Firstly,though....
...let it not be forgotten that Michael O Riordain and Jim Brown and the rest of the Irish Communists were evildoers,plotters, schemers,madmen, thugs and ticket-of-leave hooligans who did nothing for anybody unless they were well paid for it.
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Holding forth from a high stool on 23 December 1991,O Riordain of the CPI showed off the wit and wisdom of a well-schooled showman brought on by an inferior education and a lack of real knowledge.
The date was a date chosen for the numerical significance of the relevant apposites in the Book of Psalms and this Russian theme of numerology was inspired by another book of the Judaic canon,the Book of Numbers.
His pronunciamento was also inspired by the book of the military 'judges' or leaders as portrayed in the Book of Judges.
He styled himself a military man in his well-rehearsed projected image. His prolific taste for nonsense and cant was the work of the semi-religious Judaic preening of his doctor,Alan Harris and Leonard Doyle of the CPI.
Two days before the Eastern democratic liberation,he recanted his errors and shame thus,
"Your publishers are your friends..his friends were the CIA,the British Army, Paisleyites and loyalists...no,his real friends were the IRA because they were they were the only people who could protect him..my agents were the Communist Party of the Soviet Union..he had hundreds of agents all over the place...no,you have no friends in politics,only allies... ...no,he got out of politics in the end and married my daughter,my real daughter,that is... The IRA always intended to make him a principal...no,he wasn't in the IRA,he wasn't properly sworn in...he rejoined the IRA...."
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Before I recount more of his rhodomontade, I should remark, as natural common sense dictates,"Don't believe anything you hear in an Irish public house where O Riordain made his profession de foi unless it is specifically directed at you and the person who says it has a good reason to be there and isn't drunk or engaged in idle philosophising".
What was the nub of the matter concerning his syncretic biography of myself and his clear inability to alter the course of Eastern democratisation by his ravings and his sponsors' use of semi-judicial arrests and hospital confinements. His soliloquoy represented 'wisdom after the event'. The red flag was due to come down from the Kremlin on Christmas Day and Stalinism perish for ever.
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Le but de geste,what was it?
He was,in truth,trying to send me onto the guns and have me killed in some act of bravado or other in revenge for my signature role in the overthrow by peaceful means of his Party financiers,the East German Communists and Czech Internal Security Service,the STB. My intervention had occurred during the summer of 1988. (See other posts on the 'play' or 'world plan' of July-August 1988).
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To return to my theme of O Riordain's valedictory speech and profession of sectarian politics and Stalinist rage,
"Your publishers are your friends. I was his publisher.... I owed him money..."(op. cit.)
In revolutionary democratic matters and revolutionary socialist politics,it is those who spread your ideas who are your real friends but not those who send you on feats of derring-do as was his final word and professed intention for myself.
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A democratic socialist in Ireland is soon surrounded by false witnesses with leanings of an authoritarian or police type. They use invective to scare away his true friends and they deploy tactics of "moral suasion" i.e beatings and isolation tactics to blackmail him or her, while pretending to be his "real friends".
His publicists are his real friends. This apposite is an old lesson from the Marxist canon. Lenin described himself variously as a Social Democratic publicist,agitator and onlooker.
An informer such as Cahal Morris or Jim Quinn (Mill Street) uses intimidation and sends his police and criminal friends to break down the door of a democrat's house. That is the eternal duality, the civil authority and the police agent,to be caught between cop and criminal.
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6.7.2021
Another saucy epithet from the Marxist sequel to my drama of July-August 1988 (op. cit.)
His well learned experience of surveillance ran thus,
" 'It' can be a help" (O Riordain,The Judgement op. cit.)
Surveillance,be it close or regular,can save your life if your life is in danger. If you are a former nationalist militant,do not resent 'It'.
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1.10.2021
To rehash an observation of the head of the Irish Communists from THE JUDGEMENT (or Cuirt an mhean-oiche),
"You don't know who your real friends are. His friends were...No,his real friends were the IRA because they were the only people who could protect him."
True!
The years of the decline of IRA activity which O Riordain anticipated were the years of a real decline in the moral character of many in the republican movement. That nexus of internal rancour was something which Paisley and Blair and Trimble endeavoured to bring about.
After Eastern Liberation,the Provos were in general out of kilter with their recent habit of mutual support and joint agency,events having outpaced their key but dated political apparatus and nonsense slogans. They eventually settled for less than their basic demand which was Irish Freedom.
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13.11.2021
Dublin,1991
Everything must be seen in its social and economic context. Let us remember that O Riordain's remarks were against the background of a ferocious Garda and military repression authored by Ahearne and other leading Irish Army cutthroats.
