Back on the Richie Allen Show, Sept. 3rd '24

‘Enoch Burke is blowing a whistle here, in his own way, and that is something we should listen to, because the consequences of not doing so will be catastrophic for hundreds and thousands of people.’

Muslim man stops the traffic to pray on Dublin’s quays

Stranger in a Strange Land

In this conversation with Richie, recorded (and initially broadcast) on September 3rd 2024, we speak about — debate, even — the ongoing controversy about the incarceration of Enoch Burke — essentially for refusing to call a male pupil ‘they’; the legitimacy of describing what is happening to Ireland as an ‘invasion’; the compatibility of Islam with Irish society; and much more besides. Now four and a half years since the start of the Covid coup, the world lurches from obscenity to disaster, and there are few remaining places where it is possible to speak about such matters and have a chance of being heard by people going about their daily lives perhaps oblivious of what is occurring. Richie’s style is to push back, to insist upon his guests defending their arguments – the way it used to be, the way it needs to be again. So much healthier than two people agreeing about everything- no matter what that ‘something; might be.

‘Enoch Burke is blowing a whistle here, in his own way, and that is something we should listen to, because the consequences of not doing so will be catastrophic for hundreds and thousands of people.’

‘Enoch is not bonkers. Ireland is bonkers! When you look from Enoch Burke to Ireland, and Ireland in its generality, its official condition, and the behaviour of the institutions of Ireland, the behaviour of the courts, which no longer are capable of being reasonable in any context — this is the way you have to look at this, in my view. You see, there are no adults left in Ireland, Richie. This is the problem. There was a time when Irish people over a certain age were sensible. And as you went up through the institutions, the layers of authority, that tended to get stronger — that element of reason and logic and fairness and justice. And now we have the direct opposite, where a crazy ideology, which is being imposed on Ireland — not by the people who are seeking to change their genders or whatever — that’s all contagion — this is an orchestrated attempt to demoralise the people of Ireland, and to destroy their capacity to hold to any belief at all, or understand anything, or have any opinion that they can trust and express publicly.’

‘This is about compelled speech. This is about a guy in a job where he’s supposed to teach, among other things, grammar, to children.’

‘I don’t need to be an evangelical, I don’t even need to be a Christian, to know that if there’s a young boy standing before me, I call him ‘he’, ‘you’ . . . The idea of calling him ‘they’ is an abomination.’

‘There are certain vibes going about the place about Enoch — that he’s humourless and po-faced, and so on. I think that, if you spend 400 days in prison, you’re going to be pretty po-faced about it. I would. I don’t know if people understand what it is like to be in prison. I was only there for 45 minutes. But I was in jail, Richie, you know that. I did “time'“! But there’s a fundamental, existential thing, when you are led by policemen or prison guards into a room, and the door is closed and you hear a key turn in the lock. You know, that’s a moment that existentially none of us would want to go through, particularly when we have done nothing wrong. And Enoch Burke, far from doing anything wrong, has done everything so right, in my view.’

‘What is possible [for judges to do] is one day in our country for a person of stature, such as a judge, to sit on his bench and say something sensible. Wouldn’t that be a great day, Richie? Just one or two sensible sentences rather than the gibberish that these guys are spouting now on a daily basis! These guys are rotten to the core.’

‘You know what I’m going to do, Richie? When I get my mobility scooter, when I’m not able to walk around on my legs, I’m going to apply to take part in the Olympics — the hundred metres, something like that. And my argument will be this: I’m not mobile. I can’t run. But my mobile scooter is my substitute for running. Therefore, I am entitled to take part in this — now I’m going to soup it up to hell, twin carbs the lot — and I’m going to say, “I want to take part in the hundred metres!”. [The runners] can run away, no problem, but I’m going to do it in my mobility scooter, and you can’t stop me because that would be a breach of my rights of equality!’

‘Ireland was destroyed by emigration — outward migration — for a century and a half, for a century anyway. Certainly up to the 1960s, from the 1840s onwards. We just couldn’t get anything together. This is the other side of it. If we’re so concerned about these people, why don’t we help them to build their own countries, rather than bleeding them dry of their best people?’

‘When you have a culture that is so impoverished that it’s not able to stand up for its own values anymore, which is our problem — because people will take what they can get. If you’re giving away your money at the street corner, you’ll be relieved of it fairly quickly!’

‘Again you come back to the corrupt establishment, Richie. And this is where it gets sinister. There seems to me to be a very strong probability that the back-peddling that occurs [in the UK] in relation to people who were grooming and raping and so on, that that is prompted by instructions handed down from a “higher authority’”. And I put the “authority” in quotes because the “authority” has no authority whatsoever. But, for whatever reasons, that is the way our world has now emerged, fetched up: whereby money and power are speaking over the democratic voices of the people of the Free World.’

‘I have a very heavy heart, Richie. I don’t feel I’m going back to my country anymore. I feel like a stranger in a strange land. I go back in faith more than in hope, because I love Ireland to the very core of the Earth. But it’s in the hands of monsters. And we’ve talked about some of them — they’re the domestic ones. There’s also the external ones, who may never have set foot in Ireland, but are dictating its future, or its lack of a future. So it fills me with a certain sorrow.’

‘I can’t spend time away from Ireland and not be thinking about it all the time. And it breaks my heart, Richie. My heart is broken. I’ll be going back to Ireland tomorrow broken-hearted. But with a little bit of hope that perhaps we can get rid of these lowlifes out of our system, that we can get the judges out, the crooked judges, the crooked politicians, the lying journalists, the corrupt guards who do their dirty work. I have hope that there will be a miracle, but it will take a miracle at this stage.’

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