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The Year of the Gangster

category international | rights and freedoms | opinion/analysis author Thursday December 28, 2006 21:29author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethics Report this post to the editors

Oral History - Old inner City....Hardship.....

My vision for 2007 is we will revisit 'Who framed Roger Rabbit?'. You see Bertie the half Jack Russell and Kerry Blue (what a mix?) will get rid of the rabbit subtly with some deviance thrown in........According to today's paper's he is making overtures to Joe Costelloe. If the numbers add up in June there could be an FF/Labour coalition.......Now what about McDowell. Let' us get real here. Can you see a Poodle from Ranelagh squaring up to a half Jack Russell and Kerry Blue seasoned Northsider......I don't think so......

Last night, after reading the book by Kevin C. Kerins 'Lost Heroines' a oral history about Dublin into the 1980's. The book is highly detailed.

It showed Dublin's inner city in the 1940's and 1950's and the struggle for survival. These people lived in tenements throughout the city and the sewage was visibly seen running down the paths.

It showed older grannies working in factories to financially assist their daughters and grandchildren. By the Church doctrine of that time, women were regarded as baby machines. Quite simply, it was alright to have 12 or even 20 children but there was nobody going to ask the Church - how to feed them and look after then.

Birth control was a taboo subject. Seldom mentioned were the family tragedies that destroyed the lives of families because of the burden of too many children and women driven to mental break-down by the multiplicity of pressures in their lives. The Government were silent. The Church was silent and De Valera's and McQuaid's Press remained silent.

A lady called Moro Wynn who lived during those times said 'I went into the confessional box, I begged the priest from Belmullet, I want to have no more children - he would shout get out you evil woman'.

At that time in Ireland, men had no responsibilities, rearing children was not their job, it was the role of the mother. It sounded like 'Woman, they are not my children, they are yours, so rear them!'. The men were not expected to even speak to their children - that was the mothers' function.

As one old woman said nicely in the book said (Mrs. Casey), inner city Northside - 'McQuaid she said, 'if it was now, he would be taken out and shot. He was revered and reviled. He was regarded by many inner city women as a 'Holy Terror' not a 'Holy Man. On Sunday's while he and Dev the foreigner had their wild fowl and wine, we had rabbits and boiled nettles. I look back with pain and bad memories. Somebody asked me at 97 now, do you like the present and the Celtic Tiger and I reply - with all the wealth and fancy living, there is still poverty around me in the inner city.

What I recall with surprise is Fear and the component it was in the day to day lives of most people and in particular of women. Fear of the dispensary services, hospitals, mental illness, death of children, eviction, those basic commodities we ought not fear because fear destroys.....

Misery, Fear and Tragedy - the unspoken, the hidden secrets. Within a span of 50 years, there was no assistance for un-wed mothers. They became homeless and helpless and forced to prostitution. George Bernard Shaw called such lives the 'blackest misery'. These unwed married mothers had to sell their bodies for food and shelter.

Do we recall the Monto? Yes, we had a red light district that witnessed the horrors of the seedy sex industry. Vulnerable women and their expectant children were visibly thrown out to the streets. It goes without saying that the degenerative lifestyles m despair took the only way out of pure despair and committed suicide......Shame matched secrecy and a history untold.

Walking my dog in the early hours of Boxing Day morning - I had returned to those days of the Monto. I walked up Heytesbury Lane and I got two offers from young Lithuanian prostitutes. As I walked onto Waterloo Road, there were two young girls - not more than 19 advertising their wares. Again on Baggot Street adjacent to Weirs Hardware Store, I could not believe the Squad Car Parked across the road at Baggot Street Hospital. As one neighbour of ours put it, at 2.00 a.m. on Baggot Street in the year 2006, you sadly have the homeless, the dealers, the Gardai, and the young foreign prostitutes - they all intermingle.

So the Tiger has brought us back to revisit the Monto. Our friend Liam spoke to one of the girls out walking one night - she rents a room on Waterloo Road. Her clients are politicians, psychiatrists, police, and local and I mean local business men. What has changed? She also had a Priest client who gave her an extra 100 euros for dressing up as a school girl and a spank......I have a fair idea who this priest is and he says mass with an Opus Dei face. Ironically he claimed in a publication that the Catholic Church ought to revise confession and procedures.

Now less of this .... I forget my title the Year of the Gangster.

I start by saying that my heart goes out to the family of Anthony Kennedy this evening. He was not in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was just doing his job. The target was the mobster Marlo Hyland. We have 27 gangland murders this year - I hope this figure is accurate but one is too many. The latest was a Mr. Leddin, 27 years old.

Why? Not only do we have the worst infrastructure by road and housing in Europe, we have no social networks in the illegal drug blackspots in Ireland. Common sense tells me we don't need extra Gardai, and we don't need extra resources. We need the Gardai to do their job in liaison with educational infrastructure in these areas. We need special teachers at least 200 of them who teach special children who have a short attention span. The research studies from our Universities have knowledge of the adapted curriculums - the message just never penetrates .......

After I got back from my walk I fell into a deep sleep with my Jack Russell but it turned into a nightmare. Your see the Truth can be a nightmare for people like us......those in denial for a lifetime.......I was attending a double funeral of two gangsters - Marlo Hyland and C.J. Haughey. The dream said it was a Double State Funeral for Two Great Men. Bertie in his speech at Charlie's graveside said - he had his faults but he was one of us. He may have taken 200,000 pounds from the 'Liver Collection Box' and accompanied T.....to his usual restaurant to order prime steak and wine. By then he had forgotten the 'Liver Box'. Yes Bertie gave Charlie the blank cheques and stood tall and proud at the graveside.

At the other other gravesside (my dream) McDowell is giving the speech - looking down on Marlo - his old Jebbie school mate. You went the wrong way Marlo after that scholarship (IGA) sponsored by CJ - Irish Gangsters Association........lets get children from deprived areas into private schools e.g. the McGowans, Sligo, The Gallagher Clan, Sir O'Reilly.............................and who knows.

The last five minutes of the dream got worse - it was 2007 at the Galway Races, I was putting 5 euros on Shergar's grandson called C.J. when I noticed Bin Liden exiting the Galway tent with Fahey. He was carrying a copy of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties publication on Human Rights.

Dream .... no .....it is a nightmare. Hope these hallucinations don't become frequent or I will need to find a psychiatrist.......and a bed.........but then the reality of this and Mental Health Issues in Ireland, that the ignored provision to those have mental health problems will mean I never have a chance to get to the Revolving Door and if left long enough adrift......I might just recover and cost nothing.

Culture is a word we fail to due account of. A redundant 1980's saw exiles leave, Michael O'Leary Ryanair have the vision of cheap flights, and the marketing the Irish Culture worldwide. Financially what a success and particularly for companies like Guinness.

The Irish Culture as in Irish language was established firmly in the 1950's.

Political Culture - well this is where are expertise lies. Out of our politicall culture generates policies; tourism; the Financial Services Centre and employment and education options for the inner city.

But what about our Inner City Culture as reported in oral tradition by Professor Kearns. Like the Monto, are we trying to erase this, out of a form of shame.........Who knows".

Kevin T. Walsh

Corporatism by John Ralson Saul (born 1947)
Canadian Novelist, essayist and commentator
'Our civilisation is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen in a democracy. The particular imbalance of the ideology leads to a worship of self-interest and a denial of the public good. The practical effects on the invidividual are passivity and conformism in the areas that matter, and non-conformism in the areas that don't'

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justicepublication date Fri Dec 29, 2006 00:44Report this post to the editors

I really enjoyed this posting.

I have read Kevin Kearns book on

Dublin's Lost Heroines - Mammies and Grannies in a vanished city

What about the drug culture that became entrenched and divisive in the 1980's. What have we learnt?

Example: Drugs - a Mother's Dread page 247

Rafferty in the Urban Plunge referred to those mothers who were most affected by drugs who emeged as the resolute......

'The heroin problem in the north inner-city was largely beaten by the people who lived with discarded needles, the blood soaked balconies, the daily queues up to the flats from which the white magic was distributed - who said they had had enough, who marched under threats of intimidation and violence, to the pushers' houses and said, Out; Out; Out.

Michelle clarke
Quotation: Gandhi 'You have to be the change you want to see in the world'

author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Tue Sep 02, 2008 17:12Report this post to the editors



In 1997, Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach, declared war on Ireland's emerging gangland culture and issued a start warningto organised criminals. Our plan is to arrest you, prosecute you and put you in jail.

From the Archives of the Tribune by Ali Bracken, Journalist.

Since Bertie's warning we have had 127 gangland murders and only 14 convictions i.e. a 9% detection rate. This ensuers that organised criminals will continue to kill each other relatively unperturbed by the fear of getting caught. Since Fianna Fail entered Government in 1997 548 murder enquiries have been launched by Gardai, meaning that gangland killings have accounted for less that one quarter of murders in the last 11.5 years. People should not forget the domestic murders in Ireland and the 11 women still missing and families still waiting.

Another problem is that gangland criminals increasingly hire hit men to assassinate their enemies in order to keep their hands clean. Often we can establish motive and develop a clear idea of who we believe ordered the murder.

If criminals, however, have ordered hitman from Eastern Europe or somewhere to kill a man at 10.00 a.m., they are often back on a plane to where they came from by lunch time.

I will now enclose details of some murders in the last few years in Ireland.

June 1997
Timothy Rattigan was shot in the head with a 9 mm gun in a Dublin bookies shop. Gangland killing but no conviction.

November 1997
Dublin drug dealer Anthony Chester Beattie was murdered by his associates, Martin Comerford was due to go on trial for that murder but was himself killed in a gangland feud in 1999 and no convictions.

In 1998. 4 killings and no convictions.

1999, 12 killings and one conviction in gangland warfare.

In the year 2000, 12 killings and 2 convictions.

I ask the question about the miisuse of Garda overtime. Common sense will tell you it is going towards the priority in the West of Ireland, Shell. Money comes before life.

On gangland alone Ahern broke his word and McDowell's word 'gangland as the last sting in a dying bee) - this sure has come back to haunt the Department of Justice and others.

Michelle I understood what you wrote last night - you have disabilities. You know drugs are very harmful and so does everyone. You will agree with me that 127 killings and only 14 killings is a disgrace to any police force in Europe. I will close by saying - Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform has broken many promises and I agree with Ciaron O'Reilly that the conditions of Mountjoy prison are extremely poor. Let us not forget the death of Gary Dooch, who was murdered in his prison cell while in state care and who is accountable for that murder, I wonder

I will close by saying there are many questions and few answers about the penal system as usual.

Kevin T. Walsh

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author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Thu Sep 04, 2008 19:17Report this post to the editors

Kevin. I have read your articles on gangsters, tactics, imprisonment, using the prison for the direction of instruction to commit the crime of murder. This is a challenging impetus of the criminal mind, that has been confined by the Judiciary and yet they breech every moral rule and these gangster minds are facilitated sadly in some ways to do so.

This is the 'world of the Gangster' in Ireland......a group of like minds, and in some cases from specific locations in Limerick, Dublin and elsewhere.

These gangsters have engaged in the drug Lord set with aspirations on territory, acquisition, money, power and position.

It is in this regard we must congratulate the Gardai efforts in Ireland, the efforts of the PSNI in Northern Ireland for their combined dedication to finding these criminals. We must add the extra 147 guns found, to the others to date. We must include to the Dutch efforts in this massive hunt for arms, drugs and illegal dealings.

Imagine, the arms found, the drugs found. Ponder on the significance of the find, the ability to ring fence the involvement of a man imprisoned, to delegate and organise such acts of gangsterism and the other criminals seeping through the system.

This combined effort by the Garda, PSNI and Dutch interpol must be appraised on the marked reduction to criminal activity and more importantly the potential lives saved - one can but speculate but it is impressive.

Let us also remember the crime undertaken by Corporate companies. Recently we have seen a tendency to adhere to Social and Ethical responsibilities in the major public companies but it is up to people at ground level to be vigilant.
I found this quotation in the Little Book of Rebels and quoted in New Internationalist Awareness and vigilance is not a heavy load.

Shell on Trial by Ken Saro Wiwa (1941-95) Nigerial writer and actvist leader of the Ogoni people who were protesting against Shell's oil exploration on their land, environmental destruction and huban rights abuses. Mr. Wiwa was executed with 8 others by the Nigerian Government.
I and my colleagues here are not the only ones on Trial. Shell is here on trial...the company has indeed ducked this particular trial, but its day will surely come.......'

