Thursday, May 26, 2016

Canadian Ambassador has done some service

Kevin Vickers is the Canadian Ambassador to Ireland ,a job he was appointed to in 2015.Before that he was a Sergeant at Arms to the Canadian House of Commons responsible for the safety and security of the building and its occupants.In that capacity he and a number of colleagues shot dead an armed and  rampaging gunman who ran amok in the House of Commons .
Prior to that appointment he was a long serving member of the Mounted Police.So there is no doubt but that this guy is well versed in fighting crime and the arts of police work.
He is much decorated for his part in the shooting of the rampaging gunman and hid appointment as Ambassador may have been an additional sweetener for his decisive actions .
Now Canada is doing a great service for Ireland by taking in a substantial number of Irish people cut adrift from employment here by incompetent politicians and their equally inept advisers.
So I  have nothing but admiration for that Country and its inhabitants .
Now a week ago this Government held a memorial day in Glasnevin Cemetery to honour those soldiers of the British Empire who died putting down an insurrection by the native Irish in 1916 to try and gain independence after the guts of a millennium of colonization ,oppression ,starvation ,deportation and unspeakable cruelty.
Yes the Blue shirt Government of Fine Gael and Labour sees no difference between those patriots who died in the cause of independence and those who who died denying them that independence. The  mind boggles in disbelief .
Anyhow a protesting Irishman interrupted the ceremony by speaking out at nonsensical equal treatment of oppressor and oppressed and yer man Vickers grabbed him ,manhandled him and held him captive until the Gardai took him into custody.
These actions  made headlines worldwide.
The service that Vickers did was to bring to a wider audience the sick minds of those who authorised the ceremony in the first place .
By the same logic we can now expect ceremonies to honour those of Cromwell troops who died in the sieges of Drogheda and Oldcastle ,all of whose inhabitants were put to the sword by Cromwell and his men.
Like wise we should have a ceremony in Dunderry at the 1798 plot honouring the Red Coats who died hunting down the rebels who ,hen routed from insurrection ,sought shelter here abouts and were killed like vermin.
No doubt we ought celebrate General Coote ,who from his Trim headquarters massacres unarmed civilians in Tullaghanogue,Kilbride and Philpotstown of this Parish .
And why stop there .Surely Enda can bring it closer to home by honouring Trevallion in Atherny and banning the Song lest it offend the spawn of the colonists.
On an international stage the Blueshirts might advise the Japanese to honour the deceased Americans who organized thy bombing of Hiroshima ,the Chinese those who died while perpetrating the rape of Nanking ,the Nazis who died enforcing genocide at the concentration camps .
I  could go on and on.No doubt wholesome Heather Humphries ,who I recently heard boasting about the great job she had done in celebrating the Rising ,can make herself available for consultation internationally
Now to go back to Vickers,
Given the perverse nature of the ceremony he was at ,where the oppressor is valued equally ,if not more than the oppressed,he may  have concluded that any Paddy opposing glorification of the Empire was persona non grata in Ireland and deserved to be kicked out of the ceremony.
He could usefully be unleashed around Summerhill and Sean Mc Dermott Street and its environs to sort the murderous mayhem being perpetrated,
Franny could give Troudeau a tinkle maybe.

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