Arcadia.A reply to regicides (30/07/13)

1. A country without a leader or acknowledged head of state with a democratic mandate is characterised by chronic instability, fratricidal violence, universal greed, unregulated corruption and military and national weakness.

2. Diarmait Mac Cearaill died in Enniskillen at the hands of Fearon and Mc Sweeney in 571 AD. O’Beirne in his book Kings and High Kings (Batsford Press ,1978) failed to observe that the last of the Irish High Kings had come to Upper Lough Erne. The assassination is recorded in the Book of Durrow, Book of Clonmacnoise and Annals of the Four Masters.(Some research in a telephone directory in 1978 would have revealed this). Thus ended chieftaincy and it has long been relegated to dusty old tomes best ignored.

3. The moral imperative was not uppermost in Diarmait’s interference in church affairs with regard to the modern idea of freedom of religion and non interference in religious affairs.

4.The question of a peculiarly English monarch is based not on privilege but on predictability in social outcomes (as the English jurists teach).

5. The proper form of patrilineage is to be found in Saint Matthew’s Gospel.The Book of Durrow only records the patrilineage to the third generation.

6. The Irish can be a violent, greedy, lawless, rebellious and idolatrous people whose behaviour has allowed them to fall prey to foreign occupation, famine, disease, slander, racism, brutal exploitation and systematic fleecing by financial pirates and freebooters.

7. It should be observed that if Sinn Fein increase their representation in the Dail Ireland will become increasingly isolated (and US investment will disengage) .It should be noted that this national drmocratic party is the party of regicide par excellence. It is the poor who do not want to be the victims of random violence ,welfare degradation and socio-economic dependence who form the backbone of support for the head of state. It should be noted that Die Republikaner describe themselves as Republicans. 

21 November 2019

8. I am someone whose ancient forbears were manipulated by clergy and lay advisers into lives of purported verve and excitement. I for one should have pursued  a life of substance. I eventually collapsed into decay and disease when I no longer served the Church's selfish needs and the desires of worthies around them,the communitarians. I welcome democracy and remark that it is one of the abiding virtues of modern democracy that there is a system of accountability. Almost everybody finds that fact acceptable apart from fascists and clergy. Those churchmen and scholars who try to revive ancient forms of government do so for a sinister and unknown purpose best understood by a medical specialist in problems of cognition.





Joseph Paul Mc Carroll

Christian Democracy and Social Democracy (28/11/12)

Marx once wrote in the context of a revolutionary programme drawn up by the Eisenachers that the programme of the Social Catholic movement (‘Das Zentrum’) was the origin of most of the practical programme of social democracy. By social democracy was meant in the 1860s the drive to disposess all independent businesses. He condemned those who called for agitation against Das Zentrum.

In the 1930’s Das Zentrum was known as the People’s Party and under Von Papen gave their votes to Hitler. Von Papen was murdered soon afterwards. He gave his votes to Hitler because of the danger of Stalinism.

In 2004 the Hartz Four changes of the SPD meant that income support was cut from 124 Euros per month to 90 Euros per month. Germany is a rigidly bureaucratic country and the differentials between workers and unemployed grew.

The Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union opposed this heartless manoeuvre and subsequently came to power.

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7.7.2025

Social democracy can not cater for the needs of the poor or orphaned child because it is based on rampant materialism no more than US Republicans hear the cry of those seeking social justice or the poor and indigent. The latter base their policies on the greed of the very wealthy and on a tiny minority of super-rich.

In Europe and Catholic countries and societies which are influenced by Church social principles or social centrist principles of government,the needs of the widows and orphans traditionally come to the fore.

However, the Fall of Soviet socialism has undermines the system of public charity and social endowment. That system has partly or largely ceased for the poor. Many poor people have been thrown back on their declining resources for the most part in proportion to the declining share of wealth allowed by businessmen to the poor.