Last week, Virgin Media ran a very fair documentary about the immigration crisis called “Is IrelandFull” – a play on the popular slogan of many immigration protestors. I was interviewed for that documentary, and one of the things I said on air is that if the Irish Government was actively trying to create a “far right” movement in Ireland, they couldn’t do a better job.
The last few days, I think, have validated that position. The sight of hundreds – if not thousands – of people in Ballina coming out to speak their mind to their local TD, Dara Calleary, was followed up by the dystopian scenes in Newtownmountkennedy, County Wicklow, yesterday afternoon, as the full force of the state was deployed to force the beginning of works on a new migrant centre in the town, over the passionate and at times openly desperate objections of locals. I do not use the word “desperate” there, for the record, as an insult: I use it because desperation is one of the few words that can accurately describe the depth of feeling that Government policy is provoking in otherwise peaceful, law abiding, moderate people. A Government inspiring desperation in its own people is playing with fire.
Yesterday afternoon, I got in some trouble on social media for pointing out – entirely accurately – that local protests in Newtownmountkennedy were bolstered by the arrival of external activists to support and reinforce the locals. My twitter replies might not be a perfect barometer of public opinion, but once again the sheer wall of anger that was evident is telling of something, I think: The Irish public, or at least a substantial part of it, is substantially rejecting the Government’s long-term framing of immigration issues as “local planning matters”. The issue has been well and truly nationalised.
Last week, a fairly moderate person used, in conversation with me, the phrase that is my headline above: “It feels like the Government is at war with its own people”. I use it above, without the quotation marks, because it is true: To many people, that’s exactly how it feels.
The people of Newtownmountkennedy are, of course, taxpayers. They fund the very Gardai used yesterday to confine them to their own town and bulldoze through construction workers to commence a migrant centre they do not want. The state is using their own money to radically alter their community, against their will.
This reminded me of another ongoing battle between the state and the public: For more than a decade, the Irish Government has been trying to build a North/South electricity interconnector, which would traverse the farmland of counties Meath and Monaghan, amongst others. For more than a decade, that project – which the state says is vital – has been stalled because of a lengthy battle by landowners to stall it. It has not been built.
Surely anybody with a brain can see the injustice? That on the one hand relatively well-off farmers and landowners in the northeast (full disclosure, some of my own family members amongst them) can delay a hated project for years, while the voters of Newtownmountkennedy have no recourse of any kind to object to the transformation of their town? Everything we have come to believe and understand about how the country usually operates is being turned on its head to accommodate migrants.
Last week, it was revealed that Mary Lou McDonald, the leader of the opposition, had objected to the construction of 1,593 homes in her constituency.
Jesus Christ. Mary Lou objects to 1,593 apartments in her own constituency. pic.twitter.com/lqXPVGPpyi
— Garreth McDaid (@garrethmcdaid) April 12, 2024
The population of Newtownmountkennedy, according to the most recent figures, is just under three thousand. The proposed migrant centre is to accommodate – in tents, no less – another 160 people, and that is just for starters. This is a significant and likely lasting alteration to the makeup of their town, and yet they are not only given less right to object than the leader of the opposition is, they are actively trampled by the forces of the state.
That this is insanity should be clear to anybody with a brain. That it is unfair is obvious. That it will prompt a backlash is something a blind person can see.
We hear much in Ireland about the rise of misinformation and disinformation and conspiracy theories. Indeed, my own social media these days is depressingly full of abject nonsense ranging from falsely blaming the Jews (“the Kalergi plan”) to falsely blaming the European Union (this is not happening in Denmark) to falsely blaming a fellow called Klaus Schwab and his “WEF young leader” programme (Simon Harris is not a WEF young leader, and believes in this stuff just as much as anyone else).
But take a step back here, and ask: Can you blame people for looking to that kind of nonsense for answers? Really?
Irish people rarely wish to think the worst of their own Government, and indeed they have been conditioned not to do so. The whole effort of Government communications, indeed, is aimed at blaming others: “Our international obligations” is nothing more than an effort to pin the blame for Government policy on some vague, overseas, other.
