Minister for Justice accepts that his government is corrupt and treasonous

Speaking on Prime Time (1st report, 2nd item) during the week, Minister for Justice, Dermot Ahern was absolutely clear about the seriousness of the challenge posed to the Government and the State by Michael Boyce at the Garda Representative Association annual conference when he accused Minister Ahern and his government of national sabotage and more (See previous post).

If this was to happen in the army it would be regarded as mutiny, that’s the reality in relation to this.

They’re the enforcers of the law that the Oireachtas passes and they cannot delve into politics because they are crossing the line.

So what are you going to do about it?

asked Miriam O’Callaghan

I’m not going to do anything because this man is outgoing.

So there you have it. The national police force accuses the Minister and his government of national sabotage, corruption and facilitating widespread criminal activity and the Minister for Justice, the man allegedly in charge, is going to do nothing on the grounds that the routine handing over of the presidency of the GRA from one Garda to another is taking place.

This is just a pathetic excuse for doing nothing by a cowardly and incompetent Minister. Apparently, the Minister’s logic is that the outgoing president, Mr. Boyce, is being replaced by a more reasonable and loyal Garda.

Since then, however, the incoming president of the GRA, Mr. Damien McCarthy, has gone on the record as saying he agrees that the Government, Fianna Fáil and the Minister for Justice have been corrupted by years of power and he supports the (treasonous) comments of his predecessor 100% and without reservation.

The situation is now crystal clear.

The national police force is in rebellion against the State and the Government. This, in my opinion, is a legitimate stance to take against a government that has betrayed its people and the rebellion is further legitimised by the (corrupt) government’s acceptance of the situation.

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Minister for Justice

Time to replace the old rotten republic

What Irish citizens have been witnessing for the last two years is the slow but increasingly rapid disintegration of our rotten republic.

Let me be clear, this destruction of the old republic is the most significant and most positive thing to happen since independence.

The process of disintegration was triggered by the global financial crisis which had the affect of exposing Ireland for what it really is – a corrupt state.

The most serious (and welcome) incident in this process happened yesterday at the annual conference of the Garda Representative Association when the president of the GRA, Michael Boyce, circulated a speech strongly criticising the Government, Fianna Fail and the Minister for Justice.

I do not believe I am exaggerating when I say that the speech is on a par with the Proclamation of the Republic in 1916.

Obviously, neither Michael Boyce nor the GRA are declaring a rebellion but they have thrown down a very strong challenge to the ruling power which they clearly believe (just as the 1916 rebels believed about the then ruling power) have no right to govern the Irish people.

Every word of the following extract from the speech is true and it is heartening, at last, to witness somebody stand up and publicly state the truth.

We are angry at the arrogance of a government corrupted by years of power, a government whose only agenda is to protect the economic traitors.

This government has mismanaged the wealth of the country for more than a decade by allowing our assets to be plundered and robbed by bankers and speculators.

You are making generations of Irish workers pay the price for this treachery.

You did this because bankers and speculators bought your party and in return you sacrificed the greater good and prosperity of the Irish nation for the benefit of the few who have taken their ill gotten gains and secured them in tax havens around the world.

You are truly a government of national sabotage.

Apart from a military coup, this is the most serious challenge any government could face. If the police force in the UK, France or the US made such a challenge to the State there would be an immediate and strong response.

Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the remarks were

an unprecedented political intervention by a Garda representative and have no place in a modern democracy

and

No democrat could tolerate such political interventions by any member of a police force.

If Ahern truly believes he lives in a democracy then he has no option but to take immediate action. At a minimum, the Minister should immediately sack Michael Boyce and summarily disband the GRA.

The government cannot ignore this challenge and retain any credibility, they must respond with strong action or admit, by default, that what has been uttered is true and take their leave from office.

I passionately believe that Michael Boyce and the GRA are right in their assessment of the situation and that; sooner rather than later, this corrupt government will be thrown out of power.

It is only when the mechanisms of the old corrupt regime are completely dismantled that the people of Ireland can begin the task of building a new republic.

