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The Lies of Catherine Corless – Part One

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Catherine Corless is an amateur researcher who jumped to many fantastical conclusions due to a lack of knowledge, skillset and education in the area of Irish history. She has falsely alleged that children and mothers were abused at the former Children’s Home in Tuam Co. Galway. From the get-go, she has blundered out one falsehood after another, including renaming the institution the ‘Tuam mother and baby home’. She was recorded on many occasions stating that the home ‘was specifically only for unmarried mothers’. However, the government’s commission of investigation had to restate the truth that ‘it was never exclusively a mother and baby home’. In fact, the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes was set up as a direct result of her allegations, and found that there was no evidential basis for her claims.

Competent historians all knew that the allegations as stated by Mrs Corless were not supported by the historical evidence, but sensationalism attracts an audience ant that earns bucks from advertising. Truth and honest reporting are not core values of most media businesses today, including those once considered broadsheet. The bottom-line is that lies make money, make unimportant people feel important, while the truth, noble as it is, remains trodden under the jackboots of greed and megalomania.

VIDEO – Marasmus was never used by medics of the past as a synonym of starvation. However, in spite of the evidence, Catherine Corless continues to spread this malicious lie because it is the foundation stone for her false allegations that children were starved to death at the Tuam Children’s Home.

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Lawyers Exaggerating Weak Arguments Fools Only Fools

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Article No 2 in the series of a commentary on Alternative Mother and Baby Homes Report, authored by 21 Irish legal academics and one sociologist.

Exaggeration is the pillar of comedy, we can all spot it, and the resultant absurdity is so unrealistic, it causes laughter. In the area of science concerned with studying the behaviour of persuasion, exaggeration has also been shown to damage credibility. Consequently, exaggeration diminishes the credibility of the story being told, and the more exaggerated a claim is, the closer it is to falsehood. Outside Ireland, lawyers are taught that using exaggeration to hide bad facts or weak arguments will fool no one. Yet at least 22 teachers of law at Irish universities have produced and published a document thinking that exaggeration will bolster their claims, unaware of its potential to create comedy. Quality argument based on genuine facts are strong enough to stand on their own, especially in a functioning intellectual tradition, which is its most powerful instrument of persuasion. [Read the first article here]

Chores exaggerated into charges of slave labour
Nearly every inpatient or inmate of an institution — worldwide —in the past were given chores to do. Today such chores are titled ‘occupational therapy’ as sitting idle all day is conducive to poor mental health. These chores like making one’s own bed, doing one’s own laundry, preparing food and feeding one’s own infant are now falsely made out to be ‘slave labour’. The same domestic duties which women and girls would be ‘forced’ to do at home they did in institutions. It is not considered slave labour in the past, nor it is not slave labour today. It’s a gross exaggeration, the type which has no business in academic work and would be thrown out with the garbage in any educational system which had functioning quality control mechanisms.

The slavery claims could not pass muster in any generation which came before the recent generations of leisure. At the tender age of five Ireland’s president, Michael D. Higgins and his younger brother were sent to live on his uncle’s farm. They performed the chores that every child was expected to perform.[1] Males were given physically harder work than females, all in keeping with their perceived strengths and abilities. If one is going to redefine this unpaid work as slave labour, then Michael D., myself and millions of others will be entitled to claim to be victims and claim compensation from the taxpayers. The beauty is of course that the leisure generations will be paying the compo.

The slave labour exaggeration evinces the presence of perniciousness in the motivation of some academics, but it can also occur due to innocence. People who grew up in an affluent society, with massive amounts of leisure time, who were not expected to do unpaid chores, will find it difficult to imagine long hours of hard work expected of everyone — not just children — to earn their keep and improve their lot. Michael D. secondary school education was not free. His graft as a young boy and that of his relatives financed his education and his success.