Yet the raw truth is that this is, 100%, absolutely and irrevocably, Irish Government policy. There is nobody else to blame. The trampling of Newtownmountkennedy was a decision made by the Irish Government, and nobody else: Not the Jews, not the Europeans, not the lads with the funny secret handshakes.
Somewhere along the line, Irish policymakers decided that accommodating as many migrants as wish to come here is more important to them, politically, than bowing to the concerns of the public on this issue. They have done so in the face of the opinion polls, public protests, and genuine horror by the voters. Why?
The answer, believe it or not, is simple: Because they believed, and many still believe, that the cartel-like nature of Irish politics will allow them to get away with it. Who are you going to vote for? Sinn Fein? As we have seen, they have been for many years if anything more pro-immigration than the Government. Labour? They think Government is not cracking down hard enough on the locals. The Soc Dems, People before Profit? They’d abolish border controls altogether.
Set against the opposition, FF and FG believe they can do this and still be the relative moderates on immigration. And, they believe, nobody will vote for “the far right”.
That’s the why of all this: Because they believe it is doable, without real cost. And thus far, the opinion polls do little to dissuade them. It is also, it should be said, simply less work. The entire system of the civil service is set up to accommodate more people. Hundreds of jobs rely on it. The whole thing works without too much oversight from politicians. Changing the policy, by contrast, would be the work of months, and not only for Government. For the civil servants, too. It would mean hard meetings in Europe and tough conversations with NGOs and likely protests from the highly organised left. And all for what? They think they can win re-election as things are.
But the danger there is simple enough: At some point, people may well decide enough is enough. At some point, you vote for the only person who represents you.
After all, the only countries in Europe that take a different view on immigration are those in which a genuine “far right” party has broken through: France, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Italy, and many others. If you want to change Government policy on immigration, the lesson from Europe is very clear: Vote for those guys, even if you – a relative centrist on everything else – think they’re loonies.
This is the fire Government is playing with.
When it feels like the Government is at war with its own people, electoral options that were once unthinkable suddenly become very thinkable indeed. And the country, in the end, becomes ungovernable. Oh what a happy place we’re building for ourselves.
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The title of this article has an (understandable) error. The government is Not at war with its own people because they see themselves as a different entity to the Irish nation. Effectively they see themselves as internationalist, without a people. They serve global masters, not the Irish people. They look on Ireland as a bit of international territory that needs to be subdued,
again.
We , the Irish nation are a troublesome lot that need to know our place. We do not have the right ( as Varadker put it) to say who lives here.
We do not want that old fashioned idea of sovereignty ( as Martin put it).
Our views are to be ignored and if we give the wrong answers they they will make us vote against our own wishes again and again ( as McDonald put it).
Haven’t you got the message yet , thick Paddy. You are not wanted and can easily be replaced.
This government is as foreign to Ireland as a polar bear would be to the Sahara desert.
We just haven’t realised that yet.
This is a great point – they see themselves as above the Irish people – they don’t see themselves as Irish – they see themselves as part of the great global elite class – hence Michael Martin’s statement yesterday- ‘ the Irish will rebuild Ukraine after the war’ – in what worldview does it make any sense that the Irish should be legally obliged to rebuild Ukraine? The left are no better – my heart breaks for the poor Palestinians and I have been to over a 100 protests in support of them over many years – but listen to our left wing politicians – you think that they were Palestinians – that is all they talk about – yes – call for a ceasefire, yes – send humanitarian aid – but we have our plantation ongoing in our own country, we have 1,000s of Irish who are homeless, 100,000s who are being forced to emigrate and they don’t have one minute to comment on it or do anything about it.
It also helps to have high levels of sociopathy in positions of power, it would seem
The question is asked, who else do we vote for.?
A good question. The answer is simple enough, we only have to look in the right place. There are a few fledgling parties that have sprung up in recent years. They have been condemned as ” Far right” by the establishment. This makes them very interesting. Why”far right” and so what? Far right, as opposed to what? One has even taken on the slogan ” Far right, Right so far”.
Personally I have looked at these parties and I favour the Irish freedom party. If you look at their website they spell out their policies which look very centre or perhaps centre right. They are basically saying the same as what most people are thinking.
