'Hey there is a thief in your House,'

I watched Annie Hall recently and I loved the bit where Woody Allen interviews a couple on the street. They are Mr and Mrs random bland, and they tell Woody that they are really happy, as they never think about anything, that nothing bothers them and life is perfect as they don’t have any problems. It leaves Woody perplexed as he spends much of the movie contemplating the meaning of life and being utterly miserable, but these people don’t think and don’t care, they are completely bland but they are ultimately happy, as their world is always perfect.

I was reminded of this the other night, when tweeters mostly female were following the Eurovision song contest, various tweeters were commenting on the different entries, whilst others eagerly awaited Ireland’s entry. All well and good in normal times—[if we ever had normal times,] but right now when the country is in meltdown, well it is hard to take. If that isn’t bad enough down my timeline came two particularly interesting tweets. The first was a You Tube video presentation on how Ireland’s oil and gas reserves were basically given away. They were in essence stolen from the Irish citizen and gifted to wealthy supporters of political parties. Stolen, and the citizenry are been whipped by austerity? The second tweet was from RBB and it concerned our forestry.

Now RBB is a mighty man and all that, but his complaints about the scurrilous and ultimately useless government plan to sell off the harvesting rights of our forestry were far too polite, given that he is a left wing agitator and defender of the citizen. Doesn’t he realise that this is undemocratic and the citizen has not been consulted on any proposal to sell off their collateral. In any other country this would lead to anarchy and all out civil unrest, but the Irish citizen is staying at home and watching the Eurovision song contest and hoping we will win.

Let’s examine in greater detail what has happened, the greedy rich and their political and banking allies broke the state, by artificially inflating property values, and encouraging reckless abandonment within our financial services. The FF government panicked and gave silly and unwarranted guarantees. The FG government came in on a wave of false promises and lies, they allowed their neoliberal ideology to rule, with the resultant austerity and cuts whipping the poor, and destroying confidence throughout society. They have not only a failed ideology but they have even failed miserably to implement this creed—making laughable statements and foolish errors.

It is in times like this that us Joe citizens can send these cretins to hell, and began to realise our assets and collateral. This would allow us seize control from the political hacks and refloat our economy and reform our political system, but hey we can’t as these buffoons gave away our collateral to their friends. We have private individuals owning and managing crucial assets owned by the citizen. These resources are not benefiting the state, and the Irish citizen is constantly duped into thinking that we don’t have resources, or that the cost of harvesting same is beyond us, which is total and utter nonsense. Norway has a similar population to us and they are thriving using their collateral to pay their way.


The question is what is the Irish citizen going to do about this? Is it that they don’t believe that its true—do the Eurovision watchers know this all happened but just don’t care? Or is that they think it was alright for the state to gift our collateral to their friends? Maybe they just don’t believe that our representatives would allow this to happen, unless they had no choice and their hands were tied and there would be no money in the Atms? Hardly as even the lying politicians haven’t used that excuse, no their excuse is simple, we couldn’t afford to drill in Barryroe oilfield, but Gavin O’ Reilly can is he bigger than the Irish state? Nonsense a country of nearly 5 million people could afford to hire the expertise needed to harvest our oil and gas, so anything said disputing that is a lie.

So my Eurovision watchers either don’t know or don’t care about the treacherous behaviour that has done them and their children, and grandchildren out of their stake in our precious natural resources. No they hope that some faceless bland wannabe pop star, can entertain them, Mr and Mrs bland are happy out, as they don’t think and they don’t care.

We are now in essence slaves to a financial and political ideology that rewards individualism and greed. The shrines are everywhere in these dumb shopping outlets on the edge of our towns. Citizens are devoured by relentless advertisements for retail outlets--it is either cut price bacon--or half price sofa's. We have destroyed all idea of collectivism and community, our health service is so divided and crushed it is barely operable. There are countless adverts brainwashing young mothers to take out expensive health insurance, the message is simple, if you don't fund yourself the state will fail you! The state being all of us citizens, we have been rendered useless all our assets and collateral has been transferred to the wealthy.