Those generations who endured so much, and worked so hard, that the following generation would have a better life than they, are now pilloried as backward and misogynistic. The reality is that most of Ireland’s academics, for generations back, are there because of the hard graft of their pauper ancestors. They are mere social climbers parroting the prejudices of the elite to social elite to obfuscate their ancestral poverty.

One thing is clear to all who read the alternative report, that the intended target is the church and religious women. The authors fail to distinguish between conditions in secular run institutions (County Homes) and in religious run institutions. Accordingly, the authors miss the opportunity to report the most pertinent of the commission’s findings regarding work, that ‘no mother and baby home inflicted a workload on the mothers comparable to that in county homes’.[2]

The commission states clearly and presents the evidence in abundance that women were far better off in religious run institutions than in the secular variety. However, the commission themselves at times over overstate the workload in County Homes, viewing such work through the eyes of the wealthiest generations in Irish history. Generations who never had to do chores, have no experience of living in unsanitary households, have never slept in the same room as cattle, have never slept in an open dormitory or a long ward, have never used or do not know what a chamber pot or bourdaloue is, have never done the laundry or washed seed in ‘Chamber lye’ (made from urine and wood ash), have never got a bite from typhus carrying louse, and so on.

If that were not bad enough, most academic research is conducted by people who have never been out of school and have no life experience beyond a middle-class upbringing. There is little chance of such individuals being able to comprehend the living conditions of the past without extensive education. That education should be available, especially within the teaching of history. However, it is not available because many Irish people are embarrassed to admit the conditions which their forebearers lived in. It is still not unusual to spot, at graduation day, humble parents, of humble origin, who sacrificed much and worked hard to gift their offspring a college education. Such graduates have been injected into a new class and are keen to disavow their parents and origins for fear that their fellow big knobs will look down on them. Of course, many of their new cohort are of similar humble origins, have similar fears and illusory is reinforced by the group. The upshot is that college graduates are very poorly equipped to be able to analyse historical evidence, and it is abundantly evident in both the official commission report and in the alternative academic report.

Diane B. Kraft College of Law at the University of Kentucky writes that ‘many authors of books on legal writing advise law students not to exaggerate when writing fact statements and arguments in briefs’. […]

If the facts or arguments are on your side, you don’t need to exaggerate them to win. If they’re not, you’re not going to fool anyone by trying to hide bad facts or a weak argument with exaggerated claims about your client’s or the opposing party’s case. Writers use hyperbole thinking it will bolster their arguments, but it often has the opposite effect of signalling to the reader that the facts or arguments are so weak, the writer can’t rely on them alone to win. [3]

If teachers of law at American universities can see the perils of exaggeration, why are their counterparts in Ireland not in possession of such knowledge? That in turn leads to big question, are the clients of Irish lawyers badly served?

As I was writing this article, an article appeared in the Irish Times giving bodice to judges who were complaining about the quality of the work of many barristers. They accused them of making claims without any corroborating evidence and submitting documentary evidence below the required quality standards.

Mr Justice John Edwards sitting in the Court of Appeal said, ‘the practice of barristers giving evidence on a hearsay basis without providing corroboration is “happening all the time” and “has to stop”.’[4]

I think that is a strong indication that Irish universities — for decades — have not been training their lawyers properly, and it has gone full circle where badly trained law graduates have now become badly trained law teachers.

 

EJ

 

Footnotes

[1] Duggan, ‘Brothers Had to Work Hard Growing up on Rural Farm’.

[2] Commission of Investigation, ‘Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Final Report’. §10.53

[3] Kraft, ‘The Perils of Hyperbole’.

[4] Gallagher, ‘Judges Frustrated with Lawyers’.

 

Commission of Investigation. ‘Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Final Report’. Irish Government, 30 October 2020.

Deutsche. ‘German Floods: Where Did Fake News about 600 Dead Babies Come from? | DW | 01.08.2021’. DW.COM, 1 August 2021. https://www.dw.com/en/german-floods-where-did-fake-news-about-600-dead-babies-come-from/a-58717714.

