searcaight and O’Halloran they are well paid…….and they know how to get an Arts Council grant….in the past we had a name for people like this ……They are the New Ireland……and they have the confidence (arrogance) that goes with new wealth……alongside their masters they have their heads in the trough and are feeding with a frenzy…..
As I said many times , O’Searcaigh is not the real issue and never was. The real issue is both simple and complex at the same time and has to do with the society we inhabit. It has to do with our values , our morality if you want to call it that. But it also has a lot to do with power and how it is exercised. It has to do with a new morality for a New Ireland and how to sell that morality……
The moral relativism of O’Searcaigh did not come from nowhere. He , and the many , the very many who stand by him are a product of the society they live in. Our education system educated these people. And none of this is an accident. It hasn’t just happened. There is , as indeed there always is , a very real logic behind all of this……there is an inevitability about it all….
………..’and we have seen it all before. We’ve seen how , in Hitler’s Germany , millions of good decent people voted into power one of the most evil men in history……and we have asked ourselves how these people could not only let it happen but be willing participants in the affair…and even while we ponder the question our poor , sick and vulnerable lie for days in hospital corridors….with every passing minute our society becomes more uncaring….the rich get even richer while the poor are marginalised…..there is a new brutality in the air…..we have become selfish…..We have become both liberal and intolerant at the same time… we are , if we but knew if , the new barbarians…
No , O’Searcaigh is not important….and his poetry even less so. He is the product of a new Ireland but more importantly the product of a new Europe…..Had he been born twenty years earlier he might have been a Christian Brother. O’Halloran will continue with his movie career….no one will condemn him , no one will point to the obscene racism behind his warped sense of humour…..The journalists of Ireland will continue to prostitute themselves in the pursuit of advancement in their trade…..Tubridy will , no doubt , continue with his radio programme……he will I imagine ,warn us of the danger of racism from time to time…..and he’ll be well paid for it too…
…………………and the landlords of Ireland will smile……..
”Sure isn’t it a great little country”.
You can find a podcast of The Tubridy Show HERE. It may take a few minutes to download depending on the speed of you internet connnection.
Cathal O’Searcaigh Eoghan Harris Fairytale of Kathmandu Debate
February 11, 2008
Writing about the issues raised by the movie , “Fairytale of Kathmandu” and the poet Cathal O’Searchaigh , Eoghan Harris in the Independent’s anyalsis page treats us to a few pearls of wisdom or what passes for wisdom with those like Harris.
Speaking of the poet Maira Mhac an tSaoi’s comments on the Joe Duffy Show he refers to her “forensic tour de force ” !! And what was her contribution to the debate ? Well ,she suggested that O’Chainnin’s had betrayed a friend and acted for mercenary reasons …You can read the whole thing yourself but that’s what it all comes down to. Harris is obviously a man who is easily impressed.
He then goes on to tell us that Eamon Delaney has let the cat out of the bag about the Rape Crisis Centre and that …..wait for it …….(drum roll ) …the Rape Crisis Centre has a feminist agenda…. not only is this man easily impressed but he’s also a bit behind on what the dogs in the street have been yelping about for years.
