Two weeks ago our Taoiseach attended the funerals of those people killed because a magazine in France persisted in publishing insulting cartoons of people and religions many millions hold dear.
He and all other Western European leaders endorsed,by their presence at the funeral's ,the right to publish such cartoons as a cornerstone of democracy and as being essential tools of a Free press.
Personally I find this logic absurd and fear for democracy if its existence is bedded in and a cornerstone of the right to grievously and gratitously offend and if an inevitable outcome is the death of many innocent bystaners and if it fosters justifiable protest resulting in death and the fermentation of hatred.
But I swim against the liberal tide of journalism and political correctness which infects the written media and electronic media in this view, who think it great gas to goad Catholics in particular and Muslims more rarely on account of their deeply held convictions.
Now our Lorraine,who is quick to point out that she wears a legal hat as well as being a Labour T.D. in the West and who presumes to advise the Gardai on the public airways on how to do their jobs and investigate protesters against water charges for incitement to hatred because they labelled our President a dwarf and a parasite for refusing to refer the Water Charges Bill to the Supreme Court ,is fuming at the language used in legitimate protest and questions why the protests were not aimed at people who provided their own water schemes in rural Ireland and whom she calms to represent.
No doubt her legal mind can connect the protests against the President with the local providers of their own water ( provided because successive Governments ,including Labour influenced ones failed to cater for rural citizens despite their contributions to general taxation ) and no doubt you take her and her legal mind on if you disagree with her politics.
But I will risk this and point out that the head of the administration she supports considers objectionable commentary and insulting and derogatory behaviour a cornerstone of democracy and suggest she suck it up and stop behaving like a spoilt child that has lost her lollipop.
And try to remember that even Cromwell didn't try to steal the people's water.
But there again the liberal agenda is the most hypocricital of them all.
And Sean O Rourke should wise up and stop resurrecting this policy of condemnation as he tried on with Gerry Beades this morning.It was tried on by the pet media against the Party of another Gerry years ago.It didn't work then and it won't work now,
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