Scary Halloween Blog

It has been a funny few weeks—with more allegations about Gerry Adams rising from the dark swamp. Amazingly a young woman without any factual evidence was given the freedom of the southern media, and also access to the highest office in the land. People were speculating on her allegations which were presented as been true and of great political importance, RTE informed us that many within Sinn Féin were red faced and worried. The twitter folk were going for it as well with some outraged tweeters on the verge of hysteria, the Jean McConville case came back with such venom that one could only wonder at the ineptitude of the PNSI in deciding that Mr Adams had no case to answer—as it turns out to be in the Maíria Cahill case also, that case is slowly dissolving into a report down the road job.
The whole sad mess casts great doubts about our media and its ability to feed those ‘who’s minds are made up,’ on Gerry Adams these people swallow the Free State fantasy that the minority in the North could have negotiated their way to freedom, peace, and a fair society the reality is that without the IRA they would have faced annihilation and the status quo would have flourished. The Free State politicians know this but they need to feed the ‘who’s minds are made up,’ brigade as they are their own constituency and it is a sign of gross insecurity that these animal traps are set for Adams anytime the Shinners show signs of rallying.

Indeed it has been a funny few weeks and for those of you that think I am a secret Shinner or an apologist forget it they won’t be getting my vote in the next election not a chance. My problem with them is on a few different levels. I get a great sense of pragmatism right throughout the organisation, when attacks come like the Maíria Cahill debacle they don’t all come out fighting and screaming in defence of the party, no they stay silent for days. The Shinners run for cover someone must have advised them that all stories no matter how bad have a shelf life of about three days—remember the Tuam Babies the biggest scandal to hit the state what’s happening about it—some sort of report a tribunal? I am not sure are you?

So the Shinners hide, of course Gerry Adams is a stalwart and he will stand up in the Dail and challenge Kenny and so will Mary Lou, then RTE will show Kenny make a winning retort and then cut back to studio, [they think we don’t notice] but where are the rank and file Shinners save for a few exceptions they go missing, actually it is hard to get any tweeting Shinners to engage in twitter debate—it is like they wear a gag.

Of course they are adamant now about water charges and protests after a disastrous slip round the time of the Dublin West By-election where they were outflanked by Paul Murphy of the socialist party. I think maybe that is my real problem with the Shinners their brand of leftism is soaked in pragmatism whereas I like my lefties to be strong and radical. This pragmatism sunk to new depths when the Shinners amazingly rejected all notions of republicanism and civil liberties in the process, when they supported the DUP bill on Sex Workers as in the Nordic model which criminalises the buyers of sex rather than the prostitute. I have a major problem with this as firstly the Nordic model has had mixed results yes it appeared to clean up the activity in the beginning, but many have commented that this model just pushes sex workers and their clients beyond the law and into the hands of criminality.

On the civil liberties issue, many presume those who purchase sex are abusing women, but that is not the case there are many lonely depressed, disabled, and needy people in society who often buy sex for company and for physical relief many able bodied and happy people want to buy these services also but now they are to be treated as criminals. The sex workers themselves will find their business is affected pushing many of them into poverty and possibly into the arms of criminals, the bottom line for me is that if a person can legally pay for sex in Berlin or Auckland why not Belfast or Dublin. The whole Nordic idea is utterly daft as prostitution like other society dislikes as in abortion is here to stay we need to legalise it put it under the control of state so it is safe for all.

It’s been a funny few weeks—culminating into today’s passage into winter and reminding me of the days of apples & nuts, but now like the imposition of private medicine and the persistent drive towards privatisation, we have ‘Trick or Treat,’ and have you ever seen anything like the parental supervision of ghouls & spiders webs on front doors—I remember when we went out after dark to forage alone and if you weren’t careful some sneaky neighbour might slip a garden snail into your bag, imagine the fuss now—the phones would be hopping on ‘talk to Joe,’ yes it’s funny how things change and how I suddenly realised that we can’t fund our services to any acceptable level anymore and they keep introducing stealth taxes and cutting and selling off public services imagine that, a country with just about five million souls can't produce enough indigenous wealth to fund its state and it has to be run like a business with lots of smart fellas talking about ‘off balance sheet,’ and the like, how about we pick up a blank sheet of paper and we work out exactly what it will cost us to mind each other properly and then we tell the international money vultures to fuck off and we start work on becoming self-sufficient.