"Turn down that Eurovision racket, there is a thief in the house!"

Irelands Junta Rules by Extortion

Ever since the coup d’état that we call the Civil War,—Ireland has been rendered stateless and without leadership. The mechanics of civil governance was reliant on the existing colonial model of legal and social order. Thus we got the political extortionist's instead of visionaries, and our society today reflects this in a unique way.

The irony of all of this –is in the stark truth that our former colonial masters have moved on in so many areas—but they have left us behind dithering and shivering. When one examines what it was we inherited from our secret coup d’état—it is easy to understand why we live in this nightmarish Cul- de -Sac.
In essence we were left with the collaborators in the Free State who had no serious opposition outside of a the pseudo republican rabble led by Éamonn De Valera-this was diluted mix of republican sympathisers who were beaten into submission during the merciless coup—[Civil War,] where not only were republicans tortured and murdered routinely—but they were also executed on the grounds of their affiliation with socialism.

Thus our Free State evolved as a mirror image of our former colonial masters—save for the fundamentals were entirely different, we had some significant differences—in that we had within our midst the fascist Catholic Church with all its power and influence. The church controlled the citizenry through brutality and its collaboration with the newly imposed government, of course the other key protagonists were the wealthy—who were led by interest groups like hospital consultants and business interests.
The war for social justice in Ireland had been fought for and lost in the 1913 lockout—and the subsequent targeting and executions of leftists in the coup d’état so the new undemocratic Free Sate evolved on the basis that capitalism knew best—and the economic hardship that besieged the citizens was allowed to fester—through lack of political alternative and the mighty dominance of the Catholic Church.

Millions of Irish people emigrated over the course of four decades—on the premise that they were born in a country that couldn’t sustain its citizens. The lie of course is in that it could and did sustain it citizens very well—as long as they were wealthy to begin with, carefully nurtured by Church and State the divisive idea of public and private evolved.
This was designed to divide society on a social scale creating elitism and allowing the professional classes to reproduce themselves, this anti citizen policy culminated in the 1950,s when the citizenry were sold the greatest evil ever to oppress them –in true neoliberal style- the introduction of private health insurance and the advocating of direct foreign [American] investment as the panacea for unsustainable little Ireland. This all took place whilst our greatest successes were actually in our public sector—again this wasn’t about any sort of ideological back tracking no this was just copy cat stuff—if the colonial masters did it—we should, and I am sure they were advising us all along.

Let us move swiftly on, to the present Junta that rule this false and undemocratic Free State, they are still using emigration as a kind of citizen cleansing and as an economic solution, they still spread the lie that this country cannot sustain itself without foreign investment and more emigration. Whilst many will point to the demise of Catholic influence –then why is it that these collaborating party members are so afraid to legislate on social and health issues—they are indeed afraid of their own Catholic constituency, and it is the only plus mark one can award the Labour party in that they seem to have held a consistent stance on the abortion debacle.

The Junta are denying the citizen its legal right to legislation and its social right to leadership in this area, but worse still they are extorting money from the citizenry by accepting the concept that foreign investors might leave, if we dare to charge them the rate of corporation tax that they initially signed up for. They allow these multi-nationals to extort from the citizen and then the Junta extort the citizenry themselves using idle threats. It is significant that they see the citizenry as separate from the Free State-in that they refuse to allow the citizen to create jobs for the citizen, and indeed they have stolen and sold off much of the natural resources owned by the citizen—which in effect is the citizens collateral.

We live in the age of spin of media ownership by private interests—where neoliberalism has spread like a giant weed—people live and breathe at the retail shrines nationwide—we have not lost our citizenship as in truth we never had it, it was taken from us in the coup d’état we call the Civil War, and Ireland has been a dictatorship ever since.