Northern Ireland – RTE's only story

WARNING: Reading the following piece may result in dangerous raptures of excitement, please proceed with extreme care.

Rachael English and RTE’s Northern Ireland Editor Tommie Gorman were barely able to contain themselves as they excitedly analysed the various Northern Ireland candidates running in the upcoming UK election (Saturday View).

What’s your sense of the fascinating battle shaping up between candidates in South Antrim Rachel breathlessly asked some guy on the panel?

And what about the absolutely fascinating news from the pivotal constituency of South Belfast and Fermanagh/South Tyrone? There’s a strong possibility that the Unionist vote may be split in this area.

My god, a split in the Fermanagh/South Tyrone Unionist vote? Such a catastrophe would surely be greater than the Haiti earthquake and Iceland volcano combined, the end days must surely be close to hand.

Tommie Gorman then treated listeners to a breathtaking, minute by minute, account of some guy called Campbell running for election in North Antrim.

I was out with him during the week, he was jumping across garden walls, going into farmyard sheds looking to see the man of the house, crossing the road if he saw people engaged in discussion. He was really keen to get involved in the chat because he’s very, very hungry.

(Tommie didn’t say whether he directed the man to the nearest McDonalds outlet).

Tommie also reported on somebody called Lady Sylvia Hermon. According to Tommie she’s had a very lonely time of it at Westminster but so sure is he of her success that he offered the following advice to listeners:

If you want to put your NAMA savings on a candidate in the elections I’d say you could put a few bob on Sylvia Hermon.

No, really, that’s what he said – put your NAMA savings on it – listen to the tape.

And as if all that wasn’t excitement enough listeners were sensationally informed that for the first time in the history of the Cosmos the counting of votes in Northern Ireland would take place overnight.

There are unconfirmed reports that RTE is to ask the RAF to airlift the entire broadcasting complex from Montrose to Belfast in order to provide in-depth analysis and everlasting coverage of this mega, historic, never to happen again event.

For years I’ve been trying to figure out why RTE is obsessed with all things Northern Ireland. Perhaps it’s because the station has invested so much time and resources covering the province, especially during the war years; that to now admit the war actually ended about twenty years ago would mean a loss of funding or even jobs.

I continue to listen to RTEs coverage of Northern Ireland, not because I’m interested in what goes on in that depressing place, but rather to witness the fascinating echo created by RTE journalists as they talk excitedly among each other about a story that all rational people have long forgotten.

Churchill, that great man of history, a man who knew the difference between great events and the absolutely boring got it right when he said the following about Northern Ireland during the House of Commons debate in 1922 on the Irish Free State Bill.

Then came the Great War: every institution, almost, in the world was strained. Great Empires have been overturned. The whole map of Europe has been changed. The position of countries has been violently altered. The modes of thought of men, the whole outlook on affairs, the grouping of parties, all have encountered violent and tremendous changes in the deluge of the world.

But as the deluge subsides and the waters fall short, we see the dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone emerging once again. The integrity of their quarrel is one of the few institutions that has been unaltered in the cataclysm which has swept the world.

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Saturday View

Government Chief Whip, John Curran – Meaninglessly spewing words

When Fianna Fail TD and Government Chief Whip John Curran was asked on RTE (4th report) about Boucher’s pension he replied:

The pension entitlement; that was a legal entitlement that Mr. Boucher did have at that point in time and there has been a lot of public concern and Mr. Boucher while having that legal entitlement to the pension at 55 has foregone that at this point.

For a moment this juvenile Gobbledygook stunned RTEs Richard Crowley, who had asked the question.

This is not surprising as I’m sure even Curran was aware he was just meaninglessly spewing words to avoid admitting the truth.

Brian Lenihan: A liar

Labour TD Roisin Shortall provided a concise explanation of the Richie Boucher scandal on RTE (4th report) yesterday.

When Mr. Boucher was appointed to the job of chief executive officer of Bank of Ireland, amazingly, Brian Lenihan breached his own guidelines because he approved a pay package that was €123,000 in excess of the limit he had set.