Have to rush there are kids with their parents knocking on my front door looking for sweets, and saying stupid things like ‘Trick or Treat,’

Statism is the true alternative

We own this island us the human animal--we are the Irish herd, it is our territory our nation, yet we have given it over to an ideology that doesn't provide for us, leaving many in poverty with thousands of others emigrating, and peoples lives ruined from austerity.


In Ireland we formed the Free State in 1922 and went on our merry way, but let us have a look at the kind of ideology adopted by the State, [the herd] Ireland despite the impressive rhetoric of the proclamation adopted a similar system to our former political masters in Great Britain. We actually implemented many fine policies to begin with, as the herd needed electricity, its own infrastructure – a mix of state and semi state institutions that were major successes by the way, such as Esb—Bord na Mona—Aer Lingus, however Ireland was a small mainly agricultural economy with little indigenous industry, and because of this the notion that we could not sustain ourselves was born, and we got many years of Irish emigration mainly to our former masters in the UK, whilst at home much of the herd lived in city tenements or were subject to poor housing and living conditions.

After the counter revolution the civil war—coup d’ état –whatever one wishes to call it, all pretence of socialism, communism, or anything that didn’t protect the elites was dismissed, Ireland had adopted the mantle of capitalism and the freedom of individuals to excel –this is the mantra to this day, and the herd is still emigrating and many cannot afford housing and live in poor conditions, indeed many working people cannot afford the many essentials we need to live comfortably.

What is the argument –well it is in relation to how the herd wants to manage itself, if I mention statism critics go on about individual freedoms and the right to property, and to accumulate wealth, well lets counter that with how much are those rights worth? In a world where three quarters of its population live in poverty, that is the way it stands on a global scale. Where billions are spent on armaments by rich and powerful countries like the United States, whilst millions of their citizens exist on food stamps—and millions of America’s poorest work in dumbed down yellow pack jobs that resonate slavery. In truth we are seeking to trade an ideology that gives a minority the freedom to exploit their individualism to the detriment of the entire global herd, and Ireland is just a microcosm of that.

The far right are smart enough they now present capitalism as some sort of a neutral zone between Stalinism and Nazism; they rightly portray both of these forms of statism as murderous and brutal, and go as far as to claim that Nazism is fundamentally socialism with a racist caveat, of course they say all of this to deflect from the excesses of capitalism, which as stated earlier leaves us both globally and nationally unequal, and where it may give unlimited opportunity to the individual, it crushes the opportunities and freedoms for the majority of individuals through economic and social disadvantage. It is poignant they should quote a Stalinist and Nazism example, as if they looked to Norway for an example of how the state drives economics they may be forced to concede--and whilst I hold that property is the root of capitalism and all property should be under state control, that isn't the case in Norway where they have successfully married statism to capitalism--which shows how adaptable the ideology is.

The pro capitalists have their own version of [opus dei] in the form of neoliberalism which furthers the cause of unregulated capitalism, this ideology is the ultimate danger to the herd or the state in that part of its doctrine is to dismantle states by stealing the herds collateral piece by piece—this is done through the failure of capitalism to provide for the herd, either through gambling with citizens money propping up failed banks, or a downturn in the gambling markets, as in our recent history, this leads to austerity within the herd to be paid for by the ordinary herd members, then they dismantle the herds collateral by selling off assets belonging to the state, one by one they go, and when this combines with the gifting of our natural resources to the elites? The outcome is sure to be that only the strongest will survive, and those human animals that are old, sick, or disabled will be dispatched to the slaughter house, as they will be deemed unproductive and a drain on society.

In conclusion let us have a look at what statism is or could actually be, let us imagine the herd on this island, the herd [state] actually owns all of the land the natural resources the surrounding seas, so what is it that citizens –herd members need? Alright we need food and shelter, and we need good health to enjoy it, we need access to education, and we need infrastructure, we need to work if we are able to work, we need to pursue personal happiness in comfort and with security. We need the love and support of our families and our friends, and to know that our children are safe and will have prospects, and that the herd will care for all of its citizens.
How far away from that are we now—so far away that it is nigh impossible to imagine we can ever exist like that. Are we sacrificing this so as the world can be bought up by wealthy billionaire’s, surely people can see that countries are been sold off bit by bit, where sovereign countries are no longer sovereign. I believe the only answer is to place the state back where it belongs at the centre of all activity, and it is the state that should drive the economy and wealth creation as the states prime objective is to protect itself. The herd needs to take control, not in any Stalinist sense no grey uniforms, but a bright and wonderful system where the citizen shapes the world around them, capitalism will never go away but it is best controlled by strong state intervention, basically this boils down to the herd caring for itself, that is all of its individuals, not just the elite few.