Duggan, Barry. ‘Brothers Had to Work Hard Growing up on Rural Farm’. Independent. 12 November 2011. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/brothers-had-to-work-hard-growing-up-on-rural-farm-26791278.html.

Editor, Carl O’Brien Education. ‘Grade Inflation Undermining Quality of University Degrees, President Higgins Warns’. The Irish Times. 8 June 2021. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/grade-inflation-undermining-quality-of-university-degrees-president-higgins-warns-1.4587985.

FitzGerald, John. ‘There Is a Social Gradient in Ill Health and Earlier Deaths: Poor People Die Younger’. The Irish Times. 5 July 2019. https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/there-is-a-social-gradient-in-ill-health-and-earlier-deaths-poor-people-die-younger-1.3946760.

Gallagher, Conor. ‘Judges Frustrated with Uncorroborated Claims about Criminal Defendants’. The Irish Times. 23 August 2021. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/judges-frustrated-with-uncorroborated-claims-about-criminal-defendants-1.4653360.

Kelly, Laura. ‘The Contraceptive Pill in Ireland c.1964–79: Activism, Women and Patient–Doctor Relationships’. Medical History 64, no. 2 (n.d.): 195–218. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2020.3.

Kraft, Diane B. ‘The Perils of Hyperbole’. B&B – Bench & Bar Magazine 31 (May 2011).

Lappeman, Maura, and Leslie Swartz. ‘Rethinking Obstetric Violence and the “Neglect of Neglect”: The Silence of a Labour Ward Milieu in a South African District Hospital’. BMC International Health and Human Rights 19, no. 1 (30 October 2019): 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12914-019-0218-2.

Lynch, Donal. ‘Jackie Lavin Was Right to Question If Costly College Degrees Pay Off’. Independent.Ie, 7 June 2014. https://www.independent.ie/life/jackie-lavin-was-right-to-question-if-costly-college-degrees-pay-off-30337324.html.

POLITICO. ‘The Doctor Who Brought Abortion out of the Shadows in Ireland’, 20 March 2018. https://www.politico.eu/article/ireland-referendum-abortion-rebecca-gomperts-a-hard-pill-to-swallow-in-ireland/.

‘Trinity National Deprivation Index – School of Medicine – Trinity College Dublin’. Accessed 25 August 2021. https://www.tcd.ie/medicine/public_health_primary_care/research/deprivation/.

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The HSE – Ireland’s answer to Disneyland

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Once upon a time in a land of little people, officials were employed by the country’s health services to create fairy tales. Disney have a long history of taking European folklore and turning into a magical cinematic experience. The HSE on the other hand, employ more creative methods using the tradition Irish game of ‘Pin the Tail on the Leprechaun’. A picture of a leprechaun is pinned on to a wall chart, which can pivot so words and phrases can be chosen at random, all with crackpot notions.

As with the donkey version, blindfolded game players attempt to pin the tail as close to the leprechaun’s behind as possible. The pin invariably lands on a words or phrases, which are then used to produce random sneers and slurs, wound into a spiral of deceit and cast upon oneself and others. It is self-deprecating, self-loathing, small-minded black humour, written with the intent to give a sense of self-worth to people who feel worthless. A sense of self-importance gained the expense of others through gasbagging.

The report of the commission investigating mother and baby homes tells the story of the saga. ‘It appears that, in October 2012 two documents described as a file note and a draft briefing paper were circulated among senior HSE staff. […] These documents contained a number of allegations regarding Bessborough mother and baby home and the Tuam home.’

