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Post by kj on Aug 7, 2019 12:43:17 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 7, 2019 16:26:51 GMT
"Many members are opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage and speakers this year included US vice-president Mike Pence and a number of conservative politicians suh as former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker."
So that's all it takes to be an extremist now.
Interestingly, the chap says that he is pro-gay marriage but anti-abortion.
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Post by cato on Aug 7, 2019 19:13:19 GMT
It's pathetic watching Fine Gael politicians all of whom claim to embrace diversity , rush to condemn a young person who is one of the few under 25s who believes in opposing legal abortion. Some minorities are only worthy of scorn and ridicule in modern Ireland. Ironically most Fine Gael ministers including the Taoiseach occupied a similar position prior to the last general election.
Meanwhile Fianna Fail's Foreign affairs spokesman Niall Collins speaking on Pakistani TV condemns the "Jews" for controlling US foreign policy. The mask slipped but strangely these vile remarks attracted no space in our increasingly corrupt and propagandistic media. Much easier to turn on a young nerdy male conservative who shook hands with the US vice president.
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Post by cato on Aug 9, 2019 10:04:00 GMT
There seems to be bad blood among the Young Fine Gael executive members left at home over the sponsered trip to the USA that Killian Foley Walsh and co. availed of. A conservative (liberal free market ) charity The Edmund Burke Institute came up with the cash to pay for the trip.
I wasn't aware of the Institute which seems to concentrate on advocating sound economics or rather non leftist models. Ironically it advocates a classic economic liberalism which will probably go way over the heads of those moaning about Irish people embracing the American racist far right. Perhaps the noses of certain people are out of joint at missing a freeby to the land of opportunity and liberty?
No doubt Phoenix magazine will explain all in its next issue linking it to their leftist fantasy conspiracy involving quadrupling defence spending and joining the evil NATO alliance that they have been predicting since the 1980s.
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Post by cato on Aug 9, 2019 11:41:38 GMT
It also strikes me as alarming and hypocritical that in a time when we claim to be concerned with bullying and the abuse of power , a Fine Gael MEP and other members of that party attack an individual in public and call for his resignation based on his opinions.
We lament the lack of politically active young people and then call for the political lynching of those whose opinions are somewhat embarrassing to the newly converted liberal establishment.
Fine Gael should perhaps examine its own history if it wants to hunt out right wing extremism. Its links to 1930s Blueshirtism is well known but the historical jury is out on whether the Blue wearers were bona fide fascists or not. Less well known is that party also welcomed Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia (the last European Imperial conquest) which was condemned by international opinion at the time. Fine Gael also attacked De Valera for not granting immediate diplomatic recognition to General Franco after his coup in Spain. Fine Gael would appear to have a real right wing shady past.
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