Good. The discoveries about the Tuam mortality figures are making a stink in Ireland. Good.
There is growing pressure on the Government to hold a full historical inquiry into the deaths of almost 800 children in a mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway between the 1920s and the 1960s.
There were numerous calls from TDs, Senators and councillors yesterday for a full inquiry following the disclosure that many infants and children who died in the home run by the Bon Secours order were buried in an unmarked plot.
Minister for Children Charlie Flanagan said yesterday that he was giving “active consideration to the best means of addressing the harrowing details emerging regarding the burial arrangements for children who died many years ago in mother and baby homes”.
Wait; focus, people. Throwing them out like garbage was bad, yes, but it wasn’t the worst thing. Letting them die was the worst thing. Not taking proper care of them was the worst thing. Taking money from the state to take care of them and not taking care of them was the worst thing.
Yesterday politicians from both Government and Opposition parties, including Galway East Minister of State Ciarán Cannon, called for an inquiry into the circumstances behind so many deaths in the home, as well as into the remains found in the unmarked plot.
There you go, that’s the one. It’s the so many deaths in the home, far more than the mass burial.
The good nuns had no objection to fourth trimester abortions.
“Unmarked plot”.
They need to drop the fucking euphemisms, which seem to just be getting worse. “Water tank.” The press so eager to report this seems also to be rapidly distancing itself (and the reader) from the reality. The government is now looking into “burial arrangements” in this one specific instance, something is being done, move on now, nothing to see here.
It is starting to look to me like press coverage is there to lead the public away from other, less “edited” forms of interactive mass communication and self-examination. They know people will talk, so they are going to lead the speech.
Why don’t we call these what they were? “Homes For Murdering Illegitimate Children Because WE Do Not Approve of Children Born Out of Wedlock”?
Burial arrangements? Throw the child’s body in a pit is now referred to as “burial arrangements”? Were they all dead on their way to the pit? Or, given the utter disregard for child welfare at this place, were some still breathing in their toss into the hole?
And what the fuck does “many years ago” have to do with this crime against humanity?
Charlie Flanagan, Minister for Children, you are under the microscope.
Some of those involved are probably still living. I hope they’re prosecuted. Harshly, no matter how old they are.
It is obvious, surely, that a large number of these children were murdered. It is insane that a murder inquiry was not immediately instigated.
Sure, they starved and beat and neglected all those people, and many died, but think of the score they ran up on old Scratch in the soul department.
The Irish Examiner mentions that the lonely, scared, abandoned women and girls were denied any form of pain relief during labour “to repent for their sins”.
Evil, evil Catholic institutions.
What Trebuchet said. Prosecute.
I reckon we should abandon them to the tender mercies of their loving god.
Ship ’em to Antarctica. They don’t even need equipment or supplies. Their god will provide, because of their total lack of sin, being nuns and all.
Denied stitches for vaginals rips to suffer horrendous pain.
Told to labour and birth in silence.
Refused penicillin to suffer through infection.
Their babies snatched away at any random point after they’d bonded with them for years.
Babies sold to foreign countries.
Mothers forced to wet nurse other babies.
Babies dying in their cots surrounded by green diahorrea.
Some of these women and girls were rape victims.
Laundry slavery for years.
No freedom, no respect, no love, no care, no dignity, no humanity, no compassion, no mercy, no decency, no charity.
Cruelty, abuse, starvation, malnutrition, mental, emotional, physical torture, laundry slavery, death, murder.
And still Irish women are their denied abotion rights, held hostage to the very same institutions that did this to their mothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, neighbours, kin and country.
Ireland you are still being held hostage by your abuser. My sympathies to you and yours.
That’s hardly specific to Catholics. Lutherans enjoys thems some pain in childbirth as well.
Our first princess here in Denmark some years ago was roundly criticised for demanding epidurals.
Ireland escaped centuries of British oppression only to replace it with Catholic oppression. How sad.
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-quinn/at-some-point-christianity-here-became-more-about-punishment-than-forgiveness-30333644.html David Quinn of lolek ltd (Ioan institute) No true scotsman’s, no mention of the catholic church, the protestants were nearly as bad (Bethany house) and of course it was poverty that was the real cause. He had to write something I suppose and it’s slightly better than the priest saying we shouldn’t judge the past according to our values.