Lessons from the Closure of the West Cork Railway

In March 1961 they closed the West Cork Railway the reason given was that it had accumulated losses of £56,000, the single line ran all the way to Bantry with detours to places like Baltimore and Courtmacsherry—basically this closure lead to the isolation of the whole region with both freight and commuter traffic gone, the cost of closing the line must eventually have been in the billions in monies lost to the local economy, this may have led directly to increased emigration, reduced tourists numbers, and the stagnation of industry so badly needed to sustain employment.

Well that is capitalism the one hard assed ideology that doesn’t work for the citizen but works only for the few that can take the cream from the cake before it goes stale. So capitalism was alive and well in 1961 and before that when Sean Lemass sold us the notion of private medicine. The dismantling of state started a long time ago and it is implemented with such nerve and skill that the average Joe citizen barely notices it, they use many devices such as newspapers television, religion, and movies whatever stick that can beat their drum, and it is not so much that they lie to Joe citizen no it is more that they just don’t tell all of the truth. For example people pay huge premiums to private health insurance companies to fund their private healthcare, yet they also pay income tax to fund the public health system, so why don’t the powers that be just charge the premium unto a person’s income tax bill, this would most likely work out more cost effective for the citizen but it would also mean a properly funding public health service for all citizens, the more you earn then the more you pay—fair and equal. Ah no –you can do that? Why? Well because it cuts out the profits been made in the privates system, by the likes of consultants and investors in private hospitals, we couldn’t possibly discommode them even if it were to the citizens benefit, one has to remember that these are Ireland’s brightest and best and without their little perks they might leave the country, along with the multinational corporations so then where would we be?

This is neoliberal doctrine my friends, the money ideology that keeps rich people rich and destroys communities and nations; they do this by destroying the fabric of communities, and by dismantling all idea of public service. To do this they reform public services this is usually preceded by spinning this particular service as wasteful and in need of reform, they are adept at swinging public opinion and creating a furore about dossers and costs in the public system, thus the public service collapses and is diluted or privatised, again the notion that there is no waste in the private sector, as the hard arsed serious players wouldn’t stand for it. Of course this is total nonsense I spent some time working for a large insurance group and the wastefulness was spectacular in all areas of its operation, and especially so at annual seminars where a banquet was held in a plush hotel with free drinks all night, how many corporate golf days are taken at the behest of some golf crazed MD—who fancies he is Gods gift?

In conclusion one cannot help but notice that the old style capitalism has grown some very sinister wings, the advent of globalisation has imposed an ideological nightmare throughout the world, it rains the same the world over, if one watches the adverts in Germany they run the same as in Spain and Portugal only the language is different. Many indigenous cultures are fading and losing their identities to Americanism’s and clichés from the movies, even the movies are becoming tired and boring many of them from the jaded fantasy genre—or light romantic comedies, by the way the next time you watch one of these—check out the suburban house these dude’s live in they are as we would say ‘Mansions,’ how many Americans live in Mansions? All would be fine and dandy with the world should all of this muck be societally good, and teach us how to behave and be happy, but the core problem with neoliberalism is that it doesn’t work, as in the case of the West Cork Railway it is the triumph of spin over truth, £56,000 losses led to billions in lost revenues –somewhere along the line—the hard-nosed accountants forgot the state must invest its stake in order to create profit, it is the simple fact that in this case on ideological grounds the state refused to pay, and disaster ensued.

Sinn Féin need not apologise

If you want to link violence with politics in Ireland. Look no further than the Wikipedia timeline on the Irish civil war. I would imagine some people will be very surprised by the scale of the conflict.

It was a full scale military battle between the pro -treaty and anti-treaty forces. Its history is not widely spoken of in Ireland. Or is it taught in any great detail in our schools. The reason of course is that it doesn’t suit the powers that be, to inform the citizens how their political parties began life.

The years 1921-23 were turbulent years in a state just celebrating a form of independence. But as in many similar conflicts around the world what shames our current political masters? It isn’t the fact that we had a civil war where one side collaborated with our former colonists to seize power or on the republican side it isn’t that they fought for a thirty two county republic and lost. No! The shame is in the detail. The war degenerated from a military engagement into a campaign of dirty war. Where men were summarily executed in revenge for the actions of others and where barbaric torture took place. Also human rights were continually violated on both sides. Yet it was the Free State government that held all the aces in both infrastructure, financial and military support. It appears that the people were divided but because there was no clear ethnic differences, we avoided the genocide of civilians’ so rampant elsewhere.