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"...street scenes with fascists..."
A COMPETING NARRATIVE concerns O Riordain's later burst of indignation regarding surveillance. This came in his unbalanced and intemperate remarks to Jonathan Philbin-Bownan in the RTE biopic (Bowman's Lives,2000's).
Counterposed to Marxist intemperance runs the observation of the late Gay Mitchell's level-headed , normal,younger sister,"It's all local."
Rachel Mitchell's street commentary of August 1991 indicated that it was locally-based snoopers of Community Alert and the ex-Gardai attached to the Department of the Taoiseach who were responsible for the unbearable isolation and sickening torment which I endured in my four years in Dublin.
My failure to approach an authorised officer of the law regarding sleep deprivation operations organised by Dermot Mulligan,Christine Murphy and Edel Mc Ginnity by use of a criminal syndicate in the period from 24 July 1991 to 22 December 1991 led to the violation of one of my most basic rights,the right to a good night's rest and freedom from physical attack.
The lack of restrictions on public and private nuisance,intimidation and harassment by gurriers such as the Irish Army thugs-I am referring to O Neill,O Reilly, Mallon,Mc Manus,O Brien, Ahearne, Cahill, Stevenson, Mc Coy, Mc Evoy- bring home to everyone the dangers posed by "criminals and semi-criminals" as with those of the British Army (The Prussian Military Question, Friedrich Engels,1858-1867 Volume 20,Marx Engels Collected Works, International Publishers, New York).
Their Northern counterparts monitor the activities of even conscientious objectors through the offices of the Police and Community Safety Partnership.
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27.8.2022
O Riordain's warning about the old police trick of felon setting came on the occasion of his remarks on 23 December 1991. His real aim as ever had been the case was an attempt to instigate self-destruction in association with Bowden.
His soliloquoy on provocateurs ran thus,
"The Italians taught the IRA how to do the 'play'" (The Judgement,Michael O Riordain, op. cit.).
A question arises from this insight into the Church input into Irish revolutionary-democratic history. Was this influx of church-builders the Church's sole role during the nineteenth century in introducing Italianate (or arcane) knowledge to the South? (The Orange Order manipulate the Northerners to the detriment of both communities).
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Caveat.In terms of modern culture,most new ideas are Italianate or Graeco-Roman,our architecture, our car designs,our clothes styles and television themes and dress fashions. They are always food for thought. They are directed at and designed for emotionally starved peoples and nations.
Italianate ways and fashions appeal to many types of people from an international audience but there are many modern challengers to Italianate culture.
Be warned those of you who embrace la cota vella,the Italian nationalists formed the archetypal police state and created the guerrilla-criminal -police relationship. The police,be they fascists, Nazis or Russians only brought it to its fulfillment (see for instance,Tossa de Mar, Bookmarks, London,1995).
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O Riordain's leave-taking remarks and the perspective of Irish Communists
The butt of Stalinist ire,the Italians,are also the inventors of religious show, political illusion and shallow hypocrisy.
The Italians have the patent for civic constructions in their own country as neo- colonialism has in our country.
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In summa resumi sua
The arrows aimed for Scapaticci fell on my chest,in retrospect.
Many informers in Sinn Fein are quickly found out. We think of Mc Cartney, Coyle, Mc Fadden,O Connaill,Hand,Cassidy, Fitzpatrick, Mc Govern, Curran, Jones,Devlin and Flatley. All were outed by their handlers because they demanded too much money from police funds to have people killed. In addition,they had run up large liabilities in the expectation of a bonus for handing over arms. The named individuals had come to the attention of even the juvenile carpers and old nationalist harpies in Sinn Fein talking shops around the Border. The British Army is full of those types too who render informing activities ineffective because of mutual recrimination and well-rehearsed backbiting.
My response to this old rhetoric and O Riordain's insinuations?
Silence and simple derision.
A contemporary insight into O Riordain 's hackneyed theme runs thus,
"The reason that the modern Italians are so poor is that most people have wised up to them. Other countries by reason of the modern education system,can do what the Italians used to do culturally-civic relationships are only a development of culture -better and cheaper. These days Italy is only a shipping point for Middle East oil going to other,better-managed and more adroit peoples and better-led countries."
O solo meo! for listening to a resignation speech....
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4.7.2023
Stage management. Numerology
On the theme of the numerical order of the days and timing in the date of The Judgement. Let us examine these days by reference to the Book of Psalms. Since this blog is about exposing agents of foreign governments such as those of the US,it must be said that O Riordain's measured remarks in his choice of the date for his testimonial, were contrived and arcane.
