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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