Bail Out …..in Antrim?

Posted on August 23, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

A few weeks ago…..Slugger O’Toole……brought us namesake the peerless Fintan O’Toole’s take on the imprisonment of Sean Quinn junior. He was……just after one night sent to a “soft” regime in Mountjoy. We were invited to tut-tut as Slugger went into hibernophobic mode. The Irish Justice System favouring the “rich” white collar criminal.

You wouldnt find that kinda thing happening in Britain, would you? Step forward Conservative peer Jeffrey Archer jailed for Perjury who was given day release to attend the theatre….and to have lunch with Conservative MP, Gillian Shepherd.

Ooops…..it seems that rich people do a tad better in prison than most of the poorer people.

Which brings me to Antrim….where several “paralympic teams” have been in training for the Paralympic Games which start in London at the weekend. Three members of the team from Jordan have been arrested and charged with sexual offences against women and children.

Yesterday they were granted bail (!) and seemingly there was an intervention from the “King of Jordan”. The three bailed athletes are back home in Jordan already. Will they ever return? Well if they dont the “King of Jordan” will have to cough up some (to him) petty cash.

Have the three Jordanian athletes been treated more favourably because of the intervention of their “King”? Perhaps a thread on Slugger O’Toole would clear it all up for us.

Meanwhile there is much tut-tutting on Slugger O’Toole that Julian Assange has been holed up in the London embassy of Ecuador and the Ecauadorians are facilitating Assange in not facing charges of a sexual nature in Sweden. Releasing three Jordanians (facing charges of a sexual nature) to Jordan (not a country overly concerned with the rights of women) seems a bit unusual.

Of course…..Norn Iron was completely looked over for the Olympics itself. “Team GB” (sic) could not even bring themselves to mention “Norn Iron” and no Olympic events took place in Norn Iron (events DID take place in Scotland and Wales). So the involvement of Norn Iron in Paralympic preparation has not worked out well. The feelgood narrative has been shot to pieces.

Of course there is no way that the PSNI could turn a blind eye to cases involving sexual abuse. Yet in any jamboree which are provided for us by PR companies, stuff happens. A lot of giants from the business community visit here. Are they really going to be charged with after hours drinking? Movies and TV series are made in Belfast…….MTV Awards are held here…….is there ever going to be a heavy-handed search of hotel rooms to find a “joint”?

Nope…..we are obliged to only have “feel good” stories.

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Hooray Harry

Posted on August 22, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

For those who are unclear about the “Heir and the Spare”………Harry is the younger one.

Naked pics of him online. Makes ya wonder. If the Internet had been around in the later years of the Nineteenth Century……when the “Prince” of Wales was in his hedonistic prime……or in the 1930s when the next “Prince” of Wales was cavorting with the Mrs-Wallis-Simpson set…….then England would be a Republic.

What happens in Vegas plainly in Harry’s case did not stay in Vegas. And yet there is a strange parallel. BBC are primly not reporting the story…..just like the deferential British press in the 1930s felt unable to tell the British people about the what their future “king” was up to and with whom. Yet the “international press” broke the story.

While the BBC……..at this point in time remain deferential…….Kay Burley over at Murdoh’s Sky is happily putting the boot into Harry.

Yet I suspect nobody will really bother about it. We all read between the lines in the 1970s when “Prince” Charles……was engaging in “Ugandan” discussions with a parade of English Roses….before settling on the only virgin left in the English aristocracy. ……..Harrys mummy.

So nobody will be outraged about Harry. He is a pampered, young, rich, member of the Aristocracy and is behaving as such.

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Declaring War On……Ecuador.

Posted on August 16, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

In the normal course of events, I would support the case where a man accused of sexual abuse crimes is returned to Sweden (by Britain) to face the due process of the Law.

But……Julian Assange….the Wikileaks man? There is no reason why he should not be returned to Sweden….except of course for the nagging doubt that this is all a bit too convenient. And that Mr Assange will be held in Sweden just long enough to be bundled off to the United States of America to face (in their view) more serious charges relating to the security of the United States.

You might well take the view… as I do……that Wikileaks did us all a favour. And you might take the view …as I do….that Sweden seems a decent enough neutral country and that the women Assange is accused of abusing deserve their day in a Swedish court.