In other words, senior HSE staff filled a gigantic gasbag with crackpot notions taken from the leprechaun’s behind…

  • A database of 1,000 names of children existed who were sent abroad for adoption.
  • Death records of children were falsified to hide illegal adoptions.
  • Children were held in the homes longer than necessary for financial reasons.
  • Letters were sent to parents asking for money for children who had died.
  • Tuam and Bessborough charged a fee for the upkeep of children to both adoptive parents and the birth parent.
  • Women who gave birth were discharged to a Magdalen institution.
  • Money was claimed from the government for mothers and children after they had left the home.
  • The ‘trafficking’ of babies was facilitated by doctors, social workers and others, some of whom could still be working in the system.

The commission of investigation comment: ‘details of the document were repeated many times including during a Seanad debate of 17 May 2017. It appeared to be accepted by commentators and politicians that the allegations and suppositions made in these documents were statements of fact.’

HSE Mission Accomplished, politicians, journalists, bloggers et al., became shivers in search of a spine, the buck-leppin leprechauns went a buck-leppin, the shillelaghs waved menacingly, thumping anyone and everything in range, jigs were danced and the magic mushrooms passed around. There was ballyhoo from Ballymaloe to Timbuktu.  Mouths frothed without the need for beer, and dung of all types was flung at their own ancestors and themselves.

What a session, you should have been there, the crack was 90… euros, there was no hangover suffered the morning after, no sense of shame and no apology.

In evidence to the commission, the HSE official [the witness] who prepared the document said she “could only recollect finding two photographs which appeared to be passport photographs for children being adopted to the US”.

The report added:

With respect to the allegation that there was ‘more than one letter asking for money for an infant who had been discharged or died’ the witness stated that she had no recollection of finding more than one letter if even one letter. The witness stated that she did not come across any evidence of trafficking of babies and in relation to the phrase ‘it must be that it was facilitated by adoptive social workers’ stated that ‘I don’t know what that is alluding to’. The witness had no memory of seeing evidence relating to nuns claiming for a dead baby. The witness had found no evidence of trafficking of babies. The witness did have a memory of reading a letter from a couple who had gone back to America with their adopted child saying that they would send money on to ‘the nuns’. The witness remarked ‘I certainly didn’t see any evidence of vast sums of money being passed over, you know parents being groomed to have children in order to … for prospective adoptive parents’.

Disney could never create as much magic as the Irish, no other nation has the imagination nor the inclination to live within the imagination, and no one else needs to feel alive by fighting with the dead. Reality, honesty, and integrity are not the values of ‘senior HSE staff’, nobody expects high standards and none are achieved.

 

EJ

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Michael McDowell – the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland

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Michael McDowell assumed his role as the Joseph Goebbels of anti-Catholic Ireland. The country’s biggest eejit had to apologise for likening Richard Bruton to the Nazi propaganda minister in 2006. While McDowell had no justification for his slur against Bruton, the Irish nation has grounds to return McDowell’s slurs to their source.

McDowell in an article in the Irish Times published today, 20 Jan 2021, adds his voice to scathing attacks on the Irish nation, the church and political establishment. He writes:

Our church-dominated society perpetrated this terrible mistreatment of its weakest and most vulnerable. Apart from the appalling level of infant mortality, the outline of this shameful aspect of independent Ireland has never been secret. It was a case of unacknowledged acquiescence.

McDowell’s ‘appalling’ attack relies completely for its evidential basis on an ignorant interpretation of health statistics. He has no idea that the purpose of gathering these statistics was to identify problems, report them to the experts, with a view to instilling action. One of those problems identified, even under British rule, was the high infant mortality rates among illegitimate children. The rates continued to be high for decades because no one could solve the causes of the problem. Accordingly, it is simply scurrilous to imply that nobody cared, and it is a claim which is not supported by the evidence.

He is right on one point, high infant mortality rates have never been secret but then goes on to imply that the seeming lack of action was due to ‘acquiescence’, an assertion, which no competent health statistician would be able to make. If the mortality rates remain high for certain diseases for decades, does this mean that nobody cared or could it be that there was no cure for the disease.

