Monday, May 24, 2021

US politician and Irish newspaper express worrying ideas

US House of Representative Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has compared the mandate to wear masks in the House with German Jews being required to wear the Star of David during the Hitler era.

Taylor is a newly elected congresswoman and is a member of the Republican Party.

An outrageous comment from the US Congresswoman.

In an article in The Irish Catholic of May 13 Dr Philip Gonzales writes: “.... the response of the Irish Government to the Covid-19 crisis, although the most extreme in the EU, is part and parcel of a larger political shift in Western liberal democracies and their drift towards a new form of totalitarianism”.

The article quotes extensively from Carl Schmitt, a member of the Nazi Party. The article carries a picture of Schmitt at a microphone.

The article carries the headline ‘The Mass ban and the drift towards a new form of totalitarianism'.

Elsewhere in the article Gonzales, who lectures in philosophy in St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, writes: “Who of us would have ever thought that in the 21st Century (sic) that we would be living in a country where it can be made a criminal offence at the stroke of a pen to receive the Eucharist, where to confess one’s sins out of sorrow and love is a crime, where it is forbidden to bury the dead, where a father is not allowed to be present at the birth of his child.”

An outrageous piece of writing.

1 comment:

Póló said...

Maynooth. Oh dear.

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