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Politcally Correct but at what cost?
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 Tuesday May 22, 2007 20:51 by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethics
Right to Silence: Arrested and 7 Days.....!!!!
For many people who do not read Private Eye - it is just the magazine that is always being sued. This is because the only time the public ever hears about it is when the newspapers report that a libel writ has been issued or an out of court settlement has been reached. The impression is therefore widespread that Private Eye is constantly being bombarded with writs and at any moment it would go out of business as a result (1979: Goldenballs book Richard Ingrams)............
Yet to me the surprising point is how seldom Private Eye is sued, considering the material it prints. At any time, there are about 10 actions pending against Private Eye, as opposed to 100 by Times newspapers limited.
This intrigues me - you see now we have a situation in Ireland where McDowell brought in new libel legislation (restrictive to Freedom of the Press) - yet the same Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform can sit on RTE Prime Time programme, look across the table at Gerry Adams, after calling the rest of the panel lefties and left-overs; and then go on to state accusation to Gerry Adams. Mr. McDowell went on to say Mr. Adams 'you speak of drugs and make me laugh when you a member of the IRA and Army Council get over 45 m US Dollars for training the Farc movement in Columbia for training and intelligence'. In my opinion, Adams was just that little bit slow - he ought to have repled - Donnybrook Gardai are just down the road, Minister - please phone them and have me arrested on my way out. You see even Gerry knows McDowell is the Bart Simpson of Irish politics and not to take him to seriously. People should for the moment reflect on this new Criminal Justice Bill - it is extreme right wing and very dangerous. When Judge Hardiman said in relation to .Frank Shortt and the corruption in the Donegal Gardai division, the consequences and the consistent corruption from the out of control Gardai is beyond self human belief.
When McDowell is out on Friday - I sincerely hope the next Minister for Justice is more judicious and equitable regarding the Human Rights and upholds the Constitution. Adams, like him or not was a major Peace Broker on this Island but don't forget I would expect nothing less from Michael - the private school boy, grandson of Eoin MacNeill - and there is another story of history worth telling on another day boys.
If we continue with this fad of 'Political Correctness', we will become a Police State in this country. People will lose Freedom of Speech and rights will be steadily eroded. Conor Brady, former Top journalist and now member of the Ombudsman team in charge of An Gardai Siochana said 'it beggared belief two years ago when the young people came out with their slogan to Reclaim the Streets that they were batton charged by over reactive Gardai who caused injuries to many; and there were head injuries also. Yet, as Brady said, there was not one conviction. In his opinion, he said people were afraid to convict the Gardai and in future we should research specially selected juries to sit on Gardai cases. People received compensation yet not one Garda was convicted. This is incredible by any standards.
Erosion of personal power and integrity and the subtle erosion by the new Criiminal Justice Bill - let's reexamine this.
The Right to Silence.......is no flippant right that can be brushed out of Irish Law without due regard. The Right to Silence has been challenged for years in the UK but it still stands. This principle is part of French, German and European Law - why such a flagrant move to remove it just prior to an election in Ireland. Surely when a document signed by many lawyers was presented to stop the passage of this Bill, that heed ought to have been given. It is said, and I sincerely hope so, that if this law is challenged in the Supreme Court, it will fail.
At a time that an Ombusdan has been appointed along with a team to handle enquiries about corrupt Gardai, why is the question not asked why the rushed Criminal Justice bill counteract the basic rights of certain categories of people. Why the paradox? Surely given the decisons of Mr. Justice Barr, (John McCarthy shot dead) and Mr. Justice Morris (corrupt Gardai in the Donegal don't promote a limitation to the rights of the individual. Something does not equate here and this is about the rights of the Irish Citizen.
Example
If an Irish citizen is arrested next week and like Frank Shortt in the past and the McBrearty family, and this Irish citizen is taken to an Irish garda station and he has nothing to say, he will be classed as guilty - why - Because his Right to Silence has been eroded. It is even rumoured that Mugabe phoned Bertie about his reservations on such a move....!!! You may wonder why Mugabe phoned ...... he was educated by an Irish Jesuit in Zimbabwe.....says it all.....I think Minister McDowell also was educated by the Jesuits....
What about people with mental illness who are arrested and now held for 7 days.......? Is this right?
What about young people arrested.....procedures re. Acquired Brain Injury have not yet been adequately imparted through education to the Gardai members .....or so the evidence appears to be!
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Few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise but by the help of those that they provoke' Dr. Johnson
Kevin T. Walsh
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Some time, toi digest the political waffle Prime Time tonight, a whole day free from news about politics so people can consider who they vote for and more important what policies they represent....