The ‘appalling level of infant mortality’ can be found in Ireland today. The children’s Alliance reported in 2014 that children born to Travellers suffered an infant mortality rate which was multiples of the normal rate. The rate was put at 360 percent, or 3.6 times that of the normal infant mortality rate. The British Office for National Statistics reported in 2003, that children born to unmarried mothers suffered from an ‘appalling’ high infant mortality rate, 30 percent higher than children born to married parents.

If high infant mortality rates are an indication of ‘appalling’ abuse, why are we not accusing the travellers and present day unmarried mothers of starving and murdering their infants?

The answer is very simple, only a dirty eejit, ignorant of mathematics, can think that high infant mortality rates are correlated with abuse, and use false assertions to attack innocent people.

Health statistics across the world, for over a century, have shown that high infant mortality rates are primarily caused by poverty. This ‘poverty penalty’ remains a problem even today in general health statistics and ‘has never been secret’. The CSO reported in 2006 that the poorest men lived on average 4.3 years less than the richest. The poorest women live on average 2.6 years less than the richest women. That was reported in 2006, a time when McDowell was Táinste and Minister of Justice. Was his gobshite government ‘acquiescent’ in the abuse of poor people?

I am using ‘appalling’ to mimic McDowell’s attempt to rouse emotions in the minds of the jury. Such actions are born of the intent to get a defendant hung, but even though the accused are entitled to a defence, McDowell, along with every media organisation in Ireland is sitting on the face of the defence lawyer to keep her quite. His flatulence is quite ‘appalling’, his title forever changed to former minister of the promotion of injustice.

EJ

High Infant Mortality Rates are not Evidence of Abuse
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The Single Claim of Misogyny in the Commission’s Report

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Despite newspaper reports that Ireland was once a ‘deeply misogynistic’ society, the word makes only one appearance in the commission’s report. The commission do not use the word directly, instead they quote a feminist historian, Lindsey Earner-Byrne. However, Earner-Byrne’s opinion is not justified in the context of the debate.

On page 45 the report states:

Earner-Byrne states that the Minister for Justice, James Fitzgerald Kenney, who introduced the legislation ‘presented a disturbingly misogynistic approach to welfare’, presenting the unmarried mother as ‘temptress and blackmailer’.

It is clear from the debate that James Fitzgerald Kenney was not labelling all unmarried mothers as Earner-Byrne has described. He was referring to different types of people who might take advantage of the new law as it was then proposed.

The law in question was a philogynistic attempt to help unmarried mothers to get maintenance from the putative father. It required the unmarried mother to go to court and name the father who then would be issued with a court order for maintenance of the child. A debate took place on whether it was better to hold the cases with members of the public present, or with only the press present or completely in-camera.

As would be expected when formulating new laws, various types of scenarios were imagined and thrashed out. One concern was that unscrupulous persons might use the courts to blackmail innocent men, especially if the cases were heard in public or the names of individuals were published in the press. In this scenario, a man could find himself deliberately targeted by a ‘temptress’ whose primary motivation was money. It often happened, in Ireland and abroad, that well-to-do men were often targeted in such a way, and in many cases the child was not even his.

However, the point James Fitzgerald Kenney was articulating was that he believed that when a man was wrongly charged and the case dismissed by the court, the name of his accuser should be published as deterrent against false charges and that a wrongly accused man should have his good name vindicated in public.

The parliamentary record shows that James Fitzgerald Kenney was replying to a question about amending sub-section 6 (a) of the Act, which dealt with the naming of individuals in the case. In the end, the decision was to hold courts with no members of the public present, but press reporters were permitted to attend. Accordingly, the names of the plaintiff, defendant and court officials could appear in public, but they were prevented from publishing details of the proceedings, other than if significant points of law arose.

This acceptance of another person’s opinion without any check for its validity or truthfulness is a problem persistent throughout the commission’s report and has a significant malignant effect on the on many of the report’s conclusions.