Come the local election/ European in May I will be looking down the ballot paper. I shall ignore all the usual suspects FF FG SF pbp labour and of course the gobshite greens. that will leave me with a few independents and the new ” far right” offering. I will have plenty to choose from.
Remember tea boy Harris only got in on on the 15th count and Varadker on the 5th or 6th. Martin also struggled.
We can get rid of these scoundrels if we want.
It’s delusional to think that the smaller parties like IFP etc will get enough of the vote to make any real difference. SF are the only realistic agents of change. Voting for these fringe parties will only split the anti FFG vote and will likely just hand power back to FFG.
Which I wonder sometimes is the real objective of gript. Many many SF bashing articles. Gript is either intentionally or unntentionally helping FFG. But helping FFG they are.
SF will not be the same as FFFG. They will arguably be worse. Just take a look at their record. They clearly are globalist lackies. Everything they say and do would indicate this. Remember Eoin O Broin when asked outside the Dail “what is a woman” couldn’t give an answer and that ejit will potentially be the next housing minister. Mc Donald said on at least two occasions that she would rerun the recent referendum. They are completely on board with the global warming scam. They want the trans idolatry to be front and centre in our schools.
On immigration they have clearly stated that we will be hosting more of our “international obligations” here notwithstanding the disaster this has on our already destroyed housing market.
They suggested amendments to the so called hate speech laws so as to make it more extreame.
I could go on and on but suffice to say they will be a disaster for Ireland and the Irish they clearly hate.
Would you not agreetge Green Party appears to be the tail wagging the dog in coalition?
Love the gobshite greens comment!!!
Thank you. It has a certain ring of truth to it. And the way they behave they deserve absolutely no respect. If they get their way , we will be eating out of bins.
I don’t know much about the wef etc but I do know it is Irish politicians allowing this.
They are dangerous and a danger to me and my family.
With regard to a post below about contacting them, they don’t answer. I’ve met top level politicians and they played dumb with me. In one case one of the highest ranked TDs in Dail eireann told me he didn’t know modular homes were being built for Ukrainians in his own constituency. I have requested them to stay away from me and my family by text, phone and by email. They know my address and to steer clear. They are not welcome near me. They are the enemy.
A shameful pack of traitor filth.
mobile phones are great invention used right,start ringing all the TDs and county councilors that repersent you and your locality,ask the hard questions be surprised with the answers ,even ring the head offices of all these in Dublin ,we need answers now , get out and protest before your locality is turned in to a sh.thole by people that do not give a feck about our culture or identify, remember another 5 years this government of main party and old Ireland I remember from 70s and 80s when hundreds of thousands of us still had to emigrate will be lost.Save our Country 💚
No denying Klaus’s influence has helped to destabilise societies across the West, John. I don’t believe he’s some sort of evil emperor, but from the stuff he says and does, and the shenanigans at the WEF (which a lot of our government goes along with), it strikes me that he wouldn’t mind the title.
But agreed, what’s going on in Ireland can be laid solely at the feet of the people we voted in.
Pretty good piece
Do I believe in the grand conspiracy stuff – no, humans are simply not able to coordinate on such a macro level across all spheres
Do I believe in a conflux of events – yes – the left sees this woke stuff as a chance to rip everything down and rebuild, the rich love more people (sell more) more big government (keeps competition out), the administration love more people (more jobs & money for them) more big government (more jobs and money from them), academics are in the same boat as the administrative types
Do I believe there are bad faith actors pushing an agenda – yes of course, “never let a good crisis go to waste” .. there are people out there who after all murder people for 5 quid .. for 5 billion there would be no end of takers
Yes – all of this is true – there are external interests at play – there are communists in Ireland that love that our country is being destroyed – but John’s point is the most valid – why is this happening to us – because we say we don’t like it , but a majority of us intend to vote Sinn Fein – who advocated for it & support it all completely. We can’t seem to say confidently as a people – we do not want open borders because we are afraid of being called racist – effectively we have done it to ourselves and it is easy to blame the Kalergi plan ( which exists) , the EU , which would happily send 1 million migrants onto Ireland – but they won’t force it – the Irish State could simply say – no we can’t take anymore and it would stop immediately – if we simply said en mass to our politicians stop doing this or we are going to vote for x instead – it would stop immediately – but as a people- we are immature, lacking in confidence, too compliant and very lazy and we wait until 100s of men are being shipped into the building beside our children’s playschool , before we say -stop , stop, stop it – of course by that time, it is too late to stop it – they have already arrived.