Now in case you think I’m being unfair to Harris here’s that link again (LINK) and oh , by the way Mr. Harris did manage to overlook one thing that Maira Mhac an sTaoi said on the radio , ie that young oriental boys were not as sexually innocent as they might seem. (and we all know what she really means , don’t we ). But if you feel that I might be misrepresenting her then just listen for yourself. RTE Liveline Podcasts .But the wonderful Harris is not a man to do things by half. In for a penny in for a pound. And so in true Irish fashion he drags up old history…….he opens his mouth but forgets to engage the grey matter first and thus comes out with this bit of insight …..(another drumroll ….)…
He tells us that Roger Casement ‘s reputation would have been ruined if a camera crew had been around in his day. He tells us that Casement had ’sordid’ sex with boys and then goes on to say that he (Casement ) went on to show dauntless courage fighting colonial power. Now it’s difficult to ruin someones reputation if they never had a good reputation in the first place. And perhaps Harris was a very stupid little boy and swallowed all the propaganda he was exposed to in his childhood history classes but he should not assume that we were all as stupid as him. I can only speak for myself but I cannot remember , even as a very young child , believing that Casement or Collins were anything more than thugs and psychopaths. True , the Christian Brother of Westland Row tried to convince me that these were Great Men but I didn’t believe it then and certainly don’t believe it now. Now don’t get me wrong , I’m not saying that I was particularly clever or anything like that , it’s just that I never was a complete ’thick’. Casement’s speech in the dock was a fine speech no doubt but he was talking about himself….and he’s not the first to use this world of ours as his own plaything …as a platform upon which to carve out his own destiny. History ,as we all know is written by the victor. …..and the fact that it was a Catholic school system that tried to impress upon us the virtues of Casement ( while beating , humiliating and abusing vulnerable children ) should be enough to make us wary of accepting THEIR heroes uncritically.
Unfortunatly people like Harris control the media and so dictate the level of debate. Have you notice how all these people keep referring to the fact that O’Searcaigh is a poet ? We all know he’s a poet so why do they keep mentioning it. Just last night on the radio I heard some media people refer to him almost as a tortured soul. You all know what I mean. Why this assumption of an almost spiritual nature to the man ?. Did anyone feel the need to ascribe these characteristics to Michael Jackson. No they didn’t , in spite of the fact that they both have presented themselves to the world in much the same manner. Jackson like O’Searcaigh is seen as ’naive’ almost childlike in his openness …even the body language is simular…and then there’s Garry Glitter. Has anyone tried to defend Glitter? Or look beyond the headlines to consider the man himself ? Or his predicament ?
When Eoghan Harris writes about O’Searcaigh he is of course really trying to tell us something about himself. He is telling us to look at him. To take notice of the ‘liberal’ man who understands the issues. He has his own agenda and it’s quite transparent…. But like O’Searcaigh , he has misjudged the mood of the nation. He has also misjudged the intelligence of it’s people. …..
I have just found this quote from Pauline Bewick , one of O’Sharkey’s defenders , and well know artist. “ Rapists and paedophiles should be castrated “. She would no doubt say that O’Sharkey is none of these but the tone of this remark , the uncompromising nature of it is very different from that which she uses when speaking of O’Sharkey. This extreme right wing sentiment is in sharp contrast to her liberal attitude when speaking of exploitation in Nepal.
Fairytale of Kathmandu . Neasa Ni Chainain. Maira Mhac an tSaoi. Cathal O’Searcaigh. Child Abuse Ireland . Denial and the Poet.
February 5, 2008
The film Fairytale of Kathmandu by the young Irish director Neasa Ni Chainain , which is due to be shown as part of the Irish Film Festival this month and later to be broadcast by RTE television has opened a new chapter in the history of child abuse in Ireland.
The film was originally planned as a tribute to the poet Cathal O’Searcaigh but the director (who is a neighbour and friend of O’Searcaigh ) found herself witnessing the grooming of young men and boys by O’Searcaigh for sexual purposes and so it ended up a very different movie than what she had planned for.
For the full story behind this you should go to the web site for the film at Fairytale of Kathmandu and click on the ‘press’ tab. Sharkey (his english name ) admits in the movie to having sex with many young men and boys (he uses the term ‘boys’ himself ) and claims that as he puts it , his ‘door is open to everyone’ .
But my reason for writing this post is not so much Sharkey himself or the movie but more about the reaction , or rather one particular reaction to it in Ireland. The film was being discussed today on RTE radio’s ‘Liveline’ otherwise known as ‘The Joe Duffy Show’. While discussing the issues involved Fiona Neary of the Rape Crisis Centre was making a general point about the innocence in sexual matters of young people in Nepal and how we in Ireland really could not fully comprehend just how innocent young boys are in that society etc. A friend of Sharkey’s and a fellow poet Maira Mhac an tSaoiwho was one of Duffeys’ guests took issue with this. She had been defending Sharkey and had accused the director of the movie of betraying a friend etc but at one point she said ” I find it difficult to believe (ie Asian boys being innocent) . ” LITTLE Asian boys are brought up to know about sex. ” The very clear and indeed only possible implication of this remark was that the victims were to blame.
