Anglo Irish Bank; why Ireland's new normal may not take after all

Last week, the world gained an insight into the " new normal" in Ireland. It is essentially a refusal to prosecute any major criminal behaviour if any such behaviour has demonstrable links with people still in the Irish establishment. What is fed to the Irish people is a set of school morality plays and patronizing moral speeches from on high;



http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/president-higgins-says-anglo-tapes-highlight-greedy-attitudes-29384062.html



So it went for the recent abortion case, where a tribunal of inquiry was rigged and nobody mentioned that sepsis is so poorly understood that tens of thousands (few of them pregnant)  die each year from it in the USA. Moreover, the theft in the music business, wherein a state agency had sold bootlegs of Irish artists and in so doing destroyed a whole generation of musicians; has gone unpunished even after a US Federal court case revealed the scam and resulted in victory for the musicians; ;

Millions of bootleg tracks by Irish musicians sold through Walmart


In short, as the preceding post demonstrates for the universities, there is no protection for anyone in Ireland against fraud. The new normal is impunity for the establishment. My own solution has been to set up an educational institution in which students can do world-class courses in freedom. however, there are individuals much better placed than me to put pressure on the Irish establishment, and one such is Angela Merkel, the source of the largesse that keeps the current Irish colonial administration in power. she has declared what happened a threat to democracy


Indeed, it clearly is;

http://www.independent.ie/blog/listen-to-the-full-anglo-recordings-29367462.html



What we know for sure is that



1. Anglo's John Bowe deliberately  misled the Irish Central Bank into giving E7 billion of taxpayers' money. Had he told the truth, Ireland might still be an economically sovereign state;



2. The Irish cops, who probably are the source of these tapes, knew about this 4 years ago;



3. No prosecution has been done and none proposed, beyond a token and much -delayed attempt to prosecute minor players for cooking the books, a slap on the wrist affair, a school play,  that infuriated the judge assigned to it as the director of corporate enforcement repeatedly held things up

So what will happen? Well,  it is clear that we were never meant to hear those tapes. Indeed, the delay in and obstruction of prosecution may primarily have been about preventing us from hearing them. However, Ireland's MO is now in the court of world opinion. That court is being less understanding and I ask you to consider that to be perhaps not such a bad thing.