Thoughtful pieces like the above are what is needed to combat reckless policy and persuade the electorate. You touched on the difficulty of changing government immigration policy due to opposition from the civil service and NGOs, but it is worth exploring the costs of not adjusting existing policy. Ongoing intake of large numbers of international protection (IP) applicants will permanently damage the tourism sector in the near- to medium-term, thereby reducing the tax-base on which government spending relies. Simultaneously, government expenditure will increase to build these proposed large IP intake centers, which will likely take years to build, be over-budget, and be a band-aid at best (to say nothing of the cost of accommodating tens thousands of new IP applicants). So, with a damaged tax base, increasing government expenditures, and exacerbating the existing strain on services (medical/educational/social), the enormous costs of not changing policy drastically and immediately are obvious and dire.
Civil War 2 coming to your community soon sponsored by ff/fg//g government with help of international brigade
Yes, I think so too.
When Peader Tobin stood up to the Trans lobby over a year ago, I decided then and there to vote for Aontú at the next election and ZERO other votes, no seconds, no thirds nothing. The miserable shower who are in now, a whole bunch of them got in on the 7th 8th 9th… even 19th count (in the case of that nutjob Aodhán O’Riordan). This behaviour waters down and dilutes our democracy.
Vote once, no seconds… our charity has led to these monsters sacrificing our societal cohesion at the altar of virtue signalling to an EU that will laugh, as with banners flying and drums beating, we’ll destroy our western world so these entitled neo-communists can feel good.
Strange comment. With many upvotes.
Why, on an article about the Government at war with & weaponising Mass Immigration against us, would you bring up Peadar Tobín standing up to the Trans Lobby and using that as justification for voting for Aontú?
Why would you not bring up Aontú’s stance on immigration? It’s a matter of record that Peadar Tobín lobbied to bring in Afghans to the country. So, regardless of what they might say e.g. look at Sinn Féin currently speaking out of both side of their mouth on immigration, the evidence is there – Peader Tobín has made a personal effort in contributing to this Plantation. It’s not simply that he made some off the cuff comments. He actively lobbied.
FF and FG hold the power in Government in this country. They are not neo-communists. The flavour we are getting is ultra Capitalist i.e neo-Liberal. Open Borders suits Big Finance, Landlords, Multi-national corporations. Nothing Communist about them. Open Borders may suit Communists but they are not the ones orchestrating what’s going on. It just happens to align with their desires.
I’ve noticed many comments popping up here recently about different Independents and newly formed parties about people saying they’ll vote for them for anti-immigration reasons.
I think if you are going to vote for anyone or any party for this reason that you really need to check them out properly. If they are not explicitly for mass-deportations, an extremely strict immigration policy, removing voting rights of foreigners and removing their right to interfere in the politics of our country i.e. campaigning or running for office, then we’ll just end up with more of the same. If you think that is extreme, well, if we carry on the way we are there will be voting blocks of Muslims and other ethnic groups which will be shaping our country and our way of life. This is already evident in other countries that are further down the road than us. It may well be that these ideas are currently not the norm for people, but unless we stand up and proclaim what we stand for, we’ll get walked over. That is actually what is already happening, except for the resistance we’re seeing with the protests.
All these new pop-ups, Independents and small parties should be scrutinised carefully before lending them support. Ex FF’s and FG’s should be held with extreme suspicion that they aren’t making tactical moves at being nominally independent while they still lend support to the Government . A South Tipp TD comes to mind.
Don’t worry about parties or Independents being small and insignificant. The AFD, the Sweden Democrats, Le Pen in France and so on, were all written off just a few years ago. Nationalist spirit is growing amongst the people. The powers that be are not going to be able to put that genie back in the bottle. This is going to take us time. But also effort, on our part.