And you may also take the view that Assange did himself few favours by seeking sanctuary in the London embassy of Ecuador, a country with a lesser record on civil rights than Sweden…….(or for that matter Britain and the United States).

Yet it strikes me that diplomatic immunity and the nature of an Embassy is one of the most civilising things in the World. Of course all countries abuse their Embassy and their rights…..just walk around London and see traffic wardens stick parking tickets on large cars with “CD” plates..the tickets will never be paid. And of course the embassies of the bigger nations  all contain a share of “spooks”…it is taken for granted.

I would be surprised if the London embassy of Ecuador gathered serious intelligence about the British. Id be surprised if the Quito embassy of Britain did not gather intelligence about the Ecuadorians.

What does surprise me is….that even in the three decades after the murder of PC Yvonne Fletcher……shot dead by a person within the Libyan embassy, the British police would be so crass as to threaten to go inside the Ecauadorian embassy to arrest Julian Assange. It seems like an over-reaction.

I get the impression that Britain would rather not be involved. Sweden has issued a warrant and Britain has complied. And USA has refused to guarantee that it will not press for Assange’s further extradition.

Yet the big mistake Julian Assange has made is to choose Ecuador. Of course Wikileaks has tweaked the tail of all of the worlds major nations so he was never likely to seek refuge in the embassy of (say) Russia. Or China. Or Saudi Arabia. Or Israel. But if he had, I think it extremely unlikely that the British police would be talking about going inside an embassy.

The Ecuadorians who in the last half hour have granted Assange assylum. It seems they too have missed a trick. It is extremely unlikely that Assange will leave their London embassy and be driven to Heathrow and fly to his “new” country.

But why didnt Ecuador grant asylum ten days ago………during the Olympic Games? It seems highly likely that London police would have wished a diplomatic incident to occur.

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Olympic Post Mortum

Posted on August 15, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

So……the Olympics and the Irish Team.

The nature of the unchanging Olympic Schedule is that Ireland always seems to have a better second week tha first week. Halfway thru the Olympics, the story could easily have been that it would as usual be left to the Boxing Team to rescue the Games for the Irish……..but in actual fact it all turned out pretty well with five medals, four in Boxing.

Katie Taylor took Olympic Gold. John Joe Nevin took Silver and Belfast guys Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan took Bronze. Show Jumper Cian O’Connor who won (and lost) Gold in Athens picked up an impressive Bronze.

Annalise Murphy was despeartely unlucky not to take a sailing medal (fourth is a horrible place to finish) and Rob Heffernan was fourth in the 50K Walk (and ninth in the 20K Walk) and deserves a lot of credit.

So five medals from five team members. In two Sports. This equals the performance of 1956 (Melbourne) when the Games were not so big as they are today. Yet it could so easily have been seven medals from four sports.

I think the first thing that has to be said is that only one member of the Irish Olympic Team did NOT come thru a rigourous qualification system organised by their International Sports federations. The boxers went to the Games on the basis of their world rankings or having come thru regional qualifiers. And indeed the two Irish boxers who did not medal each made the last sixteen. The Eventing Team finished fifth and individual rider Aoife Clark was fifth.

The only non-qualifier was Shooter, Derek Burnett, a four time Olympian who was invited by his International Federation.

There were good performances …or potentially good performances in Judo, Badminton, Modern Penthlon, Sailing, Canoeing, Rowing and Gymnastics.

But Athletics, Swimming and Cycling……significantly headline sports….failed to deliver. I have always thought that the emphasis in Athletics and Swimming was on getting a “qualification TIME” . I have always thought that “times” were less significant than actual race results, certainly in longer events. Jerry Kiernan, the RTE Athletes pundit has stated that too many (twenty-three) athletes went to the Games…….I think he is wrong about that. If you get the time…..you deserve to go. And I think the athletes with real medal chances benefit by being part of a bigger “team”.

As always there are ongoing disputes between “Athletes” and “Governing Body”. This is a given in every Irish Sport…..people who actually compete are hostile to the men in blazers and the committe men (and women!) are hostile to the sports people they believe are disrespectful and ungrateful.

That will never be addressed.

The success of the Olympic Team lets both sides in the dispute off the hook.

Lessons will need to be learned. The Olympic Council of Ireland will expect reports from all the National Federations on performance and I suspect hard questions will be asked of Athletics, Cycling and Swimming.

