Yearly Archives: 2014

Nazis
[An ad on New York City Assembyman Dov Hikind’s website]

Business Insider reports that Democratic New York City Assemblyman Dov Hikind is to start an ad campaign warning New Yorkers that they might be living next to a Nazi.

It reports:

‘According to an announcement posted on his site Tuesday, Hikind’s ads asking, “Would you be a Nazi’s neighbor?” will be appearing in newspapers and bus stops around New York starting Wednesday [today]. The announcement describes the ads as “part of Hikind’s campaign to rid the United States once and for all of illegal Nazi war criminals.” Hikind, who represents a district in Brooklyn with a large Orthodox Jewish population said the campaign was inspired by the case of a former Nazi guard who lives in Queens.

“Jakiw Palij, an ex-Nazi slave-labor camp guard, continues to live comfortably in Jackson Heights, N.Y., because the United States has, thus far, found it difficult to get rid of him,” Hikind said in a statement accompanying the announcement about the ads.’

Blimey.

New Yorkers Are About To See These Ads Warning That Their Neighbors Might Be Nazis (Business Insider)

H/T: Frank Fitzgibbon

Fort

 

Keith writes:

I know you don’t really do this sort of thing, but I’ve been trying to get some publicity for my friend Megan Stokes’ play [details below], Fort, with its first performance beginning in Smock Alley [Exchange Street, Dublin] tonight at 6pm. She’s an astoundingly talented writer working on a shoe-string budget, aspiring to work in theatre and journalism who has been fighting hard, juggling her degree, her play, and her sci-fi novel that I’m not supposed to tell anyone about.

 

Meanwhile, about the play:

“Blubber and King are stuck. In more than one way. Confined to their pillow fort they undergo repeating cycles of recovery and relapse while living with their respective mental illnesses and each other. Addressing disordered eating, sexual violence, the effect of mental illness on the families of sufferers, institutionalisation, and camaraderie between the mentally ill, we invite you to join Blubber and King in their fort. Because we’re all a bit messed up sometimes….and sometimes that’s OK….”

Megan Jane Stokes

Smock Alley

ollie
[Former Garda Confidential Recipient Oliver Connolly]

Further to comments by Oliver Connolly yesterday that he will neither comment nor ‘not validate, either by way of confirmation or repudiation, the contents of an alleged transcript unlawfully procured’.

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties writes:

“The ICCL is somewhat bemused by the suggestion from the former Confidential Recipient Oliver Connolly that the law “prevents” his commentary on “any confidential report or discussions” held while he occupied his former role.

The An Garda Síochána (Confidential Reporting of Corruption or Malpractice) Regulations 2007 (SI 168 of 2007) to which Mr Connolly refers contain protections for the identity of a whistleblower. However, the regulations do not address the situation of a whistleblower such as Sergeant Maurice McCabe who has voluntarily disclosed his identity and chosen to waive the confidentiality of an alleged conversation with Oliver Connolly.

Moreover, it is hard to understand how the law could “prevent” Mr Connolly from repudiating statements attributed to him in Sergeant McCabe’s transcript if those statements were not made. Legally and logically, a statement that was not made could not possibly be covered either by the 2007 Regulations or the Official Secrets Act 1963 (as amended).”

ICCL comment on recent statement by Mr Oliver J. Connolly, former Garda Confidential Recipient (ICCL)

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[Enda Kenny and European Commission President  Jose Manuel Barroso in Dublin last year]

The bailout is over, and yet,
We still have a mountain of debt,
So the IMF crew,
Are here to review,
How the terms of their diktats are met.

John Moynes