Totally agree RealIrish – I’ve spoken to quite a lot of people even within my own family regarding above & you’d be surprised by the political ignorance and my fear is that you’d get the same again via a “Lite” version or the wolf in sheep’s clothing from some of the TDs that jumped & there’s plenty of them around.
No what you need here is a well overdue radical change to the way people think in relation to the running of this Country.
Do the people want the same again or do they TRULY want their Country,borders, culture, currency back – it’s a simple question.
I’ll be choosing the latter and there is genuine parties out there that favours this proposal
It would seem to me that the apparent reason for inviting this influx of asylum-seekers, and for pointedly resisting any efforts to take effective action to address the wholesale asylum-abuse that is now driving the government’s growing desperation to foist migrant camps on rural communities is coalition dynamics. It is obvious that the Green Party considers “diversity” as a good and virtuous thing in itself. This view may even be shared by a small minority of FG ministers – notably McEntee. In any case, “diversity” and a laissez-faire immigration policy means more to the GP and its radical NGO friends than asylum-abuse and its consequences has concerned the majority of FG and FF TDs. Some of the latter may even be close to the people benefiting economically from this crisis.
This equilibrium is now readjusting itself in the face of manifest and growing public anger and the approaching local and general elections. There is also the feeling among FF and FG backbenchers that the rout in the referenda was partly due to public anger towards a government that had set its face against listening to the electorate on a raft of ‘cultural’ issues, including immigration.
McEntee seems to want to pretend she can defy political gravity, and her latest pretext for continuing to do nothing is the EU Immigration Pact which doesn’t come into effect until 2026. She seems to believe that people will buy ‘business as usual’ on the promise of action in two years time, and that in the interim she can continue with her current policy of doing nothing much to address and disincentivise asylum-abuse, while facilitating the repurposing of even more tourist beds, nursing homes, and student appartments to house asylum-seekers – now arriving at the rate of 20,000 per annum and hailing mostly from safe countries, with many having destroyed their documentation to frustrate the asylum-adjudication process and make deportation impossible.
Of course, what most people don’t realise is that nothing in the EU Immigration Pact or domestic or EU law is preventing McEntee taking action here and now to deal with asylum abuse. She already has the power to categorise applications from any country of origin she pleases for ‘fast-tracking’ – safe or otherwise. Neither is there anything to prevent her reforming and adequately resourcing the asylum-adjudication system so that it can deliver final decisions within months rather than years – as is currently the situation. This latter move would make the biggest difference of all in disincentivising asylum-abuse driven by the expectation that once you get in, keep appealing and go about ‘embedding’ that you will eventually get an amnesty and leave to remain. Nor has McEntee in her four years in office, and two years after O’Gorman’s rash promise of own-door accommodation caused the explosion in the numbers of asylum-seekers choosing Ireland to claim asylum, taken any effective steps to engage with carriers to impose procedures to stamp out the strategy of document-destruction. Nor has she taken any steps to make it impossible for failed asylum-seekers to remain here. None of these things have depended on the EU Immigration Pact.
This has been going on since 1998. It has snowballed in recent times
Phase one of the G’ment’s reelection plan under way. In the next budget they will hand out loads of “free stuff”, tax reductions etc etc (they have announced budget details already, and it’s only April) and guess what the greater part of the voters will say “’bout time” and sure they’re not so bad after all. Immigrants ❓ah sure it’ll be grand. It doesn’t affect my area. I’m all right Jack or Jill. Such is life.
John, You brought up Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi and while i’m not a conspiracy theorist, Kalergi is a celebrated founding father of the EU and he did write some very strange stuff in relation to race and his vision for Europe’s future.
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In 1923 Munich Germany a man named Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi founded the Pan European Union also known as the Pan Europa Movement.
