Stop the Carnage.....at St. Patrick's Cathedral

international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Saturday May 20, 2006 20:29 by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics

Racism. When I fractured my skull in Zimbabwe, my life was saved by the one Neurologist. Would colout have made a difference!!!

This was a contribution to Indymedia 4th March by Redjade

Coming To Grief by Hans Johnson
Like the breeze of late winter, a single word,
unspoken, has rippled through the recent funerals of several
US service members returned from Iraq.
Families and military presss officers have different reasons for
tight lips on the topic. But Suicide among Iraq soldiers, 29 soldiers by recent count,
says volumes about drooping morale and raises further doubts about how accurately the toll on service members is being measured and how much more they will bear'

We all are delicate human beings...........bureaucracy can always be sorted out......life cannot be given back.

41 Human Beings in St. Patrick's Cathedral. Their Life is in the hands of the Irish people..........

Channel 4 News report. The Gardai using 'psychological' tactics of false information to these men who are on hunger strike for the 7th day - claiming they or moving in.....and then they back track......

This is a game played with John Carty (we await the Bar Tribunal. report) Is the price tag psychologically for all concerned, the Garda, the Social Workers, the Archbishops, the staff at the Cathedral.

Let us go back to Suicide......We have a near crisis rate in Ireland. I think it is 7 men to every woman. If we really care, let us think......

I cannot find a sad sad story of a cleargy man who recalled the days being at a vicarage near a local Protestant Church. He was young and did not understand then.......but some 40 years later the people of the village decided to commemorate his father. Yes, the father, the local vicar had committed that dreaded shameful stigmatised act of suicide. The moral is that time healed and the son was asked to come back for a commemoration and a placque to his father........Time heals.....Time changes. but the scar of suicide is said to affect 50 people for everyone person that dies.

What will it do, if the Afghan people in desperation end up dead......it will reverberate throughout the world........and the crime of conscience of those involved will also grow..........

Tomorrow is Sunday. I sincerely hope that our Clergy take a stand and in particular Archbishop Martin......We want evidence of their so called Christianity.........As faras O cam see the Catholic Church could do with some repentance.......what an opportunity?

I ask politicians to think of their visits to countries like Zimbabwe and to the stories they heard from people who live life at ground level and know but cannot talk freely. Then think. I met former President Robinson and Minister Kitt there in the 1990's.........

I want us to note that we are already in breach of Internantional Law. Shannon is open to US military planes and many people in Ireland do not agree to same.

Do we listen to people who have been in Guantanomo Bay and describe what torture really is? If so, please let us understand humanity.

Phil Flynn - the negotiation, this is a positive point. However, is there not a group who knew the hunger strikers who died for the Irish causer who cannot go in and share their experiences with these people. Think of the success of Archbishop Tutu with Reconciliation Process undertaking in the North. This was about conflict studies.

Wherre are the University Professors who lecture accordingly?

Remember, the Irish and the treatment of the Jewish people during the second world war.........Remember what Noel Browne talked about and the stigma related to TB in a family.

Education means learning means understanding I hope.

Do not hang this potential atrocity on the Gardai (riot). It can goe so wrong as we know from the death of John Carty.

Michelle Clarke