Monday, November 12, 2007

Nothing is sacred

















It's surely gone too far now. I was able to deal with following:
  • The A&E waiting times
  • The overcrowded hospitals
  • The overcrowded prisons
  • The third-rate communications infrastructure
  • The third-rate transport infrastructure
  • The gross overspending
  • The wearing of yellow trousers at G8 summits
  • The undelivered election promises
  • The Millenium Spire not being built in time
  • The Millenium clock being a criminal waste of money
  • The LUAS not being connected
  • The e-voting machines that are unused and still costing us money
  • The pay rises
  • The budget cuts
  • The stamp duty that I paid last year as a first time buyer
  • The Garda corruption
  • The endless tribunals
  • The cover ups at tribunals
But this, news that a government official 'advised' RTE to not let Professor James Crown (one of the more outspoken critics of the health service) appear on the Late Late on Saturday night amounts to state censorship. It is too far. The rest of the above can be explained away as results of what happens when you let a bunch of muppets take the reigns of a country. Add censorship to the mix and we are now no better than North Korea, Belarus or a whole hose of other poxy countries, run by despots running under the flag of communism and promise of lots of square buildings. Atleast we don't have any square buildings...



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