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TODAY, A MAN who campaigned on a constant refrain of misogyny and xenophobia will become the next President of the United States.
2016 was a disheartening year for human rights. A promised refugee deal didn’t materialise and human rights defenders continue to live under threat. Every day, women in Ireland have their human rights seriously violated by our restrictive abortion laws.
All around the world, the forces of division seem to be gathering momentum.
US election results are example of a deeply troubling trend
For human rights activists, who already find themselves embattled and “undesirable” in many countries, it raises the stakes immensely that the new President of one of the world’s most powerful nations puts forward a political platform that championed hate and threatened to disavow many basic human rights protections.
It is a bleak outlook. But the future does not have to be like this. In the face of these trends we must to resolve to do one thing.
We must resist
We must resist those who attack us for standing up for the human rights. We must resist the cheapening of media discourse which seems more concerned with ratings and online clicks than with truth, objectivity and considered analysis. We must resist hopelessness.
We must resist any voice, including our own, telling us that the abuse of the human rights is not our concern, not our battle to fight. We must resist the cynicism that says we will not prevail.
Fear and hate do not have to win the day – they can be a catalyst for change. The vast majority of people in Ireland and around the world support equality, dignity, freedom for all people – the core values underpinning human rights. Those values are far too precious to discard; their protection far too fragile to take for granted.
Together, we must challenge oppression by calling it out and by standing in solidarity with those whose human rights are threatened. Nothing has ever defeated hate as successfully as the humanity of ordinary people working together to face it down. This is Amnesty International’s mission. This is who we are.
Looking forward to 2017
I am more determined than ever to work every day to end human rights abuses. I have resolved not to give in to division and hatred. I will challenge those who pretend to be agents of change, but use their power to protect and embolden their own privilege.
I have resolved to work to expose the cynical manipulation of social need, by those who seek to foster hate and division in an effort to grab and hold power. I have resolved to listen, with care and attention, to those with whom I passionately disagree, and then to make my case.
I have resolved to work every day to prove that love can trump hate, that real unity is not about unifying sections of society in opposition to others, but about uniting us all in the recognition that together, we are always better.
The world has been there many times before
We have seen how divisive rhetoric leads down an ugly road – dissenting voices are criminalised and those who are disadvantaged bear the brunt of vicious harassment, discrimination and violence. Thanks to the determined struggle of human rights activism through the decades has made leaps forward, often in the face of great adversity.
We need to keep up the fight. We must resist. For those of us who care deeply about freedom and human rights, there has never been a more vital moment for activism. Every day, I see how see how people facing great adversity can come together and mobilise to bring about positive change rooted in human rights.
Join us as we stand for the protection of human rights around the world.
Colm O’Gorman is Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland.
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The thing that ultra left wing politicos like Mr O’Gorman don’t understand is not everybody thinks like them, if you think trump is all about hate then you are mistaken, I reckon he doesn’t care about anybody else apart from himself. People are sick of being told what they should care about and what they can or can’t say.
@Imnotrodten: And you think not caring about anyone but himself is a good quality to have in a president?
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: Maybe, maybe not. Better that than pretending to be the friend of everybody whilst looking down on most. He has admirable amount of honesty which is refreshing.
You are a funny guy, it was calculated that the Donald told a lie on average once every 50 seconds during the three presidential debates
Still doesn’t hold a torch to the compulsive liar that is Hillary Clinton. Remember the pointless lies about landing under sniper fire in Bosnia or the lies about the origin of her name? I don’t think that there’s a subject that Hillary didn’t lie about.
@Imnotrodten: If you think that Trump is honest, you are clearly deluded
He is honest enough to say he doesn’t give a fluff what you or anybody else thinks of him
This is comedy gold! Trump told enough full/half porkies that it reached near or above the 70% mark.Hilarious!
@Jason Culligan: Why are you bringing Hilary back into it again? Yes, she’s a liar too, but she’s off the scene. The fact is the new president is a compulsive narcissistic liar.
Nobody is saying that Trump is an angel. He won for many reasons. Not least among them, people being sick of far left ideology
Yeah! We need more Goldman Sachs lads like Munchkies who throw old women out of their homes for as little as a 27 cent debt..
@Mark Gethings: Jason does this, because he likes to deflect and engage in what aboutery, because he doesn’t like criticism of his idol, the Orange
By who?