Taking the word of academic historians as gospel, also points to significant failings within Irish academic history. Scholars are too frightened of feminist historians to challenge claims, even when they might appear to be totally incorrect.

The assumption of academic inerrancy is a failure of biblical proportions, and the commission’s report is peppered with false assumptions.

 

You can read the original debate here.

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1930-06-11/30/

EJ

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The Real Baby Killers EXPOSED

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Who was killing the illegitimate children of Ireland, the women running protestant and catholic mother and baby homes or the mothers of illegitimate children?

Some Irish newspapers have stated emphatically that children were starved to death in mother and baby homes for the simple reason that the women in charge of these homes hated illegitimate children. Yet none of these women appeared in court charged with infanticide. The conspiracy theorists would have people believe that this was due to the beguiling power that the religious orders held over the population. However, the reality is that the Mother and Baby Homes were set up to offer mothers in distress an alternative to killing their own children. However, infanticide continued to be a problem and here is one judge laying out the states position on the unlawful killing of infants.

‘An illegitimate child is entitled to the protection of the law just, as much as one born in lawful wedlock. It is in no extenuation of illegitimacy that I say that some of the most distinguished people who ever lived were illegitimate. […] It must be brought home to all young girls in this country that it is their duty to preserve the lives of the unhappy children they give birth to— that their lives are just as sacred as the lives of any other children, and that the State is prepared and has always been prepared to support and maintain them until they reach an age when they can work for themselves.’ – A statement from Mr. Justice Kenny during a trial of a young mother who pleaded guilty and was convicted of murdering her illegitimate child.

The state prosecutor in another case of infanticide..

Addressing the Central Criminal Court, Dublin, at the outset of the hearing of an infanticide trial, Mr. Carrigan, K.C., the State Prosecutor, said there was, unfortunately, a great wave of infanticide in the destruction of illegitimate children passing over the Free State, and in the papers week after week they read of inquests and verdicts in connection with this method of disposing of child life. Some of these eases reached the courts, and women were charged with the murder of their illegitimate children.

In the latter case, the State Prosecutor went on to make a point that in the event of a guilty verdict there were only two options open to the jury. The first was to convict her of murder, a capital crime carrying the death penalty, or the second option was to convict her on the misdemeanour charge of ‘hiding a pregnancy’. There was no in-between defence of manslaughter allowed under law.

In this case, despite the investigation revealing that the baby had been born alive and strangled to death, i.e. the infant had been murdered, the jury acquitted her of murder and found her guilty of ‘hiding a pregnancy’. Thus, thanks to the jury, the woman avoided the mandatory death sentence.

Over and over again, such philogyny appears in the Irish historical record. Yet, modern historians are keen to cover up these overly generous acts of kindness and posit the false notion that Irish society was misogynistic. It’s a total fabrication.

 

EJ

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Abuse to Hide Abuse

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Most sexual abuse of females is heterosexual in nature. Does that mean that there is a link between heterosexuality and abuse? Of course not. Most sexual abuse of males is homosexual in nature. Does that mean that homosexuality is the cause of abuse? Such a claim would be as daft as the extreme feminist assertion that ‘all men are rapists’. Yet mention the issue of homosexual abuse, particularly of children and one will become a victim of vile abuse perpetrated by the Twitter mob. They have become the self-appointed modern day version of the Committee on Evil Literature. They seek censor from public view any evidence which might show that homosexuals in particular, have the same human failings as the rest of the population, they have in effect become superhuman. This censorship has major implications not just for social research and researchers but for society in general. In this era of mass hysteria, the findings of research cannot be discussed openly and in a rational manner. Accordingly, efforts to protect the venerable in society are hampered through puerile abuse.

The vilification of social researchers in Ireland and elsewhere cannot be allowed to continue and the Twitter Mob has to grow up and face the facts as they are found, and be able to discuss findings and evidence in an open an erudite manner. Those who want to hide issues from public view are the supporters of abuse causing the prevention of social researchers from reporting the factors in all types of abuse which are vital to identify various opportunities for prevention.

