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category international | crime and justice | news report author Friday March 30, 2007 20:44author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social justice and ethics Report this post to the editors

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My dream began the other night when Joe Duffy - the legend, was on his way out of RTE studios - he said to Derek - I don't envy you Derek, believe me. This f........ insect has caused me and my Lifeline staff nightmares since last March.

As we speak the Stroker Fahy is preparing for prison on Tuesday. His 97 year old mother is taking up residence in Galway with a far out cousin of Berties.

Does anybody out there remember the Stroker McSweeney? This guy came in from America two years ago under Government approval - as Chief Advisor of Science and Environment to the Government. He turned out to be a Walter Mitty - the phd was created by no less than Podge and Rodge. This man was let go - I ask - Why was he not charged with Corruption too?

This evening I heard Frank Shortt speak with Mary Fahy on DriveTime Radio 1. This man spoke of his 27 months caged in prison as a result of two Gardai, both now sacked. Frank Shortt spoke of his long letters of help to Ministers at Dail Eireann and the failure to reply. His wife had to get a cleaning job to feed their family. He felt no bitterness - Mr. Shortt even sympathised with the families and wives of the Gardai concerned. This is humanity and forgiveness.

There is hope in the words of Frank Shortt to clean the sewers of Irish society now. Corruption and Denial and Inequality need to be broached and dealt with - Let us too never forget John Carthy, on that Holy Thursday in Abbeylara.

Let us not forget tonight the Wheelock boy in Dublin, the Rossiter boy from Clonmel, and Gary Douch who was butchered to death in a 6 man cell in Mount Joy prison 6 months ago - when nobody helped. (KT)

Last week, there was a lightening strike of a Criminal Justice Bill which would have a severe impact on the Civil Rights of the people of Ireland. Luckily, a halt was put to it at the Last minute by Minister for Justice Aengus O'Snodaigh for Sinn Fein........this facilitated Barristers and solicitors to consolidate their views.......we await now and see.

Justice delayed is Justice denied.........It is my understanding that the death of a person in suspicious circumstances puts in place the procedure that finds it way to the DPP if the evidence is suffice. Then the duty is for the DPP to apply the 50/50 rule. This concerns an outcome that goes forward to the appropriate court or is laid to rest.

I would like to remind people of a very tragic and sad happening before Christmas. The Evening Herald reported a young woman in Kilkenny who had been found dead in her home.........her mother, a pscyhiatrist, was found semi counscious. The young girl, it was thought had died from head injuries. The mother still remains within the Pscyhiatric care of St. Patrick's Psychiatric private hospital in Dublin. Months have passed. I ask the question why the silence? MC

Quarryvale is to be reported on Sunday....thanks to the Business Post winning the Supreme Court yesterday. The public will receive some truth on Sunday thanks to the courage of the Business Post and their staff.

I urge Jackie Healy Rae and Paidi O'Shea to encourage every woman, man and child to buy the Business Post on Sunday - Co. Kerry

Tonight I ask the question why is poor Fahy going to prison for one year on Tuesday when we have had Paddy the Plasterer, Mick the Slip, Bertie and Manchester, McDowell the junior counsel for Owen O'Callaghan who is heavily involved in the Mahon Tribunal.

For the last 3 years McDowell has spoken about the Criminality in the Republican Movement and Michael - you are right,,,,,,,you shared power with them = The Republican Party and Bertie is the Chief of Staff. It makes Slab Murphy look like a leading member of the Legion of Mary and Pat O'Neill the patron saint of Ireland.

Back to serious stuff - rushed law is bad law, ask any Judge or former prisoner. When 140 barristers including Ivana Bacik, Reid Professor Law at Trinity - it is advisable to take it seriously. If the Mad Mullagh gets away with this, we face next the id card scheme (similar to Berlin in 1939) and even your Jack Russell will have to have his id or else it is the PD Pound for him.

Let's wake up tonight and get the name PD right -to the ordinary Irish citizen it means prevention of democracy but for some D4 and D6 elite it means protection of personal power and dynasty. What is the answer? I don't know - this country is steeped in corruption.

Last night Superintendent Fitzgerald was arrested in Co. Galway. It is alleged that he was under the influence of alcohol and was driving an unmarked state car - I am saddened for him family. He is only 1 month in the job as Head of Traffic for the West of Ireland region.

Durkheim the Sociologist wrote about Anomie, a form of suicide. Mental health to me can be summed up in one word and that is 'anomie'. It is when the sensitivities of human beings clamber for air and participation in a society that sees them as leeches.........

Yesterday - I listen to yet more words from Dr. Owens - the Mental Health Commission. Why are these people who are in a position of power and can make changes so removed? Why do psychiatric patients have half the budget i.e. that diminishes each year over the last few decades. Why are the mental health conditions in the prison so Base?

Anomie 18th century conjured up apathy and out of this came the most horrific asylums like Bedlam in London. This was the place that people would go to look to know just what they did not want to be like.

What is different? Anyone who reads the papers yesterday can see the horrors that our Government are mainly responsible for. It is not as if proto-type models do not exist.....yes, it is for those who have serious money. In the UK, there is the Priory, Ireland there is St. Patrick's...........where if you have euros 4,000 per week for a specific duration, a multi-disciplinary team will work on your alcohol problem and mental health difficulties. This is a new (but highly obvious) approach alongside other areas relating to addictions, mental heath and alcoholism.