In summa,he posed as the Old Testament Judge (Book of Judges),notably as Joshua with his horn-blast at the walls of Jericho by way of a throaty cough.
What O Riordain spoke in his apologia pro vita sua was contrived by no-one other than himself and by his fading memories of my limited dealings with him after September 1988 and his secret dealings with Mc Guinness and Adams of the IRA and his closer leanings towards syndicalism.
He cribbed Thomas O Connor,Tom Hunter,Tommie Boyle and Tom Mc Donnell,all police and Garda sources.
His was a hand stilled from brutality, internal squabbling and nefarious intrigues with East Germans,Czechs and Russians by my loquacious intervention of July-August 1988 (Der Spielplan,my "world plan").
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An augur for things to come was flagged up by his sidekick, Eoin O Murchu in February 1989 in the Connolly Books emporium for scatterbrained headaches like himself.
(The role of O Riordain's literary executor hangs over Ireland like a dark cloud where it has been since August 1969. In his departure speech of January 1989, O Murchu added mention of a few passing acquaintances during his more than two decades of 'proletarian activity' with Bulgarians and Hungarians. The latter were long unhappy that reform measures by Khrushchev had yielded no tangible economic results or political freedoms.
My counter-polation of a 'world plan' for democracy and international harmony and detente was in opposition to CIA poisoning in 1984-5 London and Dublin thuggery and Russian intrigue and espionage was represented in the personages of my above named enemies.
My 'world plan' had been anticipated.
The debate on a programme to bring the state collectivist arrangements to an end began under Khrushchev and reached fruition with detente in 1974 and the SALT Agreement in 1987.
I merely spoke the part of the democratic multitudes against the gaggle of geese gathering around the political corpse of Stalinism. For my slogans,I had not been paid by Russian reformers.
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What is known by pupils of German mores and ideas (such as those recorded by Schiller and Goethe) is a worldview referred to as Der Spielplan (July -August 1988).
My rhetorical episode never features with public reminiscences of the type of O Riordain's puppet masters,the 'literary' mentors, dunces and corner-boys armed with knuckledusters and cutthroat razors of the Irish Army.
Time and circumstance change everything.
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Die Wende (or Democratisation) in the rearview mirror
A belated riposte was The Judgement. That represented O Riordain's a capello rhodomontade or monologue. That represented a Stalinist reply to my monologue of July-August 1988.
In summa delicta?
No revolutionary development or plan such as mine for an Eastern transformation bears out better the great truth coined by Karl Marx,"The only constant is change."
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"You summed O Riordain up perfectly in that speech you made when you were in Dublin by comparing him and the people around him as taking the ship onto the rocks. Neither him nor the rest of them had any bearings. They had no guiding star,any of them nor have socialists either, because none of them knew their real father. Your father gives you your beginning in life,not your mother as O Riordain claimed in his summing up of his life of illegal publishing and plagiarism and about yourself and Gorbachev namely that your mother was the architect of your downfall. What he should have said was that his mother spoiled him because he was an only child who never knew his father. I repeat because it's very difficult to get sense into you, Joseph,a boy takes after his father and a girl takes after her mother. Most of those in the public eye such as actors, writers,musicians and politicians and broadcasters don't know who their real parents are so don't leave it too late to turn off the radio and throw out those old books your house is full of and stop trying to sell them. Give them away to someone who is interested in that sort of thing,someone younger than you. Those books are forty or fifty years out of date and were not written when they were supposed to have been written. Don't buy any more of them and don't let me hear tell of you going down to Dublin to bring back more old rubbish like that. You'll live to regret associating with middle class intellectuals and people who carry weapons. One set can't protect you and the other set don't do anything for anyone."
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"Don't give any credence and free publicity to politicians,let them earn it first, particularly Sinn Fein women unless it's the Labour Party. They help everyone. Ignore what you hear on the radio. Those journalists are all well-off and have big expense accounts and some of them take backhanders from people looking for publicity for their pet concerns."
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Anyone who derides a democratic socialist such as I emphatically am is a lowlife coward and stinking tramp.
Such a mocker is someone who does nothing for a por man or woman.
This 'politician' stands at the head of a nest of vipers be it a family,a political group or part of such a group or even,forsooth,a union branch.
Tell him you ring him when you see the need to talk to him and to not send his three stooges-four is a military measure-to follow you around or mimic your voice when they intercept your friends either in the street or on the telephone.
Tell fair weather friends such as O Riordain,"You do nothing for anyone,least of all myself. I don't want to hear speeches or talk of rallies,demonstrations or commemorations. I want the money you owe because despite your representations,you have plenty of it all puroined by mercenary methods. Go to hell!"
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