PS I have read your articles on prisons, re. the Block in Cork, the lack of human rights, discipline, Gary Dooch murder, the case of the young boy dead.....head injuries, Brian Rossiter, then there there is a suspect in the Wheelock boy......we need to get a handle on this.......especially, when breeches in favour like BEBO, drugs, can happen as the alternative...

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author by Jack Russell - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Sat Sep 06, 2008 22:26Report this post to the editors

Irish Independent 3rd eptember 2008 headfline '

'Jail Crackdown' after Prisoners caught using Bebo site'

How could this happen? Surely the Joe Duffy show last year gave clear messages about the scope certain prisoners had on the incite. If I am not correct, a colleague of mine, known as Rocky, made all the headlines.......he is an excellent sniffer dog and has worked inside and out, to represent Justice in acc ordance with the Rule of Law.

This appears to be human error.....alas the serious kind.

The Mountjoy inmates managed to send photographs and personal details to the social networking site.

The Rule is 'No Mobiles' and we can now see why the rule must be emphatic. What has to be done? What about a signal block?

Jack Russell

Quotation
Ability Gautama Buddha (563-483 BC) - the founder of Buddhism
'He is able who thinks he able''

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author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Equitypublication date Wed Sep 10, 2008 18:22Report this post to the editors

Another dramatic murder, reckless to the feelings of ordinary people. What has happened? What can be done to halt this gangsterism? Who makes the decisions?

The Irish Independent today Wednesday 10th September 2008 reports......

'Pipe bomb raid halts GANGLAND BLOODBATH'

How can this be so in Ireland? How did we move from guns to pipebombs!!!

It is thought there are INLA links. The Special Branch have moved on this and five people are held.

Well done to the Special Branch: Their actions highlight the intensity to gangland crime, as the dissident IRA groups (paramilitaries) target those in gangland warfare.

It is thought that the five people arrested are linked to INLA leader Declan (wacko) Duffy, who is locked up and awaiting trial, The five arrested are held under Section 30 Offences against the State Act..

What we have in this situation is Preventative Crime.......but we know what is found, it is the harm that can be done by these dissidents.

Liveline today (listeners over half million people) were outraged today about another gangland killing in Clondalkin. The man's name is MacDonagh - he jumped out of a bedroom window, he was followed and shot a number of times. Journalists this evening reported that this happened within 200 metres of Ronanstown Garda Station. Christy MacDonagh was a second hand car sales man - this leads to many questions. Seemingly, Christy MacDonagh is well known to local Gardai. As Paul Reynolds said this evening on Drivetime - 'well known to Gardai for drugs and guns finds but never convicted?

In the last two weeks we have had gun finds, drugs finds, plans from a prison cell in Portlaoise prison which was intercepted by the Gardai, PSNI and the Dutch police. This has saved lives if you go on last nights murder in Clondalkin. You could feel today on Liveline the deep sense of outrage. O yes, the year of gangster constinues. The question is can Minister Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, handle the situation?

I've seen the taxi driver park at Baggot Street hospital, doing is daily chores.....and another member of the Workforce of the State, the Gardai, fine him. The taxi is easy prey........but yet the money roles in from these opportunities. Why is gangland so prominent? Why the muirders? Why as was said on the radio today - Just round them up and apply Section 30......it worked before. Gangland costs to the people are too high!!!! We need action.

Quotation
Lies - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (born 1918 died 2008)
Russian Dissident who spent 8 years in prison for criticising Stalin. Finally exiled after publication of his book the Gulag Archipelego

'In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State'

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author by Jack Russell - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Sep 29, 2008 23:59Report this post to the editors

This year alone we have had 16 murders - 15 we can name, but there is one un-named in Palmerstown and the Gardai are seeking information concerning him.

In the last 9 years we have had 129 murders in Ireland - Court and Media figures share the same belief that 90% of domestic murders were solved by Gardai and only 7% of gangland murders. Where is the problem, I ask? Where is Kathleen O'Toole, now one year in the job or two years in the job!, (from Boston) and appointed by Michael McDowell, then Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform. Mrs. O'Toole is in charge of Gardai Human Resources - I noticed in one of her last three (rare) public statements that her preferences included that Gardai should be armed. Also she suggests they are supplied with Taser guns. She also suggests a change in the structure of the baton to include a lead top. I didn't hear any neurosurgeon stating the danger of brain injuries from such weapons. Why?

If we are serious in solving gangland, it is not by bullying but by education, proper and equitable housing, giving young people a chance to go to school, have a normal life, an education, away from the criminal fraternity. We have Moyross gangland, we have Cork gangland - of course, there is Dublin gangland. According to Garda intelligence, there are now more than 15 gangs operating in Dublin alone. These gangsters have no morals. Let us not forget the awful death of Anthony Campbell, a young plumber, popular footballer, loving family left broken hearted.

Then let us remember the double murder of Brian Downes and Edward Ward, almost a year ago. Ward was totally innocent - the same cannot be said for Fixer Downes but then nobody deserves to die in such a brutal way. 7 young children were left without fathers because of evil events of October 5th last year. The point I finally make is - where is the Garda motivation? Where is the necessary Gardai intelligence? Where is Kathleen O'Toole? and finally where is the Minister Dermot Ahern?

Let us also recall the highly suspicious deaths of Brian Rossiter and the Wheelock boy while in Gardai custody. We need also recall the death of John Carthy in Abbeylara and the findings of Mr. Justice Barr at the Tribunal hearing. It would not be unrealistic to suggest that in such a heated moment between John and members of the ERU that his request for cigarettes might have saved his life.

Jack Russell

Quotation
Reasonableness : June Jordan (US poet writing in Poem about my rights) born 1936
'We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in hell is everyone being reasonable about'

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author by Michaelpublication date Tue Sep 30, 2008 15:44Report this post to the editors

While not to take anything away from Jack and his fine piece,
Should we not add the Banks To 'Swindlers List' ?

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Thu Oct 02, 2008 13:47Report this post to the editors


Yes I like it 'suited swindlers' but now we have the picture, what can be learnt to move ahead. Can we punish in a way that interacts one group of risk takers with the other and come up with something pleasing to society, Justice and of course the regulators..
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Let us not throw out the Baby with the Bath water.......plain people of Ireland
Ireland unveils unpredictably as a Balance Sheet with Assets and Liabilities. Let us listen to people - after all, Ireland has the advantage of a diaspora returned and those who emigrated and returned like David McWilliams - who started the brain inflow back to ireland.....

It is looking dim.......where is the capital that backs the loans?

Ireland has stood behind the deposits held by her 5 major banks? Is she wrong or right?

What are the costs? Will the wealth managers of big worldwide capital funds say - lets try Ireland, I like their policies.

Will others look to the history of Ireland and get scared and like the 1980's run to the Bernuda's, tax havens or even Switzerland.

What are the demographics in Ireland. Is it ageing with a costly elderly group with now unexpected depreciated assets and in particular property?

Then it may be a large young population? If so, is it not wise to look at education and the needed Knowledge Economy that they are now prepared to engage in. Let not the limited mindsets of an older population of Educationalists hinder this process.

What about mineral rights e.g. the Corrib? Is Ireland accessing a fair deal? Is the cost of security by the Gardai reducing the benefits to Ireland and ought Shell not cover their security charges?

In 2003 became ill with yet another neurological illness - ME. Confined to bed for long periods of time, and exhausted with viral infections - I started writing on Indymedia. I suppose it was realistic - I had nothing else to occupy my mind other than the society I lived in and had experienced.

Media has grabbed the Ball......but remember the world goes on and it is time for people to get connected and look to alternatives and learn from this experience.

Internet is essential for communication going forward - why can't we give opportunities to say our Construction employees and others to learn how to use it .....

Has anyone watched the Geneaology programmes of recent date. RTE - Charlie Bird, Joe Duffy, Dana Scallon. Ireland and its people are survivors. Our history is tough and hard. If ever you look at the National Archives site, it is worth reading the medical report circa 1910 of the Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Cameron.

Michelle Clarke

Quotation. AIDS
Susan Sontag (born 1933), US critic and author
'Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blames to its 'victims'

Blame...at the inapproriate time causes harm and harm to the vulnerable......

http://www.common/

I have to say that I have been surprised by the actions of members of Govt, Academics, media, ordinary people to the Financial Crisis. It say a lot for a country like Ireland - yes the Island of Ireland, that remains divided by Currency!!!

Chosen Quotation
The Little Book of Rebels
Faith
'I began revolution with 82 men. UIf I had to do it again, I'd do it with 10 or 15 and Absolute Faith

Fidel Castro (b. 1926) Cuban Revolutionary who ousted President Batistas in 1959.

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author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:08Report this post to the editors

Michelle, in response to you and Michael on the article The Year o the Gangster, there have been 16 murders this year in Ireland - the last one was Mr. White, found dead in Palmerstown (aged in his 30's). Gangland and Dissident Republican groups have been in the shadows recently because of the banking crisis that almost brought the country to a sudden halt.

As we have a temporary valve in place on the financial crisis, let us get back to the gun men without any legal mandate from the people of this island. I read sadly in the papers druing the week that Dissident so called IRA gangs are racing to be the first to kill a police officer. This must mean South and North of the so called border. With these so called groups foiled in attempts to murder police officers in Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh, Sir Hugh Orde said the threat was at its highest for 6 years. Mr. Orde continued to say that these people are determined to kill.

The CIRA, the Real IRA and indeed the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army) - there seems to be competition among them to see who gets the target first - sadly. These people are determined to cause mayhem - to bring the North of Ireland back to the dark days and this is not going to happen. They have no mandate from the people of Ireland North and South. The people we are arresting, continued Hugh Orde are not 50 and 60 year olds from the old school. These are young people being brainwashed by dissidents, disenfranchised and marginalised youth sent out to do the dirty work of the armchair general.

Richard Walsh and co. may speak at the GPO in front of 25 followers but remember one thing - There is No Mandate. People want peace, People have Peace, People are used to Peace Now.

There is a different war now. It is our economy. It is the need to focus on education for our young people, on funding for our health services and the care of our elderly. As Martin mMcGuinness said 'would Republican Sinn Fein pack up and go away'. These people now in the overall republican view are not Republicans, they are Gangsters and I hope to God they don't get the opportunity to add to the list of murders on the Island of Ireland.

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author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Nov 17, 2008 13:44Report this post to the editors

The year 2008, November.

We have now between 20 and 22 unsolved gangland murders, Limerick and Dublin and let us not forget the tragic death of Shane Geoghegan in Limerick last week. Simon was not in the wrong place at the wrong time, he was going home. With all the media hype in the last few days with extra powers for the Gardai to tackle gangland crime.
Would people ever wake up. The Gardai have ample powers in place. We don't need anymore legislation. It starts at the top, the Government of the Day, Dermot Ahern, Justice Minister, needs to have the will to take on these thugs.

Our own President, Mary McAleese, as a young RTE Journalist, 25 years ago, reported on the destitution, unemployment, poverty in Moyross and in different areas of Limerick at that time. This is not a problem that sprung up over night, it is a problem that existed 30 years years ago and still does. I would like to ask some serious questions today in my article.

McDowell appointed Kathleen O'Toole from Boston as Manager of Human Resources in An Gardai Siochana. Ms. O'Toole works with the outgoing Ms. Catherine Clancy in this area. After 2 years in job at a salary of over Euros 160,000 p.a. Kathleen comes up with Pepper Spray. This is nonsense and it is about time we realise what the word Nonsense really means.

In the last 7 years there is a 137 unsolved murders in this country. Last year alone, we had a situation, where 32 juries were intimidated in Dublin and Limerick. If our Justice system cannot protect our jurors then what chance has our citizen on the street. Well, I will give you an answer, Shane Geoghegan. Let us also not forget, Donna Cleary, a young mother, shot through a window and her parents still cannot get answers off the Gardai.

The Gardai Siochana have one of the worst detection rates in Europe and figures from the Irish Times, Tribune and Independent prove this beyond reasonable doubt. The year of the Gangster goes in different directions, the nucleus is the drugs trade. Now we have international gangs operating from Europe smuggling drugs into Ireland with their gangland links in Galway, Cork and Dublin. Well done to the Gardai last week and the large haul but this is only the tip of the iceberg.

