SCOPED OUT OF IT

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As predicted yesterday, Enda Kenny had the opposition's political blowtorch applied to his arse in the Dail and after three hours of intense questioning, he staggered out of there bruised but not broken.

When the shit really hits the fan the first refuge of the political scoundrel is always a tribunal of inquiry and that's what the Mayo Moron jumped at. "Mr Kenny said that, as far as he is concerned, the Government was very anxious to decide in principle to have a tribunal which would be fair to everybody and draft terms of reference that will allow the tribunal to do its work." The essential ingredient in that quote is the, 'draft terms of reference.' 

For the uninitiated, the draft terms of reference will outline the scope of the inquiry and that's critical for a politician's survival. He was on radio yesterday setting the stage for it by stating firmly that this was an internal row among the Gardai and the job of the tribunal therefore would be to discover if there was a smear campaign conducted by senior Gardai against Maurice McCabe.

That's a big part of it certainly but if that becomes the actual sole scope of the inquiry then neither Tusla's Ms Zappone,  Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald nor even Enda himself can play any part in it because politicians will be beyond the 'scope' of the 'draft terms of reference.' He's a slippery eel Kenny, isn't he? And the cute hoor wants those 'draft terms of reference.' nailed down quickly. “I hope that that can be concluded within the next 48 hours and that it can go through both the Dáil and the Seanad in order to let that commission and tribunal of inquiry get on with its work,” said Mr Kenny. In english that means, "I want to start them down the wrong road immediately before anyone spots what I'm up to and then wish them a bon voyage on their futile journey."

So this means that in terms of political expediency, it will be Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan who is eventually thrown to the wolves. I suspect that poor little Nóirín was as shocked as anybody when she was given the big job and you can bet your ass she felt a strong debt of gratitude to Kenny and his gang of blue shirts. Now though she becomes the main focus and central plank of this proposed inquiry Politically, nobody can afford to shaft poor Maurice McCabe again, the public would go crazy. So senior heads in the Gardai must roll as a result of the inquiry and that must mean Nóirín.

But lest you think the draft terms of reference ruse is a stroke of genius by Kenny, it has been used loads of times in this country and it is the first port of call for the politician found up to his tits in corruption. Think Haughey and Ahern. Once the desired draft terms of reference are in place the inquiry is going nowhere. There'll be the odd whiff of political embarrassment of course as unexpected statements from unusual sources are made, but nothing that could end a political career. 

The "scope" will make sure it excludes everything the masters don't want discussed or known and senior civil servants drafting it will ensure that. Peter Charleton, who'll chair the charade, will discover that, 'You can't ask that,' and 'It's beyond the scope of the inquiry to call that witness,' and "Activities on that date cannot be discussed,' because that's how these things are done. 

Instead, the Blue Glue will be invited to wash their dirty linen in public. Then after twelve to eighteen months of our legal bigwigs stuffing their pockets with taxpayers money, Nóirín will be found to have acted inappropriately. But inappropriate is far different to guilty so the sacrificial lamb will be, 'Invited to consider her position.' The invitation will come with two choices – brazen it out and you'll get the boot without that fat pension or, resign now on full pension and your name cleared.

And the public will be told that justice was done – watch this space!

THE NEW MARTIAL LAW

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The following is a dark prediction about our modern way of life.

"Martial law is an extreme and rare measure used to control society during war or periods of civil unrest or chaos. According to the Supreme Court, the term martial law carries no precise meaning (Duncan v. Kahanamoku, 327 U.S. 304, 66 S. Ct. 606, 90 L. Ed. 688 [1946])." That core definition absence means in reality that Martial Law can be anything they decide it is.  

"However, most declarations of martial law have some common features. Generally, the institution of martial law contemplates some use of military force. To a varying extent, depending on the martial law order, government military personnel have the authority to make and enforce civil and criminal laws. Certain civil liberties may be suspended, such as the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, freedom of association, and freedom of movement. And the writ of habeas corpus may be suspended (this writ allows persons who are unlawfully imprisoned to gain freedom through a court proceeding)." The above antiseptic description lacks the real balls of it though.