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus:
Orange is the new black.
@Jason Culligan: so what you’re saying is ‘this guy tells the least lies so I think he’s great’
Why do people use Clinton as a comparison? She was terrible too. They had two terrible choices, and they chose one. That doesn’t make the choice a good one. It is possible to hate them both and not be wrong.
Basically, stop using Clinton’s failings to deflect.
@Guy Incognito: i’m not sure the Trumpsters are capable of doing that
Wasn’t O’Gorman in the PD’S. People who loved to cut the throats of the poor and drive up the cost of living for people working. Give me Trump any day before the likes of him.
@Red Marauder:
And Obama dropped a bomb every 3 minutes.
What does that make this Nobel Peace Prize winner ?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy
“Cynical manipulation of Social Media”..?? Is that not what Amnesty International do.???
This constant and now daily anti-Trump hysteria is getting boring.
He won the election according to the law of the land and whether we like it or not he will be sworn in as the President of the good old US of A.
Where were all of these Americans that are coming out of the wood work to protest against him on election day?
He won and she lost and that is about it. In any case, I seriously doubt that one person can change the way that the US runs its business if they do not have support of the other politicians. Just look at Obama trying to shut down Guantanamo and 8 years later it is still open.
Better luck in 4 years and in the meantime he is the president.
@George Vladisavljevic: Isn;t it amazing how every publication I’ve read in the last 48 hours has presented Trump’s inauguration as doomsday and completely ignored the fact many will be celebrating it. Even when he won on the night the press were ,ore interested in showing weeping Clintonites than celebrating Trump supporters.
Going by the response on here it seems that the most hated man is Colm O Gorman. Hard to find someone less popular than Trump but well done Journal!
Nah, the troll socks just make it look like that.
@Irish Actors: I don’t think anyone really hates Colm O’Gorman. He’s a decent guy who got seduced into a career in the charity sector and has completely lost his way. You’ll hear whispers of him running for the presidency in a few years.
It’s even sadder to see what has become of Amnesty. Once it was a principled organisation with a clear stance against political prisoners. The rot started in the early 90s when it became clear that the leadership was only interested in the political prisoners of pro-western regimes. Since then it has evolved into just another corner of the leftie echo chamber.
@Ben McArthur: Spot on, Ben. One massive ego that has ruined a once respected organisation.
@Mr Snuffleupagus: “spot on ben”
lol
ogorman is as RIGHT WING as you can get
I can see you changing the world Not !! Another media mad hug a thug , political correctness individual.
The thug in this scenario is Trump.
No it’s not
“We must resist those who attack us for standing up for the human rights. We must resist the cheapening of media discourse which seems more concerned with ratings and online clicks than with truth, objectivity and considered analysis. We must resist hopelessness.
We must resist any voice, including our own, telling us that the abuse of the human rights is not our concern, not our battle to fight. We must resist the cynicism that says we will not prevail.”
I agree Colm, perhaps for the first time.
It is for this reason that I will defend your attack on the right to life of the unborn with every fiber of my being.
You see, Mr. O’Gorman, you are a hypocrite and you have helped turn what was once a noble and passionate defender of human rights, Amnesty International, into just another professional protest group, a charity that exists for the sake of it, to beg for money, pay their CEO a big wage and to try justify its very existence by the occasional mail shot and PR circular.
You are pathetic, and your attack on the democratic vote of America suggests that you have little time for democracy, itself a basic human right.
@Brian Lenehan: You are obsessed lad.But keep fighting for the “unborn” with every fibre of your being..Yikes!
@Brian Lenehan: Amnesty gets donations from the allegedly corrupt Clinton Foundation which gets donations from Saudi Arabia. He is doing what he is paid for.
Extremely disgusting and pathetic how a man can regurgitate so many connotations of division, hatred, unequal rights, womens abuse, violence, social unrest and harassment, without once mentioning one of, if not the biggest threat to these issues that skyrockeed the last two years.
The cheek of this pontificating do-gooder to not once mention the hundreds of lives lost to the barbaric acts of terrorism committed all around Europe at the hands of Europes “new arrivals” falsely labelled as refugees that he himself and the media elite have pushed for so earnestly, misreporting over and over again the attitudes, ages, sexes and religious affiliations of people arriving. All the while browbeating, condescending and intimidating any of the lowly public that dares voice concern over this continued, failing, forced multiculturalism of Europe which EU leaders have conceded has failed themselves.
