David Quinn, writing in the Irish Independent today and more used to trying to prove the existence of
God there, is now trying to prove that Gerry Adams had something to do with murdering
a woman during the recent war of attrition between Ireland and England.
Thankfully both sides of that war have embraced the peace with the ‘most’ of us,
which does not stop either in the blame game trying to use political capital in
the form of smearing, jeering and the lies when it comes to election
time. David is no different.
As usual David speaks for ‘us’, and trying to marginalize
those outside that imaginary ring is his idea of proof. It is always evident of
how he writes, and that narrow focus and knowledge painfully shows when he tries
to write about anything else beyond the fiction of his religious beliefs. His
article today is not a leap of faith to believe that it is more than a
coincidence that his piece about Gerry Adams joins the chorus of the media mob
on the morning of Election day.
Ethical, truthful, and impartial judgment is sadly missing
by David that is the cornerstone of journalism, but then again carrying the
card does not make you a journalist no more than a man carrying a bent spanner
makes him a plumber.
One time David heralded a piece titled a few years ago: The
Village Atheist. Of course the inference was the man was the village idiot and
all because he did not want religious fiction drummed in his child’s head in a
Catholic school where there was no other school almost in the entire county
that was not owned or managed by Catholics. Now, using the same style of
writing David tells us that ‘most’ of us believe that Gerry Adams was in the
IRA which is as sure a bet that David is also a Catholic.
But like all media scribes sometimes David unknowingly
stumbles across the truth and that is the media is part of the establishment, though
he opines that differently, and he is also right that media attacks can easily
backfire.
Then there is the transference of guilt of past political
crimes has David telling is that Sinn Fein is now offering voters a suspension
of the laws of economics. A vote on taxing if not removing the obscene pensions
that the obese Brian Cowen, the yet un-broken Bert Ahern enjoys, and that of his
cronies, might just address that issue and balance more than a few budgets, for
it was this insidious and most corrupt party that not only suspended the laws
of economics but threw the book out the window all together. This was not just
economics at play but the greatest betrayal against the Irish people since the
foundation of this Republic.
Down the road indeed may give rise to more misery but it is
the equal sharing of that misery that counts as much as enduring it.
By Barry Clifford
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