Dublin Says No to Savage Tactics on Show
Dublin Says No to Savage Tactics on Show
Communities face down 'fascist' slurs from leftist idealogues
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits.” - Matthew 7:15
There’s an edge to this counter protest movement that should strike observers as significant.
In Dublin on Saturday two sides of the most divisive issue in Irish society today faced each other down at St Stephen’s Green.
One cohort protesting government immigration policy placing asylum seekers, unannounced, in working class areas.
Across the street a counter protest, proclaiming ‘Refugees are Welcome.’
“At times it may seem that we are fighting a satanic evil in our government and we must call on the power of almighty God to protect this nation,” Irish Freedom Party Chairman Michael Leahy declared from the steps of the Mansion House.
Will we read Mr Leahy’s words in an Irish newspaper? Unlikely.
The need to demonise growing sentiment against Ireland’s open borders policy takes precedence over basic reportage. Because once the surface of government policy that actively discriminates against indigenous citizens is scratched, it reveals itself to be basically indefensible.
This tactic is nothing new; ‘Fenians’ was the name bestowed upon members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood by those that opposed the movement in a bid to mock and ridicule it, 150 years ago.
Notably, members of the IRB were also in Dublin on Saturday, marking the establishment of Dail Eireann on January 21 1919 with a reading of the Proclamation of Independence at the GPO.
Meanwhile, scenes outside the Shelbourne Hotel at the Dublin Says No protest saw the NGO classes – paid agents of the state, together with their ideological overlords, the far left, pitted against the ordinary working class, people from Drimnagh, East Wall, Ballymun.
“We are here today to protest against the government’s ruinous policy of immigration,” Mr Leahy told those assembled.
“It’s clear to me that this policy brings together a series of related issues, including housing, the massive increase in national debt, the inadequate hospital services and attacks against free speech and property rights. All of these issues coalesce around one question. Why are the Irish people being replaced? Why are we being forced into the status of second class citizens in our own country?”
The Irish government is culpable under this latter accusation, evident in its eye-popping spend on housing for new arrivals, social welfare benefits and pensions for ‘those fleeing Ukraine,’ free college education for which Irish students must pay.
It is evident in the introduction of planning derogations for refurbishment works of properties to house Ukrainians (not Irish) and in the state provision of modular homes, also for Ukrainians, while every other nationality on the housing list is left to languish there. It is evident in financial incentives for landlords to house new arrivals in rental properties tax free, forcing Irish tenants literally, onto the streets.
The ordinary democratic practice of local community engagement has been completely suspended.
The response from politicians paid to represent the Irish tax payer is to steadfastly ignore, to demonise and to ridicule anyone that questions the status quo.
But the tired old tirade of ‘far right, fascist’ is wearing thin.
Was there ever so much evidence, everywhere, of censorship, division, classism, and defamatory labelling of anyone expressing counter establishment views?
Why are so many members of these counter protesting political parties, trade unions and NGO’s possessed of such a disturbing, venomous rage?
Is it because they know now, the game is up?
Can there be any credibility for organisations that claim to represent diversity not division, that stage ‘counter protests’ against opinions they disagree with?
Do they not recognise the hypocrisy of their stance?
Counter protesters in Dublin on Saturday presented behind a coalition of ‘social justice activists’ under the title Le Cheile: Diversity not Division.
The launch of this coalition front was heralded by multiple media outlets in December 2020, as a ‘concerted response to the far right.’
Le Cheile members pictured include Bernard Mulvany, Access for All; Brid Smith, People Before Profit TD; Sharon Shiedu, United Against Racism Ireland; Éirénne Carrol CEO of TENI; Orla O’ Connor Director of the National Women’s Council; Liam Herrick, Irish Council for Civil Liberties; Louise O’Reilly, Sinn Féin TD; Ailbhe Smyth, feminist and LGBTQI activist; Lorna Fitzpatrick, President of USI Ireland and Des Derwin, Dublin Council of Trade Unions.
(Irish Times Dec 2020)
For an entity that purports to prevent hatred, the coalition’s Twitter feed belies an uncomfortable truth, that it hates anyone questioning Ireland’s policy of open borders.
Chants of “Stand Up Fight Back” from a coalition of far left ideologues claiming they abhor division cannot claim credibility.
Placards displaying the “refugees are welcome here” slogan together with the words “Fuck You Herman Kelly” cannot claim to celebrate peaceful diversity.
Cackling claims that protestors were ‘chased out’ of St Stephen’s Green bely the true nature of this curious crew. It is in no way celebratory of diverse opinion.
It’s very presence at the Shelbourne Hotel, to counter protest, belies a sort of mind boggling cognitive dissonance.
Solicitor Malachy Steenson, a vocal activist in the mobilisation of the Dublin protests beginning in East Wall, addressed protestors outside the Mansion House.
“They are following us around, trying to harass us. They did the same in Fairview. They didn’t come into East Wall,” he said.
Steenson relayed comments made by Dublin Bay North TD Aodhan O’Riordán at a recent Refugees Welcome rally.
“When asked if he had spoken to the residents in East Wall he replied ‘Why Would I?’ Well I’ll give him a very simple reason. And it won’t be a reason after the next election.
“We pay his wages.”
Herein lies the problem that the government, opposition parties, the plethora of NGO’s and pitifully, the Irish media now face.
Having utilised the craven tactics of censorship and misrepresentation to silence whole communities, they must now deal with the consequences.
“We’re told that all of these people coming into this country didn’t cause the housing crisis.
“We know that.
“There was a housing crisis before the asylum problem. How can anybody sit with a straight face and say on one hand, we have a housing problem. But we are going to bring in 70,000 people a year and it won’t affect the housing crisis. And they do say that, with a straight face. And nobody questions them. Except us.”
“We said, there is nowhere to put people who are coming into the country. I was a far right fascist for saying that back in November. The Taoiseach said it last week.
“(Minister for Integration Roderic) O’Gorman, the day before yesterday said, we have a problem, ‘there’s no room for the people we are bringing in.’
“We’ll give them a voucher for McDonalds and let them sleep in the streets.
“What kind of a country is it that this passes for political policy?”
The counter protesting Le Cheile coalition, who have continuously lobbied for open borders, may face a fresh challenge next week, in the form of asylum seekers left with nowhere to sleep.
As such, each individual protester surely has an obligation to these new arrivals? These most vocal supporters of this absurd government policy must take it upon themselves to welcome refugees into their own homes.
They have, after all, spent many months agitating for this moment, to show the truth of their spirit of solidarity. For if even one tired, traumatised, international protection applicant is left sleeping on the streets, then a great hypocrisy will be laid bare for all to see.
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Matthew 4:16-20 (Gospel reading January 22 2023)
The term "Fenian" was created by my g-g-granduncle Col John O'Mahony, founder of the IRB, taken from the Irish word "Fianna," to describe those in opposition to foreign rule and willing to fight it; your article suggests it was a term of mockery used by Republican opponents. You are mistaken. My direct ancestor was leader of the Cork Land League in its struggle in the "Kingston Estate Episode," which historians describe as the event that broke the back of landlordism in Ireland; his statue stands in The Square in Mitchelstown; the plinth has the names of the three men shot dead when they came to arrest John Mandeville; twenty-three others were wounded, in the crowd of over 15,000 there to oppose his arrest. Unfortunately, the British murdered him by starving him in his two-month stay in Tullamore Gaol. My ancestors are likely spinning in their graves seeing how this country is being destroyed by more foreign occupation. I was brought up as a physical-force Republican, and I know we can't rid ourselves of these cowards and traitors without a fight. God Save Ireland.