No mention of the thousands of women or children sexually assaulted over the last few months and years directly as a result of you and your cronies biased news articles pumped out weekly condemning Europe for not bending over backwards enough to hordes of incompatible, dogmatic, military aged men masquerading as refugees.
The cognitive dissonance is astounding with these tossers. What’s best is they have nobody to blame but themselves, keep pushing and you’ll get Le Pen and a move to the right in Germany , the electorate has spoken already with Trump and Brexit, people have had enough of the patronizing from celebrities, career politicians, human rights quangos, musicians and the hashtag of the week.
Well written Henry, basically you are on about people with too much time on their hands!
@Henry Krinkle: Hey Krinkle, you never answered my question about your comment on the Trump inauguration thread. You said:
“like the good little goy- er umm ‘girls’ that you are”.
Did you mean goyim when you said goy?
I believe you have said you are alt right. Parts of the alt right have issues with anti-semitism. So answer the question because I will keep asking until you do.
Cmon, nobody takes Colm O’Gorman or his own personal little fiefdom Amnesty Ireland seriously anymore.
His true colours came out on Clare Byrne recently.
An enemy of free speech.
(unless it’s him that’s talking)
I presume your daily struggle to save the world will not deflect from your struggle to cook duck on Celebrity Mastercard?
Never forget that when far left loons like Colm talk about protecting human rights, they mean defending Islamic fundamentalism
He’ll fight against democracy now! This just says it all.
It was always time for change…well guess what folks,..it’s here!!
@Paul Culligan: When you say ‘change,’ are you talking about the ‘swamp?’ Yikes! Them grizzly bears! Yikes!
Lol. At this stage Francis, its a case of ‘better the Devil you don’t know’.
@Francis Mc Carthy: seriously!! I’m convinced the far left, liberal, SJWs have a part of their brain missing. I don’t see ye up in arms about how people are treated in Doha, kangaroo law in the philipinnes, or Russian continued occupation of crimea No, just because Trump said he wanted to deport criminal illegal immigrants who statistically rape and bring in more drugs, he’s labelled the devil. You guys need to both inform yourselves and stop falling for mainstream propaganda, and grow up also!!
@Bairéid Rísteard: You need to keep up & grow up yourself! I have been going on about the conman & his lies that he has been spreading to the ‘gullible’ (you) during& after his election scampaign..There is a few of us on here that have said that Obama was known as the ‘Deporter in Chief’, because he was deporting illegal immigrants (who had criminal backgrounds) in record numbers..But no,the thickies kept on calling us the ‘useful idiots’ (Rowe/Barnes) We were the people that were pointing out that he won’t be able to get Mexico to pay for his imaginary wall.(A wall that is not needed).We pointed out that it was against the Constitution about Trump and him banning Muslims from entering the country.We have also pointed out a week after Trump won the election,that he looked for 17 cheap foreign workers for his Vineyards (“Make America Great Again”) I could go on..fools.
@Francis Mc Carthy:
Well Obama deported 2.5 million and another1.9 million in the process as he leaves office. Where were the cries of racist or xenophobe against him from the leftie progressives? He is their darling after all.
@Joe:
I know Joe! Isn’t it amazing how Obama just went quietly about his business and was deporting illegal immigrants in record numbers.Heck,he was even going after those pesky dudes that had a criminal history.But no,,some orange faced conman decided to say that Mexico was sending their worst ,their rapists,their murderers etc etc, and that there was nothing being done about it..So he came up with the great slogan of his “Build that Wall” and his millions of minions sucked it all up…Well this person is going to enjoy watching the precious snowflakes whine away for the next four years or so.Whining about losing their Obamacare,whining about Trump wanting them to pay for a wall,whining about his tax cuts that goes to the likes of himself.Oh,and if Obamacare is torn up,then the top 0.1% will get a tax break of nearly $200,000 a year,the next 1% will get around $40,000,and the rest will get around $138 a year( close enough to that) ..I won’t bother going into how many of the precious snowflakes that will die because of this happening..
Amnesty international protests against the results of a democratic election…. we truly are in the Twilight Zone
Yawn …..Our Gorman is such a bore !
Loads of “We must” and “We need”. I think he thinks he speaks for all of us. That’s the problem with the crazy left.