Kevin
It looks as if the Right to Silence is a misnomer given the lack of actions during the Mahon Tribunal......
I heard someone discuss the art of 'Lying' the other night on the Radio. It is part of social relations and sometimes necessary. However, body language and eye movements tend to reveal the person who lies and it is the anxiety factors that prompt the lie detector to pick up on signals.
There was one final point!
In Ireland, we tend to cover ourselves when we lie by giving opposing options. The aim is to confuse the listener.
As a person with ABI and no short-term memory, and one dimensional, this makes perfect sense and explains why I live such a muddled existence.
I hope now that Fianna Fail make a most conservative effort to fund Neurology services in Ireland, particularly with an emphasis on the rehabilitative needs of people with brain injury (we tend to survive now, but our needs ensure our destiny is underclass.. particularly where families don't wish to provide for us....and their belief is the state will do so) .....I hope the Minister for Finance gives us some consideration .... I was delighted to see a Neurologist on yesterdays Health section of the paper - it is the 'on the couch' section. I agree with all comments by Professor Norman Delanty. Action is needed now. Just think of the RTA a.m. two boys dead in Roscommon; and two fighting for their lives!!!
Michelle
Lewis Carroll (1832-78) British mathematician and author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (the Mahon Tribunal, I would suggest).
'It's a poor sort of memory which only works backwards'
Evidential now.....Let us Move forward, take responsibility.....
2008
Politically Correct Ireland - what has it created?
How important is Freedom of the Press? Has anyone a view to offer the Minister of Justice Equality and Law Reform, Minister Brian Lenihan.
I am looking at the Front Page of the Irish Times and I am read that Lenihan 'warns the media on privacy'. He asks that the media show respect.
The Press Council was launched last night - my wish is that in charge consider the words of William Butler Yeats 'Thread softly because you thread on my dreams'. Mr. Lenihan, Ombudsman, is keen to press ahead with a Defamation Bill........what do people think about this?
Freedom of the Press has served us well, particularly over the last number of years. The outcome of the Barr Tribunal (which is hardly ever referred to now) provided the details that so easily could have been concealed and particularly to the people of Ireland, on how a man, John Carthy, a bipolar and anxiety temperment (who the Gardai thwarted with a supply of cigarettes) was indiscriminately shot dead, at his home in Abbeylara, by the ERU team. Our mental health services continue to turn away people in need of help and the crime rate increases.
What is going to be done here. We need the press coverage regarding crime and mental health and illegal drugs, to keep people on their toes and involved in the democratic Ireland, Island of Ireland?
The Mahon Tribunal; just as I expect the Barr Tribunal to be referred to in the clean up of our mental health system, our Gardai force, etc. likewise I would expect the message of the Mahon Tribunal to ring loud and clear that 'Corruption is a crime and the sentence is a prescribed number of years'. This must be a deterrent to Corruption message.
I want to know if private airports are involved in trafficking illegal drugs, just as I expect dedicated crews of people on the seas and on land to check for same.
People as Mentors, with morality, ethics and core values, intrinsic to their personage; work and lifestyle.
To hear and read today about a senior member of 'Government' and a sexual assault and the conspiracies that almost happened, leaves me cold. What gives people such rights.....where has the power come from? Who is going to put a stop to it.
I want to hear more about Transparency Ireland viz a viz Transparency International because I want to know that Ireland is moving in the Anti-Corruption, Ethical, Transparent flow. We need to hear about the corruption from all members of the economy because their corruption affects other people's standard of living, their education, the health system, the social services, the infra structures.
I want to know about the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of the our Corporate companies, who inter alia, hold our pension funds, our equity values, our labour force.
I want to know about Rendition and Shannon........
I want to know about Shell and the Corrib. I want to know the cost to the Island of Ireland of the Gardai decommissioned from other locations and based at the Corrib, as it appears to be, night and day. Why do we not hear more about the man who won the Nobel Prize for the Environment - why such a paradox.
Michelle Clarke
Advice to all out there..........the plain people of Ireland
'When a Man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
By Don Marquis (1878-1937, US humourist and journalist
George Santayana - South American
'Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it'
Why do I value Freedom of the Press?
Because it is about core values of a Society, and not as we tend to describe Ireland, so frequently these days, as the Irish Economy! This was pointed out in the media during the week and what a rich distinction of what is about money and what is about social justice.
A message to the people about the Courts System (in this case martial courts) during a time in which Erskine Childers was prominent in the activities of 1914 to 1921........yes, the Rising, the Proclamation, Independence and what has evolved.
