THE PRESIDENT IS HAVING A GREAT PANDEMIC!
Looking every inch Presidential, if not quite classically handsome, Donald Trump reigns supreme as he takes on all comers at the White House Corona virus press conferences. The President’s particular penchant is for building walls and hotels. He is not thought to do “the vision thing” particularly well and is seen by many of his, now defeated, opponents as strictly “a bed-and-breakfast man” rather than as an alchemist or a renaissance philosopher king. But that is not to understand the President, or indeed the American people, who like a fearless leader and a feisty chief. History will record that Donald Trump knew when and where to go for the jugular. The President has correctly identified the two villains in this crisis as China and the World Health Organisation. In a world where international obligations and relations are based on the strict observance of mutual care and responsibility, China has abysmally failed to explain how the so-called virus (if it is indeed a virus) originated in a province on their sovereign territory and spread with alarming speed to cause fear, devastation and panic throughout the rest of the world. The po-faced mandarins in Beijing have tried to plead all ignorance of this matter, tried to wash their hands of the matter (forgive the simile) and unashamedly but repeatedly resorted to accusing the United States of lying so as cover-up their own belated reaction. Those who feared during his election campaign that President Trump would not have been able to step up to the plate on behalf of the United States, need not have feared. In a vigorous display of controlled aggression (which would have pleased everybody except Ireland’s terrorist supporting Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Simon) President Trump asked the Chinese all the pertinent questions about the origin of the virus, including whether the organism was one which occurred naturally or one which had been manufactured in a Chinese laboratory. Of course, that was the first question which that ragamuffin collection of Witch doctors known as the World Health Organisation (like so many legions of witches escaped from Rider Haggard’s “King Solomon’s Mines”) should have asked. Many have asked “What point, if any, is there to the World Health Organisation?”. It has no executive powers. It is a strictly advisory organisation, frequently driven and motivated solely by the insatiable quest for publicity – as witnessed by its frequent, inaccurate and preposterous claims that the deadly Ebola virus had been eradicated from Africa. But the World Health Organisation has interpreted its advisory mandate in the Corona virus pandemic as a licence to scare, terrify, cause panic and destroy jobs and livelihoods. The most amazing thing about the pandemic is that it is clearly without any scientific foundation whatsoever. Science relies on cause and effect, but science takes account of everyday natural phenomena, not least that regrettably people on this planet die all day and every day. No self-respecting scientist would ever say that a death reported on the basis of or in conformity with a World Health Organisation diagnostic form was caused by the Corona virus – a terrible ill, and a terrible evil, that was totally unknown to medical science and science of every kind until a few weeks ago. It is not so much a question of being able to smell a rat, as the ability to detect and list key and vital symptoms. The World Health Organisation announced very early on that the Corona virus was characterised by the generation of “a very high fever”. Yet yesterday, Ireland’s dreaded Health Service Executive reported that victims of the virus in Ireland did not experience any fever whatever. The question of the advisability of wearing protective face-masks and gloves led two distinguished experts to tell Miriam O’Callaghan on Prime Time that they would do far more harm than good. Similarly, a very common sense, learned, but practical and pragmatic, consultant cardiologist from Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin expressed the gravest concern about the terribly depressing and debilitating effect of isolating all elderly people from their families and loved ones and depriving them of all forms of physical exercise, including the possibility of just taking a walk in God’s clean air every day. “Social distancing” is not just a contradiction in terms, it is also scientific nonsense – as is the dreadfully irritating slogan “We’re all staying apart, so that we can all stay together”. A school-pupil, a gifted, talented biology student, will be able to tell you (because it is a fact) that viruses travel through air without any contact whatever, although viruses usually require some form of contact to be transmitted through water or through another liquid. The simple reality of this is that standing or sitting two metres or more away from somebody will do nothing whatever to safeguard or protect you from the transmission of a virus – assuming of course that there is a virus there to be transmitted in the first place. Some merit may attach to washing your hands. It was an occupation much favoured by Pilate; but washing your hands for twenty minutes at a stretch every time can only be described as obsessive or bordering on the ridiculous or the demented. It is a Newtonian Law of Physics that “To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction”. The question that must be asked, the question which President Trump has been asking is “What action caused the pandemic and equally what reaction has the pandemic generated?”