What Colm is saying really is ‘Feel the Grá’
He wants to rekindle the same sex marriage campaign which seems to be the default position for whingeing lefty liberal snowflakes when they come under a perceived threat- rally the troops and gather around Panti Bliss in Dublin Castle.
Love and hate are not appropriate words to use when actually talking about policy differences. Was there any more love in the heart of serial bomber Obama than there is in Trumps? It’s not a grown up or useful way of looking at politics. Politics is about raising taxation and deciding where it is best spent. We vote for those whose views on that align best with our own.
The Human Rights industry appear to think we have an unlimited supply money to match their claimed unlimited supply of compassion. We do not and we are starting to notice.
@Simeon: Very well said. They like to insist that politics may only be about values which translates these days to emotions states. Not policies, competing interests and consequences. They just want to emote.
Colm how about taking a trip to malmo and defending the rights of Swedes that cannot safely walk the streets in their own city
@Bernard Lebanidze: Maybe he will on his way back from Egypt where he is tirelessly campaigning for Muslim Brotherhood (those bastions of free speech and equal rights for all) member Ibrahim.
@Bernard Lebanidze: It’s interesting how the far right in the US and UK appear more concerned about the safety of women in Sweden than the Swedes themselves.
@Rochelle: Are you calling the Guardian far right my goodness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jan/13/sex-assaults-sweden-stockholm-music-festival
@Bernard Lebanidze: Ya see Bernard, they are constantly competing to be the most left wing of them all…. Constant virtue signalling…They need to be seen as even more virtuous than their friends… I have noticed this recently that the Guardian is now seen as a right wing newspaper by them!
@Rochelle: Aren’t Swedish women Swedes? I don’t follow what your point is here. It’s the women that are most at risk of sexual assault not the men.
The people who shout loudest about how love is the answer are almost invariably those who demonstrate it least. Virtue signaling shouldn’t be mistaken for virtue.
The fact the Mr. O’Gorman blatantly uses a Clinton election slogan in this article shows just how partisan and politicized Amnesty International is. The likes of O’Gorman won’t tackle many of the real despots of this world, or the major perpetrators of human rights abuses. He’ll only target what suits his and his organisations highly questionable agenda. The nasty hubris of this man’s writing is breath taking and to go through his article to expose all the flawed arguments would take all day. I’ll take just 1 line:
“We must resist those who attack us for standing up for the human rights”
This is akin to Orwellian double speak as what you really intend is that those who stand up for the human rights of our own citizens here in the liberal West must be attacked and vilified.
That line should be rewritten: “We must attack those who resist us by standing up for their human rights”
I promise you Mr. O’Gorman that your despicable writings will only inspire more and more people like me and others here and around this country to become increasingly political so that we may stand up to this unending attack on our freedoms to think and speak in a free society.
@Mike: blatantly uses a Clinton election slogan in this article shows just how partisan and politicized Amnesty International is” well the Clinton foundation did donate to Amnesty so that’s why. and Saudi Arabia donates to Clinton Foundation. It is all madness
Loads of “We must” and “We need”. I think he thinks he speaks for all of us. That’s the problem with the crazy left!
@indologin: They’re your betters who are leading you towards the light, the future, utopia etc. You’re just stubbornly not following. That will make them try harder unfortunately.
The above seems a bit rich coming as it does from a man who ran for the PDs, a party whose policies were in some ways to the right of Trump’s, and whose philosophy underlies the deep alienation felt by Trump’s rust-belt voters.
Tw@
Humans rights for first world people have never been more appeasing. You can even have a toilet if you are too special to fit into a binary arrangement of male / female. You ignore 2 thirds of the world’s population who barely have the right to life. Your fighting for rights for priveleged goons who don’t know how lucky they are. If you really want to help people, log off and move to Africa or Asia
Check out Colm’s twitter feed…. His two biggest reasons that this election process and democracy thing must be stopped are that Trump boasts about women LETTING him grab them by the pussy and his abortion stance… Amnesty International wants to subvert democracy cause a President likes the ladies and has problems with abortion.
@Emma O’Neill:
No surprise there given that the Irish pro abortion lobby are funded by American money. Colm has a vested interest in supporting the American Democratic Party. Essentially he is a political mouthpiece, a lobbyist masquerading as a human right’s campaigner. The fact that he doesn’t even attempt to mask his naked bias clearly demonstrates how far Amnesty has strayed from the noble principles which it was founded upon.