His goal was the creation of a single European State as laid down in his manifesto entitled ‘Paneuropa’ . His ideas would later form the rock on which the European Union would be built right down to its national Anthem – Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” which was his idea and Europe Day in May also his idea
Kalergi was the first recipient of the Charlemagne Prize in 1950, a Prize awarded for distinguished service on behalf of European unification and is considered by many as one of the founding fathers of the European Union
In his book Praktischer Idealismus (Practical Idealism), written in 1925, he sets out his vision for a European Hybrid Race of people
QUOTE FROM HIS BOOK Practical Idealism ———–
” Parents and ancestors of farmers usually come from the same, sparsely populated area , the nobles from the same small upper class.
In both cases, the ancestors are mutually related by blood and therefore mostly physically, mentally, spiritually similar Consequently, they pass on their common traits and there is a tendency for will, passions, prejudices, inhibitions to occur at heightened levels in their children and descendants
The traits that result from this inbreeding are loyalty, filial piety, a sense of family, caste, resistance, stubbornness, energy, narrowness , power of prejudice, lack of objectivity, narrowness of the horizon.
Here there is no variation from the previous generation but simply its repetition . conservation takes the place of development
In hybrid families the children differ strongly from each other: each forms a new variation of divergent parental and ancestral elements.
Man will be hybrid in the distant future. Today’s races and castes are increasingly falling victim to the fact that space, time and Prejudice are being overcome.
The Eurasian-Negroid race of the future, outwardly similar to the ancient Egyptian, will replace the diversity of peoples with a variety of personalities
-Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi , Practical Idealism
Richard van Cou shares a lot of deranged thinking, some of which developed out of the now much discredited Darwinism, as the Nat. Socialists in 1920s and 30s Europe. Don’t forget, Nat. Socialism was popular in American academia as well as some of our own “cultural” elites in Ireland. This foundational ideology of the European project needs to be carefully and seriously studied for its many flaws.
J.McGuirk is spot on when he talks about POLICY MAKING by the Civil Service. We should focus more on this more tangible aspect, than certain angles like Richard von Cou. et al, which have a particular truth, but not a rabbit hole we need to go down. This myopic self serving Civil Service is a clear and present danger to the Irish People, especially those who have spent time in the Brussels Bureaucracy in the Berlaymont Buildings. BEWARE!!
It is an historical fact that many European royals inbred to keep territory ‘in the famil y”. Some results included the Hapsburg jaw and haemophilia
So widening the gene pool in itself is a healthy option, just not when it is firced upon us
Ronan. The problem here is that John McGuirk is a Civic “Nationalist” and a Gatekeeper at best. As you know, the Kalergi Plan explains in detail how Europe is to be “transformed”. Coudenhove-Kalergi also stated that The Jews are to be the race in charge.
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Very good Clear Analysis John, but one issue I have is that I do believe that the eu factor wasn’t very helpful.
It went from a trading block to a geopolitical block almost instantly.
Up to that point, this Country was literally a poor state of affairs anyway saved by safety valves over successive administrations that forced people to emigrate – “cream of the crop, chucked out by the top” – this fits in with the cartel from day one.
When the eu came into the mix, one of their treaties was to lax migration control/open borders – (I’m not fully up to speed on exactly what Lisbon proposed, I’m not a lawyer but as a simple rule of thumb,if I don’t know,then I vote no) and my perception of what happened afterwards was an influx of particularly Eastern European former soviet people into the Country.
This put the indigenous Irish people at a severe disadvantage for just about everything.BTW, I’ve nothing against above people but I thought that winning independence from communism after ~80 years, that they could sow their own grass??
As for any current opposition,the only parties that have in their current manifesto that’s in tune with what I feel the way to go forward are IFP, Ireland First, Síol nahEireann & some Independent Nationalist candidates – I find anything else is very mediocre/Lite & it only can amount to the same again/no change – this would be my take.
When elections come up,the way these Nationalist parties will be portrayed by the ms media as nothing short of cross burning hooligans – but according to their manifestos, they’re speaking sense – again my take.
However, you’re very much correct about how this cartel operates and it’s being going on that way since day one – words cannot express my anger in what stunt they’ve pulled lately & I can only assume that the new arrivals will be their new dwindling electoral base, their new police force and their new armed forces – they had no democratic mandate for this.
