And so Fred Forsey is set to lodge an appeal against his
conviction for accepting a political bribe when he was a local councilor. The
conviction was in itself a first here according to Transparency International,
but Ireland may well go back to having an unblemished record should that Forsey’s
appeal succeed because the man who was charged with bribing him was found not
guilty. This banana republic slides along as ever innocent as the driven snow.
The best that this country can also do too with David Drumm,
former ‘property developer’ that turned out to know very little about property,
and once commanded the respect that one affords an Einstein or a Michelangelo, is
to ask him to come back to Ireland and face questioning on some ‘dubious’
dealings. Of course they were not corrupt either, just giving himself rather
large loans that ran into the millions; sure was he not giving loans to all of
his friends and enemies so what was the big deal? The only hope Ireland has
with Drumm is try to get him on facebook if he still has a computer.
This countries political system is still a laughing stock in
the eyes of the world. In almost every deal they do economically is death to
Ireland by a hundred thousand cuts. It signed away Ireland fishing rights in
order to prop up other interests in what was blatant disproportionate representation, then gave away oil deposits and other
minerals and everything in between.
There is little left to bargain with now for this country as a whole.
A country that
was once run by the British, then by priests, is now run by Gombeen
politicians while still pretending it is a democratic country. It showed what
democracy really was here when it protected private banks and saddled its
citizens with debt that can never be repaid. Hear Hear to the republic, the banana republic.
Barry Clifford
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