Video interview: ‘Where are the adults hiding?’

‘If a thief breaks into your house and wrecks it, and steals all your property, but then offers to give it back to you, does that make everything all right?’

Malignant Omertà

It’s not over just because they say it is. In fact, their saying it tells us that it isn’t over. Nevertheless, we have a respite now in which to gather our thoughts, relatively free from compulsion and brainwashing. Let us use it to mobilise the ‘great but anonymous people,’ who in the past have come to Ireland’s aid from within and became the instruments of her salvation. 

In this conversation with James Collins, we look to the hidden history of where we have arrived — in particular to the ‘softening up period’ for the Covid operation — the readying of the Irish public through ideological intimidation and incessant lies that persisted for many years in advance of the present and continuing coup. Much the same thing happened everywhere, though taking different forms, specific to the conditions. Only by understanding this preparatory process can we make sense of what has been happening for the past two years. 

There are many aspects we need to focus on: the corruption of our democratic system, with special emphasis on the corruption of our once free press; the involuntary, malignant omertà that imposed an almost total silence on our people; the disturbingly similar trends towards outright authoritarianism visible in other previously liberal countries. But the central question we must address is: Where are the adults? Where, for the past two years of our national agony, have been the sensible, mature, decent, solid, intelligent grown-ups who might once have stepped forward to say to the usurpers of our freedom: Enough! Back off! Return to your posts and resume the duties allotted you on your election — or begone! 

Or: Has the well of politics become so contaminated that no one of decency wants to go near it? Is that our deepest problem?

This, our country, is more pertinently now, your country and mine.  We cannot wait for our neighbours to make the first move. If you do not do it, it is unreasonable to expect that anyone else will do it. The time is now. And, in spite of everything, nothing is impossible.