The government’s fall back excuse will always be “We got a mandate from the people”.
I know where I’m shoving my mandate in June.
The government have been at war with the people on everything for years, the people just did not know it. What government would chose to pay the returns on government bonds to the likes of bill gates when the irish people were against it. What government would intentionally hide its involvement in human rights violations against its own people. The government was never a servant of the people, ever!
Silicon docklands?
conspiracy: noun, a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
We might also note the following quote from William Casey, the former director of the CIA: “When everything Americans believe is false, our misinformation campaign will be complete.”
These are the people who use the label “conspiracy theorist” as a smear to silence dissent. Though the plausiblilty of a “conspiracy theory” does not guarantee its accuracy.
Our bitter experience of the suspension of the vital, natural & constitutional rights of the individual during the orchestrated Covid “emergency” lends respectability to just about any half-baked conspiracy theory. A rogues’ gallery of corrupt characters dictated the policy response of the entire Western world. Including, most shamefully, Jorge Bergoglio.
The entire Western world acted in concert implementing draconian, unwarranted lockdowns. With disastrous consequences. And a lot of money changed hands.
The orchestrated immigrant invasion of the Western world follows a similar dynamic. Both Libya and Syria were deliberately destabilised by the Western powers. Then, funded by billionaires and taxpayers, a handful of NGOs began operating a taxi service to ferry illegal immigrants to European shores. And a lot of money is changing hands.
You would need to be as wilfully blind as a medical professional investigating Covid-19 “vaccine” injuries not to see a clandestine agenda at work.
Whatever else might be the case, our rulers clearly have no allegiance to this country.
A great comment. I agree with every word. But who is Jorge Bergoglio? His name has escaped me.
Me too, as I scratch my tonsured (natural) head !!!!😜
The current (Anti)Pope.
He is more commonly known as Pope Francis. Installed as pope with the help of the St.Gallen mafia. See https://tanbooks.com/products/books/the-st-gallen-mafia-exposing-the-secret-reformist-group-within-the-church/
See also: https://newdailycompass.com/en/pfizer-vatican-connection
He is more commonly known as Pope Francis. Installed as pope with the help of the St.Gallen mafia. Search online for a book titled “The St. Gallen Mafia” by Julia Meloni – published by tanbooks [dot] com.
Also, search for the following terms “newdailycompass pfizer vatican connection”.
Attempted to post earlier but gript don’t seem to allow links.
I have not understood veiled references to Jesuits I noted in other publications. I had noted the remarkable career trajectory of Gonzaga boy Sutherland, former Ag Aib Goldman sachs Bp Gatt Eu Un and advisor to Vatican bank Erasmus founder Wro founder and dubbed Father of Globalisation
Pope Francis
The Irish State and successive Irish govts and the administrative State have been at war with the Irish people for a long time, the Irish people are only now beginning to realise it, radically transforming a once peaceful, prosperous and sovereign state into a vassal state of international corporatocracy and federalism from the EU and beyond. Each policy decision they take is an other notch in the incremental goal to deconstruct the sovereign and inalienable rights of the private individual, thru punitive taxation, woke progressive ideology and cultural and societal decay thru multiculturalism and every expanding govt and intrusion in the lives of sovereign people. The country must unite in opposition to this agenda at a grass roots level initially, communities coming together to defend themselves, their values and belief system, their way of life and begin to redress the balance of govt by, of and for the people by taking over the school boards, to local politics to national politics and beyond. Its now or never Paddy, Man Up!
With just the title alone, ‘ON IMMIGRATION, THE GOVERNMENT IS OPENLY AT WAR WITH ITS OWN PEOPLE’, Mr McGuirk has done a great service to Ireland — because it is very rare for even anyone in the alternative media to state something so plainly — to state the reality, and a feeling many Irish share, so plainly.
And note the Praetorian Guard prominently on display in the foto — the Irish people should have no illusions about whom they serve, and where their loyalty lies.
Here here.
