Wake Up, Ireland; Focus Your Anger On The Real Enemy

"He used to help the poor and the oppressed. For years, he wanted to go to Palestine. And he constantly prayed to Allah to grant him Shahada (martyrdom)."
- wife of Ali Haydar Bengi, a Turkish national killed on board the 'Mavi Marmara' two weeks ago.

By Charley Brady

It sounds to me as if he got his wish. There's not many of us that exit this world doing something that we love.

For me it would be a heart attack during a game of ten-pin bowling; or perhaps just reading a favourite book. Given the choice it would be during an intimate encounter with Jessica Lange, but that's not going to happen since she got that barring order against me. Your loss, Jessica.

But you know, we're all different, aren't we? And we have to respect diversity. So for some - well, no, specifically some Muslims actually - it's martyrdom and if you can kill a few infidels in the process that's even better.

I'm a sensitive kind of bloke so I respect that; but if Jewish people felt that they were protecting themselves and doing this guy a favour in fulfilling his wish into the bargain then who am I to argue?

More of that later, but let's be honest: in Ireland to be Jewish will earn you exactly no respect at all. No wonder that they think that we are the most unfriendly country in Europe; and considering some of the rent-a-crowd who hate them that is really saying something.

Why is our energy not diverted into "demonstrations" against the people who are hurting us from within?

You may remember that last week I mentioned the preening Bilocational Man who lives in two different places at the same time and travels (except that he doesn't) under the moniker of Ivor Callely. Yes! You do remember him!

Well, now erase him from your memory but do remember the corruption that he is a pure symbol of. He claimed €81,000 in expenses that he shouldn't have-naughty boy, Ivor.

He carries his little dog around with him and that alone is enough to make me dislike him, even without the thievery. That kind of thing should be left to ghastly celebrities like Paris Hilton. (I'm not of course including the equally weird Mickey Rourke in this since obviously he's a - possibly unstable - mountain of meat that would kick my head in).

Anyway, good old Ivor is gone now, but not without dropping a rather interesting nugget that pretty much shows how these chancers think.

According to traumatised Ivor he has "issues and difficulties " after losing his Dail seat. Pass me the sick bucket, somebody... please.

He claims that losing the seat was worse than the death of a parent. Did you get that?

Now I don't know about you but if I lost my job and it meant that I would get to see my old man again I think I'd take the loss of a job on the chin.

Yet to guys like Ivor, losing their greedy grasp on power is worse than losing a family member.

I think that this says it all for what our corrupt politicians are about.

By the way, he's thinking of paying back the €81,000. Don't hold your breath, taxpayers of Ireland.

And Callely, since you have now been booted out - again -and without your old pal Bertie Ahern to bail you out this time, make sure that the door doesn't bang your little dog's ass on the way out.

Oh, I forgot: you carry it around with you. In that case I hope the door bangs your own ass. Goodbye.

So we've come to this, have we?

There was a demonstration last Sunday (6th June) in New York City against the building of the Islamic Centre, complete, of course, with mosque on the burial ground that is what used to be the World Trade Centre and which the very idea of is an insult to the dead on whose shades that construction will be placed.

We've come to this, have we?

Where no paper in Ireland seems to be able to speak of it. From what I hear no major news outlets even in New York itself with the honourable exception of this one has had the guts - and let's face it - the sense of perplexed outrage that should make reporting on this an absolute moral imperative.

You will need to do a pretty heavy trawl of the Internet to find information and photographs pertaining to this kick in the teeth to every thinking person who is just plain baffled as to how permission for this can be given the go-ahead.

We've come to this, have we?

A city that is the size of New York can't put up a showing of more than 5,000 people to demonstrate against a symbolic victory for the people who put 3,000 victims into their graves. People from every spectrum of life who had simply gone to work that day. In the minds of the Islamicists they were legitimate targets.

The dead might have been irritated by their boss when they got up that morning; they may have been annoyed at being asked to work overtime when they had other plans.

Maybe some of them had found what they hoped might be love the night before and were excited at meeting their bloke or girl again; perhaps some had been planning their holiday of a lifetime. Perhaps, perhaps... there's one thing we are sure of: we'll never know the 3,000 untold stories of that day, because a group of nutters decided that they were to die.

Multiply those 3,000 by the many who were their family members and friends; who were supposed to be there in those towers but for whatever reason weren't; add in the pain and anguish as people from all over the world wondered if somebody that they knew was there on holiday... Add it all up and you have an enormous amount of people who will grieve forever.

What do we do? We show respect to the religion that these fanatics took to their hearts by giving them another victory.

I will say again what I said a couple of weeks ago: the moderate Muslims themselves should be boycotting this atrocity by refusing to have anything to do with a building that is being put up, in their name, on what is for so many hallowed ground.