The story won't go away in Dundalk and the Gardai cannot cover it up because it is now in the hands of the Garda Ombudsman. The story goes like this. 2 senior Gardai and a convicted drug dealer - missing money and a lot of heroin seized and yet no charges from the DPP. Now we must await the outcome of what really happened (Irish Times and other newspaper 2 weeks ago, carried the story). The Gardai lack proper Forensic training. They are very much overrated. I mean let's get real. Willie O'Dea is Minister for Defence and yet his own city of Limerick is under siege. I mean this is laughable but sadly nobody is laughing.

We have some problems in An Gardai Siochana, in some areas the lack of discipline is very visible and the findings in Donegal should be noted by the Minister for Justice with a pledge that it will not happen again. Limerick has the Dundons, the McCarthy's, Collopy's, the Ryan's - the local Gardai know them all, inside out. It's not rocket science to gather evidence. It also requires people with guts to stand up and go to court but these people need proper protection by the State and that is not happening.

In Dublin, 2 weeks go, a young man was shot dead by a youth on a pushbike. As one journalist put it - how one paedophile gangster caused a bloodbath in the inner city with the loss of over 7 lives. To stop these gangsters will take a tough stomach and a will to win and I don't think the Government are up to it. There is a lot of money involved in drugs in this country, multi millions.

I will close with a caution to all Civil Liberties Groups out there today. John Mooney, reporter said yesterday, the Government is planning to give under cover Gardai the power to break into houses, businesses and cars to plant eavesdropping devices and retrieve evidence. This is after the death of Shane Geoghegan in Limierick. As John Mooney put it there is a growing political willingness to allow intrusive surveillance operations against criminals in special circumstances. Under the terms of this proposed bill to be brought before Cabinet this week by Dermot Ahern, Gardai will get the power to enter private property to plant bugs, once they have a special warrant. This I do not agree with. It should make everyone on this island shudder at the thought. Have we not learnt from the abuse suffered by some of our citizens from corrupt Gardai in this country. Bugging is not the answer, phone tapping is not the answer, it is not acceptable to affect the lives of the Irish people. What the Gardai have to do is quite simple, in some ways - just do their job like in a transparent and accountable way like everyone else. That's what they are paid for because sadly more innocent lives will be lost. Let us not forget John Carty, Anthony Campbell, Brian Rossiter, and Terence Wheelock, Shane Geoghegan......may they rest in Peace. All dead and unsolved sadly.

K.T. Walsh

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author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Nov 17, 2008 17:54Report this post to the editors

Kevin, you appear to say that there is enough blame out there and the time has come for decisions to be made and action to be taken to deal with the onslaught of illegal drugs which penetrate every hi-way and bi-way of the Island of Ireland. To unexpected catches off the coast of Cork worth a just short of a billion, exclude from this the contivance of the smugglers, the yachts, the labour, - this is an unknown and near enough to the value of Bank of Ireland Shares today at 90 cent, 95% down on this time last year......yes a bizarre comparison but always remember the importance of cash to illegal drugs.

This takes me to laundering. How is the money laundered? Do we really know? One thing we know is that it involves people and connections, links, foreign countries, even Overseas Bank accounties. We can also say that those global funds that related to illegal drugs are all part of a swell of money that is used to perpetrate the illegal drugs to an ever increasing number of people vulnerable to addiction and often too young to know anything different.

I have just been given the Herald......Sadly the headline reads Kerry GAA star fails drugs test......what a pity....these players are men of example but alas there appears to be a change afoot..........

Now, listen out for a mentality.....let us not label but let us seek to change attitudes.....

It reads 'The streets will pour with blood' Limerick Gangster......yes the message is an all our War. How could this be we have just signed the Peace Agreement for the Island of Ireland. The man in the photo appears to state that Shane Geoghegan's death, involved a Rugby player, with the insinuation of class divide as a reason for 'gangsters' to move forward with raw aggression. Let them hear, we do not want more people dead in this battle on the streets.

If people could just ponder for a while, seek ways of finding an alternative to such hostility.

Awaken to cash trundling around our society and betware. The banks reported yesterday that they could conclude from the figures that there is a lot of black market cash out there.

Michelle

Annother suggestion. Keep aware. Look out for Anti-Corruption, check out the FT and overseas accounts....restrictions are due to be placed on these by the French and Germans, meaning these accounts will yield funds back to the host country. Look out for Transparency Ireland. Don't take a chance.......talk to your children and let them be informed before they take illegal drugs.

author by Michael - Human Leaguepublication date Tue Nov 18, 2008 00:15Report this post to the editors

Surely ,with enough gangsters suited to deceiving the public for so long ,They could have concocted a masterplan to hock the drugs BACK to
the source of supply at a reasonable rate. but we dont want to over tax the already overstreched Fat Heads too much now ,do we ?

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Wed Nov 19, 2008 17:53Report this post to the editors

Yes, Michael, I enjoyed your reply. Yes the suited can be greedy, corrupt, smugglers and they can don the suits. What a pity we can't dose them with a sense of morality and a degree of empathy and stultify their need to form an identity consistent with being wealthy and powerful. There needs to be more attention paid on the school curriculum about formation of identity. There are vast amounts of material that needs to be discussed and understood.

Profession and unquestioned power still predominates in Ireland and yes there has been some recourse as journailists and the media acted as an ear for the vulnerable as they cried out to the abuses they suffered at the hands of the professions. Media and Justice has proven equitable to some people but then there are others who will never have their cases heard, as the economy is predicted to crash from Recession to Depression. Our politicians are staggering under the Financial Crisis, making outbursts in the changing of legislation re. surveillance and gangland, without sufficient time been given to consider the legislation in the senate and the Dail. This is a panic and this panic causes anxiety and fear and at every level.

..........the power of the professional can be curbed now if all people start to review life, their needs, their wants, identify drug dealers and cut off their sources. We only need note the Harvard Course of lectures for the year ahead. The topic is 'Taking Responsibility'

The spread of information exists, we know about the casualties in medicine, we know about the uncontrolled, illegal drug funder operations of the gangsters......we when the Govt. tried to remove the medical card from the elderly, that they marched in an unprecedented way......We know but how do we address problems with the knowledge we have. We need something more: we need a sense of Morality, Ethics, Transparency, Accountability.....enough to move forward in an improved way.... Voltaire philosopher 'I think therefore I am.....'

Gideon Rosen, Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Humanities. Princeton University

Title: 'Human Weakness and the limits of Responsibility'

Centre for Ethics. I really would love to see people become so at ease with Broadband that computers and the knowledge that they hold could be used with ease by all to enhance life-long learning and an enhanced life standard. It would at least stop us looking at the cost of everything and more in tune with the values of life. It enables us to explore thoughts we may have or get ideas to think about and share..

Website www.ethics.harvard.edu.

Our eminent Universities in Ireland ought to by now have adapted their curriculum to take account of the importance of humanities, Ethics and Responsibility. If you live nearby, I really would suggest their night classes in the new year.

We can review the postings over the years on Indymedia and we can gleen how a doom and gloom society with many emigrants leaving Ireland and those left behind seeking vision, opportunities, to drive forward the Celtic Tiger through recession and into Boomtime. We had a decade of this and people made lots of profits, and money became available at Government level to fund those extremely expensive tribunals that took much time (too much I would suggest) to arrive at a conclusion. These tribunals were paid considerable money, money a country in recession would no doubt never entertain.

Now......for those of us who are vulnerable, who are homeless, who have disabilities, who are sick, who need access to public health, it is not to decry, defame and blame that will help the vulnerable. No, now is the time to look at how to best solve the economic c risis and to participate at all levels of society with the academics and politicians to give Ireland, the Island of Ireland, the lift .....

Options exist. Think them through and it can work. Already it has started one bank has advertised the use of the text to let you know your monthly lodgements have gone through....Clever.

Yes, social housing technically was a loser during the recession. But on the other hand, much research was done in Trinity under Professor Drudy and his team into the sociological, economic components for housing provision for vulnerable people. Access the research and form a view. I believe that in the private market, there is about 30% housing approaching negative equity fast and people are being evicted by the Courts in a constant flow presently.......there must be an alternative, a solution. I had my life almost destroyed by negative equity in the 1980's and my health even to this day. We know what money pressure is about, let's get ideas together and lets seek answers.

The Banks are paying a high price.......but let us really focus on what money is overseas in bank accounts in the Isle of Man, Switzerland, the Cayman Islands......if bankers and people fear this too much, they are free to leave Ireland. Okay extreme but somewhere down the middle there is a solution to keep the Island of Ireland afloat, and coping. Ireland picked itself up many times, with different visionaries and competent Civil Servants like T.J. Whitaker since Independence. Stand proud of this and the people behind it ..... yes the remittances from emigrants, the decision not to pay the Land Reform annuities to England in the 1930's. This is the only way to keep the ship afloat and provide for our vulnerable.

Bear in mind Human Weakness....it is very much part of the human condition and blame is only being dependent on blame and failing to be pro-active.

Identity, I mentioned above. The Celtic Tiger brought the real meaning of Identity to Ireland......the shops provided the clothes, the labels, the accessories, the car showrooms provided the cars, the motor bikes, interior design condensed the identity and housing and apartment living re-inforced the trend. What is critical is the income to fund it? You go one root to wearing the suit and become a banker or you go the other way to donning the equivalent of the Suit - the golf cap, the tee-shirt, the foreign holidays, the moths....behaviourisms while out say at restaurant so that people know who you are. Add to this arrests and the real exhibitionism of the forged identity and what have you got. It becomes an illusory image that it is hard to catch, charge and imprison for the specific crimes nominated. Everything concerns identity and image. It is control, power, murder, money ex. illegal drugs to fund their 'game'. The outcome is fear for ordinary people. People are being shot dead for nothing more than petty mindsets embalmed in greed, envy, jealousy....I believe these are learned behaviours so therefore I believe in change and hope for it.

One other point about identity: Why do these gangster people look so fit? Then I started listening to Ben Dunne on the radio, it concerned defibrilator provision and I wondered more who attends these gyms, a real blend, it appears. People who are interested in their fitiness but for polar opposite reasons. Then I was told that our prisons had the best gyms in Ireland and in some cases prisoners have personal trainers - (this cannot be so...).

Profilers work on catching the criminals....but why don't we review Identities. Shame is a word that ought to come back to the fore.

Michelle

Martin Luther (1483-1546) German Rebel Theologian opposed to the corruptyion and abusive power of the Catholic Church
Wealthh
'God grants wealth to those coarse asses to whom He gives nothing else'

Humility ......

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author by Barry Brennanpublication date Thu Nov 20, 2008 22:15Report this post to the editors

On the subject of gangland violence, I can state that as a recently returned Irish emigrant, after being away for 20 years, and now back over a year and a half, the problem with organised crime is one which has persisted to this day and instead of the Government getting to grips with it, it seems to have become worse instead of better with the passing time. Whereas 20 years ago organised crime in Ireland was a largely local problem, now it is clear that it has become an international phenomenon, with local Irish gangs collaborating with non-Irish gangs. This situation enables the Irish gangs to spread their tentacles over beyond our borders to enrich and organise themselves even more. I am not suggesting organised crime is a problem which can be eradicated completely, but it can certainly be brought under reasonable control, and there are a number of European countries which Ireland would do well to look to for best practice. In my opinion the fact it exists to the extent it does in Ireland is symptomatic of a wider social and political reality: the corruption and inefficiencies which exist in Ireland at judicial, law enforcement, local and national government levels. There also seems to be general indifference amongst the general population in Ireland to the scourge of organised crime. For these reasons, the fact that there are over 120 unsolved murders in Ireland goes largely unnoticed. Only some elements of the media and people like Kevin T. Walsh, and of course people directly affected by this crime as witnessed in Limerick recently, seem to care that these problems continue unchecked. We need to sit up listen to the voices of people like Mr. Walsh and Michelle Clarke. These are people who really care deeply about where our country is heading. We need to recognize and salute these people - Ireland’s true patriots.

Barry Brennan

author by Vpublication date Fri Nov 21, 2008 13:46Report this post to the editors

"Please note that due to the largely well-hidden nature (as I see things) of the political, legal, and medical difficulties I have been struggling badly with for the past several years now, I have long since come to believe that confidentiality is much more of a hindrance than a help to me. Consequently, and I feel I should try to stress this point, I do not seek, or want, confidentiality regarding the matters I am writing to you about -- either from yourself, or from any of the other recipients of this e-mail."

The above text is from an e-mail sent yesterday to Dr Anne Jeffers (Health Service Executive, Republic of Ireland).

