Where some are more equal than others
The dogs on the street know why the Equality Commission in Ireland has suffered a 43 per cent cut in its funding as a result of Brian oge’s budget. They were obviously doing their work too well and had stood on a couple of rather big, calloused and bunioned toes in the higher echelons of the civil service, especially toes belonging to members of the Knights of St Columbanus and Opus Dei. For fuck’s sake equality! For everyone? women, Jews, queers, cripples, knackers … for Christ’s sake where would it end? Niall Crowley and his pinko secular humanist, lapsed Catholic friends were threatening to undermine the status quo in Ireland. If they had their ways an appalling vista whereby the friends of the great and the good, their sons and very occasionally their daughters and wives would not be able to get the pick of plumb jobs in areas like the Department of Finance or Foreign Affairs.
I think Niall Crowley must be commended on resigning rather than be further implicated in the farce which is the implementation of equality legislation in Ireland.
David Norris has alleged Ministerial Harrassment for raising this issue
http://www.mamanpoulet.com/?p=549
blo
December 22, 2008 at 7:29 pm
No minister has the balls to harrass anyone, unless they were put up to it by their senior civil servants – their real bosses. We live under a delusion that we inhabit a democracy, whereas in fact we live in a state as dictatorial as Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. The difference is that there is no mad ostentatious despot with his portrait on the bank-notes. Instead there is a small clique made up of senior civil servants and businessmen, many of whom are members of either Opus Dei or the Knights of St Columbanus, and just to give an ecumenical veneer to things maybe the odd Freemason and Orangeman. They have an almost unnatural obsession with control. They ensure that the best jobs go to family members and the sons and daughters of their friends. It would be so easy to dismiss me as a mad and embittered conspiracy theorist wouldn’t it.
planetparker
December 22, 2008 at 9:40 pm