Accordingly, here I will publish the evidence which is not available in Ireland but comes from an authoritative source. As unpalatable as it is for the LGBT community, this information needs to be in the public domain for the reasons already outlined. It is in their own interest even if the Twitter mob cannot see it.

The ‘Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’, better known as the CDC uses the motto ‘CDC24/7: Saving People, Protecting People’. As part of its mission it sees violence prevention as one of the ways of ‘protecting people’. It sets to achieve this by examining, quantifying and reporting data on instances of many types of violence. Furthermore, the CDC extrapolate for the data ‘risk and protective factors’ which are a combination of individual, relational, community, and societal factors that contribute to the risk of violence occurring. The objective is to understand the factors in order to help identify various opportunities for prevention. The CDC’s National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS) and is  the only ongoing survey which examines the health impacts of violence on people.

 

The NISVS found for LGBT people:

  • 44 percent of lesbians and 61 percent of bisexual women experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 35 percent of straight women
  • 26 percent of gay men and 37 percent of bisexual men experience rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner, compared to 29 percent of straight men
  • 46 percent of bisexual women have been raped, compared to 17 percent of straight women and 13 percent of lesbians
  • 22 percent of bisexual women have been raped by an intimate partner, compared to 9 percent of straight women
  • 40 percent of gay men and 47 percent of bisexual men have experienced sexual violence other than rape, compared to 21 percent of straight men
  • Within the LGBTQ community, transgender people and bisexual women face the most alarming rates of sexual violence. Among both of these populations, sexual violence begins early, often during childhood.
  • The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey found that 47% of transgender people are sexually assaulted at some point in their lifetime.
  • Among people of color, American Indian (65%), multiracial (59%), Middle Eastern (58%) and Black (53%) respondents of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey were most likely to have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime
  • Nearly half (48 percent) of bisexual women who are rape survivors experienced their first rape between ages 11 and 17.

 

National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey 2010 Summary Report
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Number and Sex of Perpetrators

Across all types of violence, the majority of both female and male victims reported experiencing violence from one perpetrator.

Across all types of violence, the majority of female victims reported that their perpetrators were male.

Male rape victims and male victims of non-contact unwanted sexual experiences reported predominantly male perpetrators. Nearly half of stalking victimizations against males were also perpetrated by males. Perpetrators of other forms of violence against males were mostly female.

Note: this CDC survey is about violence from intimate partners not about violence suffered by LGBT people within the wider community.

Does the Irish LGBT community care about violence and the health impacts of violence within their own community and want to reduce it? The answer I surmise would be a resounding yes. That can only happen if they are aware of the issues, and such issues do not continue to be swept under the carpet by the self-appointed Committee on Evil Literature.

 

EJ

 

Sources

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/intimatepartnerviolence/index.html

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The Enforced Silence of the Dissenters

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Historians Silence on False History

The Tuam Children’s Home or to give it its full title, St. Mary’s Home, Tuam was not exclusively a mother and baby home. It functioned as a refuge for mothers and their children and abandoned and unwanted children which included disabled children. It is called a mother and baby home by scandal propagators to bolster the lie that the women running the home hated bastards and so abused and murdered them. This barefaced lie is based on a very excitable interpretation of death certificates.

Furthermore, many of the falsehoods upon which the scandal are founded requires that contradictory evidence be kept from public view. That is a role to which the abusive keyboard warriors and thugs have taken upon themselves to perform, and they do so, not only with gusto, but with malice. When dissenting voices are kept silent by abuse and thuggery, alarm bells roar loudly. So let us start defeating the thugs by elucidating the evidence which they work so hard to keep out of public view.