The full e-mail (which was copied to several others) can be viewed at the following address:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/DrAnneJeffers/20November2008/Email.htm

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ruling+Elites+%26+Extreme+Lawlessness&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Hubrispublication date Sat Nov 22, 2008 20:33Report this post to the editors

2 very simple Google searches tell you all you need to know about the hypocritical Irish people in 2008.

Google Search pages from Ireland: Shane Geoghegan

Results 1 - 10 of about 37,300 for Shane Geoghegan. (0.18 seconds)

(http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=Shane+Geoghegan&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryIE)

Google Search pages from Ireland: Brian Rossiter

Results 1 - 10 of about 8,030 for Brian Rossiter. (0.09 seconds)

(http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=Brian+Rossiter&btnG=Search&meta=cr%3DcountryIE)

Shane Geoghegan was murdered less than 2 weeks ago.
Brian Rossiter was (possibly/probably?) murdered in a cell in Clonmel Garda Station following his arrest in the town on 10 September 2002. - That is over 6 years ago.

Brian Rossiter - just 14 years of age when he 'died in garda custody'  - How much violence was Brian Rossiter on the receiving end of, in his very brief 14 year life?
Brian Rossiter - just 14 years of age when he 'died in garda custody' - How much violence was Brian Rossiter on the receiving end of, in his very brief 14 year life?

Related Link: http://hubriticanomaly.blogspot.com/2008/11/hypocritical-irish-scumbags.html
author by Hubrispublication date Sat Nov 22, 2008 21:26Report this post to the editors

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0928/9news_av.html?2177544,null,230

Businessman was shocked over heroin find

Eileen Whelan reports that businessman Jim Mansfield says he was shocked to find that heroin had been brought into the country in his private jet


Jaysus Ambrose, shocked I was, totally shocked.

The guy that got caught with the Aircraft was WORKING for Mansfiled at the time -

Originally all Irish media claimed the Drug Smuggler had worked for Sean Dunne - there was NO MENTION that he was working for Mansfield at the time

About a month ago the Media finally admitted that the Drug smuggler was actually in Mansfield's employ at the time of the Drugs bust in Belgium.

Funny how they forgot to mention it at the time and very very quietly released the info years later.

ROFLMAO

author by Hubrispublication date Sun Nov 23, 2008 01:19Report this post to the editors

the Unholy Trinity of people like Jim Mansfield, The Gardai and the media leading us all on a merry dance

The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box.

What is the Hegelian Dialectic? (http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm)

Jim Mansfield is a major contributor to the Fianna Fail Party -known for their tough stance on 'Justice' issues. Jim says he knew nothing about any heroin because he just loans out his plane willy-nilly to all-and-sundry - I wonder if that excuse would work for me if I loaned my car to some bank robbers to use as a getaway vehicle? Somehow I think not, but then we live in a representative and free democracy, do we not, where ALL are equal under the law, are they not?

Nice ot the State Sponsored Broadcaster to give Jim about 5 mins on the prime-time news show to assure us how innocent he is - that last time I remember them doing something similar was for Mr Bartholemew Ahern.

Oh wait - they also did it for Jim when his Conference Centre was in the news due to his ignoring the planning laws - his excuse at the time was something like
Sure I know nothing about feckin' planning law - sure aren't I just a Property developer. What would a highly successful mutli-millionaire property developer know about planning laws, for gawd's sake, are yis mad or what?


Co-incidentally this was not too disimilar to his excuse for his plane being involved in heroin importation through his own privately owned Airport. At the time he said something along the lines of
Sure I know nothing about feckin' Customs Laws - sure aren't I just an Airport Owner. What would a highly successful multi-millionaire Airport Owner know about Customs Law, for gawd's sake, are yis mad or what?


Garda may use covert material to prosecute gangs (http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1119/1227026416821.html)
GARDAÍ ARE to be given new powers allowing them to break into criminals' houses, plant audio and visual bugging devices, and then use the material gathered to prosecute gang members in court.

The measures, which are contained in the Covert Surveillance Bill, were approved by Cabinet yesterday after being flagged last week in the wake of the murder in Limerick of Shane Geoghegan.


ah yes - Hegelian Dialectics at it's finest.

String 'em up!

I have now identified something called the Jim Mansfield Defence It goes something like this:

Sure I know nothing about [insert whatever section of the legal code was breached, here] - sure aren't I just a [insert very-related Job Title of one that could not do their job without being cognizant of the related body of laws, here]. What would a highly successful mutli-millionaire [insert very related Job Title of one that could not do their job without being cognizant of the related body of laws, here] know about feckin' [insert whatever section of the legal code was breached, here] laws, for gawd's sake, are yis mad or what?


author by Hubrispublication date Sun Nov 23, 2008 02:07Report this post to the editors

Sure I know nothing about Hegelian Dialectics - sure aren't I just a the Justice Minister with a Law degree. What would a highly successful Justice Minister with a Law degree know about feckin'Hegelian Dialectics, for gawd's sake, are yis mad or what?

Hegel wept . . .
Hegel wept . . .

author by Shanepublication date Sun Nov 23, 2008 08:11Report this post to the editors

"Now, in the 21st century, Hegelian-Marxist thinking affects our entire social and political structure. The Hegelian dialectic is the framework for guiding our thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead us to a predetermined solution. If we do not understand how the Hegelian dialectic shapes our perceptions of the world, then we do not know how we are helping to implement the vision. When we remain locked into dialectical thinking, we cannot see out of the box." (from http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm )

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Hegelian+Dialectics+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Hubrispublication date Sun Nov 23, 2008 10:20Report this post to the editors

we are soooo played like fiddles by the Press and the Politicians

Have you noticed the screaming headlines about LICENCED handguns and what a danger THEY are?

Apparently we are all about to be murdered in our beds by legal LICENCED owners of Handguns - it's a freakin epidemic, I tells ya.

Actually it's not me doing the telling - Tony O'Reilly is the one doing the screaming.

No one seems to have noticed that Licenced handguns have not yet been found to be the ones being used in killings.

I fully expect a LICENCED handgun to be found to be a murder weapon sometime soon - just by coincidence of course. - perhaps someones house gets broken into - the homeowner is a Licenced handgun holder - the gun gets stolen and is used in a murder - possible of a child, or maybe a young photogenic Blonde Female (newspapers just love them to bits when they die, it seems)

Tony O's rags keep telling us about the glut of Glock Handguns now in Ireland - illegal handguns acquired illegally from ilegal types.

You'll NEVER guess who I think is responsible for the glut of Glocks on the market . . . Step forward General David H. Petraeus

I know, I know - crazy ain't it?

http://wtf.gnn.tv/blogs/24714/Glock_N_spiel

Hegelian Dialectics personified, I reckon

author by Michaelpublication date Sun Nov 23, 2008 11:11Report this post to the editors

"It has become very obvious that a vast majority of this country's citizens are totally ignorant of the hidden agenda and objective of those who have created and continue to direct the anti-firearm movement. The hidden agenda of this collective and conspiring group of politicians, bureaucrats, intelligentsia, and the fourth estate is the total disarmament of the law abiding citizens of this country so that this oligarchy can achieve their hidden political objective of establishing, without armed rebellion, a totalitarian socialistic state. Promoters of all gun control measures have repeatedly used a massive smoke screen of emotional and illogical fiction and falsehoods to hid their true agenda and political objective from the people." (from http://www.skepticfiles.org/waco/despot.htm )

US President Thomas Jefferson, Despotism, & Guns:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Thomas+Jefferson%2C+Despotism%2C+Guns&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Seamuspublication date Mon Nov 24, 2008 08:28Report this post to the editors

Thomas Jefferson said:

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." (from http://www.skepticfiles.org/waco/despot.htm)

I can't help feeling that we might -- at the present time -- be moving dangerously ever closer to such a situation, and such a need?

I hope not though.

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+%22The+strongest+reason+for+the+people+to+retain+the+right+to+keep+and+bear+arms+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Marypublication date Tue Nov 25, 2008 08:34Report this post to the editors

"When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure. Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is - The Fed has usurped the government!"
(U.S. Congressman Louis T. McFadden)

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Abolish+the+Federal+Reserve+Mr+Obama&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Tue Nov 25, 2008 17:18Report this post to the editors

Seamus. It is good to read quotations from people like Thomas Jefferson. If the government cannot protect people in their homes, alas, it becomes necessary to put self protection in place. I lived in an uncertain time in Zimbabwe and it was necessary at times, due to uncertainty, to consider protecting your home with armed guard.

It is up to the Government to ensure political stability that is what they are empowered to do by the people. Corruption in government can only provide a future of great uncertainty. The plain people of Ireland rely on their Honour, abilities, dedication to ensure sound and safe government - corruption engaged in only wastes time with tribunals that run for a decade and salaries to a legal profession that are already overpaid.

Example is vital: What example have our Gangland received. Education evidently faltered and family life too......we shilly shally over meeting exceptional needs of children. Surely, we know suffice that if a child does not identify with the education given, then funds ought to be provided ... children are the future of the country. It is the government's responsibility to provide for a suitable education focused on the feature of crime deterence, while it

This is a safeguard 1, surely.

Instead we have young men, on motor bikers with human targets that they have been paid. Then there are others who order these, Areas define gangs and punishment. Add to this the lucrative drug importation business and those who buy these drugs through middlemen, paying high and low prices. Then add in those who launder the money. All are guilty of great wrongdoing and most of all the person at the party, in the restaurant, in the park, in the pub......these are all part of the real crime, the death, the suffering, the propigation of illegality and suffering. Afghanistan exports 70 per cent of Cocaine (the Poppy plant). The war is there and by facilitating illegal drugs to people in this country, we are causing destruction.

Safeguards in remission: Gardai and criminal services and people who lack a conscience and an ability to have the rational sense to work out how illegal drugs harm and destroy.

Quotation

Frederick Douglas.
I glory in conflict, that I may hereafter exult in victory' There is no victory of gangsters and their chain gang.

Related Link: http://www.common/
author by lurkingpublication date Tue Nov 25, 2008 18:20Report this post to the editors

I must be educationaly faltered or maybe someone else is cosI thought it was opium what comes from poppies thats the word on the street anyway.

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Wed Nov 26, 2008 00:01Report this post to the editors

You might be educationally faltered in reaction to my claim re. opium and the poppy
but I stand corrected and more learned. Thanks

Michelle......

Related Link: http://www.brainawareness.ie/
author by Martinpublication date Wed Nov 26, 2008 07:10Report this post to the editors

"Everybody should learn as much as they can about the Federal Reserve and how it works. First off....its a bank. It is not part of the Federal Government. It is not regulated by the US Government. The Federal Reserve is responsible for all of the depressions and 3/4 of the wars fought during the 20th century. It is also responsible for people being squeezed financially everyday just to pay for the cost to live. The Federal Reserve loans the money it manufactures ('out of thin air') to the US Government at interest. This is why we have a 9 Trillion dollar deficit. The last President to stand up to the Federal Reserve was John F. Kennedy. We all know what happened to him."

"On June 4th 1963 John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 11110 that would basically strip the Federal Reserve to loan money to the US Government at interest and gave the US Treasury the power to make money directly....like how it was originally setup when the Unites States was created. Almost 6 months later JFK was assassinated and the Executive Order was stopped."

Both of the above excerpts have been copied from a contributor on the Barack Obama & Joe Biden web site (titled "The change we need") at http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/josephbullard .

If the basic "Federal Reserve" problem referred to above was limited to the United States, things might not be so bad.

The trouble is though, as the present global financial crisis strongly indicates, "The Great Federal Reserve Scam" (as some people think of it) has already spread its extremely powerful wings -- in slightly different ways using equally misleading names in different regions -- over most of the world it seems: including of course the Republic of Ireland.

This is possibly the worst and most dangerous scourge the world has ever faced so far, and all the more deadly (and difficult to deal with) because the vast majority of people around the world are still completely blind to it.