. I believe that only the most na?ve would seriously credit that this so-called pandemic was a natural or a medical phenomenon, in which cruel human hands, or hearts and perverted human minds played no part. The cruellest part of the story was not so much the damage done to industry, jobs and the economy, or the dreadful suspension of belief involved in making people believe that populations equivalent to the size of large towns had died or simply ceased to exist, the cruellest part of the story was, in my opinion at least, forcing old and elderly people at the end of their lives to die alone and on their own – and then adding insult to injury by depriving their families and their loved ones of the consolation of a Christian funeral and a Christian burial. The public, including especially the Irish public, has been subjected to a lot of totally unscientific rubbish from a government, masters of fear, fear-mongering and deeply criminal and unconstitutional abortions, which legally and constitutionally lost the right to hold office and use ministerial titles and authority more than 70 days ago following their decisive defeat in the general election. It is a sad fact that Premier Leo, who is neither a bona fide doctor nor an Irish citizen, who is beholden to Paris and Berlin, is not even legally or lawfully entitled to be a candidate for membership of the Irish Parliament, much less a Minister in or the head of its government. Unfortunately, Premier Leo though very evil is, like the true snake in the grass, very far from stupid. A natural-born wrecker, Leo has done a very good and effective job when it comes to destroying Ireland and Irish society. Leo has been allowed by Fine Gael to present the most grotesque situation and scenario to the world. A party, which was the bulwark of the original Irish Free State, have chosen as their totally uncompromising leader a serial murderer and homicidal abortionist homosexual, who has repeatedly demonstrated his complete contempt for motherhood and Christian marriage, a medical impostor from Mumbai in India (the original home of the Swastika). How can such a man, how can Premier Leo claim any right whatever to lead or play a part in the governance of a country with Ireland’s deeply patriotic, child-loving and Christian heritage. The grim stark reality is that Premier Leo is deeply, not to say exceedingly, scheming and calculating. Having captured and ensnared Fine Gael, he has no intention of letting the party go. If necessary, in order to extend and increase his power base, Premier Leo is prepared to forge an alliance with the Terrorists in Parliament and beyond, with Satan himself. Modelling himself on Adolf Hitler, Premier Leo introduced unrestricted Nazi abortions into Ireland, but also following the example of the Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Leo, conscious that Ireland’s Christian faith was the cement and the glue which held the Irish State together, took it upon himself to lecture, insult and harangue the Vicar of Christ, an exceedingly shameful occasion which was broadcast only too gleefully by the cameras of RTE. Only time will tell whether Premier Leo, in the pay and under the direction of France and Germany, has succeeded in betraying, wounding and fatally damaging Ireland, so long movingly known as the “Land of Saints and Scholars”. It may be that Saint Michael Archangel, Satan’s deadliest foe, will come to Ireland’s rescue in its hour of need. But our need is great and time is pressing. Heaven helps those who help themselves. As William Butler Yeats, truly one of Ireland’s greatest sons wrote “Things fall apart, the Centre cannot hold”. It is up to each one of us not to allow ourselves to be outflanked. Ireland may need to rely upon slightly less dramatic and miraculous assistance on this occasion. As so often in the past, Ireland may have to turn to the United States for help. I began this essay with an account of the exploits of President Trump, but Vice-President Mike Pence is no mean performer either. Premier Leo sought to meet Mike Pence on his first visit to Washington. The deeply religious Evangelist, ever mindful of his faith, retired to his home, pulled down the blinds and refused to answer the door, thereby denying access to the Snake. There is much to be said for the method!
Maurice James, Barrister at Law, United Nations Counter Terrorism Counsel