In relation to the pension arrangements he agreed a staggering figure that Mr. Boucher could retire within five years at the age of 55 on a pension of €370,000.

This week the minister denied any knowledge of this but the reality is he approved the package.

So let’s bury the myth that has taken legs in recent times, especially among more gullible journalists, that Brian Lenihan is the Messiah come to rescue his country from disaster.

Lenihan, just like his father before him, is a liar. In common with all Fianna Fail TDs his loyalty is first and foremost to himself, his party and his party leader. Loyalty to his country is way down his list of priorities.

Hanafin for Taoiseach?

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport Mary Hanafin was quizzed on The Week in Politics last night on the Richie Boucher scandal.

While mouthing the usual dishonest waffle that other Fianna Fail TDs have been spewing out in the last couple of days she also spoke a lot about providing political leadership.

As I’ve written before this politician is the most ruthlessly ambitious and dangerous politicians in the country. It seems she is prepared to do anything to further her career and judging from last night’s performance the bumbling fool Cowen would be advised to get a metal plate fitted on his back.

The child abuse that is religious indoctrination

The following letter was published in this week’s Irish Catholic in response to the claim by the Pope’s right hand man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, that there’s a relationship between homosexuality and paedophilia.

The letter demonstrates how the child abuse that is religious indoctrination can destroy the happiness of an innocent human being.

Dear Editor,

Is what Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said true? I really find it hard to believe.

I am a Catholic who happens to be homosexual, through no choice of my own. I was taught as a child that I was evil and that God hated me, I believed it. I used to ask him why he hated me. I used to tell him that I had done nothing wrong, that I couldn’t understand his animosity. My bedtime prayer was, ‘please let me die’.

Was it right that an innocent six-year-old child should experience such a complete absence of love? Was it not another form of child abuse? For over 40 years, I have done everything to try and force God to love me. I have been celibate with all that entails – a life lived in solitary confinement, a heart that has never loved or been loved.

I go to Mass and pray the Rosary every day. I read the Bible every day and some other spiritual book. I am alone in a Church that gives the best impression it can that it despises homosexuals.

For 2,000 years, no Pope has ever publicly said one word of support or encouragement to people like me, never denounced the murderers or imprisonment of men who cannot help who and what they are. The few words reserved for us are always condemnatory.

And now, this. If it is true, why hasn’t the Pope come out strongly against it? Perhaps he agrees with him. Christ never mentioned us, never condemned us either. Are they just continuing His silence and adding their own slant to it?

The only people who ever show charity and understanding are lapsed or non-Catholics. Doesn’t that say it all?

After being persecuted by the Romans why did they have to begin persecuting others themselves? Shouldn’t they have known better? I don’t think it will ever change.

There is no light at the end of the tunnel. There never will be.

Yours etc.

(Name and address with editor)

Maire Geoghegan-Quinn: A flawed pedigree

When EU commissioner Maire Geoghegan-Quinn was asked today on RTE if she would be willing to temporarily forgo her Dail and Ministerial pensions, and live on her EU salary, to save the state some money she replied:

Well that’s a question that I have refused to comment on up until now and I will continue to refuse to comment on it.

Geoghegan-Quinn was scheduled to give an interview on RTEs News at One but shortly after being questioned about her pensions she cancelled the interview without any explanation.

Geoghegan-Quinn has long been a loyal member of Fianna Fail, the most corrupt political party in Ireland. She is also a very strong supporter of Charles Haughey, the criminal politician who lied and cheated his way through a long career.

Her arrogance and dismissive attitude towards the Irish people is entirely in keeping with her flawed pedigree.

Minister O'Cuiv puzzled by banker's greed

When the Minister for Social Protection, Éamon Ó Cuív was asked on The Week in Politics about the €1.5 million top-up to Bank of Ireland chief executive Richie Boucher’s pension he replied:

I don’t understand why people like him who made a total mess of the banks and our economy doesn’t voluntary hand back some of what they have.

Could the explanation be that Mr. Boucher is following the example of some serving TDs, ministers and one former Taoiseach, who played no small part in the downfall of our country, continuing to draw down massive pensions in addition to a very generous salary?