Maintaining balance in society and economic affairs and between church and state

Economic balance is only partially met by a written agreement between employers, state and trade unions. The state as the largest employer in any country is in no way independent,in blue collar workers opinions.

Glasnost? Openness?

A law-governed state which publishes its enactments and/or court judgements is in every way in keeping with the demands, major and minor,of transparency in government. 

To return to the opening theme...

A written wages agreement at national level may assist,in certain circumstances,the narrowing of economic inequality and social 'levelling-up'. 

My opposition to consensus politics 1983-2003, what was the sole outcome?

Small groups of under-remunerated people and idle hands such as myself and others were leaving ourselves open to 'active police measures'. These are undertaken in  pursuit of social consensus and civil peace. The fact is that police forces monitor incipient political protest and bar many jobseekers from employment firstly against their interests and, secondly,to draw them into their burgeoning networks of civil cooperators and paid informers.

What is the actual scale of social manipulation and political control?

Politicians order the police and if they decide so,the Army,to intervene in labour disputes in Western countries. Where people are essentially irrational or mentally unstable as in Italy and Germany and Argentina-the latter has a large Italian expatriate population-the Army may take the reigns of power.

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Church and State?

The Catholic Church in Ireland hijacked our country in the 1860's in association with the politicians and enlarging metier farmers. Nowadays,it finds itself forced to argue on behalf of the poor and beaten-down because of the collapse of state capitalism.

The ''hunt for the contradiction'' (Der Spielplan, July-August 1988,Dublin) leads the remaining Marxists and ex-Marxists to say of the Church namely,that it is claiming to be furnishing the means to social justice of those it has used and abused. They say that the Church in Ireland has a large property portfolio much of which was endowed to it by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail governmental largesse. They say that its wealth is based on expropriation and grants, stipends and subsidies at the taxpayers expense.... private wealth obtained by political stealth, moral blackmail, social manipulation and financial sharp practice. They say that it has the money to pay those who it molested and abused and enslaved.

The growing majority put the matter thus, "Are,or were,we generally speaking any worse for being so thoroughly fleeced by shearers in cassocks and berettas?"

My answer is,"We got pretty good value". 

There is one fly in the ointment for myself. The compensation for restrictions on the employment of former alumni is not covered by existing arrangements.

The true socialists stand in opposition to the bourgeois media because it maligns not just the church but the forces of progress.

In summary delicti ecclesiae

Listening to RTE,we are reluctantly driven to discount the bizarre and contradictory tales of young boys which are not worthy of repetition. The recollections are inaccurate and are not borne out by most people's experiences of dedicated, caring, compassionate priests and nuns who were solely wishful that each young man would "make something of himself" (Saint Paul, Epistles).

What is to be done if instances of abuse and acts of brutality are found irrefutably on the basis of sound evidence by at least eleven jurors to have occurred? 

What is to be done about economic exploitation by priests and the Vatican Bank and shelf companies in tax havens? 

Should charities that are slaveholding fronts,we think of the Saint Vincent de Paul and other mediators with civil government  be sued and brought to court and finally dissolved for expropriation of earnings and civil society  groups closed for enslavement of enemies of the Protestant Establishment which finds its voice in the press and in the British Broadcasting Corporation?

If,if,if, some trenchant front-groups are not going to "give back what they stole" (Tyrone IRA) or "account for all profits" (Belfast IRA) or "wind in their long neck" (PSNI,Derry) then we have arrived if I am not mistaken at a 'disestablishment' of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

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 Secularisers have long predicted that development since the Church began to interfere in political affairs. We think of issues and matters which do not fall under the Church's proper or legitimate field of interests. 

All sensible people want the Church to stay out of party-political politics. When they do not,they make a cack-handed mess of a country.

Evidence?

 For evidence read the sad story of political disagreements and legal disputes regarding simple problems best resolved by independent mediation or arbitration.

Everybody in the North of Ireland is aware of RUC/PSNI interventions in the health service and the unresolved issues surrounding killings by doctors,police and soldiers which have occurred since 1952.

 Catholicism embraces those deadly gangsters. 

Where is the balance in Northern public life,an example?

We ask why did a drunken Orangeman such as Jim Elliott from Arney get to chair a legal tribunal in 2006 after killing a Catholic father while at the wheel of a car in 1952.

Church schools, North and South 

Church schools should remain a matter protected by public recognition of the division between sacred and profane, blessed and cursed,saved and lost.

Enslavement  by churchmen of various denominations?

We should in these modern times seek from the Church that crude,modern measure of exchange which Karl Marx referred to as The Universal Measure.

MONEY! COMPENSATION! HARD CASH!

And,then?

Leave the church to get on with its wearisome, dull,arcane business insofar as any society can tolerate these "pious hypocrites." 

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Enslavement?

On that point,in conclusion,did Jesus not say,

"They load up heavy burdens on men's backs,

"But will they lift a finger to help them,

"No,not they,

" They pay their dues in dill and cummin,

"And say that that is Corban,

"They wash their arms to the elbow,

"Before they sit down to eat,

"They worship at the graves of the prophets,

" Because they know where they are buried,

"But was it not their ancestors who killed them....."

Will that will that do for now,my political, police and priestly readers who do not believe in paying for what they get and always are 'on the lookout for something cheap"?

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Society,the voice of the confirmed opponents of clericalism runs thus...

Away with you!

In the opposite camp,too,doom-mongers and naysayers. Everyone is sick of speeches about Christian charity and political tolerance.The wheel has come full circle back to where we were in the 1920's with mass incarcerations by priests and policemen and doctors,not forgetting solicitors,people who don't come within an ass's roar of upholding the basic standards of justice or the proper rules of medical and professional good practice. None of those categories of clerical and pseudo-religious interlopers are vouchsafed for by experience or by just men.