Vincent Brownes call to Arms

by hs - sp (personal capacity) Wed Apr 07, 2010 16:36

Could this be a prelude to Vinnie entering the political arena?

by The Grim Reaper. Wed Apr 07, 2010 17:15

"Could this be a prelude to Vinnie entering the political arena?"

Naw.
Old men are forgotten quickly...we all are.
Nobody will remember Vinnie in 50 years.
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by donkylemore Thu Apr 08, 2010 01:17

I would be a little younger than VB
We revolted at the drop of a hat in the 60's. It was the era of student revolts which started in the USA with the draft and in Paris because of social inequality and the paucity of their college lecturers .
We started with the Vietnam, then our own civil rights movement and later the Bloody Sunday marches;

VB reported on the IRA / NI situation and always had a good insight into the political dynamics of the time .
But I never heard him speak or write about the poor
'''- those earning less than 30 K and no one earning a multiple of 5 times that .
He says he lives of 50 K .. ''the rest goes to my debtors ''
He , like me is trying to make this a country FOR old men .
We dont like to be conscious of losing out relevance , drifting off into the ethereal bleakness like so many bubbles from a pipe .. sparkling for an instant then ..puff !!

So that's it . We invent things like '' social exclusion'' ; the ''grabbing greed of the elite'' .. the ''dalliance of irrelevant political parties like the Greens ''.
'' what difference does Mary Harney make .. do the Greens make ..
Is there not something catastrophically wrong with a system that allows bankers ..
'' spectacular injustices ''

But I'm an old guy too and I like the way VB writes . He towers over the rest of the mediocre Irish journalists.. see the air time he got at the bishops press conference!!

by JoeStalin Thu Apr 08, 2010 03:10

Ah, Monsieur Le-More, with this reminiscence you are spoiling us

Aaah ye will, ye will, ye will, ye will, ye will

by Wondering Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:45

I wonder if Vincent Brown received the information relating to corruption in the legal profession sent to him (and to Prime Minister Brian Cowen TD) on March 31st last -- please see copy of the e-mail in question at http://www.humanrightsireland.com/PrimeMinisterCowen/31March2010/Email.htm ; and, if he did receive it, why is it that he has made no significant mention at all of this extremely serious and socially destructive form of government wrongdoing in his Politico Article dated April 7th (referred to above)? -- allowing for the fact that he is a lawyer, and that he should (in theory at least) be in a much better position than most other broadcasters to be able to understand, investigate, and expose this core source of major problems in our society?
 

by Observer Thu Apr 08, 2010 20:00

I don't believe that Vincent Brown is basically any different from the vast majority of his colleagues in the MSM (Main Stream Media) -- in that he seems to be completely terrified of facing up to (and tackling) the real problems, and, at the same time, absolutely fearless when it comes to covering them up with useless and time-wasting distractions.

My message for Vincent Brown would be this (using the words of former US President Abraham Lincoln):

"You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time."
 

observer,

by hs Sat Apr 10, 2010 20:43

do you watch his show? Do you think there are any merits to the argument?

To "hs" at Sat Apr 10, 2010 20:43

by Observer Sun Apr 11, 2010 14:13

There are major social issues which Vincent Brown (and his colleagues in the main-stream-media) have all been collectively "sweeping beneath the carpet" for a very long time, and which by now has become a major problem in itself: thanks to the fact that major problems which are ignored often "breed" more and bigger ones of like and different kinds.

"A stitch in time saves nine."

Unconstitutional legislation, which is primarily the product of a rampant form of insidious corruption within the legal profession (of which Vincent Brown is a member), is one of the extremely serious social problems in question; and, as far as I know, Vincent Brown and his colleagues have never made any attempt WHATSOEVER to address this crucially important issue in public.

He and his colleagues are very happy to vocally tinker in public with certain of the symptoms of the above mentioned core issues regarding unconstitutional legislation (for example), and to do so at great length and with much in the way of verbal gymnastics of different kinds; but, the problem itself, the source of the symptoms, is always taboo.

In certain respects, it is similar to the way that the sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church remained taboo for many years: until the stench became undeniable and could no longer be covered up.

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