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Federal+Reserve+Gangsters&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Barry Brennanpublication date Wed Nov 26, 2008 15:39Report this post to the editors

Michelle, the points you make are very good regarding organized crime and the judicial system and process in Ireland. That it is a growing rather than a receding problem must be an indication that there is a fault in the system somewhere along the line of accountability. The buck must surely stop somewhere. Or is this a case of people deflecting a sense of responsibility on to the next person. I would suggest that more government funds should be allocated to fighting organized crime. However this might be wishful thinking in the current economic climate. At any rate, more decisive action has to be taken by the relevant authorities to combat crime, otherwise it will continue to grow like a cancer through the fabric of our society at all levels.

author by Kathypublication date Wed Nov 26, 2008 16:22Report this post to the editors

"On June 4, 1963, a little known attempt was made to strip the Federal Reserve Bank of its power to loan money to the government at interest. On that day President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 that returned to the U.S. government the power to issue currency, without going through the Federal Reserve. Mr. Kennedy's order gave the Treasury the power 'to issue silver certificates against any silver bullion, silver, or standard silver dollars in the Treasury'. This meant that for every ounce of silver in the U.S. Treasury's vault, the government could introduce new money into circulation. In all, Kennedy brought nearly $4.3 billion in U.S. notes into circulation. The ramifications of this bill are enormous. "

"Executive Order 11110 could have prevented the national debt from reaching its current level, because it would have given the government the ability to repay its debt without going to the Federal Reserve and being charged interest in order to create the new money ('out of thin air')."

"After Mr. Kennedy was assassinated just five months later, no more silver certificates were issued."

The above texts have been copied from http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/executiveorder11110.htm

Related link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+John+F.+Kennedy+signed+Executive+Order+11110&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

author by Patrickpublication date Wed Nov 26, 2008 17:57Report this post to the editors

"The Bush family has a track record on terror you won't believe. The only problem: It is hardly known! Not that they place the bombs or pull the triggers themselves. The underlings will do that. It starts with granddaddy Prescott Bush, who was a great admirer of Adolf Hitler and got rich from financing his war effort." (Click on http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Prescott+Bush%2C+Hitler&btnG=Search for more.)

"In the early sixties George H.W. Bush is personally involved in the formation of Operation 40, a supersecret CIA-team of assassins to eliminate unsympathetic political leaders."

"Father Bush is still friends with Orlando Bosch and Felix Rodriguez, the latter was in 1967 the head of the CIA team that tracked down and murdered Che Guevara ( "FATHER OF REVOLUTION, SON OF GALWAY" see http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/che_guevara_irish_roots.htm ) in Bolivia."

"Ready for the kicker? On November 22, 1963, Luis Posada Carriles, Guillermo Novo, Orlando Bosch en Frank Sturgis, were all present in Dealey Plaza, the Dallas square were John F. Kennedy was assassinated."

For the full story click on: http://jfkmurdersolved.com/moteng.htm

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Thu Nov 27, 2008 18:06Report this post to the editors

Patrick
It has taken me time to come back to you and I riveted by the weblinks provided, that cover what real power and wealth can achieve, particularly unregulated.

The linkages to Thyssen in Germany i.e. Nazi times, and the allegiances that formed between Thyssen's director and Hitler gave rise to a massive amalgamation of industrial goods from coal to steel, add in the slave Labour from Poland and Auschwitz and then the arranged covernsion and operation through the banking system of the prized possession of Gold, Silver, Steel, Coal, etc.......to accounts in the US banking system up to 6 months before the US forces set forth to invade Germany i.e. Nazi Germany the country that was to be humiliated with the trial of individuals who had loss sense of what humanity means and the rights of people. Included in all this is Prescott Bush, Yale University and great-grandfather to President Bush.
.

What does it mean to be a criminal and what is the worst extreme of criminal as the Neurberg Trials defined - I believe another Nazi has been found is awaiting his trial at the age of over 70. I think of the recent TV coverage of Monsignor Flaherty (The Scarlet and the Black film in the 1950's) and the work he carried out to save the lives of Jewish people who otherwise were destined for Auschwitz and the other death camps.

What are we seeking? Surely it is to be so appalled at what a human being can do unto another, for either no reason, for revenge, for wealth, or just power, that absolute power that it is proper that we as people ought to abhor. How can we overcome the need to kill, to destroy, to hate? We have the Deadly Sins from the Catholic religion and maybe our education system should widen the syllabus to include parents and children, so that jealousy is stripped to the basics, until it is understood..........'the eyes of the little green monster' and go onwards towards an understanding of criminality. Instead children are fed films of violence, computer games and violence, their imagination is taken up by violence. What about Balance?

Have you ever watched a breed of dog that gets angry versus the one that is docile. The docile dog like the Labrador just sits in a stately role as the children roll over her while that hyper edgy, corgi, jack russell, is there ready to boil over and yet keeping the temper in check because they just hate to be corrected or punished. Their focus is one dimensional and then all of a sudden they know if they take the tennis ball into their mouth they will not bite their owner.......and their anger is handed. We need more of this surely. This leads to a good social environment for human and canine. Can we learn anything.

I know one thing is that human beings are the central components : Just take the horror of yesterday in Blakestown, Blanchardstown. A father is at home with his 17 month old daughter. His little girl is upstairs and he is downstairs when the bell rings and he felt confident to open the door and ask the man in......The killer (pre meditated murder and motivated) walked in and then to a gun leaving gunshort wounds (an awful death - the bullet splinters into pieces. The killer shot the man, his little girl upstairs, several times. Why?
Mr. Cloherty aged 27 is dead. He leaves two children and a partner. Why? Surely, there is another way.

Mr. Cloherty's father was a member of An Gardai Siochana. He was a highly respected Garda Sergeant based at Harcourt Terrace off the Canal, survived by his mother and his two siblings. This young man was shot in the middle of the day in his own home in West Dublin.

I want to know now, where are the Gardai in tackling these gangland murders. This is now approx. 134 unsolved gangland murders in the past 7 years. FAS are getting heavy criticism in the last few days but somebody has to ask the question - Are our Gardai up to the fight against Gangland. They have the resources but do they have the will. THE WILL COMES FROM THE TOP MINISTER DERMOT AHERN AND FACHTNA MURPHY. |I wonder when they face a Dail Committee - praise no doubt in the drug finds in Cork and well done but when asked about all these murders in Dublin Limerick Cork and Galway - I would like to know their answers morally. Charlie Flanagan, Fine Gael TD, said last week in the Irish Times and on the Dail Record, there is something 'Rotten in the Irish Judiciary system' and it is time the question was asked what is justice? I hope it cannot be bought.

Frank Dunlop former Fianna Fair adviser appeared in court on 14 charges going forward to a higher court in the New Year. Frank is pleading guilty on planning corruption and money corruption. You see the Year of the Gangster it is not just Moyross of Dublin Gangland, it is also the suits and briefcases that can be found in leafy Dublin 4 and the Docklands. I ask one question - Is the abuse of taxpayers money a crime.

I would like to see the will of the people of this nation to take on Gangland - the silver vote showed us how to beat the Government on the medical card so lets get focused and start asking serious questions e.g. the Gardai know all the families in Limerick and the gangland members in Dublin. They have a special taskforce ERU, Branch - what is the problem? There is my question.

Quotation from Sophocles
'Success is dependent on Effort'

Diversity is needed: We need to review little criminals who can be directed elsewhere....education

Related Link: http://www.plainpeopleofireland.ie/
author by Michael - Human Leaguepublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 04:08Report this post to the editors

Wonderful article above me .

Now down to the nitty gritty. Did you see the picture of Mary Harney ,the klose up 1 in yesterday's Irish Independent during ''slagging time '' at
Skid Row ?
As for the nickser done to Hairy Mary's hair my Jezus would'nt any sane lady ask for the states money back if not entirely satisfied , between Her
And Bertram God knows what money was spent on trying to make ''Silk Purse's out Of Sows Ears '' and divil a bit of differance it made them both'
We lost Bertram because of ''Issues'' and i have Harney as gone before end January 09 so i am on target.

Come to think of it , Al Capone was done for tax evasion and not for crimes against humanity , meaning Most Gangsters are eventually broken
by what Gangsters In Suits never dreamed, only for them to take their eye off the ball in a moment of madness which will haunt them for the rest
of their lives.....

Is there anybody out there who feels the gangsters are finally in trouble or will she 'leave 'as did Her Head Honcho Of Fas ???
Or Has Harney Indeed got the X Factor in her ''aura'' , only time will tell ,It Always Has......................

Will we see Harney Doing A Thatcher when the Good News Is Broken ,sniff sniff

author by Andrewpublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 08:49Report this post to the editors

The "War on Terror" needs to begin in Washington D.C. by having the leading super-terrorists located there (in places like the Whitehouse and the Pentagon) hauled before the courts of law.

author by Eileenpublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 09:52Report this post to the editors

"According to research carried out over the last few years, Wall Street bankers (amongst others) financed Hitler's rise to power whilst making large profits at the same time. What is yet still more deplorable is the fact that relatives of the current U.S. president were amongst this group of individuals."

"The Bush family's habit of dominating territories and wealth is nothing new. Their fascist genes were generated during the 1930s. Therefore defining the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the threats to other countries as a continuance of blitzkreig offensives as fascist is no blunder."

From http://www.rense.com/general40/bushfamilyfundedhitler.htm

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 16:48Report this post to the editors

Andrew and Eileen.
Both interesting themes. It appears to be the idea that is extreme and the motive for wealth and power drives a certain type of person. These are the gangsters, the super to the meagre, but there is a root cause that is about using fear and violence to determine their self constructed identity and the wealth an power.

Back to Ireland. What cocoon fostered our gangster mentality. What directed their minds towards weapons, drugs, runners, launderers, Sellers of Motor Cars, Vans, 4 Wheel Drives, houses, boats, gymnasiums, beauty salons, hotels, pubs, nightclubs (okay some know, others don't and then there is the bouncer in Limerick who has the courage to take a stand and he is shot dead in a merciless way. Here was an innocent man of honour, going home in the early hours to his wife and children and he was chased and shot dead in cold blood. His on crime was he refused Limerick druglords to meddle their drugs in the nightclub he worked in - Questions must be asked again of the will our Government to take on these killers.

Early one morning, the news stated that a motor bike cop, Garda Sherlock, in the city had been shot and wounded. Do we know anymore about this man? He was suspicious about a car/van and he followed. He was the man that was shot. This too is gangsterism and either panic or dissociated from reality caused them to get the gun and shoot at the Garda. They escaped. How come? People must have noticed the erratic driving. It is hard to believe that there could be no lead.

What has happened to frustrate the efforts of these gangsters at an Garda Siochana. Chief Administrator of Gardai Human Resources, Kathleen 'Toole from Boston (PD) appointed was appointed by McDowell two years ago - I ask the question what justifies her salary morally. We have Moyross, we have Dublin inner City, we have drugs circulating in every town and village in this country and Kathleen's answer is pepper spray - what happens if the gangster has one of the ever increasing allegeries!!!!

The morals go beyond FAS, every department in the civil service, the medical profession, the legal profession, the Auditors, the Church, the Trade Unions and the Ministers who allow a culture and behaviour of what we have seen in the papers re. FAS all the week long. The wastage and corruption has to stop at the top and that is where we need Cowen (if he feels able for such a role?) as a leader.

The legislation passing through presently leaves me horrified. Why, I live in the City and over the years I meet regularly on our streets and on the Canal homeless people. Why in these times of strife and impending hardship, are the Government in Ireland bringing in legislation about the homeless and providing the Gardai with powers to remove them, arrest and even charge.

I ask where are these people to go? If they manage to drum up money for the hostel and managed to get through on the phone, they still have to put in the day from 9.00 a.m. until the evening. Can you imagine having to put in every day in a society like ours? At least if they beg, they can buy some food but more importantly, they become part of the community and kind people often watch out for them, give them some clothes. These people vary but some have alcohol addiction problems, broken marriages, mental health patients recently freed from the system......all of them are vulnerable because something, or person, or health, has caused their life to falter drastically.

This recession will introduce a lot people to this group - I remember London in the 1980's and there were lots of young people too and many from respectable families, who were destined to a fate, where the needed support, funding, time to prepare to get back into society.
Empowerment is what is needed. Anyone of us could end up on the street just as any one of us could been on the Famine ships, is born in the 1840's.

Begging has always been of Ireland through the centuries. Does anyone ever think about why a person walking down the street empties their pockets and says to a man or a woman, here, let me hear a little of your story, ask if you are being told the truth and realising probably yes. Does anyone think about loneliness not of the man who begs but rather the one who gives? The homeless can often be the unpaid entertainers or listening ears.