Another way of putting it is that Martial Law is the suspension of all civil rights enforced by merciless physical force. Regardless of the reason it is imposed, Martial Law is enslavement of the population for the benefit of a few. Official murder of opponents is condoned and the people frightened into doing the will of the instigators. Martial Law denies all freedoms except those decided by the instigators, such as the right to work for them for very little. It is a vicious nasty state of affairs and if the people rise up against it, many thousands will be killed or imprisoned until one side or the other prevails. Typically invading forces impose Martial Law on the civilian population to control them after they take over, like in Iraq for example. 

But the imposition of Martial Law is expensive and requires a well equipped army of trained loyal men in order to impose it. It is uneconomical because it is a mostly loss-making venture. This in turn requires the instigators to steal from their victims to fund Martial Law, or at least that has been the experience. So we must consider it to be a last resort or an act of desperation. 

I have a suspicion though that there exists a whole new kind of Martial Law now widely in use in our Western World called "Financial Martial Law." To understand it you need to also understand that Martial Law as an option is used purely in an effort to control the masses. If you get that then what better way to control them than through debt. A man indebted to you will bend to your will faster than pointing a gun at him. An indebted man has no other choice particularly if you can block his access to the little he already has. This is the true purpose of the cashless society. Your credit and money can be switched on and off leaving you penniless and without recourse to cash. 

To achieve Financial Martial Law as a reality the brains behind it had to first ensure that as many of us as possible could be consigned to a state of debt. It is now my suspicion that this began with the bank lending going mad. A home is the biggest investment most of us will ever make so creating a casino around house purchasing was a no-brainer to begin the process of  Financial Martial Law. Loans of 120 per cent were made to people who never had a hope of paying back. The banks set the merry-go-round in motion and it quickly turned to into gazumping house prices until the underlying real value bore no relation to the price paid. 

When the inevitable Bank crash came it was the unfortunate citizen that was lumped with the cost of it, amounting to €200 billion shared among us innocent Irish citizens. That is serious debt for a population of 4.5 million souls. The resultant bail-out was then the final touch ensuring as it did our right to true democracy was replaced with a Troika of financial slavers to decide our future. It was the moment the Irish Nation became financial slaves. Salaries were pushed down, prices snuck up, job security disappeared, businesses went bust and public services all but collapsed. The health service crisis, the strikes in our public utilities, the homeless problem, public disorder and many more of our modern ailments are the result. Each of us suffers insecurity and there is a widespread unease that it's not going to get better. The slaves are trying to get used to their new status but even that is changing. 

But I warn you that Financial Martial Law is in its infancy and trying desperately to bed in. The worst of it has not begun yet. I wrote already that seven individuals have the combined wealth of half the population of our planet and these individuals are at the top of the slave train we have all now boarded involuntarily. Underneath them are the world's central banks and under those sit the multi-national corporates indebted to those banks. Then comes the political unions like the USA & EU and below them lie individual Governments. Governments then have their elites in every society and then way down that list comes the vulgar masses who do the actual work that pays for it all. These are the controlled mass of the new slaves.

Due to debt, we in Ireland have long ago lost our sovereign status, the right to choose for ourselves. Democracy passed away unseen and contracts for debt for you and I were signed on our behalf by our own treacherous politicians in return for promises for themselves. That is the real state of play now. You will hear increasing calls for a cashless society in the coming months and years as this further essential plank of enslavement is put centrally on the table. In tandem will come information about the huge advantages of an electronic information chip implant for everyone. The chip will include all of the information about you but critically, it will yield your financial status to electronic readers everywhere. Your salary is paid into the chip and your assets registered on it too. The chip becomes your only line of credit and method of payment for everything and in turn, the device is run on bank databases. Get out of line even once and your chip malfunctions and you slowly starve. That will put manners on the slaves when they see it.