There is certainly potential for Rio 2016.

I should probably mention the Coleraine rowers who brought a Silver and Bronze home from London but it is a zero sum game and I would rather just ignore them. I think I am glad that they won medals……..and even more glad that they failed to win Gold. Thats as reconcilatory as it is possible for an old guy like me to get…….the notion that a post box would be painted gold in Coleraine and Coleraine rowers on a British postage stamp is frankly too hard to stomach. Not to mention the whole British Flag hoopla and BBC reporters talking about a Team “Great Britain and Northern Ireland”. In fairness to the British Olympic movement the notion of “Northern Ireland” actually existing seems to offend them even more than it offends me.

This of course is not a “mature” attitude. But I used to be much worse. To my immense surprise, I could not resist raising a cheer for Andy Murray,  Mo Farrah and Jessica Ennis on the British team. I did not warm to the British Rowers and Sailors..essentially it is a “class” thing………and I did not take to “Sir” Chris Hoy, who looks like he might be a Scottish “unionist”. So…….boooooooooooo.

Legacy? Well my thoughts are that the volunteer spirit was great……but ultimately their efforts seem exploited by people who will make a helluva lot of money out of the London Olympics. Britain at its best? Well amost certainly…..but that “Rule Britannia…Britannia Rules the Waves” sung for the benefit of the Argentinian Womens Hockey  Team seems to undermine that. Part of me wants to say “typical” and part of me wants to write it off as a “one-off”.

Indeed despite the worst efforts of Clare Balding, John Inverdale, Gary Lineker and the awful Hazel Irvine who tried to ramp up the chauvinism….the more moderate wisdom of Mark Foster, John McEnroe, Denice Lewis, Michael Johnson, Sharon Davies and Ian Thorpe was keeping Chauvinism in check and allowing Patriotism to flourish. Meanwhile an older style of Olympic hero…….Tessa Sanderson, Kris Akabusi and Sally Gunnell dropped down the “expert” pecking order.

So……on to Rio. Or a “feel good” General Election?

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Looking At Other Websites

Posted on August 14, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

“Seen Elsewhere” is a much missed feature on Slugger O’Toole. This drew attention to interesting posts on other websites. It seems appropriate to revive it.

So “Seen Elsewhere” Monday 13th August 2012.

On Slugger O’Toole.

As the Olympics ends, a Slugger poster (Baker) notes that Rory McIlroy has won an important Golf Tournament. And that Golf is featured in the next Olympics. On the second comment the vexed question of which team he will be on is noted.

With the next  scheduled Westminster Election  two and a half years away, Gerry Lynch, Slugger favourite and former paid staff member of  Alliance Party (and candidate) posts a “preview”.

Ex-BBC bore (Walker) actually has two posts on the Olympics and how brilliant the Union is.

The peerless Mick Fealty has three  posts…..on brilliant British Olympics, boundary changes and a re-imagination of a looser Britishness.

It looks a bit “liberal unionist” to me.

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The Olympics: In Review.

Posted on August 13, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I enjoyed the Olympic Games. Our next door neighbours put on a good show and deserved their success. They worked hard for it. They invested in their team.

The Opening Ceremony was a  triumph. The Closing Ceremony was a disaster…as if produced by Mock The Week. The Spice Girls were singing……well miming and moving about in an almost co-ordinated way. I now declare myself officially……OLD….because the Spice Girls look old.

For the most part, BBC behaved themselves and did not ramp up the chauvinism. Each time Lineker, Balding, Irvine and Inverdale tried to play the gallant Brits against Foreigners card…they were brought back to Earth by Ian Thorpe, Michael Johnson and John McEnroe. And more impressively by Mark Foster, Denice Lewis and Colin Jackson. Retired athletes are simply more honest than presenters/cheerleaders. And interesting that Tessa Sanderson, Kris Akabusi and Sally Gunnell were marginalised on graveyard shifts on minor Sky Channels. There has been a changing of the Guard in the “expert stakes” and the new breed seem more polished.

