THE APOLOGIES FOR THE TWEETS!

Earlier today (15th December 2020), Sinn Fein Deputy Brian Stanley tried to draw a line in the sand concerning his remarkably ill-judged comments about all those British soldiers (and three Irish insurgents) who were killed in a War of Independence ambush in 1920 and the almost equally great number of British soldiers who died in a Provisional IRA ambush in 1979. Oscar Wilde rightly said that comparisons are odious! There is not much point in comparing and trying to differentiate now between the two events almost 60 years apart, but the families of a great many of the deceased are still grieving and are still around. Deputy Brian Stanley’s comments, his slow and reluctant apology notwithstanding, only serve to cast a great deal of doubt and hubris about the sincerity of his party Sinn Fein’s commitment to any genuine lasting reconciliation and peace. Deputy Stanley was NOT really and truly called to account in this affair and to the great shame of the Irish Parliament it now looks as if he will retain his position as Chair of the important Public Accounts Committee. There was of course a second insensitive tweet tweeted in what has now become a no-holds barred battle of the insensitive tweets between Sinn Fein and Fine Gael for the very little that is left of either party’s moral soul. To put it bluntly, if politely, Premier Leo (now Tánaiste’s Leo’s) much publicised sexual orientations were jibbed at. For the sake of historical accuracy, including the outrageous participation and posturing by then Taoiseach Leo in far from innocent Gay Pride events, Leo instigated much of these jibes himself. But Leo is no wounded genius, and certainly NOT a done down, much berated but essentially and fundamentally honest lover of children like Oscar Wilde was. Ample testimony to Wilde’s kind and gentle disposition towards children can be found in his beautiful children’s stories and fairy tales and in the very clear misery and suffering which Oscar Wilde suffered as a result of his very public Trial, his ensuing jailing, disgrace and downfall which left his poor unfortunate wife with very little option but to live separate lives, change their children’s names and indeed most tragically take the children whom Oscar Wilde loved so much away from him. These were not just the happenings of a different time or a different age, they were simply completely different from what Premier Leo got up to. Premier Leo’s contribution to the happiness of children has been to work overtime, incessantly and unremittingly, to ensure their unrestricted abortions and their deaths in their mothers’ wombs before they were ever born or saw the light of day. Along with fellow abortionist Simon Harris, Leo’s criminal negligence as Minister for Health ensured that a great many mothers already have, and that a great many more mothers will, die of cervical cancer. The battle of the tweets is not particularly edifying, nor indeed is what Premier Leo or his Gay Pride friends get up to in their bedrooms or gay night clubs, but none of this can excuse the present day reality in 2020 (not in 1920 or 1979) that little babies are being murdered in Irish hospitals as the direct result of the actions of practising Irish politicians, including elected Irish Parliamentarians and worse still Irish Government Ministers (and through the criminal inaction and collusion of the Guards, the DPP and the Irish Courts). Tweets are inflammatory, if essentially short, snappy and stupid! Abortion on the other hand is very real, illegal, unlawful, criminal and unconstitutional. Under the Statute of Rome to which Ireland is a state party, abortion must always be prohibited, without any exception whatsoever and as an essential constituent part of Genocide, abortion must be severely punished as a Crime against Humanity. More simply put, in this over simple world of tweets in which we now find ourselves in and forced to live in, abortion is always and intrinsically evil, the murderous and murky work of the satanically-motivated and diabolically inspired. Abortion is both a terrible sin and an atrocious crime, something which Ireland and the Irish people should remember more acutely than ever at a time of year when they prepare to renew their Trust, Faith and Hope in the birth of the child Jesus, Our Child-King, Our Saviour, Our Redeemer and Our Prince of Peace!

Maurice James, Barrister at Law, United Nations (1373) Counter-Terrorism Counsel