Financial debt can already take the roof from over your head, remove your car and even put your kids in care. The cashless society will ensure it can legally starve you to death as well. In such an environment, capitulation by the masses is inevitable. That folks, is what the banking crisis was about. It is what the IMF, the Fed and the ECB are there for. Fiat currencies are in crisis because they are not backed by any value but over the last twenty-five years, 96 per cent of currencies became digital electronic transactions, meaning a keyboard action to bring money into existence or remove any person completely. You can be switched off and cease to exist except you're still alive. Your bank account, passport, driver's license, deeds of your home, marriage certificate and very identity can be denied and cancelled.    The chip will also broadcast exactly where you are at any moment in time. You can do absolutely nothing about it either but surrender to survive and accept any conditions imposed on you to bring you back on-line and into existence again. In equal measure though, if you're a good boy, wealth and credit can be created for you out of nothing more than some other key strokes on the same database. 

It is a nightmare but it is well in progress now and it may even lead to 'One World Government' and absolute centralization and there's fuck-all we seem to be able to do about it. Individuals like Maurice McCabe, (from my last article), would simply be switched off and cease to exist in any meaningful way and there are those closer to home that such a methodology would really suit. The banks would rule ruthlessly and the army and Gardai would enforce where necessary. 

None of the above is science fiction or conspiracy theory. It is under way because it has to be. If it didn't, the dollar and euro will definitely collapse and all wealth and human activity will come to a halt for a while and chaos will rule. Then the truly wealthy would lose everything as the rest of us fight wars to survive. Personally I expect to be dead before the worst of it starts but start it will if we don't all wake up to what's being done to us. The challenge is truly huge because everything must change and change utterly if we are ever to be free to live again. The attack is insidious and ruthless, perpetrated by weird people who genuinely believe they have the right to absolute power over all of us. Some of our number will be, of necessity, inside the tent pissing out, but most of us will be in financial chains. We won't have hope nor faith because all we will have is obedience and compliance. 

The alternative is financial death, the ultimate but easy to organize option for the unruly or independently minded.

I told you it was dark!

THE EXPLOSIVE NATURE OF THE TRUTH.

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So here's how the story goes. In January 2006, Sgt. Maurice McCabe of "An Garda Síochána," made a complaint against a Garda colleague which ends up with the officer being disciplined. Then as if by magic, in December 2006 A Garda makes a complaint against Sgt. McCabe, alleging he rubbed up against a six-year-old girl inappropriately while playing hide and seek with his children. Sgt. McCabe asks that the complaint be fully investigated. The DPP then finds the allegation was without foundation.

So what's so interesting about a bit of a spat between two of the boys in blue so long ago? Well, eleven years later it may just bring down the Government, that's what.

Let's start with Ex-Sgt. Maurice McCabe. The bold Maurice is a bit of a whistleblower, which means he calls a spade a spade and dare we say it? He tells the truth. He raised concerns about the internal handling of an assault allegation in 2012 and he lifted the lid on the penalty points controversy, claiming well-known personalities had their points wiped. 

The wiped penalty points dragged into May 2013 when a report by Assistant Commissioner John O’Mahony found there may have been a breach of rules. But then Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan said that, “No evidence has been found to suggest any criminality in the cancellation of fixed charge notices”. I remember that his claim at the time was that individual Gardai had discretionary decision making, apparently even after the fact. The Justice Minister at the time was Alan Shatter who was, (or wasn't) caught drunk driving near the Dail. A lot of discretion was used in that case also with charges quickly dropped. Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan was, (or wasn't), fired by Enda Kenny later and Alan Shatter resigned out of the blue, (if you'll excuse the pun). All very discreet, wasn't it?

But McCabe was beginning to piss off some serious people and it was no surprise when in October 2013, "A Garda and Tusla are contacted by a counsellor, making them aware of a child abuse allegation against another Garda. The Garda in question is Sgt. McCabe. The alleged victim is the same woman who made the claim in 2006. A file is sent to Bailieboro Station on the basis that this is his local station. However, he had not worked there since 2008." Fast forward to January 2014 and the then Commissioner Martin Callinan ignited a political and public storm after calling the actions of Garda whistleblowers 'disgusting.'  Callinan attempted to undermine the credibility of Sgt. McCabe, saying he “was not to be trusted and there were serious issues about him”. Then on March 25th, Commissioner Martin Callinan was fire…., ah, retired for family reasons. Assistant Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan was appointed acting Commissioner instead.