There were a few things I did not like….the British Super Heavyweight boxer winning the Gold Medal against a much better Italian was a clear home town decision. Likewise the decision to award poster boy Tom Daley a second dive after he complained that a dive was ruined by flashing lights from HIS OWN supporters was a bit questionable. It is certainly within the rules but hard to imagine that BBC commentators would have been so supportive of a German diver in a German pool. And worst moment of all the crass singing of “Rule Britannia, Britannia Rules the Waves” during the Britain-Argentina Womens Hockey match…..was sickening. Clearly this was a reference to the Falklands/Malvinas War and to be honest I was actually glad that the Argentinians won the match.

That said…..these were really the only three occasions when I doubted the sincerity of the British organisers. And frankly most nations would have behaved much worse.

Legacy…..well canoeists, modern pentathletes and taekwando players will slip back into quiet obscurity and hopefully cash in a long the way. High profile sports people will do very well finacially…..Jessica Ennis, Victoria Pendleton among them. I predict “Sir” Chris Hoy will get involved in the campaign to keep Scotland in the “Union”. Is he a “unionist”? I have no idea….but he looks and sound the sorta person who might be one.

Thankkfully from a nationalist perspective, all attempts by local unionists and BBC Norn Iron to turn “Team GB” into “Team GBNI” failed miserably. No events actually took place in Norn Iron……Scotland and Wales hosted football matches.

 

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DUP….Why Do We Tolerate Bigotry?

Posted on August 13, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

Peace is of course a good thing. I remember to well the alternative. But if Peace has a downside it is the narrative that Norn Iron is all about the Giants Causeway, Titanic and “Royal” visits. That Norn Iron is all about Reconciliation.

Reconciliation only lasts as long as a photo-opportunity with both DUP and Sinn Fein…the New Order who dominate our Power-Sharing Executive have not realy left their Past in the Past. Curiously they are mutually supportive of each other..when it comes to the Crunch. In our fractured Society, their own supporters are more likely to vote for them if they constantly expose each other as the “bogey man”.

Take the DUP. In public Peter Robinson the First Minister.  is every inch the New Ulsterman. For that matter…in public…Martin McGuinness is every inch the New Irishman.

And Power Sharing is of course good. Two communities sharing Power in proportion to their size. Locked in together…forever. Of course it is not the right of Nationalists to choose who speaks for the unionists. But sometimes there are values which cannot be acceptable.

The DUP is probably less than 5,000 strong. It has over forty five MPs and MLAs and the vast majority happen to be members of the Free Presbyterian Church………which is only 30,000 in number. Yet 200,000 vote DUP……..all from the Protestant communities of course……but not all “religious” or “saved”. Most are passive in religious terms. So the bizarre thing is that most DUP politicians believe that most of their own voters are going to Hell.

Of course thats a situation thats the same in (say) Texas. The average Christian “fundamentalist” will accept votes from sinners.

We put the God of Power-Sharing above Everything. Living in parallel universes we cannot criticise things which are downright wrong. Take Edwin Poots…DUP member and Minister for Health. He is a member of the Free Presbyterian Church. Mr Poots is a “new earth” creationist…….he believes that the Earth is just 6,000 years old. ……..which is fair enough. Except that it is stupid. Welcome to Norn Iron. Welcome to the er Giants Causeway……..it is 6,000 years old……….just like everything else in the World. Which when you think about it……is not very impressive at all.

I suppose Mr Poots is entitled to eccentric views. I am entitled to mine. But Pootsy is Minister for Health. And Pootsy imposes a ban on Norn Iron gay people donating blood. Homosexual Blood is seemingly……bad blood. There is of course no scientific evidence for this. But thats not the point for people like Poots. Donating blood is one of the most altruistic things a person can do. I have even done so myself……..best quality Rhesus Negative since you ask……I no longer donate blood for medical reasons but I have received blood in surgery. So has my wife, one son and a daughter-in-law. Our family has probably received more blood than it has donated. Thats how it goes. And I really dont care about the sexual orientation of the donors. Mr Poots does.

Now the very odd thing is that Mr Poots own Department…….Health…imports Blood. From among other places Britain and the Republic of Ireland where there are no bans on donations from gay donors. So Poots is not even “protecting” (as some would see it …people from Norn Iron). He is merely enforcing his own prejudices about gay people and taking away a right of gay people to serve a community in an altruistic spirit.