From this dreadful and cruel conflict came our modern heroes FF & FG. They have between them almost exclusively run the state since 1923. After the civil war the pragmatic De-Valera re-entered main stream politics and with many of the socialist and leftist thinkers having been executed during the conflict it was the centrist republicans that he mainly represented. Life went on. Ireland was in the grip of the Catholic Church, who had threatened to excommunicate republican Catholics during the civil war. Yet they remained strangely ambivalent to the needless and often spiteful executions.

So the state moved on. The country was in the main economically poor. The Ireland created after the civil war was a very unequal one. In the 50’s people like Seán Lemass bought into a new economic ideology. This was the budding neoliberalism that was born in the USA. Ireland took this road of dependency. Inviting mainly American companies to come here and enjoy low taxes. This was done at the expense of us developing our own ingenious industry, and then developing our natural resources for our citizens.

We saw the results immediately an upturn in economic growth. Improved life styles for the middle-classes. However the poor remained poor. Ireland dubious prosperity was on a roll. The 60’s brought us all new hope. In 1969 the first man stepped on the moon. But the joy was rained on somewhat by events in Northern Ireland. Irish citizens were attacked and burned out of their homes. In scenes not unlike our civil war houses blazed. Sectarian death squads roamed the streets and the police force were 99% from one community. A new civil war had started in Northern Ireland.

The Fianna Fail government had many choices to make. They could go to the United Nations. They could request their economic allies in Great Britain to solve the crises.
When thousands of refugees fled across our border they could have intervened militarily to protect our citizens. But they didn’t. So the IRA rose from the ashes and they did protect their community. Their political wing Sinn Féin were also prominent in defending their people.

What followed was over 30 years of frustration. War, atrocities on all sides. Like in all wars innocent people bare the brunt of it. Young people executed often for sectarian reasons. Car bombs, gun attacks. Knee capping! Hunger strikes, interrogation, torture humiliation. Politics clouded with fear and tainted with old school pragmatism.

Our FF & FG sat back and watched. Their main aim was to appease the British. They colluded to have the conflict referred to as the troubles. Could you imagine anyone referring to the Irish Civil war as the troubles? But the real damage was done when along with middle Ireland they colluded in the labelling of those people defending Irish citizens as terrorists.

This resulted in section 31 of the broadcasting act. Its main function was to steal from the struggle any sense of ideology, and replace it with one motivation criminality and gangsterism. Now there is no denying that in time paramilitaries’ were infiltrated by some criminal elements. But there were banks robbed to finance the anti-treaty side in the early 20’s also.

It concerns me that Sinn Fein spend so much time defending their position on the war in Northern Ireland. They speak apologetically about reconciliation and moving forward. They might be better quoting back the atrocities and the murder that took place here in the early 20’s. It was on a much grander scale than anything witnessed in the terrible Northern Ireland war. They should ask the FG or FF hack to explain these dreadful deeds and ask how they ever got into constitutional politics. The same questions should be thrown back at journalists and analysis’s made by people like Vincent Browne. War is evil it kills people. Moving on at least adds some meaning to their existence and their deaths.

Ireland's Secret Coup

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 extortionists 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 a diluted mix of republican sympathisers who were beaten into submission during the merciless coup—[Civil War,] in fact not only were republicans tortured and murdered routinely- 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. The other key protagonists were the wealthy—who were led by interest groups like hospital consultants and businessmen.

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 Church millions of Irish people emigrated over the course of the next 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.

Then carefully nurtured by Church and State the 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—but that 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.

So 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 blanket foreign investment. Whilst many will point to the demise of Catholic influence –then why is it that collaborating Party members are so afraid to legislate on social and health issues—they are indeed afraid of their own Catholic constituency. The Junta are denying the citizen its legal right to legislation and its social right to leadership in this area.

This government 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 this Junta extort the citizenry themselves using idle threats of massive job losses. It is significant that they see the citizenry as separate from their Free State,in that they refuse to allow the citizen create jobs for the citizen on ideological grounds, and indeed have stolen and sold off much of the natural resources owned by the citizen—which were in reality 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 really lost our citizenship as in truth we never had it in the first place, it was taken from us in the coup d’état we call the Civil War, and Ireland has been a dictatorship ever since.

'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.