Of course there was egg on several high profile faces after that and you kind of knew back then that McCabe was going to get it with both barrels, as it were. In April, The Child and Family Agency (later to become Tusla) opened files on Sgt. McCabe and his family alleging sexual abuse. Tusla is no corner shop though It has 4,000 staff and an operational budget of approximately €600m, so it is a substantial player. To have that lot on your tail is to go through hell, particularly in light of the allegation involved. Oh! And Tusla reports to an American lesbian called Ms Zappone who was appointed Minister for Children, or some such.

The time line after that is as follows:

May:
Counsellor contacts Tusla to say allegation of digital penetration in McCabe file have been ‘copied and pasted’ in error. Gardai are notified of the error by Tusla.
June:
A meeting is scheduled between the local superintendent and an Assistant Garda commissioner. However, the meeting did not take place, according to Gardaí.

2015
February:
O’Higgins Commission of Investigation, which looks at allegations by Sgt. McCabe of malpractice in the Cavan-Monaghan division, is set up.
December:
Tusla writes to Sgt. McCabe informing him he is being investigated following allegations of child sex abuse. It is the first time he is made aware of the allegations. Sgt. McCabe denies the claim.

2016
May:
The O’Higgins commission vindicates Sgt. McCabe’s version of events and upholds the majority of his allegations.
May 13:
Irish Examiner publishes details of commission documents which show the legal team of Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan attacked the motivation of Sgt McCabe, suggesting he was motivated by malice.
June:
Sgt McCabe is contacted by Tusla which informs him that the sex abuse allegation was an error.
October:
Retired High Court Judge Iarfhlaith O’Neill appointed to do paper review of the reports on the Garda treatment of Sgt. McCabe.

2017
January:
Sgt McCabe gets copy of freedom of information file on the handling of the allegation against him which outlines in detail the extent of the errors.
January 18:
Children’s Minister Katherine Zappone’s office makes contact with the McCabes.

January 24:
Peter Charleton Commission of Inquiry into allegation of a smear campaign against Sgt. McCabe is announced by Government.
January 25:
Ms Zappone meets with the McCabes and is shocked by the details outlined.

Last week then McCabe announced his intention to sue the State and my guess is that this is what will really worry the higher-ups. A Commission of Inquiry is a toothless beast used by politicians as a tool to placate the electorate but never finds guilt or culpability. However, a High Court action asks all the right, (wrong), questions, perjury is a serious business and the guilty are in danger of actually being punished. The judiciary is independent and not beholding to the bluffers in Leinster House. 

As of this morning, the rats are deserting the sinking ship. It's all about who knew what and when they knew it. Ms Zappone, Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald and even Enda himself are denying knowing anything anytime. The Garda Commissioner refuses to stand aside while it is being investigated, Zappone rushed back from a holiday in her native America to ahem, 'Clarify things.' Nobody told Frances Fitzgerald anything at all and the Justice Minister is shocked and amazed apparently. Dr. Varadkar is telling Fine Gael to pretend everything is normal and Michael Martin has given Enda a stay of execution by instructing Fianna Failers to abstain from a vote of confidence in the Government later today. 

The debacle is all over the media today. The radio behind me hasn't stopped exploring it since early morning and as for the papers, have a look at the litany below.

Government in crisis: Timeline of an extraordinary day of drama
 

Chaos as FF and Fitzgerald at odds on Tusla McCabe link
 

'I'm not stepping aside because I am innocent' Garda Commissioner statement comes hours after FF leader said she 'should assess where she stands' Says she was 'not aware' of any smear campaign.
 

As pressure mounts on the government, here are the latest details you need to know about the whistleblower crisis
 

Counsellor at centre of McCabe storm still with HSE.
 

Coalition faces a slow-motion implosion over McCabe scandal.
 

