Gardai in Shannon get their hair cut for children (UNICEF)

national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Tuesday October 30, 2007 16:54 by paul o toole pauljotoole at eircom dot net

Hypocracy all across the board.

Hypocracy reigns in Irish politics. We claim neutrality while wilfully participating in genocide on a defenseless nation and its innocent civilians. There is no low to which the Irish government is un- willing to sink, regardless of the ammount of innocent blood we spill or how many innocent children we kill, maim or leave as orphan.
There is no end to the brutality the Irish government will facilitate or unspeakable atrocities they willingly support. Genocide, carried out under the worn out facade we are told is democracy.
The Gardai in Shannon police station got their hair cut for UNICEF some months back-but they will not search planes -ironically most of UNICEF money is now going to Iraqi children.
Anyone who speaks out against this new Facism is called a sadam supporter, a coward or a liberal by Bertie Aherne, Mary Harney and former minister for justice, Michael McDoughall.
Nothing could be further from the truth. In 1987 Charles Haugheys government opened an Irish embassy in Baghdad, to sell Sadam beef to feed his army as he carried out the attrocities which he was later found guilty. The Irish government supported 'sanctions', in which 1.2 million Children under the age of 5 were killed by starvation.
While normality is maintained by a muted media, non-existent political opposition and religious silence, the Gardai Siochana, unfit to wear the uniform will not follow up on these crimes - the worst of which humankind is capable.
As it turns out, Sadam had complied with weapons inspections - he had no WMD, as Bush and Blair blew a modern country back to the stone age with the help of the Irish government
Illegal weapons are continnuously transported through Shannon in an illegal war and there is not one single policeman or woman in shannon to speak out, or carry out a search.