Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land

Political ignorance is one of the principal factors that enables our corrupt political system to survive.

Here’s a good example of such ignorance although the writer deserves credit for his honesty.

I’m sickened by Fianna Fail’s lies

I have been a Fianna Fail supporter for many years and all I can say today is that I’m sick to the stomach of all the lies they have told over the past few weeks.

All the deceit and cover-ups that they have engaged in makes me feel miserable. How could I have been so silly to believe their lies?
Have I been living in cloud cuckoo land or did I bury my head in the sand and just keep hoping for a turnaround?

How Taoiseach Brian Cowen and Finance Minister Brian Lenihan could face the cameras this weekend surprises and galls me. How they continue to have the neck to talk to the country is beyond me.

They and Fianna Fail have sold us down the river alright; it’s the lies and deceit that get to me. What happened to the beauty of truth? They are lying so long now they would not know the difference.

Terry Healy
Kill, Co Kildare

Decks need to be cleared immediately

The rats are abandoning the sinking ship. The decision by the Green Party to cut and run has panicked the gombeen men Jackie Healy-Rae and Michael Lowry.

This will probably mean an election before Christmas and that, in my opinion, is what should happen.

For this government to carry on pretending that there actually is a government just to pass the budget is not tenable.

The decks need to be cleared immediately.

White collar crime in Ireland? We wait in hope

Here’s a curious thing.

I was searching through the RTE website for a programme when I came across a link entitled ‘White collar crime’.

Feck, says I to myself, has this particular category of crime finally been recognised in Ireland?

Sadly, I was disappointed, the link related to the US, a jurisdiction where white collar crime is recognized and acted upon.

Ah well, we wait in hope.

Standby for the bucket of cold, hard reality

Less than two weeks ago a major talking point in Ireland was whether civil servants should give up their long established right to a half hour break to cash their pay cheques.

This is despite the fact that the actual issuing of such pay cheques ended years ago with the introduction of the automatic funds transfer system.

The unions said that this particular (bizarre) perk would have to be the subject of some tough negotiation before any concessions could be considered.

This farce is a good indication of how far from reality most Irish people operate.

Just this weekend, as the country plunges into economic oblivion, there are still people so far removed from reality that they’re talking about the Croke Park Agreement as if it was still a realistic prospect.

As a nation, for the first time in our entire blighted history, we are about to have our collective heads shoved into a bucket of cold, hard reality.

We will be held there for about 30 seconds before being pulled out and, gasping for air and shocked with horror at the sight of reality, we will see ‘kind’ strangers shouting in our faces.

Hello, Hello, do you understand? You must stop talking and act. Do you understand? You must educate yourself on how to run a country; you must learn to take responsibility for your corruption and stupidity, do you understand?

Weakly, our gombeen leaders will mumble – Lehman Brothers…British oppression…before the heads are pushed back in the bucket.

And so it will continue until, finally, reality is forced into our tiny collective heads and we can begin the long process of creating, for the first time, a decent, accountable democracy without the contamination of corrupt, greedy and arrogant gombeen men.

Harney's betrayal: The criminal Haughey would have been proud

I find it difficult to believe that I once admired Mary Harney.

When she and Des O’Malley challenged the criminal Haughey and his corrupt party by leaving and forming the Progressive Democrats I had hoped that, at last, Ireland was on the road to real democracy.

And indeed while O’Malley was leader the party acted with integrity and determination in challenging our corrupt, gombeen political system.

Sadly, all that ended soon after Harney took over as leader. She obviously concluded that all that integrity and accountability stuff was a hindrance to staying in and exploiting power.

Harney abandoned her principles and, in effect, rejoined her old, corrupt, Fianna Fail party. In so doing, she betrayed her country.

In typically cowardly Fianna Fail fashion she was on the airwaves today blaming others for the destruction of our country.

We have very strong regulation in relation to corporate governance. For example, I personally established the Director of Corporate Enforcement.

