The recolonisation of Ireland from 1997

First of all there was traditional Fianna Fail criminality; lining  their own pockets. They  were also able to give assurances to foreign powers that they could get away in Ireland with deep and broad

 initiatives they could not get away with it anywhere else.

 These included removing the Universities from the rule of law in order to prepare them for privatization, an egregious electronic voting proposal, exploiting the corporate structure of Ireland to facilitate summary dismissal of employees, and pushing the standard of the Arts and Sciences down so that they could replace it with their own sources of expression which, epitomized by the meteoric rise and fall of the Taoiseach’s daughter Cecilia, were vastly inferior but could be controlled; in her case, by her father

At this point Fianna Fail started playing out of their league and it could well be the case that the ultimate goal was a rerun of the civil war but with a different result, one in which they ended up actually beneficially owning much of the state that they failed to conquer militarily. To do that they had to issue bonds that were both explicitly (senior debt) and implicitly (junior debt ) guaranteed by the sovereign ie the taxpayer.

 Then came the buying of Irish bonds by   foreign agencies who of course want their money back. The result is a crushed people who owe nothing that is no land but the debt that was illegally transferred to them.

So the recolonisation of Ireland is one part CIA takeover (Science Ireland), one part ideological innovations that seem to have a think tank origin (the universities), and one part Fianna Fail filth.

So what can be done? Ironically, we had all our ducks in a row in 1997 – in particular, export of software and music. As I keep repeating, there are huge resources in the Irish republican narrative to negate the current power of the state. In particular, much power is held by an unelected Taoiseach; by an  unelected “Citizens’ assembly”; and, particularly for those of us abroad, by unelected civil servants behaving like Soviet commissars from their consulates

There is no need to obey the Irish state on the medium in which Irish culture is most expressed; the web. It does control Pravda/RTE and much other media. Likewise, it has nothing to offer to elite artists and other thinkers, because the ignorant scum left in the “public service” cannot assess our work. Most interestingly, it has nothing except debt; no land, a contested imperium, etc. Pout the Fenian flag on your own property and thus announce your wish to join others in a real Land of Ireland.

Ireland 1997 to 2018 a short and tragic account

 As of 2018 Ireland is a basket case economically culturally and morally.  The level of state indebtedness is crippling. There is a homeless crisis, with Irish natives dying on the streets while gigantic tranches of accommodation are sold at massive discounts to wall street firms.  No bands have broken for a generation while Iceland and the other Nordic countries are thriving musically; indeed our most talented female pop singer just killed herself in January 2018. Not a single Nasdaq listing has been achieved for over a decade.

The “government” is a corrupt “supply and confidence” job with thus no opposition to articulate the people’s concerns. An unelected “citizens’ assembly” sets the political agenda and – perhaps not coincidentally – sets as topics for referenda precisely those topics (like abortion and gay marriage) most likely to divide the Irish people.

 In 1997 Ireland was doing well economically and brilliantly in cultural terms. An  unprecedented intervention by independent newspapers of Ireland, controlled by an ex CEO of Heinz, allowed an utterly  unqualified person become Prime Minister that year. In July 1997. the IRA unexpectedly called a ceasefire. In 1998, a deal for power sharing that included the rejection of any land claim by Ireland was shepherded through by the United Kingdom and United States.

 No attempt was made to unseat the prime minister's minority government for 5 years. In 2002 he declared that “we have the money” and so the opposition even if elected could not run the country. It is arguable that we only later found which money this was.

 It was the result of bonds issued by private banks in Ireland. This issuance was quickened 2005-2007 and the banks went bust.  They were nationalized and in an unprecedented move even Junior debt  was transferred to the Irish taxpayer.

We also know of several initiatives redolent of experimentation on a country. Universities were removed from any oversight, and their imminent privatization was announced. The state went to the supreme court three times to try and destroy tenure, and thus academic freedom.  Those foreclosed on and evicted were told they still owed all the outstanding mortgage debt – a practice echoed in Spain with the results we have all seen, and again to benefit Wall Street.

 In a freakish initiative, the PM’s previously silent daughter was marketed as a writer, and given access to Hollywood through the movies and broadcast TV. While her Dad’s resignation initiated her writer’s block, at the same time the work of independent labels was effectively dumped on the US market by the state body Enterprise Ireland and the artists were unpaid. The head of the Irish music rights agency was involved in copyright theft on a huge scale; companies like U2’s distribution company were allowed trade blithely after dissolution.

It is always a bad idea to get into conspiracy theories. However we do know that in The Feeding Frenzy that followed the bust and the nationalization of property, ex CIA directors like Petraeus  and VP Quayle inter alia were involved. We do know that science in Ireland was taken over by the CIA in the early 2000s through Anita Jones of InQTel. We do know that MTV held its awards in Dublin at that time, bringing an array of American pantomime artists like Britney spears and Alice cooper.

Paradoxically, Irish culture is thriving – outside Ireland, and in the hands of non-Irish people. Scotland and the other “Celtic” countries have kept up a respectable level of achievement. Much more consequentially, the learning of Irish language and music is a burgeoning field, particularly among people with no Irish genetic heritage.

Therein lies the Achilles heel of this ruthless and otherwise successful neo-colonial venture. Having survived for 500 years in adversity, the culture has become portable in that it requires few physical resources. Just a fiddle or a smartphone is quite enough; no need for the type of concert hall that can be controlled by the (deep) state.

In fact, the only issue is whether the Irish people will be the conveyors of this burgeoning and rudely healthy culture. Even that phrase is moot; the “Irish people” now includes over half a million who have assimilated well there, despite their initial invite being arguably to fill the accommodation built to maintain Ahern’s grip on power through the bank bonds- political funding scam described above, one of many talons he used to maintain what must have seemed an insuperable grip.

The mistake made by the British was, according to the leader of 19i6, to leave us our Fenian dead. The mistake made by the globalist criminals who took over Ireland from 1998  was other; it was an underestimation of the power of the culture when released onto the web. There are so many reasons to deny the jurisdiction of what many of us still disparagingly call the “Free” state that only one will be listed here; we want  a physical space for this culture to foster its further development, and you criminals will not continue to deny it to us, particularly in the name of those who gave their lives to found the state in the first place.