Yesterday's 'Save Our Children' rally. Here's some information on the organisers / speakers.
It was organised by Hermann Kelly, who was editor of The Irish Catholic 'newspaper' during the thick of the abuse scandals and reports. He regularly covered up & denied clerical abuse,
It was organised by Hermann Kelly, who was editor of The Irish Catholic 'newspaper' during the thick of the abuse scandals and reports. He regularly covered up & denied clerical abuse,
even writing a book 'exposing a culture of false accusations'. He's a fan of the 'false memory' theory of 'holocaust deniers' in the debate on clerical child abuse & claims the redress board is nothing but "a State ATM for scroungers". He's head of fascist Irish Freedom Party.
The man in the grey suit to the left of the banner here is Justin Barrett. We can see he's holding the megaphone mic here, to address the crowd. Barrett also likes addressing crowds at neo-Nazi rallies in Germany.
Barrett spoke at events organised by the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany several times & was guest of honour at one in which anti-semitic speeches with quotes from Adolf Hitler were given, alongside claims "Germany was the biggest victim of the second World War".
Hundreds of skinheads gave standing ovations to elderly Nazis. The NPD confirmed that they were in contact with Youth Defence for at least 6 years before. Barrett is the former leader of anti-abortion group, Youth Defence, and has been involved with them since the 1990s.
He is currently the leader of the fascist, anti gay, anti women's rights, anti immigration National Party. Barrett was one of the prominent campaigners against divorce, but is now divorced and remarried to his new wife, the blonde one to the right of him.
Also addressing the crowd was actor John Connors. He was involved in it coz he's concerned that Roderic O'Gorman was in a photo with Peter Tatchell at Pride (they had never met before & never met again after this, O'Gorman had no knowledge of comments Tatchell made 20yrs before).
However, Connors calls convicted rapist Mike Tyson a good mate of his. Not only is Tyson a convicted rapist, but there's a photo of Tyson and Tatchell together, which by Connors logic makes Tyson a paedo? And therefore, by this logic, makes Connors himself a paedo and a rapist?🤔
Connors also fought against repealing the 8th, claiming it was "baby genocide".
Apparently Gemma O'Doherty was also at the rally. I don't think I even need to go into detail with that one..?
Colm O'Gorman is the Director of Amnesty International Ireland and tweeted about this rally that "funnily enough in 25 years of working to confront child abuse and other such violations, I’ve never seen any of the ring leaders of this do a damn thing."
Now look at the noose on their banner & ask yourself what this rally, organised by racist, homophobic, transphobic, abuse covering up, fascists was REALLY about. It all started when a gay man was made Minister of Children & they dug up a photo of him with a guy he had met once.
They worded their posts to confuse people and make people think that O'Gorman himself had made these comments. He did not. Tatchell made the comments. O'Gorman met Tatchell once, but he should have known about the comments Tatchell had made 20 years previous?
Imagine we all had to be held accountable for comments everyone we'd ever met had ever made.
