Saturday, December 14, 2013

Barry Clifford: Enemy Within

When a private debt is handed to a nation that had no part in its preparation and no say regarding its right of responsibility, then we have not a democracy left. The fact is since this nation became a republic it has never been a full democracy but instead embraced a theocracy and a 'cute hoor culture', where brown envelopes were the norm and, to be honest, was just not normal.
It is all perhaps best explained by Cicero, ethical philosopher and Roman statesman in 42 BC:
"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious but not treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable for he is known and carries his banner openly.
"But the traitor moves against those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
"He appears not as a traitor and speaks in accents familiar to his victims and wears their face and their arguments; he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city and infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Since 1922, the Irish Republic has not had a foreign enemy except its home-grown ones; and these ones have never been brought to account or even spent one night in jail.
Even as the nation rots and tethers on the brink of insolvency; where the elderly, its children and its sick lie with rising fear and lower services, not one treasonous politician, corrupt developer, and greedy banker has seen justice. In fact, the opposite has happened: they have been rewarded with pensions and even more jobs as the nation creaks and groans under the combined weight of their deeds. This enemy and traitor within thrives again and again as a nation dies and our sense of outrage dies with it.

Barry Clifford 

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