And for us not to be reporting it adequately is nothing less than an absolute disgrace.

You should have been so appalled as to bring the city to a standstill; and don't forget that many of the protesters had come from different areas of a huge country. It is quite literally shameful.

You should have been as appalled as you were on that dreadful day in 2001 when the sensitive people who brought YOUR city to a standstill are allowed to almost receive recognition for the atrocity that they perpetrated.

No, you have to make them "inclusive" by giving in to every demand that they have; and then they thank you for your sensitivity. If it wasn't so bloody sickening I'd be laughing.

Why is this not being reported everywhere? I would have thought that this was news as opposed to Lindsay 'bloody pain in the arse' Lohan and her little ankle bracelet that she has to wear in case she decided to get p***ed out of her tiny mind again?

No, over here in Ireland we go for the jugular: we report on what Ronan Keating and his missus do next now that he's been caught with his dancing gear attached to the honey pot of some girl that he might have known for five minutes.

Real news? What the hell is that, said one reporter to me during the week. We go with what sells, my friend.

Apart from the fact that he wasn't my friend and I sure as hell am not his, what happened to the America that I love?

What happened to the country that stood up against the tyranny of King George or whatever chinless wonder was in charge, became independent from Great Britain and declared yourselves to be a new, young and separate nation. THAT'S the America that I love.

Of course they didn't have the horrible Thought Crime of Political Correctness during the American Revolution.

So why is it now that you have a news media that is bending over backwards to defend the indefensible?

I don't give a fiddler's t*** where they build mosques; but not there, please. Not there.

You have fallen into the trap of those that you fought quite rightly against and instead you now have an Empire yourselves, with your noses poked into every country in the world; and for what? For oil? Yes, of course, there's that as well; but is it worth it when you see your children being brought home in body bags from places that they shouldn't have been in on the first instance?

And it's not as if WE can afford to talk. The outpouring of hate from Ireland towards the Israelis in the last week here has been quite stomach-churning.

It's not exactly as if Ireland has covered itself in glory when it comes to the Jews. De Valera was having nothing to do with them when it came to wanting sanctuary from Hitler and his goon squads. Damned few were allowed onto the sacred soil of this hallowed isle.

No, the Jews would just have interfered in his eyes with our beloved pure-blood (ha!) insular state that led us to where we were with priests who ruled even our elected politicians and ultimately stopped any kind of forward thinking.

We even had the dubious distinction of staying neutral during a battle for civilization and being the only country in Europe to fly the flag at half mast on the very sad news that Uncle Adolf had bitten the bullet in 1945.

Yes, you did read that correctly: good old Dev publicly commiserated with Germany on the death of their Fuhrer and had every flag in Dublin flying at half mast.

Yeah, a lot to be proud of there, all right.

So what do we get this week? Well, more of the same really.

Look at the demonstrations that we've had here this week from the usual pig- ignorant motley bunch of misfits: Sinn Féin, God help us; anti-Globalists (whatever the hell these morons actually stand for); anti-capitalists who never worked a day in their lives and whatever you're having yourselves.

So since we're doing nothing much today except going to the pub and changing the world from a bar-stool we might as well march on the Israeli embassy and demand the removal of their ambassador and while we're at it let's complain about police brutality when they ask us to behave.

You should see some of these clowns (apart of course from the permanent bunch of professional agitators who are always unfortunately with us). A good strong gust of wind would blow these nonsensical windbags away.

Irish journalist Ian O'Doherty made a few really telling remarks this week, my favourite being:

"Make no mistake, hatred for Israel far outweighs any love for the people of Gaza for many of these activists, who tend to be a rag bag collection of fundamentalists, extremists and ill-informed do-gooders who know that in the current climate it is far easier and socially acceptable to be seen as being on the Palestinian side than on the Israeli one.

"In fact, this sense of moral and intellectual confusion was perfectly illustrated at the anti-Israeli march outside their embassy earlier this week. [That's just one of them, by the way.]

"Pictured at the front of the demo, a bunch of people brandishing the Hamas flag.

"And then, just behind them, was a flag from the Labour party's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered membership.

"So. Let's get this straight - a bunch of LBGT rights activists are happier to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the party which has branded homosexuality a moral perversion which can only be dealt with by execution?

"How far out of whack does your moral compass have to be before you go marching, as a gay person, beside people who openly declare that they want you dead?"

You know something? I've never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. O'Doherty, but I've often thought that we must be related. Maybe my dad got around Ireland a lot more than I thought. Either way, I'm in full agreement with him.

I think I'm done with this for now. So next week I hope to get back to Irish politics; but a week, as they say is a long time and a lot can change.

Whatever life has thrown at us in the meantime I hope to see you all again.

Same bat-time!

Same bat-channel!

You can reach Charley at chasbrady7@eircom.net