Ministers - how you got to the Homeless legislation in the midst of one of the greatest Financial Disasters worldwide, I do not know. Did anybody thinki of this while drafting. I say, this is really going to suit you this recession, to which he replied why be so hurtful, I say no think about it. Everything is in rapid decline. The Government gave funds to the bank on the basis they would lend them out to small businesses who are running out of cash. The banks were too scares and businesses are closing down. You stand out with you cap and god alone knows who gives you what. You go on no holidays, you don't travel to Newry to get the drink cheaper.....you keep the cash in circulation, in the country and listen to the woes meantime. It so seldom these days that you see community Gardai walking the streets saying the odd hello. However, it is highly notable that they will have the chat with homeless guy -- because he might have a little news!!! Why not respect him if so?

Michelle

Related Link: http://www.mentalhealthelections.ie/
author by Robinpublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 19:14Report this post to the editors

Michelle:

When society is being run by super-gangsters who can break the law in major ways all over the world without any fear of punishment whatsoever, is it any wonder that lesser gangsters (at various levels lower down the food-chain of criminal activity) would be trying to do the same?

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 21:02Report this post to the editors

Robin
Yes, I have arrived at this logic too. The example is basically to do wrong rather than good.

What can we do to change this?

Remember Gandhi tried....he said 'You have to be the change you want to see in the world'

Robin, the take responsibility comes down to individuals in society. How do we bring about a change in attitudes at an individual level - globally it seems but who knows Obama may pave the way....

Michelle

author by Robinpublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 21:56Report this post to the editors

Michelle:

The first piece of education needed is to teach United States of America President George W. Bush that he will not be allowed to get away with his extremely violent violations of national and international law.

If the President of the United States of America (the most powerful nation on earth) is casually allowed by the rest of the world community to put himself above the law, as and when he pleases, what hope can there be for humanity?

author by Hubrispublication date Fri Nov 28, 2008 23:48Report this post to the editors

When society is being run by super-gangsters who can break the law in major ways all over the world without any fear of punishment whatsoever, is it any wonder that lesser gangsters (at various levels lower down the food-chain of criminal activity) would be trying to do the same?


I loaded the exact phrase "Shane Geoghegan" and "Limerick" into Google's Advanced Search feature, which would return all pages from Ireland with the exact phrase "Shane Geoghegan" as well as the word "Limerick".

Similarly I loaded the exact phrase "Brian Rossiter" and "Clonmel" into Google's Advanced Search feature, which would return all pages from Ireland with the exact phrase "Brian Rossiter" as well as the word "Clonmel".

The results of the Google jury were:

Google Search pages from Ireland: "Shane Geoghegan" AND Limerick (http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&as_q=Limerick+&as_epq=Shane+Geoghegan&cr=countryIE)

Results 1 - 10 of about 46,500 for "Limerick" + "Shane Geoghegan".


So that is 46,500 pages from Ireland discussing the death of Shane Geoghegan in Limerick.

And for the 14 year old dead boy:

Google Search pages from Ireland: "Brian Rossiter" AND Clonmel (http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&as_q=Clonmel+&as_epq=Brian+Rossiter&cr=countryIE)

Results 1 - 10 of about 842 for "Clonmel" + "Brian Rossiter".


Now that is 842 pages from Ireland discussing the death of 14 year old Brian Rossiter in a Police cell in Clonmel.

That's far, FAR worse than I thought.

So it looks like I was right: The Irish People really REALLY ARE a bunch of Hypocritical Scumbags . . .

In what universe does a society function properly when there is very obviously one law for the ‘connected’ and a very different one for all others? Can anyone tell me that please, if you know?

Brian Rossiter’s last week on this Earth consisted of series of violent attacks on his person by grown men twice his size. He died alone in a cold cell in Clonmel because the Irish people refuse to deal with the fact that Garda can do what they like without any fear of retribution, legal or otherwise. Where is the outrage?

Do people not realise that scumbags see this and see no reason why they too should follow the law?

Related Link: http://hubriticanomaly.blogspot.com/2008/11/more-on-hypocrisy-of-irish-chattering.html
author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Sat Nov 29, 2008 16:55Report this post to the editors

Hubis

I like the position you have taken. A simple check on the google and you know Shane Geoghegan accidentally shot dead by a gangster minded human person yet to be found. Then you moved subtley to 14 year old Brian Rossiter.....dead in a prison cell he ought never have been put in let alone kept overnight.

46,000 + google Shane Geoghegan's site but caution even fear determines the number who show sympathy, seek Justice, seek for the rights of a young man who quite evidently suffered an injury to the head.....an injury suffice to cause him to die. Having survived a head injury, I ask did his Protectors in the cell watch out for his potential symptoms. I ask, given the presupposition that on the two nights prior when he is supposed to have been hit by another, younger man, did they know the details from his Father or from their Files, that this young man ought to have been under observation for a head injury. Was there a visit to a doctor, or Accident and Emergency. Did anyone make a phone call regarding the so called bang to the head. This is basic procedure, 2 decades ago, death proved to be near immediate. But things have moved on.....people like me survive with a different quality of life and we become the evidence that brain injury ought to be known about and caution applied particularly by the likes of An Gardai Siochana, the lawyers, the legal people.

Moving from conscious to unconscious is one obervationary period that must be noted in prisons but also where the brain injury has been latent and slow, the symptoms, the sickness, the violent headaches, should be noted and never confused with a misbehvaiour.

I would suggest anyone using google just google brain and even get the daily articles to show you the scope of the brain, its functions, its capacity, its ability to break down mobility to hands, legs, fingers etc. Another site I would suggest is one I have written on Indymedia under Brain Awareness.

Anything to do with the brain is highly person centred and the outcome can be bad behaviour at school and at home or paralysed from the neck down. It is force applied to the head........in a car accident, a riding fall, a blow of the hand, ............. Who ever is responsible let them take the responsibility but let nobody try to mis direct evidence in such a serious charge. As you conclude Humis in both cases there is a death and there ought not to be discrimination in death as Michael rightly points out.

Where was the DPP? Given the level of paperwork involved in the murder of Brian Rossiter and the question marks about head injury, it ought to have been easily established as to the cause of death and who it was? Do we really know? Will we know? Could there be a cover up? Don't be scared about brain injury, there is a lot on the net and more in Mind Matters by American Scientific.

I wish the families of both Peace but also let Justice be done at all times. We need now more than ever in Ireland to have 'Justice seen to be done'

The reports of the investigation of this child's death in State Custody will never be totally explained - Why, I will tell you. Check the Irish Times and the main street papers, McDowell then Minister for Justice appointed a Garda Chief Superintendent to investigate under a 1923 Metropolitan Act which sadly gives the State the right to Silence. Yet McDowell in his tenure wanted to take that same right from the Irish citizen. Let's forget the American Researve Fraud for a while and the global corruption and let us start right here at home. FAS are leading the way since yesterday, they told Mary Coughlan they are going to be accountable. Now isn't that Hope:

Michelle
St Francis of Assisi
'Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddently you are doing the impossible'

Just think of the monks from New York..........in Moyross............

Related Link: http://www.selectivejustice/
author by Brianpublication date Sat Nov 29, 2008 20:08Report this post to the editors

"To say that our great nation (USA) is under the control of a conglomeration of various gangster enterprises is not an exaggeration. The Federal Reserve Bank is a criminal cartel of the same variety that our American predecessors fought and gave their lives to escape from during the Revolution. The Internal Revenue Service is a misnomer, as ‘revenue’ is merely the euphemism used for extortion money, just as “Economic Stimulus Package” is merely euphemism for a bribe. Our Federal tax dollars do not pay for any governmental protection or services. The vast majority of each income tax dollar we pay goes toward the interest accrued on the money which the corrupt and unconstitutional Federal Reserve central bank creates out of thin air and loans to the government (at a hefty rate of interest). It is the ultimate racket, the quintessential shell game."

From: http://www.thereasonsite.com/2008/11/the-real-american-gangsters/

But, please note, there are some very inspirational ideas expressed as well (in the same article):

"The Renaissance of the 14th to the 17th century stands as a shining example of what a free people can accomplish when they awaken the power of their reason and throw off the mental, emotional, psychological, economic and physical shackles which have them imprisoned. It is a gleaming precedent. The same cultural movement toward freedom can be made, here and now, in America (and elsewhere around the world as well maybe?).

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Tue Dec 02, 2008 18:12Report this post to the editors

To An Gardai tonight as they seek the remains of a young vulnerable Romanian child, dead, yes although there is no body. How? Why? Who?

Is their a chink in the armour of some gangster or associated that could no longer live with his conscience because he knows or she knows, that an awful atrocity has been carried out, by certain people, who allowed their instincts to become so base as to play power games with a young vulnerable Romanian girl.........trying to find a life in Ireland.

Who is this missing girl. Marioara Rosta is an attractive Romanian girl, straigh hair tied back from her pretty face. Today, Gardai are searching for the young girls body and they are two switch the search to the Dubin mountains.

Yes, we can say Underworld encroached in areas of Dublin city, sadly. The Canal has been trawled but no body is found. Gardai have made contact with her brother and are hoping that he may have a lead regarding a car and person who drove Mariora Rostas out of Dublin, last January 2008.

The fear is that one of the criminal gangs may have earmarked her for prostitution and when she said no........these criminal underworld beings decided to shoot her dead. She and her brother were begging in Lombard and a car stopped. The man gave her brother some money while his sister got into the car with the man. Nobody has heard from her 11 months hence.

What happened? Investigators think she was befriended by well known Southside criminal (known to Gardai also)

Detectives are investigating a HSE hostel. They believe she was shot there and the building alighted. There is evidence of gunfire at the torched house.

Some items belonging to Mariora were found in the Canal last week. The search continues for the murder weapon.

Someone's conscience is active, there have been two telephone calls.

The man under suspicion and arrested and applied for a stay to another 72 hours.

Anyone who knows anything about this young girl, please phone Pearse Street Gardai Station...01 6669000

Michelle

Quotation : Consuming Passions by Ivan Illich (b. 1926) Austrian born philosopher, theologian and author of Limits to Medicine

'In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy'

The person who shot this girl took away her freedom........but he too will lose Freedom

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Tue Dec 02, 2008 18:12Report this post to the editors

To An Gardai tonight as they seek the remains of a young vulnerable Romanian child, dead, yes although there is no body. How? Why? Who?

Is their a chink in the armour of some gangster or associated that could no longer live with his conscience because he knows or she knows, that an awful atrocity has been carried out, by certain people, who allowed their instincts to become so base as to play power games with a young vulnerable Romanian girl.........trying to find a life in Ireland.

Who is this missing girl. Marioara Rosta is an attractive Romanian girl, straigh hair tied back from her pretty face. Today, Gardai are searching for the young girls body and they are two switch the search to the Dubin mountains.

Yes, we can say Underworld encroached in areas of Dublin city, sadly. The Canal has been trawled but no body is found. Gardai have made contact with her brother and are hoping that he may have a lead regarding a car and person who drove Mariora Rostas out of Dublin, last January 2008.

The fear is that one of the criminal gangs may have earmarked her for prostitution and when she said no........these criminal underworld beings decided to shoot her dead. She and her brother were begging in Lombard and a car stopped. The man gave her brother some money while his sister got into the car with the man. Nobody has heard from her 11 months hence.

What happened? Investigators think she was befriended by well known Southside criminal (known to Gardai also)

Detectives are investigating a HSE hostel. They believe she was shot there and the building alighted. There is evidence of gunfire at the torched house.

Some items belonging to Mariora were found in the Canal last week. The search continues for the murder weapon.

Someone's conscience is active, there have been two telephone calls.

The man under suspicion and arrested and applied for a stay to another 72 hours.

Anyone who knows anything about this young girl, please phone Pearse Street Gardai Station...01 6669000

Michelle

Quotation : Consuming Passions by Ivan Illich (b. 1926) Austrian born philosopher, theologian and author of Limits to Medicine

'In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy'

The person who shot this girl took away her freedom........but he too will lose Freedom

author by Jacqueline Fallonpublication date Tue Dec 02, 2008 21:04Report this post to the editors

The young girl's parents should be prosecuted as well and all their remaining children taken off them and put into State care (if the State cares?), as her parents were grossly negligent in their 'duty of care' towards their daughter and put her life at great risk by their actions. Prosecuting her family just might prevent others who are inclined to put young lives at risk on the streets in return for a cash reward for themselves.

What sort of family goes out for a day out begging and then permits their young daughter/sister to go off alone with a strange man, in return for money, and expect her to return back to them safe and sound? The family should share some of the blame for her untimely death with the murderer, due to their 'gross negligence and their lack of a duty of care towards their family member'. It is too late for them now to be turning on the crocodile tears, when they parted with their morals and their young sister/daughter for a few miserly euro!