SDLP Youth have organised petitions to reverse the ban. But thats the problem with Power-Sharing. I do not believe for one minute that the majority of people of ANY faith are against gay people giving blood….yet this is a totemic issue. The majority of the 200,000 who vote for Poots party will see it as total nonsense but wont readily change their vote.

Mr Poots will be replaced next year as Health Minister by party colleague, Jim Wells. A change in policy is extremely unlikely. Last year, Wells rejected an invitation from Belfast’s (Gay) Pride Festival stating he did not want to be associated with the event ……..which is of course his right……..but he has no right to tell people that he finds their (gay) behaviour “repugnant”.

This is the real Norn Iron behind the carefully nurtured facade of Titanic, friendly people, Giants Causeway, MTV Awards.

Yet Jim Wells might claim that this is a religious view to which he is entitled. It is not Bigotry in itself. But I have always believed that those who deny the rights of (say) gay people ……will go further and deny the rights of (say) women, an ethnic minority or the disabled. Homophobes tend to be Sexist and Racist also.

But Jim Wells stands exposed today. He simply does not seem to know that Twitter is not a “private” medium. What you tweet and re-tweet gets noticed. Lack of character can be exposed in up to 140 Characters. Mr Wells re-tweeted a “joke”. It said the Irish had taken the gold, the lead from the roofs and the copper piping from the changing rooms.

Poor Jim. Good luck with the Damage Limitation on that one. The best Jim’s spokesman (I should say “spokesperson” but in the DUP its always a man) can come up with is that he did not intend to “re-tweet”. He intended to delete it.

A more likely scenario is that Wells is simply anti-Irish. Which might be considered a bad thing in itself……particuarly in a place where 44% of the population consider themselves “Irish”. And it might even be considered to be detrimental to making a career as a Minister for Health.

Do we have to get alonong with these people? Well unfortunately we do. Thats the downside of Peace. That Bigotry is sewn into our “constitution”. Now of course there are nationalist, catholic and republican bigots and indeed we are obliged by the New Order (and “Creative Ambiguity”) to repeat the mantra that “we are all victims and we are all guilty”……Which is of course nonsense. Peace is not about splitting the difference between opposing views. Some views…..on homophobia, gender, race…….cannot be appeased. They must be confronted. And defeated. Obviously be peaceful means.

Thus a philosophy…..that is Republican…….which aspires to Equality, Liberty and Fraternity is actually better. We should not be constrained in proclaiming it.

 

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A Tale Of Three Cities

Posted on August 11, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

I bought all three of the Belfast daily newspapers today (Friday). There is no expense I will not go to…..to illustrate a blog for my readership.

Take a look at the Front Pages (below).

  

In a sense the newspapers sum up Norn Iron. Take a look at the Irish News. The lead story and full page photograph is Katie Taylor’s triumph at the Olympic Games. The Irish News is read by nationalists.

The News Letter leads on a double tragedy in Coleraine, the death of an elderly brother of a pensioner recently murdered. Katie Taylor is not mentioned. Two of the three Irish boxers who fought in todays Olympic semi-finals today are on the front page…the two are from Belfast. The third boxer who is from the Republic of Ireland is not named. Katie Taylor’s victory yesterday is not mentioned. The News Letter is read by unionists.

The Belfast Telegraph claims it is read by unionists and nationalists but its editorial stance is “liberal unionist”…..always a risible concept. It cannot alienate its (mostly) unionist readership by giving too much emphasis to a story (Katie Taylor) which would put a smile on face of nationalists. Therefore it takes a cowardly “lets get alongerist” way out……..Katie is featured alongside British boxer Nicola Adams who also won Gold yesterday. The headline is “Girl Power”.

So welcome to Belfast. Can we ever be different?

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Katie Taylor…And Rehabilitating GOD in Ireland

Posted on August 10, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

 It was fairly predictable that Katie Taylor would make a passing reference to GOD when she won that Gold Medal. Thanking GOD is a fairly spontaneous reaction to any piece of good news. We all do it……indeed there is that old Luis Bunuel quote “Thank God I’m an Athiest” which is oft heard in Ireland.

In Ireland we do RELIGION but we don’t really do GOD. And as the old cliché in Norn Iron has it…….we have too much religion and not enough Christianity.