I present an account written by the late former editor of the Connacht Tribune, (a local Galway newspaper) and former resident of the Tuam Children’s Home, John Cunningham. Despite it being well documented and reported years before the current scandal, his evidence has been completely ignored. Cunningham wrote affectionately about his time in the Tuam Home and the care afforded to him there as a sickly child by a woman called Mary. John’s mother died shortly after his birth, and his father who had other children to look after, could not manage a new-born baby, the other children and provide for his family at the same time. Accordingly, little John was placed in the care of the women of the children’s home.

He wrote of his fondness he had for the Home, explaining that when his time came to return to his family ‘he stopped eating [and] mitched school’. ‘In retrospect, [Cunningham wrote] it is easy now to see that there was a second loss for me’.[1] Cunningham’s story dismisses a major canard of the scandal propagators. Cunningham was not illegitimate, and yet he was supposedly ‘imprisoned’ in a Mother and Baby Home.

The correct name of the institution is St. Mary’s Children’s Home and in all the historical sources it is referred to mostly as the ‘children’s home’. It was a refuge for poor, sick, abandoned, disabled and abused young children and sometimes their mothers, whether their children were legitimate or illegitimate. That is another critical fact completely lost through its deliberate misnaming of the refuge as the ‘Tuam Mother and Baby Home’. The intention is quite clear; the false name is a barefaced attempt to mislead the public into thinking that unmarried mothers and their children were victims of a cruel murderous regime. Moreover, when the institution’s real name is used, it takes a lot of the bite out of the allegations and so is far less useful to their intended purpose.

[1]  Siggins, ‘Galway Insights’.

 

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Dumped in a septic tank!

‘This erroneous assertion that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That is not true’.
Prof Diarmaid Ferriter – van der Horst interview 2014

The fifth interim report (15th March 2019) the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes states:

In the light of a great deal of inaccurate commentary about the Tuam site, the Commission considers it important to emphasise what it has established and what it has not established.

The human remains found by the Commission are not in a sewage tank but in a second structure with 20 chambers which was built within the decommissioned large sewage tank.

‘Tell us the truth about the children dumped in Galway’s mass graves’ – The Guardian. (British daily newspaper)

‘Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers’ – The Washington Post. (American daily newspaper)

‘Nearly 800 dead babies found in septic tank in Ireland’ – Al Jazeera. (Broadcaster to the Arab world)

‘800 skeletons of babies found inside tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers’ – New York Daily News. (American daily newspaper)

‘Almost 800 ‘forgotten’ Irish children dumped in septic tank mass grave at Catholic home’ – ABC News, Australia (Australian Nationwide Broadcaster)

The originator of the septic tank story is reported to have said in 2014: ‘I never used that word ‘dumped’,’ Catherine Corless, […] ‘I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words.

In 2019 on her Facebook page Catherine Corless stated the following:

This is what the Archaeologists found when they first excavated the Tuam Home babies sewage site: two inlet sewage pipes which facilitated the flow of sewage into the chambers where the babies remains were discovered. which caused some little remains to be forced against the wall of the chambers and to date one little digit was found compacted in the wall. I do not mean to disturb anyone, but I am only quoting from the Commission of Inquiry’s 5th Interim Report on the Tuam site, and I include a photo of the sewage inlet pipes taken by the Archaeologists, and add (for the non believers) that neither Catacombs or an Ossuary would need sewage inlet pipes! Yet, not a stir from the Religious or the Church, the State at least are doing their best.
SEWAGE INLET PIPES:

Low and behold, I think enthusiasm got the better of her as the pipes in the photo are of a separate structure and are not of the “chambers where the babies remains were discovered”. The Commission of Investigation report refers to this structure as ‘Feature 2’. The burial chambers are referred to as ‘Feature 1’.  The flow of sewage which forced some little remains against the wall is not mentioned in the report either. There was no impact, the bone in question, a small hand phalanx, floated gently above the level of the remains due to an influx of ground water, a common occurrence in chambered underground burials, where it became lodged in a crevice. (see Chapter 8, Paragraph 122 – