Justin Barrett announces run for Europe

national | eu | news report Friday April 30, 2004 21:38 by Paul Hughes

Justin Barrett announces run for Europe

First off, we must all realize that Rose Macgowan is hot, much better put together than her older brother, Shane.

These two are actually not related, Shane's sister is named Siobhan, and Rose Macgowan's name is spelled, "Mcgowan". She is still hot, and she escaped from some sort of cult her parents were members of in Italy, kudos to her.

On a separate note, but no less important, the inimitable Justin Barrett is running in the European elections for the east on an anti-immigration platform as an independent candidate. Mr. Barrett is such a stud, and a superman that no one party can hold him, so he is forced by his sheer greatness to be an independent. Barrett's clearly got the punk rock credentials to be a force in Irish politics, with his f yez' all Shane Macgowan attitude, the 33 year old Longford family man and conservative Catholic is no stranger to controversy.

A few years back Barrett spoke at an event in Germany at the invite of some far right wing group, and this led to hysterical depictions of the man as the next Attila the Hun. I've taken the man's statements on this at face value, as his take on the situation is that he did not know the background of the group. Germany has some extremely strenuous laws regarding political parties due to it's horrible first half of the last century. The group Barrett spoke to might be a lot of things, but illegal is not one of them, and if they are still legal under the close scrutiny of parties in that nation then they must not be as big of a threat to humanity as Barrett's detractors make them out to be.

Mr. Barrett wrote a book entitled, "The National Way Forward", which was at times brilliant, and a fascinating read. Barrett writes that the best way forward for Ireland would be to rely on the traditional values that have made the nation great. For Barrett, this means a life of faith through the Church, an emphasis on family, and strengthening the bonds of community. Several critics of this work say that he book advocates the erosion of women's rights that have been gained over the years and a certain xenophobic attitude towards foreigners. The critics seem to be hysterical loony lefties who wish to see Ireland go through some unfortunate and bold new social experiment. They resent Barrett's defence of the unborn, his advocacy of the rights of the ordinary Irishman and Irishwoman over others, and his persistent advocacy work for the Catholic Church. If Barrett were such an ogre that was contemptible of women in their place in society, then that must have been a shock to Mrs. Barrett, who sired a few of his children and seems to be in love with her man in a mutually beneficent and caring relationship. Time and again it seems the criticisms of the man seem to border on the outrageous.

The anti-Nice campaigners seemed to break into two camps, the assorted left wing groups fighting what they perceived as a capitalist expansion, and Barrett's traditionalist right wing. The author of this piece does not really have a definite opinion on Nice, but it seems that the lefties and Barrett's group should have put aside their differences to fight for what was their common goal, to defeat Bertie and co's second Nice vote. Mr. Barrett presented himself throughout this campaign as an articulate and sensible man who only wanted the best for Ireland and the Irish people. The usual anti-Barrett wolves came out yet again to try to destroy the man, with the usual vicious vitriol hurled at the Longford campaigner.

We all know how Nice 2 went, and for the three of you who've been under a rock the last year or so, it finally passed and as of this date the expansion of the EU has been accomplished. But as the song says, you can't keep a good man down, and Barrett's back again with his new hot remix for all the clubs, Mr. Barrett goes to Europe, sort of like Mr. Smith goes to Washington but a tad different.

Barrett promises something that in a healthy society would be common sense, and that is that, "all illegal immigrants be sent home'', the source being his campaign leaflet. Only the insane would not advocate such a position, "illegal" behavior should not be tolerated in a normal society, but to those of the loony left persuasion this means he's the dreaded "R" word, the fashionable label meant to wreck people and stifle debate in a single blow! "Racist" is the label Barrett has been fitted with, which is the cowards way of striking down an opinion shared by many. These days it seems that anyone that wishes for parts of Dublin to become a "little Lagos" means they are terrible people and must be screamed down by the mentally ill far left. It is decent and honourable to protect your people from illegal invaders, and those who died for Ireland for hundreds of years against external threats must be spinning in their graves! The far left want their utopian vision to succeed, which is to submit Ireland to the failed theory of "multiculturalism". Even the Dutch government, famed for its tolerance and openness, has thrown their hands up and proclaimed this Marxist construct to be an absolute and utter failure. But does Ireland, and especially the far left, take heed? No! Because these people believe that by sheer will alone Ireland will escape the pitfalls that have befallen all western societies that have ascribed to this bizarre worldview in some miracle.

This is not to say that Ireland should not welcome immigrants, in small doses immigration is fine. There are some very good Philippinos and others who do great work for the healthcare system, and not all Nigerians are bad, much like not all those who are Irish born are good. Clearly there are good and bad in all groups, however a massive wave of unchecked immigration is wrong on many levels, changing the complexion of the Irish people is anti-Irish racism, something the far left never stop to think about, nor care to concern themselves with. For the good of Ireland, the illegals should be sent back, and more foreign investment and aid should be undertaken in the third world. One of the main critiques of the Irish policy on immigration is that for years Irish people were part of a huge diaspora throughout the world in times of trouble, and shouldn't Ireland then return the favour? Absolutely not, this logic is poor on many levels, one being the countries the Irish went to were by and large colonial endeavors of our occupiers at the time, the British. America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, were all lands that were primarily European settled, so the Irish have no special reason to import large numbers of foreigners in return.

One thing about Barrett's platform did raise a red flag for me, and that was that he believes that the new EU states will be detrimental to Ireland, and he decries that there will be a massive immigration problem posed by the new member nations of the EU. Barrett has the right idea in that protecting the national identity and character of Ireland in this globalized environment must be a main goal of all the citizenry, but his stance on fellow Europeans is unfair, and this author hates to bring such arguments into play, as they are reminiscent of the puerile, "Irish were immigrants so we must except being swamped by immigrants too" mentality; but the same thing was said about Ireland and the Irish when our nation joined the EU in the 1973. Since then the Irish have proven their mettle, and so will the new EU states and their people.

The rest of Barrett's platform is sound and all patriots should vote for the good man. Concerning the disgusting Fianna Fail policy that allows the native population to be subjected to second rate status in their own lands, Barrett is quoted as saying, "Irish people can't get jobs but Mary Harney insists on giving work permits to non-nationals who will work for less money. We must demand that this discrimination against Irish people stops."

Discrimination it is, right on Justin Barrett, right on. The wise man from Longford then goes on to say, "Non-nationals in Ireland are putting a huge strain on our social services and maternity hospitals. The government is spending well over a quarter of a billion euros every year on, mostly false, asylum seekers. But many Irish people can't afford houses or access to health services.''

Bingo! The future of Ireland as a nation is being threatened, by internal AND external foes, and good people such as Mr. Barrett need to stand up and be counted, and not allow the bully boy tactics of the various anti-Irish factions of the far left to interfere in the natural self preservation instinct of the average Irishwoman and Irishman.

He hits the head on the nail or nail on the head, however you want to say it, when he wrote, ""It's clear to everyone that we have a serious problem with immigration." Indeed it is Mr. Barrett, to everyone but the myopic and hysterical loony left. A vote for Barrett is a vote for Ireland!