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice Ethicspublication date Thu Dec 04, 2008 17:49Report this post to the editors

Jacqueline.

I hear and listen to what you say but feel that this vulnerable young girl slipped through the ropes of our Social Services whose function was to protect her and found herself begging on the streets. Children been trafficked into Ireland through our airports and ports, is very problematic and susceptible in immigration process we found ourselves in somewhere in the midst of the Celtic Tiger. Naturally, people are attracted from Eastern European, African, and South American countries to a country that boasts great success!!!

How these people get here and how we deal in a professional and protective way towards these people comes down to the nit and grit of life. You know that part that gets beyond grasp and is so easy to ignore. There is a strong tendency to overlook these realities.

The news this week about Trafficking young people and then the number of young foreign children placed in the HSE homes and who subsquently went missing.....most likely to the seedy part of life, to prostitution to drugs - realistically to a life of no legal protection, no secure family and just pure despair and usury.

What can we do? How can we alert ourselves? You might live in an apartment block and see signs.....but then you must ask what services are out there to support these people and to empower to live in our society. People count, their sense of take responsibility, their outrage. I recall an incident in the early 1980's when I worked in Fitzwilliam Square, then trade was plied on the Square. I was working for a man and his wife sometimes called to the office. I recall the day, my jaw down, as she told me she saw a man seeking custom......and she basically bumpered him until he moved on.....

Truckers are doing no favours, the price is dirty money and it will ring through on their conscience. Sometime in the future, it will come to mind at a time of near God and greater sensitivity.

This is what scares me and fair dues to all the Gardai involved yesterday, I believe over 100 got focused and ringed in a South African, Wife, girlfriend, etc....who had established their dens of illict sex, etc in almost every town in Ireland. The web, the locations, the trafficked young girls......were all subject to this savage control for money.

Something caught my attention. The arrests yesterday, were not outside the title Gangsterism. Trafficking women would only be a subset for gansters who say were into guns, drugs. Crime is about making money and getting profits and like a banker getting the best deal from say one currency over another..... We are talking about serious criminal minds who choose one avenue instead of another.

I would recommend the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform on Organised Crime (www.justice.ie)

Part of data

'Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, the most damaging of which are drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and Fraud. It also includes a wide range of crimes such a high-tech crime, counterfeiting, the use of firearms by criminals, serious robbery, organised vehicle crime, intellectual property theft nd others. What can you say? A true self serving mendtality of people willing to use the vulnerable......they form a criminal industry and when they get angry, they lose the temper and they shoot......The Orgaised Crime unit take up the flack.

Related Link: http://www.selectivejustice/
author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice Ethicspublication date Thu Dec 04, 2008 17:49Report this post to the editors

Jacqueline.

I hear and listen to what you say but feel that this vulnerable young girl slipped through the ropes of our Social Services whose function was to protect her and found herself begging on the streets. Children been trafficked into Ireland through our airports and ports, is very problematic and susceptible in immigration process we found ourselves in somewhere in the midst of the Celtic Tiger. Naturally, people are attracted from Eastern European, African, and South American countries to a country that boasts great success!!!

How these people get here and how we deal in a professional and protective way towards these people comes down to the nit and grit of life. You know that part that gets beyond grasp and is so easy to ignore. There is a strong tendency to overlook these realities.

The news this week about Trafficking young people and then the number of young foreign children placed in the HSE homes and who subsquently went missing.....most likely to the seedy part of life, to prostitution to drugs - realistically to a life of no legal protection, no secure family and just pure despair and usury.

What can we do? How can we alert ourselves? You might live in an apartment block and see signs.....but then you must ask what services are out there to support these people and to empower to live in our society. People count, their sense of take responsibility, their outrage. I recall an incident in the early 1980's when I worked in Fitzwilliam Square, then trade was plied on the Square. I was working for a man and his wife sometimes called to the office. I recall the day, my jaw down, as she told me she saw a man seeking custom......and she basically bumpered him until he moved on.....

Truckers are doing no favours, the price is dirty money and it will ring through on their conscience. Sometime in the future, it will come to mind at a time of near God and greater sensitivity.

This is what scares me and fair dues to all the Gardai involved yesterday, I believe over 100 got focused and ringed in a South African, Wife, girlfriend, etc....who had established their dens of illict sex, etc in almost every town in Ireland. The web, the locations, the trafficked young girls......were all subject to this savage control for money.

Something caught my attention. The arrests yesterday, were not outside the title Gangsterism. Trafficking women would only be a subset for gansters who say were into guns, drugs. Crime is about making money and getting profits and like a banker getting the best deal from say one currency over another..... We are talking about serious criminal minds who choose one avenue instead of another.

I would recommend the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform on Organised Crime (www.justice.ie)

Part of data

'Organised crime covers a wide range of activities, the most damaging of which are drug trafficking, illegal trafficking of people, and Fraud. It also includes a wide range of crimes such a high-tech crime, counterfeiting, the use of firearms by criminals, serious robbery, organised vehicle crime, intellectual property theft nd others. What can you say? A true self serving mendtality of people willing to use the vulnerable......they form a criminal industry and when they get angry, they lose the temper and they shoot......The Orgaised Crime unit take up the flack.

Related Link: http://www.selectivejustice/
author by Kevin T Walsh - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:45Report this post to the editors

Sadly last night a man aged 50 who locals know as Aidan Kane, a father with a young family. Mr. Kane chased a group of youths who were allegedly throwing eggs at his home. When he reached the lane, a youth age 13 turned around and shot Mr. Kane dead Who gave this kid a handgun. What has happened in this country. As I am writing this the youth in his company are being questioned in Store Street Garda Station and Social Services.

People around the country are shocked at this news. Sadly this is the 20th murder by gun in 2008. Are their answers for 2009.

K.T Walsh

author by Visitorpublication date Mon Dec 08, 2008 18:03Report this post to the editors

Whole country's going to the fucking dayvil I say - what!!

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Mon Dec 08, 2008 18:43Report this post to the editors

Visitor...yes.....bizarre times

Another murder, a father.....a gang...a gundrawn and used.....only young
by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics Mon 08 Dec 2008 06:35:37 PM CST
How do we draw a line? One side would be Gangsterism, corruption, harmful lies, deception, outright theft, contrivance to harm.

Then on the otherside, there would be Truth and need I add not the truth necessarily related to Religion....reform is needed here also. The next point: would we be able to handle the truth i.e. the truth of the Mahon Tribunal, the Morris Tribunal, the Barr Tribunal and so many others. In fact, why does it appear that the Moriarity Tribunal have found it necessary to ringfence a certain proportion of their findings, before releasing same to the people and they are bound to do constitutionally. We need to to really wake ourselves up to humanity in relation to the young women being trafficked from other countries and used selfishly up to 10 times a day in areas like Ballsbridge, Dundalk, Castlebar.....everywhere seems to have satient appetites that cannot be satisfied at home or in a relationship or by lifetime containment of celibacy. Compassion and kindness by consequence rank low because all of us are part of the society that exists in Ireland presently and all of us are accountable restore a sense of balance and social justice.

I know, it is all so very easy. We can look for methods to guide us perhaps the 10 commandments. But it is like receiving orders, you might be a calm kind of person with the rationality that curbs other emotions and then you are okay, you can't be prosecuted for thinking and not acting (yet). But then there is always the Scarlet O'Hara type.....reactiton everywhere and just about held back by another at the last

Aidan O'Kane moved to Dublin - East Wall one year ago. He had interest in cars and motorbikes. A gang had been terrorising the area. The Gardai had been called at the weekend when this gang damaged his car. He has a son in his twenties, his wife is dead. Then there is this gang and he or his possessions or his manner, just something attracts their attention, and alas the wrong attention and enabled action. Who would think a crowd of youngsters would have known that one of their collegiate aged only 15 was carrying a loaded gun and the attitude to kill? Who knew? The Gardai have rounded up a few so are these suspects? What a tangle for young lads on an evening night that might have fostered a little more rebel rousing without turning to raw hatred, a murder weapon, possibly a prompt from another or just an inappropriate emotional thrust.

What can we do? Look to the list of people of all stratas of society in prison for life, for hears, mothers, women, children, men, boys. We are missing out somewhere. We need education and more importantly learning and understanding. There is something in the make-up of every human being that makes us unpredictable - some follow the safe route, do nothing so bad that we become tainted or criminalised.

Others and they are sprinkled throughout our society and the heads pop up with something criminal in a most unclandestine spot.........this is the humanity in people and hence the paradox.

Things are so bad in the economy but this is not to do with crime in the economy. It is more like when Celtic Tigers sponsor initiative, ideas, connections, business education, legal education.........What arises is those emotions - those deadly sins and our ability to keep them in check and on a daily basis.

Let us look to the wrong side of the line and remember the person might well live on the Right side.......

Our banks are in a state of disarray. The Government have intervened with funding but the banks of fearful. They fear to share with the people because there is a strong possibility the small businessnesses have not got what it takes to make it and the banks will lose yet again. We are talking serious fear, the fear that stops progress and reduces cash in the economy, especially at Christmas.

I am going to end on an extreme.

We have had as a civilised society 20 murders by the gun this year. Now we have 137 unsolved muders by the gun in the last 7 years yet Dermot Ahern, Minister for Justice, praises on Garda Siochana during the week. I find this a minister like his finance Colleague Lenihan way out of their depts. One more question where is Kathleen O'Toole (Boston). Taxpayers pay her a high salary and Kathleen comes up with pepper sptray. Maybe she can transfer posts to FAS in the New Year !!!!

The capacity to do wrong is all around us. I am reading an article from the New York Times. It is a UBS banker who pleads guilty to AIDING TAX EVASION

Fort Launderdale, Florida
'One after another, the secrets spilled out. The millions stashed into Swiss bank accounts. The precious jewels and artwork whisked into hiding. The diamonds in a tube of toothpaste. Bradley C. Birkenfeld kept all those secrets and as he discreetly managed the fortunes of American millionaires and billionaires at UBS, the Swiss Bank.

Well, he pleaded guilty last week to a charge of helping American Billionaire, Igor Olenicoff.

Interestingly......UBS has been considering the names of thousands of its wealthy clients in the US.

Omerta.........or Truth maybe a touch of morality and a view on world human rights.

Michelle

Quotation
Being Oneself Clarissa Pinkola Estes Mexican poet
'To be ourselves causes to be exiled by man others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

http://www.2006violence/

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author by Barry Brennanpublication date Tue Dec 09, 2008 02:50Report this post to the editors

I was delighted to hear on the Pat Kenny show some of the opinions and information on inydmedia being commented on by Pat the Man himself. At last people are hearing about this. Hopefully they will wake up and see the reality, thanks to people like Kevin Walsh and Michelle Clarke. Thanks Kevin and Michelle. Your efforts are not going unrecognized.
Barry Brennan

author by Francispublication date Tue Dec 09, 2008 08:58Report this post to the editors

Michelle & Kevin:

Do you think it might help if "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (United Nations) was taught in our schools - as was originally envisaged and suggested in 1948? (Please see the "teaching" and "education" references to this point in the "Preamble" section of the document at http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html ).

This question is partly prompted by the fact that tomorrow is the 60th Anniversary of "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights".

I often find myself wondering when (if ever) this hugely important subject is going to be taught to our children in our schools?

I also often wonder of course what has prevented its introduction up to now?

Sixty years seems to me to be a very long time to delay regarding such a core-issue matter for human society.

author by Michael. - Human Leaguepublication date Tue Dec 09, 2008 21:53Report this post to the editors

We now have the Minister For ButcherCulture Scratching his head wondering how in the Name Of JAYSIS /what would Charlie have done to get us out
of Jail with the current Pinky And Perky Crisis .
Easy to blame this that 'n tother ,But the genuine Farmers must not be ignored as once again stringent work practices ,as set out by agriculture sector
have let the whole country down the slippery slopes to bankruptcy on a frightening scale .

