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Sadly,
such a "Trial by
Media", is all too common. Never mind any
evidence to the contrary, our esteemed media representatives,
from the lowest cesspool dwelling tabloids and scandal
sheets, to allegedly reputable organs, will stop at
nothing to get 'the story' Not even facts, truth,
compelling evidence will stop them finding THEIR TRUTH.
Oft times it is plain to see that they reached their
conclusions first, and then went forward in pursuit
of their story. This not limited solely to English
papers and tv, nor even to Irish outlets, but is fairly
worldwide. The New York Times is well know to be the
organ with "All the News That Fits the Brits".
It
is an unspeakable abomination, a tragedy, a calculated
exercise in character assassination that Michael and
Bernadette McKevitt have been forced to endure. Were
they some high placed MP or TD, some 'captain of industry'
or such type, all the power of Justice Ministry would
long ago have fallen upon the perpetrators of such
slanderous vitriol. Instead, the McKevitt's much sit
idly by and listen to the continuing stream of venomous
accusations and insinuations, powerless to effectively
challenge the purveyors of such idiocy or to put an
end to their 'poison pen' writings.
Sure,
it cannot escape anyone's notice that Bernadette is
the sister of Bobby Sands, and I have no doubt that
this association has played a role in the alleged
ties of both the 32CSM with the RIRA and Michael McKevitt
with the IRA. No amount of denial, no weight of evidence,
will deflect the vultures of the tabloids from their
eager pursuit of 'the truth'. The truth as they see
it anyway. Where are these gallant knights of the
press when genuine stories of repression, injustice
and miscarriage of justice are occurring? Most likely
in some back alley, getting the latest "news
flashes" from their "sources".
We
live in a dark age, one in which alleged defenders
of their nation crawl in bed with those would as soon
shoot them as look at them, slavishly adhering to
the line set out by those same adversaries. It is
a time when public servants gut the very Constitution
that is the basis for the existence of the Irish nation,
the guarantor of the rights of the Irish people within
their own national territory. It is a time when hatred,
sectarianism, intolerance, discrimination, deprivation
and a host of other evils, still afflicts far too
many Irish men women and children - now after five
years of an alleged "agreement" that was
dead on arrival. Any claim or projection of a "Republic
by 2016" or any other such pipe dream is naught
but folly - as things now stand, our childrens' children
will not see any appreciable change.
Perhaps
the most abominable truth of all this is that those
most culpable in this entire disastrous quagmire could
not care less at what happens. They feel no responsibility,
no accountability - the see themselves as blameless,
and see their office as a personal holding, rather
like a country baron or other noble. It is only for
them to take what they are able during their time
of "service" and then move on to the private
sector, finding new ways to rape the public.
I
don't know what to say to Michael and Bernadette McKevitt
- what can one say? The are the David to the political
machine's Goliath - only in this case, the giant is
clad in armour and cannot be brought down. A sad day
indeed.
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