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Two Anarchists And A Drunk With A Dog Meet The Taoiseach![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "he is intent on treating us like thick kids or perhaps smart dogs -I am not sure which"
Meanwhile the same lackey is continuing to repeat his demand that we condemn Republican violence. This is absurd. I had expected grubby debating society tricks, oily pragmatism and weasel words but I wasn’t ready for such lazy contempt and a sheer inability or unwillingmess to argue for the merits of his decision on refuelling at Shannon. Unexpectedly one of the retinue makes a coherent point about the plight of the Kurds and I begin talking to him. Bertie is still looking up and down the street though and his prayers are answered in the form of a beetroot faced man with a bristling moustache, a stocky little black dog and more than a couple of jars inside him. Complete Article As Submitted To Indymedia Ireland Today the Taoiseach was once again doing what he does best –making meaningless but reassuring remarks. In an article in today's Irish Independent Bertie insisted that the US military’s use of Shannon does not make Ireland a potential target of Islamist terror. Whatever the truth of this is Bertie’s longstanding strategy of actively supporting the US military while attempting to portray himself as a neutral party is fooling noone least of all the Pitstop Ploughshares who are now facing yet another retrial. Below is an account of a chance meeting with the Taoiseach and his inimitable political style.
Late on a Saturday morning a beefy, self-satisfied middle-aged man carrying a golfing umbrella knocked on the door to my north inner city flat. He tells me with more than a little pride that the Taoiseach is meeting and greeting his constituents and being one of that lucky number I was being invited to meet the great man. Foggy headed and tired I just want to return to my lair and I decline his offer. I go back in and tell my girlfriend that Bertie is out and about. She immediately proposes that we go and share some of our gripes about the military use of Shannon so we decide to go and meet the Taoiseach
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