Whats Next ???

author by Jim@livepublication date Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:02author email jim2674 at live dot ieauthor address GalwayReport this post to the editors

Ireland no more the island of saints and scholars, it has become the land of injustices and sex trafficking. Three weeks ago I read a book by an Irish author Chris Barry…. Just A Woman, It is a novel about trafficking of women and children for the sex trade in Ireland. As I read through this book the first thought that came to me was that could never happen in Ireland. But how wrong I was. This week the Garda are on a hunt down for the Irish sex traffickers. What has Ireland become I now ask myself, Saints and scholars, certainly not, it is now the island of gangsters and sex traffickers. Just A Woman is a great read and a book that would make a great screen production.
Jim Cummins Galway

author by Galepublication date Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:19Report this post to the editors

"On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and 'to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories.' "

The above text formed part of an e-mail sent yesterday to US President-elect Barack Obama -- and others including Prime Minister Brian Cowan T.D.

A copy of the e-mail in question can be seen at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PresidentGeorgeWBush/9December2008/Email.htm

author by Marypublication date Wed Dec 10, 2008 14:38Report this post to the editors


Read the Book Just A Woman. I agree it’s a great read. Chris Barry has another novel out as well. It called Truth Behold…it’s about the abuse in the Industrial Schools in Ireland. It opens your eyes to the religious and political injustices that went on in Ireland during the 1950s –1960s. Well worth a read. Chris Barry writes on real life issues in her novels and combines prose with poetry.
Mary Kelly Roscommon

author by Quillanpublication date Thu Dec 11, 2008 08:56Report this post to the editors

"It is our duty to ensure that these rights (listed at http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html ) are a living reality -- that they are known, understood and enjoyed by everyone, everywhere. It is often those who most need their human rights protected, who also need to be informed that the Declaration exists -- and that it exists for them." (United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon)

It seems to me we all have some lengthy way to go yet though before these rights are a "living reality" in our daily lives?

"Talking the talk" is one thing, and "walking the walk" is another.

Related link: http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/2007/

author by Michael - Human Leaguepublication date Thu Dec 11, 2008 23:36Report this post to the editors

As we have learned to listen to the hardshaws of Dublin over the years i happened to ''wander '' into a watering hole recently and sitting down (,back to the
wall job) to read the oirish mail i over heard this lady over the fone to what seemed to be a conversation concerning her son , ''If You Dont Stay outa trouble
sez she, i will Be Dug Outa Ya ,WHY DONT YA FIND YERSELF A ''MOT'' AND GET HER INTA TROUBLE AND MAYBE YED STAY AWAY FROM THE CROWD
WHO DONT GIVE A TOSS ABOUT YE.

Maybe this woman knows something about lads in general that we dont .
Women to the rescue again no doubt

author by Barry Brennanpublication date Fri Dec 12, 2008 00:21Report this post to the editors

Let's see if the efforts of the Garda over the Christmas period and thereafter will result in any prosecutions of gang members. Apparently the Garda have decided to put more funding and resources into combating organized criminal gangs. This to be applauded and is long-overdue. Perhaps the security authorities should have been more alert to the warnings put out there by people such as Kevin Walsh. If they had been, maybe they would have taken action earlier.

author by Jenevievepublication date Fri Dec 12, 2008 09:02Report this post to the editors

"The Garda have decided to put more funding and resources into combating organized criminal gangs."

The first "organized criminal gang" the Garda Síochána (Republic of Ireland Police) would need to to investigate is the one in Government responsible for sustaining the unconstitutional legislation produced during the past 10 years or so -- which of course involves crime of a treasonous nature.

Related link: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/9May2008/Email.htm

author by Hubrispublication date Fri Dec 12, 2008 22:48Report this post to the editors

They never want to hear about the Organised crime gang we call the 'Political Party'

So much easier to rant about removing the rights of criminals from the lower classes. So far at every Irish site bar indymedia that I have mentioned the obvious criminality of Politicians and Gardai some pathetic arsehole pipes up to tell me I can't say such things without absolute proof. Funnily enough these same people are usually the ones that bray loudest for removal of all out protections against the excesses of the State. The same ones the always immediately believe crooked politicians and Gardai when the make put forward preposterous statements to explain actions which obviously break the law

author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Sat Dec 13, 2008 18:31Report this post to the editors

Michael

I really like the wit h but can't get a hang of the accent!! There is nothing like a little truth....we all aspire to such esteemed parenting and sibling stoicism, the truth is a nice reminder......

You know I am basically apartment bound for a few years now, except of course for Indymedia interaction. Well I was skipping through the web on one of my favorite topics: psychiatry/psychology/brain injury and I printed out this page. I listened ardently to Archbishop Martin on the TV last night and was greatly surprised that he had chosen to go to the Mountjoy last Christmas and this year he has chosen the Central Mental Hospital. These are where our Gangsters are heading for....while others are in for a few months and out again......There is a lifelong pattern to their life patterns of criminality. What distresses me is that inspite of all the education we apparently have, all the research that is forthcoming from Universities like Trinity, UCD, St. Patrick's Maynooth, no difference is being made. Too much research is focused on lecturers and their publications list, targeted for overseas. The dross and the operators of society are to tired, to fond of the old ale, beer, shorts, drugs, to be visionaries to help those vulnerable to crime, at the necessary age i.e. young. Guidance, learning, support is needed. People have the web, there are answers to bad behaviours. We can travel now via the web from country to country and we we can learn the findings of their reports on Illegal Drugs, Criminal Behavious, inner need to be a gangster if such exists.....

Archbishop Martin seemed totally saddened by the reality of the loneliness in prison on a Christmas Day and the brief number of words gave a sense of profundity and hopeless senseless pain, for many and why?

Back to what I found:- Archive Abstracts

Title: Safety Lit: Injury Research and Prevention Literature ...... Journal Article
'Brain anatomy of persistent violent offenders: more rather than less
Tilhonen J. Rossi R., Laakso MP, Hodgkins S...........etc. 2008; 163 (3): 201-12
Affiliation: Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Niuvanniemi Hospital, University of Kuopion, Finland

The findings are that most of the violent crimes committed in Western societies are committed by a small group of men who display anti social behaviour....from an early age. (this remains across the life span). It is not yet known that an absornal brain structure exists in these men.

I can identify with this........

Press Release: Irish Council for Civil Liberties 17th February 2007
'Top Expert says removing rights won't tackle Gangland Crime' Hark.....listen....

Professor Robrt Gordon, Director of the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver was speaking about the latest Justice Reform Proposalsd at the ICCL on 17th February 2007.

'I have been following the current debate about whether there is need to re-balance' the criminal system, and I am really puzzled by the suggestion that the rights of victims can in some way be enhanced by diminishing the rights of people accused of crimes. Quite simply, this flies in the face of facts' according to Professor Gordon......

The speakers at the conference and those attending are mainly from an elite legal profession yet these issues penetrate every aspect of society and particularly in prevention and rehabiltation.

They say are young generation are Fame orientated and who can blame them with the media idolatory. Sometimes I wonder with our gangsters have they got the same bug but they can't sing or act and they do what they know they can do..........for notice, attention, acclaim.

Michelle

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author by Michael - Human Leaguepublication date Sat Dec 13, 2008 20:45Report this post to the editors

Michelle (My Belle) K.T., Yes, the one and only rapped me over the 'ead recently as to my ''comments'' re your Postings .
So you are apartment bound ,thats why i have never seen you circa Baggot St ,
I see what you are saying in your 1st and last paragraph and of course within .
I do my piece at xmas and would not like to be installed in any institution over xmas ( 11 years was enough in a relationship ) and i for 1 would see
Bishop Martin as merely doing his job by visiting said inmates as the likes of our leaders have in a lot of ways paved the road to ruin for many of OUR
prisoners who are away from their loved ones at xmas time. So he gets no credit from me and thats for sure.
In regard to our poor unfortunates who are in mental institutions today i could imagine the horrors of the disease itself and the total misunderstanding
of people with disabilities of the mind , lying ''there'' and not a visitor in sight for the person who probably broke down in an attempt to put his/her now
absent family on the road to riches and education and in the process forgot about themselves , and thats the long and short of it ..
People Put People Away for one reason or another ,its in us all ,Good And Not So Good . When is the last time anybody ,in the City ,looked at each
other as they passed each others eyes when out shopping ?

When Eyes Meet Eyes It Could Spell Danger , Sad But True.

author by Kevin T. Walsh - Social Justice and Ethicspublication date Sun Dec 14, 2008 16:04Report this post to the editors

It is almost the final chapter of the year 2008. Sadly gangland continues on our streets, in our towns all over Ireland. In the East Wall last week, Mr. O'Kane was the 20th person to die by the gun this year. Allegedly at the hands of a 16 year old youth.

I was gobsmacked last week listening to Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern. In a speech he actually praised the Gardai in the war against gangland in Ireland. Is this man on the same planet as I am, I doubt it very much. The Gardai have no will to tackle gangland and according to today's Sunday Times there is still a serious hard core of corruption within the Gardai Force. The Gardai Ombudsman Commission stated that the complaints are getting more serious and vicious against the Irish citizen. Some of the complaints reported in the Times listed: a young man beaten up in his own home in South Dublin by six members of An Garda Siochana, 4 who have been suspended and facing dismissal. This man's only offence was having a row with a trainee Garda outside a nightclub. Some days later, 2 Garda cars arrive at this man's home and beat him up: other complaints included members of the Gardai colluding with drug dealers.

I agree with Michael to a point in legalising Cannabis - it would break the back of the gangland market and probably save lives in the process. Some month ago I was reading in all newspapers that a young man from Inchicore, aged 20, appeared in the Circuit Cout in Dublin - his crime was holding a stash of cannabis worth street value Euros 28,000. This young man was under a death threat (no choice). Even the two Gardai admitted this in Court yet Judge D....t gave him 9 years in prison. I find this incredulous. This young man needed help not to be locked in a cage but as we all know who she is married to, it speaks lots.

Who really are the Gangsters in this country? We have 137 unsolved gangland murders. The Gardai get praised. I find this mind boggling. Take a view at our Banks, our semi-state bodies e.g. FAS, the Property developers and last but not least look now at Frank Dunlop who in the New Year is not contesting 16 counts of bribery and corruption. In 10 years of Tribunals and our Barristers becoming Fat Cats - I wonder will Dunlop bring the curtain down on the rest of the rats around him.

I will closer by asking can someone explain to me the words Irish Democracy. Some time ago, I voted No to Lisbon and this Government led by Cowen or perhaps by Sarkosy that it is unacceptable of me to vote no and I am now basically forced to vote Yes. Well F... them. No is No and I have a democratic right to vote in accordance with my principles and morals. This country needs a moral cleansing from within othrwise how can we morally take on gangland because environmentally we as a society crated the problems, with bad housing, poor infrastructure etc. It is a fact that the Banks engaged in blatant criminal conspiracies......nobody was held to charge. Among the elite during the Tiger, the bankers the lawyers, the accountants, according to Gene Kerrigan today in the Independent held intense discussions about 'the preferable international locations for fraudulent accounts - again, no fraud squad, no charges.

Where are the persistent prosecutors? Where are the angry Judiciary? But then again, who appoints them? O yes, the year of the gangster is getting more complex as we face into the year 2009.

I want to wish all on the site a Happy Christmas and a bright New Year and to thank all involved in running this site. It is not an easy job! Believe me, Indymedia is now read worldwide and that is good for citizen journalism. I nearly forgot on the Mail - Sarkozy's wife was advertising her designer handbags. This begs the questions about a French President's wife who appears to put the wind up Biffo. Maybe the opposition could check out Carla's handbag.....

K. T. Walsh

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author by Michael - Human Leaguepublication date Mon Dec 15, 2008 07:50Report this post to the editors

K.T. Wonderful report as per your standards .
Time Marches On.

author by MacKenziepublication date Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:34Report this post to the editors

Excessive power, greed, corruption, injustice, cover-ups (and more cover-ups), crime, JUDICIAL TYRANNY, violence, war, extreme lawlessness, global warfare (e.g. World War 2), failed attempts to prevent this cyclic HUMAN problem (e.g. United Nations "Universal Declaration of Human Rights") -- and so on, and on, the destructive cycle which humanity is at the present time locked into continues (e.g. the unlawful invasion of Iraq in 2003 for instance).

"When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated …. "

— From letter to C. Hammond (in July 1821) by Master-Lawyer & Master-Politician Thomas Jefferson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson), Principal Author of the American Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States of America. (Letter excerpt taken from http://www.restore-government-accountability.com/judicial-tyranny.html )

Break the JUDICIAL TYRANNY, and this extremely vicious and destructive human cycle of events gets broken: for once and for all, and keeping in mind that there is NO other means of breaking it known to mankind.

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