Erskine Childers was involved in gun-running into Howth in 1914. This man was a cultured man with a literary bent.
When it came for the people of Ireland to decide - the pro-Treaty side or the anti-Treaty side. Erskine Childers sided with Dev. In the Civil war IN CORK, he operated A PRINTING PRESS TO TURN OUT ANTI TREATY PROPAGANDA.
Outcome in October 1922, Erskine Childers was summoned to return to Dublin, to be the Secretary of De Valera's shadow 'Government'. This man carried with him both his typewriter and Colt Automatic revolver, which had once been given to him by Michael Collins. Again, I ask how important is Freedom of the press in Ireland?
Erskine Childers was caught by the Free State Government forces at the home of his cousin, Richard Barton (one of the signatories of the Treaty). at his home in Co. Wicklow.
Headlines reached all including Winston Churchchill who is said to have commented that Erskine Childers was a mischief making renegade and 'Such as he is may all who hate us be".
The Charge against was the illegal possession of arms - the Colt revolver, the gift from Michael Collins.....
It was a mlitary that tried Erskine Childers - the date was 17th November 1922. The venue was Portabello Barracks, Dublin 4. From this barracks, he sent for my Grandfather, Michael Comyn KC to defend him. (They were friends and he had often hidden in Michael's House in Leeson Park. Michael's sister who shared this house said when she met him the first time "It is a shame to have a delicate and cultured man mixed up in our Irish quarrels. He is no more fitted for it than a child in a blizzard'.
JJ, Michael's nephew, continues the story in the words of Michael Comyn, KC, (1922).
'Childers in his cell was perfectly calm, drinking tea from a mug. I knew how much he loved tead so I asked for a mug of tea for myself which I then gave to Childers. "You know, Comyn" he said, "there is no defence in fact, I had a gun". "That may be, I replied "but you are too famous a figure to be condemned to death without due form and solemnity"
It was my rule in those awful times and awful circumstances never to betray any softness or sympathy: it would have been unkind. He had some messages for Mrs Childers, which I brought to her.
At his trial, which was in camera, Childers was, as we all anticcipated, convicted. Then with Paddy Lynch (later Attorney General) we went to the High Court. presided over by the Master of the Rolls, Sir Charles O'Connor, and we conducted a spirited fight based purely on technical grounds. It failed and we appealed.
This is what I recall my cousin JJ telling me so often as a young child, '
'Before the appeal was heard the terrible news came, in an announcement from London...................that Childers had been shot at Dawn on 24th November 1922 at Beggars Bush Barracks.
Michael also states 'that measures to rescue him weree know to the Free State authorities and forestalled. IT WAS A COMPLETE NEGATION OF JUSTICE, the worst I have ever know, TO EXECUTE A MAN WHOSE CASE FOR LIFE OR DEATH WAS ACTUALLY UNDER ARGUMENT AND AWAITING JUDGMENT.
This view was echoed by the Judges of the Court of Appeal when the casee was mentioned to them a few days later - but much good did it do"
What are the Plain People of Ireland going to do to restore the much needed equilibrium to the Scales of Justice that stand tall, inwards on Dublin Castle.....
What have we learned from the Tribunals? How can we effect the changes? What about social justice.
Michelle Clarke
Quotation
'What out for the fellow who talks about putting things in ordet! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control'
by: Denis Diderot (1713-84) French Philosopher
The Mahon Tribunal - with its undefined limits........and its honest prograstination for almost a 10 year period.........Where are the answers?
They now have no tax certificate for an Taoiseach but then maybe if this cannot be completed until after the Mahon Tribunal Findings, it would appar the taoiseach' s waiver has been accepted. Hence, he has been able to proceed. I only home his acclaimed set of accountants can clarify the matter to the Government Electorate and all ease.
The Taoiseach's visit to Africa is good timing......Tanzania is being destroyed by the torriential rains and the cape town funding profided by the builder Mr. Mellon, is housing some of those in need. The Taoiseach will find this a humbling undertaking.
I ask about the malarkey of the Benefit in Kind for the house.....is this being a little bitchy amongs technocrats. OK Bertie was bringing in this legislation but on the other hand did he think if he was given the loan of a house in difficult marritable times, that he really wuold need to to consider benefit in kind. Let's be plausabile.........What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Tax......Tax....Those who skipped asea and bouth properties in euroope, to those who have in Spain and who knows will they have to pay rates. And then there are thosing who face the treat of the Auctioneers making submissions to the Revenue about properties overseas........