Surely the State ought to take example from Psychiatrists and Psychologists who are innovative and hold inherent kindnesses and stop the anomie towards those they see as non productive. Money is needed but compassion also ought to have a place on the Agenda. Communication is essential with 'us'.......Why such fear in those who control the mental health system and distribution of funds?(MC)

When 144 barristers feel concerned over a Bill on Justice and Equality. Sean Gillane is one of the best barristers in this country - McDowell is said to not like him - the mirror on the wall. Tonight I ask the question to all of you post May of this year - your mother, father, brother, sister, neighbour, friend is out at a birthday party or a wedding whatever........some decide to walk home drunk and disorderly - Gardai appear and tempers flare now technically the two can be held for 7 days in detention for questioning - this new Bill is not about Gangland, it is about the State having control over all citizens ---- Would people out there ake up? We are now back to the Paddy Cooney Fine Gael Heavy Gang days of the 1970's.

I will close by saying tonight where are all the Civil Rights/Lefties these days. Where are all the Catherine Butterly's, Caitriona Ruane's; Mary Lou's and above all I don't hear our friend Joe Higgins - Is he under house arrest by McDowell? What is going on.

The other night after 8 pints of Bass in Fagans pub went home. In bed he read - the Great Escape and tears came down his eyes - like Yeats missing Maud Gonne and my friend Joe Murray at Ben Bulben, Bertie's eyes filled with tears missing Cecilia...... Even the cobbler is a far gone memory now.

Before I go, I ask one question tonight - Has Arthur Lowe in Dad's Army - sorry I meant the Gardai Reserve - Have they made an arrest now. Rumour has it they surrounded a creche in Summerhill last Monday.....50 3 year olds were alledgedly smoking hash. It turned out when the Real Robot Cop came from Mountjoy Station - the toddlers were only playing with paint and doing images from Podge and Rodge of Bertie and the Mad Mullagh. How can we in this country get real?

Quotation:
Justice is served in Bertie's tent at the Galway Races - when you bow and say the famous words - you are the greatest of all Romeo's Bertie and Thank You for letting me pay Euros 21 million in tax instead of the 480 m. that I owed.......Bertland Bailey Rusell Author and Philosopher.........

author by Jack Russell - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Fri Mar 30, 2007 23:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A tall order to assuage the mandate of the people, this time around.

author by TJpublication date Sat Mar 31, 2007 08:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Related Link: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
author by John McDermott - Removefiannafailpublication date Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thats a good post.Very good. As you mention Joe, I have just completed a small u tube video with his stirring speech added. Spread the word. Strengthen the few troops out there. An election is looming.

Copy and paste: http://www.youtube.com/v/2Ey_V5PiCv8

Seven restless graves in 2007.
Seven restless graves in 2007.

Related Link: http://www.youtube.com/v/2Ey_V5PiCv8
author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Inclusionpublication date Tue Apr 03, 2007 01:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It gives perspection.

Michelle

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics: Dignity publication date Tue Apr 07, 2009 18:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Today, I had hoped the interim budget, to meet the inordinate debt due for the remainder of this year of Euros 8 billion projected by some Economists. This is just one of 5 years or more.

The words we need to focus on: are the emergency Govt. intervention nationalisation of our main banks. These banks that followed the global trend to lend and lend without really lookinbg to the securities necessary to substantiate the loans.

What happened Central Bank regulations......well, | suppose, when we flipped from the IEP in 1995 to the Euro, a more lax approach by Central Bank was acceptable. It is not unreasonable for thoase involved in Central Bank to become more lenient, and less concerned with the practices of the banks. After, all the EU were in the governance position of Ireland now i.e the 26 counties.........Stg governs in the North (and we all know what competition exists due to devaluation presently)........

Then there is the US.......the major benefactor of the Tax breaks of the IFSC ........ and the historical link with the Emerald Isle. It is quite Ironic that a considerable amount of the back room work of the US banks can be carried out in these tax break areas. Even more strange is the fact that the infamous Private Equity funds, the Hedge funds, the derivitative, are probably emanating out of the back room venues in the like of the IFSC.

This budget is not getting to grips with the Celtic Sewage.......its about snippets at the vulnerable and neither listening, seeing the points that would construct a means of meeting the debt.

Onr more point, it was Hoover that was approached at the time of the 1929 Stock Market crisis....... he is one of the people who is regarded to have pulled the US through the Depression. We need for our ministers to extending their readings.......and learn a little from history. Hoovers' specialty I think was engineering and a drive on reconstruction.

I walked a little further today and I must report the plain people of Ireland are already showing initiative. The shop opposite the head office of the Bank of Ireland - Baggot Street had an ordinary sheet of A4 paper with a message:

Simple agenda.....let us meet 23rd April 2009 at Larry Murphy's pub. What we can do; exchange.........basically, use the net, share, email, keep informed and I add to this get as Jar and collect small change in payment of the National Debt.... It would work.......

Then.........pass the parcel of gold a little further.......what about all the old Irish currency that can be exchanged to Euros......They say it is as much as Euros 342 m.

We need these tranches which can be so easily overlooked. One more point........what about utility of space in Dublin 4.......what percentage ........ I would think it is very low.....and why!!!!!!

Michelle

 
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