@Alex Falcone:
The first duty of government, it is said, is to protect its citizens. This includes from the effect of mass immigration, but this is often forgotten by people like Colm and organisations like the now discredited Amnesty.
From a British House of Lords judgements:
“The right of the state to control immigration has, of course, long been recognised in international law. It forms the background to article 5(1)(f) of the Convention. This is why a Contracting State is permitted to deprive aliens, who have no right to be in the country, of their liberty for the purpose of preventing their unauthorised entry or with a view to their deportation or extradition. But it would be a serious error, in my opinion, to regard this case as about the right to control immigration. This is because the issue which the Derogation Order was designed to address was not at its heart an immigration issue at all.”
This is now however described by the likes of Colmas “racist” or “xenophobic.” They (Colm et al), wish to deprive populations of the right to protect their own rights to control who is allowed into their country.
Love, Love, Abortion. That’s our Colm. I suppose articles like this can only result in more George Soros money finding its way to Amnesty Ireland to fight and resist etc,. Soros would be kicked out very quickly if the new sheriff in town was the human rights abuser as is claimed. In truth, only people like Colm O’Gorman would say that such a refugee should be welcomed.
In the context of the political verbal wars I’d like to remind those mocking Liberals like Colm O’Gorman, and indeed Liberals themselves; Liberal means respecting others views and opinions.
https://trickstersworld.com/2017/01/05/ctrl-alt-right-delete/
Colm
It’s a fine article you write but my major issue with Amnesty and by implication, you, is your support for abortion.
It seems there is no recognition of human rights until birth takes place.
I have a major problem with that.
I appreciate there may be purist rights about abortion but I frequently note that you avoid any discussion about the right to life of the life in the womb.
I feel it’s a discussion you avoid because you realise it’s not a view that you can reconcile as an advocate of human rights.
@Tom Burke: The Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe said it best : “The thing is, international human rights standards do not protect the life of ‘unborn children.’ They protect women.”
Now cry away..
Is this correct Colm?
Is this the view of Amnesty that the life of the unborn is not deserving of rights?
We know your view and that of Amnesty on the rights of the woman.
What is your view and that of Amnesty on the rights of the unborn?
Liberals, making hate acceptable in different format since you had capability to read news on screen.
Today at 5pm we go back to only two genders, what a time to be alive!
How the fook is the discretion to kill your unborn child a human right? Colm O’Gorman has completely destroyed all credibility in Amnesty Ireland by using it as a vehicle for his own personal LBGTADFS agenda and to push a far left open borders agenda – You are a complete disgrace, your org has no credibility and neither do you!
I watched you on Claire Byrne claiming to be on high ground to speak for what is moral and what is not, you do not speak for us, the people of Ireland O’Gorman.
Over 50% of Irish Americans voted for Trump – majority been legal immigrants they most likely agree with his stance on illegal immigration. Most Irish people agree with the sentiment of the points he stood on.
The only fascist I can see is you and your ilk trying to shape the narrative and own the agenda. You want to deny platforms for alternative opinions, you are the fascist !
@John Byrne: ” kill your unborn child a human right” Oh dear! Poor John is of the belief that an embryo is a “child”.. So cute though.
@Francis Mc Carthy:
The American Medical Association in testimony to SCOTUS in Roe v Wade.
“”the independent and actual existence of the child before birth, as a living being” is a matter of objective science.”
What are your qualifications Francis?
“The use of appropriate, standard terminology is essential. A child is a person from birth until the age of legal majority. The proper term for the second to eighth week is “embryo.” The embryo becomes a fetus at 10 weeks. The term “fetus” is the correct term to use until birth.” -The 57,000 members of the American College of Obstetricians & Gyenecologists ..OUCH!
@Francis Mc Carthy:
The point is one of pedantic, I gave you an example of where the term child was used by a medical association in testimony to SCOTUS to describe the unborn.
You try to counter, in an exercise of point scoring, evidenced by the use of the word OUCH, pretty pathetic, giving an example of where the word child is not used or addressed. The terms the refer to may be accurate, but so is child.
In the case of Stinnet v Kennedy, the Alabama Supreme court ruled allowing for wrongful-death actions before the pre-born child becomes viable.
We all understand what you are trying to do, to dehumanise the pre-born so that it can be freely killed.