Most Irish people believe in GOD. Indeed as recently as last year (2011) 86% of the people in the Republic of Ireland described themselves as “Catholic”. This is quite high and possibly reflects the migration of Polish (and other groups) off-setting a real and perceived fall in Irish Catholic numbers. And Church figures show about 50% of Catholics attend church monthly….a staggering drop in two decades. About 5% of the population in the Republic of Ireland is “Protestant”, mostly Church of Ireland. Of course Protestantism in the Republic……and indeed Ireland as a whole….has been seen as “not Irish” enough.

In Norn Iron, Religion is as much an ethnic label as a real confessional experience. The population “mix” is about 42% Catholic and 53% Protestant (Church of Ireland and Presbyterian mostly) and reflects tribal origin rather than familiarity with Theology.

Religion………..and therefore GOD……is a bit embarrassing. We don’t mention HIM in polite company as we fear being labelled sectarian or getting into long discourse about the problems  in the Catholic Church. And Religion is just about the only subject which can be ridiculed with impunity.  Whatever you say ………..say nothing cos mentioning GOD aint worth the hassle.

Yet the Irish Olympic Team is diverse……sixty-six members (thirteen from Norn Iron who are Catholic and Protestant). The perception would be that almost all the people from the Republic would be (passively or nominally) Catholic with maybe one or two Protestants. Probably active athiests too. Nice to note that there is a Latvian and a Polish “new Irish” in the team and as usual we have one guy from South Africa, another from England and a woman from United States reflecting the wider Irish diaspora.

So yesterday,  Katie could get away with thanking God…and for his Grace. And a  thank you to those who had prayed for her “you cant do without prayers” she said.  To those who care about GOD that was a nice thing to do. Honourable.  Decent. To those who are “secular”, it was ok. Had Katie gone on to thank the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Lourdes, Fatima and Knock……those who care about GOD would have got a little embarrassed and “liberals” would have started to ridicule. Because in Ireland in 2012….it is ok to be a quiet Christian. GOD is still acceptable but only in small doses.

Then a peculiar thing happened. An hour after her Gold Medal, the RTE News featured interviews with her old School Principal in Bray, County Wicklow. ….and the Minister of her Church. Her School was a Community School (ie no overt religious dimension) and her Church turned out to be (I think) Pentecostalist. I admit to a certain conflict here. My “liberal” and “republican” senses tell me that religion is irrelevant in terms of “being Irish”. The National Flag after all depicts  a white section representing  peace between the Green (Catholic) and Orange (Protestant) traditions on this island. Of course the National Flag has not been seen that way.

In fairness the Republic’s Protestant community……….those that stayed after Independence and Partition in 1922 have thrown their lot more fully into the ethos of the Republic than the Norths Catholic Community have embraced Britishness. The Conflict 1969-1998 and all earlier Troubles in Norn Iron has been about the inability to absorb the sizeable Catholic “minority” (never less than 34%) into a region  of the “United Kingdom”. Arguably a combination of unionists marginalising nationalists and nationalists isolating themselves have made total absorption impossible.

No “northern” Catholic representing Britain could have run around an Olympic stadium waving a British Flag. And probably no “northern” Protestant could wave the Irish Flag with the enthusiasm that Katie Taylor did yesterday.

Frankly it was nice to hear GOD mentioned enthusiastically yesterday. But I am not sure that a practising Catholic could have done it. Or indeed a member of the Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist communions could have done it. There are a group of reformed churches however…….Pentecostalists (Katie’s faith), Society of Friends (Quaker), Jehovahs Witnesses and (if my friend Rachel will forgive me saying) Baptists who are seen in a better light than our traditional Irish faiths……..I am not entirely sure why. Perhaps because they are numerically small but I think the biggest reason is that these are often faiths into which people are not born and stay with passively………..but rather embrace as a matter of conviction, often as an adult. Disproportionately they are simply decent people.

And that’s the thing……the narrative whether from novelists  Edna O’Brien, Frank McCourt, Roddy Doyle…..or from court transcripts or Inquiry Reports…..or investigative journalism…..or from Dara O’Briain or Ed Byrne on Mock The Week……….or internet message boards has been that Religion is a very bad thing. But the narrative should include that a lot of very decent people in all Christian religions…….and indeed all of the worlds religions who live a form of codified morality or theology are some of the best people I know.

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Katie Taylor

Posted on August 9, 2012 by fitzjameshorse

No words are really necessary.

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