Our government is at war with its people. And the political class stay silent and do nothing. Which means they are in agreement. And it’s acceptable. I just received a pamphlet from every major political party for the upcoming local elections. In none of the pamphlets is there a mention of immigration and the toll it’s having on Irish people. Instead one councillor told me that immigrants have no where to live either. They do not give a @&€ing shite about us. Vote the bastards out. All of them. Vote for anyone but these shower of @&€&s. Go to the polls like your life depends on it because it does. It really @&€&ing does.
Fully agree – it’s that serious.
It is almost like there is a civil war atmosphere. Communities being split and trust in Government gone for a long time. The real fear I have is that the political class have told the people that this is only the beginning and that they are powerless or unwilling to change things. I believe we we will see cataclysmic results in the upcoming elections.
Is there a resource for finding out who is running in local elections? Want to know ahead of any deadline for applications.
Senator Michael McDowell warns that the government is surrendering Irish sovereignty with regards to the EU Migration Pact. He is going to the media on this issue.
https://youtu.be/7zGxKKi6bmM?si=Y_0FREQl__LXk3p1
Imagine a situation where someone enters your house illegally to take property from you that he has no right to and you then are beaten to the ground by your own police force if you try to prevent it. This is precisely the situation we are faced with now. Our Government is aiding and abetting criminality. Tell all the sleepwalkers it is time to wake up.
Unfortunately, the 3 main parties are all pro immigration, all pro woke, SF are trying to back track but at heart they are pro immigration pro wokeism and with the other two are anti Irish! There is another 5 years of it coming because there is no alternative to vote for. With a fresh 5 years ahead of them God help us all!!!!!!!
Funny how SF can do no right. When they start actually coming around to your worldview on immigration, you or gript don’t applaud them, you slur them as ‘backtracking’ etc.
They should be lauded and encouraged. They are embracing a positive change in policy, this should be supported.
Very thoughtful and well written article!
I’ve said it for many years now – the Irish government hates you, the media hate you, the Gardai hate you, the legal system hates you, the tax regime hates you, the justice system hates you, the political parties hate you, the banks hate you, big business hates you, the health service hates you, the NGOs hate you, the far left hate you… Feel free to add to this list. And remember, Sinn Fein are a far left, hardline Marxist Communist party who are like a cancer – any organisation, whether political, cultural, social, economical, this party invades they will destroy it cell by cell. Ireland, for pity’s sake, WAKE UP.
Most of what you say here, John, is correct. Apart from excluding the European Union from the blame. The asylum and mass immigration policies are mediated to the government from the European Commission.
This doesn’t exonerate or excuse our political establishment from supporting and implementing it, of course.
Sometimes I wonder if one of the objectives of gript is to redirect discontented former FFG voters away from Sinn Fein. or back to FFG
A lot of effort spent trying to discredit a party that has never being in government. You’d be forgiven sometimes if you thought that SF were somehow to blame for the woes of this country.
Let’s be honest they are the only real alternative to FFG in the short term.
Pushing votes towards the smaller fringe parties is a waste, as we have seen in the past a government that needs support or a coalition made up of multiple smaller parties / independents with different ideologies is a very unstable government. Be careful what you wish for Me Gript
Hi Chaz,, I dont support any party but Sinn Fein have been in opposition for years and NOT ONCE did they disagree with Government on issues related to immigration or indeed most other issues
When you hear people like Michelle o’Neill saying and I quote… “I am working to build a society NOT of Orange and Green, but a RAINBOW of colours and multi-culturalism which reflects who we are and what we stand for today” – then you need to ask yourself if this is the Ireland envisaged by the 1916 proclamation and I dont think it is.
https://vote.sinnfein.ie/we-are-building-a-society-not-of-orange-and-green-but-a-rainbow-of-colours-oneill/
I’m not one that jumps on the anti- sinn fein bandwagon but I have spoken over the phone to my local Sinn Fein TD and the message I got clear from that converation is that the party is very loose on immigration , in fact the party is involved in Anti-deportation movements , so even if an aylum seeker has their claim rejected, sinn fein doesn’t believe in deportation of that person.
All I will say is this. Sinn Fein may very well be in the next government but the issue of migration is not going away and if they’re not prepared to address it head on then I can see things spiraling out of control here.