We have all heard this kind of thing before. There are certain people (and not a few of them women ) in Ireland who , when paedophile priests were first exposed denied that such a thing was true and when that became untenable turned their attention to the child victims and questioned the ‘innocence’ of these same victims. It’s an old trick and a dirty one at that.
The Irish Gardai are now investigatingthe matters raised by the movie and no doubt we will hear more about all this in the near future. It’s by no means clear that Sharkey will end up where he belongs….there are issues here that go way beyond the case of Sharkey himself and there are many in the Irish media who will be running to Sharkey’s aid….!!!!!. But what must be said , and stated clearly is that shifting the blame to the victim is never acceptable. The moral bankrupcy which is represented by people like Maira Mhac an tSaoi is something that has been inflicted on children , vulnerable children in Ireland for far too long. Those like Mhac an tSaoi have no role or place in a civilised society. If she had honor she might do the honorable thing……but that would require courage…..and a conscience.
For a fuller understanding of the situation in Nepal see ….”A Situational Anyalsis of Child Sex Tourism in Nepal “.
UPDATE: Since I posted this story the supporters (and there are many ) of Sharkey have been rushing to defend him. Fellow poets and neighbours have been telling us what a wonderful man he is and making much of the fact that what he is involved in may not be illegal in Nepal. It’s quite frightening to hear such people ……they speak of him as a good neighbour , a pillar of the artistic community…..in short we are hearing the same mantra that was put forward while Christian Brothers and Catholic priests were destroying the lives of children in schools and orphanages throughout Ireland. If ever there was an instance of moral relativism then surely this is it. Thousands of Irish men travel to places such as Nepal and Thailand on a regular basis and do so for the sole purpose of having sex with vulnerable young people. The issue here is not only a matter of legality but also one of morality. But it seems that if you a famous poet or a good neighbour these thing just don’t matter.
17 February 08. Just now on the Joe Duffey Show the Irish artist Pauline Bewick has come to the defense of O’Sharkey. She is at the moment working to illustrate a book of his. The entire artistic community of Ireland seems to be falling over itself to protect Sharkey with a total disregard for the victims. She claims her support for him is based on the merit of his poetry and her ‘gut feeling’. She has also described him (as many have) as a very innocent man. She then brought up the age of the victims and the fact that it may not have been illegal. I find myself lost for words. How many more Irish people are going to come forward trying to justify a 50 plus year old man having sex with young boys. It must be stressed here that a sixteen year old boy in Nepal is about as mature in sexual matters as a ten year old Irish boy. Paula Bewick like many others uses the logic that as O’Sharkey is a friend of hers then he cannot be a bad person. In short they and she are using the same argument used by those who stood by as Irish priests and Christian Brother abused vulnerable children here in Ireland. As I said when I first put this post up on my blog , there is more going on here than concerns Cathal O’Scearchaigh…..there’s a hell of a lot more going on and it doesn’t reflect at all well on our Irish society. If the movie ‘Fairytale of Kathmandu’ was about an unemployed man or someone like that none of this would be happening. And the fact that O’Sharkey has been outed by , so to speak , a fellow member of the artistic community is not without significance. And in Ireland the arts and media often overlap which might explain the relative quietness of most of the media in Ireland on this whole matter. Hot Press is due to publish something next week about this business and the author is ‘very angry’ at how Sharkey has been treated while Gay Community News is claiming that it’s O’Sharkey who is being exploited….But I predicted as much when I first posted this in my blog……and I’m not physic or anything like that. Modern Ireland , and the self proclaimed ‘liberal’ elite does not like having what it see’s as one of it’s own being put in the spotlight like this. And the reason is of course that they feel , consciously or otherwise that it’s they who are being judged. Indeed , indeed and as I also said earlier, this story is about a lot more than Cathal O’Searcaigh.