You reject the terms, child and baby, not because they are inaccurate but because you fear them, because they endow the pre-born with humanity and because then you have to justify killing human beings.
@Joe: Nice try with your pop psychology,but you failed with it..Your lot are laughed at by the majority of people who see/know the difference between their born children & a few weeks old embryo..And that will always be yer biggest stumbling block…Now,I’m bored with you…again..
@Francis Mc Carthy:
You run from the humanity of the unborn child. Such cowardice is a hallmark of the abortion industry.
I have more respect for abortionists who acknowledge the humanity of that which they wish to kill but defend their actions on philosophical grounds.
As Dr Nathanson remarked on Justice Blackmun’s Roe v Wade majority opinion.
“Of course, I was pleased with Justice Harry Blackmun’s abortion decisions, which were an unbelievably sweeping triumph for our cause, far broader than our 1970 victory in New York or the advances since then. I was pleased with Blackmun’s conclusions, that is. I could not plumb the ethical or medical reasoning that had produced the conclusions. Our final victory had been propped up on a misreading of obstetrics, gynecology, and embryology, and that’s a dangerous way to win.”
Go and hide from the victim of your ideology.
“dissenting voices are criminalised”
I wonder can Cook gives us any examples of this happening to liberal lefties?
**Colm, not Cook
“2016 was a disheartening year for human rights. A promised refugee deal didn’t materialise and human rights defenders continue to live under threat ”
Funny that, I haven’t heard of them campaigning very hard in Raqqa, Riyadh, Mosul or anywhere else that real human rights are under the biggest threat that that has probably existed for hundreds of years. I suggest that O’Gorman goes to have a look for himself.
On his first day he asks for Tanks and Missile Launchers during the inauguration parade, defence department refused citing tanks being so heavy they would damage the streets, instead he get this, Air Force plans to fly four fighter jets: an F-35, an F-16, an F-22 and an F-15E. The Navy will fly four F/A-18 combat jets. The Army will fly four UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. The Marines will fly four V-22 Ospreys. I don’t see much love there
Well at least they are over Washington…… If Hillary had won the would be over Syria imposing a no fly zone against the Russian airforce
Sixteen airplanes will do a display at the inauguration of a candidate who’s main platform was patriotism and rebuilding America and that’s a surprise how? Far better than having these aircraft in Syria imposing a no-fly zone on the Russians like Clinton wanted.
@Jason Culligan: “Rebuilding America” Hahahaha!
@ JASON CULLIGAN how is trump any different from Clinton? I see you have adopted the narrative that hilliary is a war machine for profit, but how do you think trump will differ, what about wiki leaks? If you are of the opinion which you seem to be of late, that hilliary was he’ll bent on war and a no fly zone what’s your opinion on the rest of the information on wiki leaks? Do you think trump will stop the mass production of heroine in Afghanistan that more than tripped since the invasion. Is Trump going to drain the swamp we all know about or is the countrie going to continue down the slippery slope it’s skidding down fast.
@ Jason Culligan im asking you because your very patriotic. ):)
How is Trump different from Clinton? Well, he hasn’t left a trail of people who died under suspicious circumstances behind him for a start. He also didn’t participate in the illegal invasion of sovereign states and he didn’t gloat publicly over the violent death of their leaders. How’s that for starters?
Coming from someone who fought to keep a person who would throw him off a building becase he’s gay from been extradited to Jordan to face terrorist charges Gorman is a well paid d.ck ho gets to much air time from his friends in rte
The irony in Colm o Gorman coming out against Trump when Amnesty have been complicit in their silence in some of the worst cases of US torture ever. And not to mention Amnesty Ireland deafening silence on the torture and inhumane treatment of Irish republicans in the North still going on to present day.
Never bite the hand that feeds you is his motto
Colm O’Gorman your talents are obviously wasted here.
Ireland is too small for you.
It’s challanges are simply below your level of expertise.
It’s high time you went to Saudi Arabia to convince them of the benefits of being a homosexual.
I’m quite sure we can crowdsource a fund to send you 1st class.
So who are we to complain about Trump, as we are not Americans and we don’t vote in the US, this so called democracy voted for Trump but we only condemn them on that when it goes against Hillary. So should we invade the US to bring them our version of democracy then?