When I was Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment I carried out many inquiries including one into Ansbacher.

There was a failure by the authorities to enforce the regulations, of that there is no doubt.

According to this cowardly traitor government ministers have no responsibility whatsoever for the actions/non actions of state enforcement agencies.

This cowardly traitor did establish the Director of Corporate Enforcement – a completely powerless authority that has yet to bring a single white collar criminal to justice.

Its powerlessness and abject failure is, like the failure of all other so called law enforcement authorities, no accident.

This cowardly traitor was involved in the Ansbacher and many other inquiries concerning white collar crime but none of these crimes were uncovered by so called law enforcement authorities. They were all uncovered by whistleblowers or the media.

Without exception, every one of these inquiries ended in failure. Not a single white collar criminal was ever charged. This is the record this traitor is so proud of.

When asked did she feel ashamed that she is part of a government that has seen the IMF called in she replied.

No, I don’t actually.

She defended her lack of shame by covering it with the lie spouted by her fellow Fianna Fail liars – it’s not a bailout, it’s a loan.

The criminal Haughey would have been proud of this woman’s descent from the high ground of integrity and concern for her country to his own level of grasping greed, dishonesty and betrayal.

Daly and the 'deluded' banks

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ah….Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…sorry, sorry, excuse me.

I’ve just read a news report that the chairman of NAMA, Frank Daly, believes the banks have put their delusions behind them.

Daly spent more than 40 years with the Revenue Commissioners and was chairman from 2002 to his retirement in 2008.

In other words he was a key figure for much of his life in an organisation that failed to act against the widespread criminality within the Irish banking system.

He was part of a culture that allowed banks to rob and plunder as they pleased without any fear of punishment whatsoever, part of a culture that ultimately destroyed our country and he thinks it’s the banks that are deluded?

The brutal reality is that the banks are not, and never were, suffering from delusions.

They were, and still are, well aware that they are operating within a hopelessly corrupt state which provides them with watertight protection against criminal charges.

This fact is obvious when we consider that, despite decades of widespread criminality, not a single official or institution has ever been charged, never mind actually end up to jail.

On every occasion when financial criminality is exposed by whistle blowers or the media, never by so called regulators, we get the same old false tough talk from so called state authorities that Daly was spouting today.

All debtors will be pursued.

Debtors who do not meet repayment plans will face foreclosure.

Debtors will have to provide a list of assets and spouse’s assets.

Debtors salaries will be severely cut.

My response to this bullshit?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha……ha ha ha ha ha ha ha………………………

Weston: Don't worry, the bankers are kind people

Charlie Weston of the Irish Independent thinks that forbearance by banks will resolve the approaching mortgage crisis.

For all our faults, we Irish pay our bills, and we like our homes too much for thousands of us to risk losing them by giving up paying the mortgage.

Weston doesn’t explain how payments will continue when countless thousands are reduced to desperation to just put food on the table.

FG TD Simon Coveney – A langer

Our country has been destroyed by our deeply corrupt political system.

Millions of Irish citizens have had their lives ruined by these incompetent, arrogant and corrupt scumbags.

Generations of Irish citizens will have to pay for the corrupt practices of our greedy and unaccountable politicians and Ireland as a country has been disgraced and exposed on the world stage as nothing more than a second rate banana republic.

Nothing will change until that corrupt political system is completely and utterly destroyed and replaced by a real democratic system.

To achieve that Ireland will need leaders of intelligence, courage, and vision.

Is FG TD, Simon Coveney such a leader, will he lead the Irish people in the revolution that’s so urgently required. Will he dismantle the corrupt political system that has betrayed the Irish people?

To quote James Gogarty, a man who did indeed do the state some service:

Will he fuck?

Speaking at the Young Fine Gael national conference Coveney gave us a hint of his ‘revolutionary vision’.

If I become a minister, I will not accept a state car. I’m telling you that now. You can quote me on it.

As they say in Cork – Langer.