A latter-day 'Gubu' which cries out for some long-overdue honest answers to disturbing questions.
 

Superintendent David Taylor reinstated after being cleared of leaking information.
 

That last one is interesting. "The former head of the Garda Press Office has been reinstated to An Garda Síochána after being cleared of leaking sensitive information to the media by the DPP. But the article also informs us that, "Taylor also made a protected disclosure last year alleging he took part in black propaganda after being ordered to discredit McCabe. In it he alleged that he was instructed or directed by Callinan and/or Nóirín O’Sullivan (who was Deputy Commissioner at the time) to maliciously brief the media about Sergeant Maurice McCabe and encourage them to write negative stories about him." I predict that you have not heard the end of this little nasty tale.

The litany of events above were all caused by one simple Garda Sergeant breaking ranks eleven years ago and telling the truth. When the Gardai went on a go-slow some years back it was christened the 'Blue Flu," because they claimed it wasn't a go-slow. The closing of Garda ranks against McCabe has now been christened the, "Blue Glue." Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan was a political appointment and one suspects Enda and the lads saw her as a safe pair of hands. Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald has no qualification for the job except being a woman at a time Enda needed token women. Ms Zappone is just some bizarre anomaly that an election throws up. 

The wise money is on Zappone being tossed to the wolves first. If that doesn't lower the temperature then Nóirín O’Sullivan  will probably be, ahem, asked to stand aside. If that doesn't work then expect Frances Fitzgerald to resign for …….. well, family reasons. There's swans all over the Dail this morning, as in, all serene on top and paddling like fuck underneath. Politicians jobs are on the line and at a time like that, nothing else matters to them. Trump, BREXIT, the EU, Putin and all the rest of those minor issues have paled to insignificance in the light of a pending election. 

It's like going to the circus watching strange animals doing tricks as clowns dance around, all thanks to an honest cop, the truthful Maurice McCabe. 

I'll have a pint in his honour next Friday.

 

WORTHLESS GREEDY POLITICIANS.

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A few months back, this current Government was agonizing over whether to give pensioners an extra five euro a week. In some pubs in Dublin today, five euro would't buy you a pint!

But they certainly agonized for a long time with much Dail debate on the issue. For the suspicious of you out there, the point of the long debates was to buy the votes of the one block who always vote, the elderly. Looked at sarcastically, it was a fiver-a-vote.

But at the same time, a monetary top-up for TD's and Ministers was also on the table and for reasons of, ah, discretion, (cough!), this was deferred until the pension with the extra fiver was passed in the budget.

But the greedy fuckers didn't take long to opt for the top-up for themselves in these times of austerity, did they? The very smallest top-up amounts to over a tenner a week, but that's not all. The Indo. covers it well, detailing the real impact on wages of several of the high profile bluffers. Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath, that famed working class hero, is entitled to €15,829 per year extra on top of everything else. That's over €300 a week extra!

I did a sarcastic piece back last November entitled, "Leading by Example," and in it I cited the many perks these guys and gals already have on top of their bloated salaries, in return for what they have to offer. That these need to be topped up at this time, (or any time actually), is a fucking scandal.

We read  for example that, "The Irish Sun investigation shows Eamon Ryan can get €5,520 a year for being the whip of the Greens — even though the party has only one other TD — which would bring his salary up to €92,778." That's Eamon-'tax the poor and give it to my personal green projects'- Ryan and the lad is a mere part-timer in the Dail. That €92,778 a year for Eamon is mere spending money for him. They really have to be joking!

If you go for a twenty to thirty grand a year job today they want you to have twenty-five years experience in their field, be twenty-five years of age max. and a degree in nuclear physics would be a bonus. There is absolutely no qualification required to be a TD. Worse still, there are no training courses you could go on to become one. In fact, it's who you know not what you know that gets you in the door.

Personally, I don't think one of them is worth the money we give them. Oh! The odd one is likable but are any of them truly competent? Hand on heart now, could you honestly say any one of those leeches has a positive effect on your life? Me neither, so why do we continue to pay for them?