The Clintons have shut down their charity now when all possiblity of her becoming President is gone, I wonder what we gave them over the years as Hillary received 88 million from the Australian government over 10 years for her charity and she got donations from those in Saudi Arabia that support Isis and were involved with the 911 attacks. She supports them and they send her donations and this is Saudi Arabia, everyone knows how they treat women there, how they support Isis and how they throw gays off the roof…
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29528482
“”Our biggest problem was our allies,” Mr Biden told students at the Harvard Kennedy School.
“The Turks… the Saudis, the Emirates, etc, what were they doing? They were so determined to take down (Syrian President Bashar al) Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tonnes of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad.”
These policies ended up helping militants linked to al-Qaeda and ultimately IS, he said.
Mr Biden also claimed that Turkey admitted it had let too many foreign fighters cross its border into Syria. ”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/finding-discussion-and-narrative-regarding-certain-sensitive-narrative-matters-saudi-arabia-911-11-a6999091.html
Between the two of them Trump was the lesser of two evils but the fact is he is not a racist but the media has done a McCarthyism on him but he is pig ignorant with the subject of women.
In fact we can’t be angry at Trump as he was the outcome from years of what some call globalisation, others neoliberialism and others just pure corruption. A man came along and spoke in the same way as others who were fed up with the political bull and that is why people voted for him. As Hillary was hugging the very rich half naked celebs the unemployed and farmers of that country were wondering how all these actions from Hillary was going to provide money for them to pay their bills…
Hillary lost touched with the real people and went chasing fantasies in the entertainment business while Trump met real people, who can condemn Trump for this.
It was said that Trump represented everything wrong with American society while Hillary represented everything wrong with U.S. politics. All this anger at Trump is manufactured by the media who are based in strong Democratic regions who are pro Clinton still. The same areas that are rich, educated and not suffering like the areas that supported Trump, for these areas being so educated who were for Hillary then they really enjoy fake news and bitterness, even the media in these areas are that bitter they tried to poison as many wells on Trump as possible. What we can say about these pro Clinton areas is that they are spoilt rich brat areas who loose it when they can’t get their way and this leads to protest over Trump where these educated people destroy other peoples property? That says who they are?
‘Every day, women in Ireland have their human rights seriously violated by our restrictive abortion laws.’ And, every day, unborn children have their right to life protected and are just a little safer because of the Eighth Amendment.
Lovely piece but what was it about as the detail was lacking as human rights covers a whole load of rights but only “misogyny and xenophobia will become the next President of the United States” was said and abortion was hinted at but nothing directly linked anything together. So what was this piece about as the detail was missing and nothing specific was mentioned directly. Do we know yet what Trump will do?
We say how great Obamas was but the amount of attacks the police / cops have done on poor African American is through the roof even with the support of African American cops doing the harm to African American civiliand as well as to the homeless. Then the prison system in the US with 3 strikes and your jailed for life? What about war crimes and drone attacks on 7 countrieshttp://www.gq.com/story/drone-uav-pilot-assassination or even innocent prisoners in Gitmo http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Murder-at-Camp-Delta/Joseph-Hickman/9781451650808
Was rendition a human right, was trade sanctions against Russia anything to do with human rights or was CETA, TPP, TTIP or TiSA Agreement where big companies would take governments to court for loss of money due to the laws of the country like labour, enviornmental or ecological. Human rights is a term used a lot but without detail it means nothing. If it is a term to use for abortion then how can abortion be a human right when the human rights of the father and the child itself is ignored, are they not human as well.
The rate of HIV in the southern US is out of control, I don’t think abortion cures that but poverity rules the US because the dollar is god and the US society is built on the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, that really kicked of with Reagan and has been growing since. Is poverty a human right as http://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-americans-dont-have-enough-savings-to-cover-a-500-emergency/#b0311e76dde1
When a society has a goal of greed as the US has and a rate of poverty that is so anti human, that is part of the culture then why is that not questioned?
Human rights like fake news is selective according to president?
First of all Colms Amnesty International gets funding and donations from Clinton foundation. The Clinton foundation gets donations by Saudi Arabia (yeah the country where they kill gay people and ban women from driving and stone adulterers to death). Is this not a conflict of interest when he says we should have voted Hillary Clinton? Is the Clinton foundation under investigation still?
This is only what I think from talking to people but I would say that the self employed or people that make things happen to are for Trump. Lefties, civil servants, journalists are mostly against Trump. I believe their against because he represents change to their version of order.
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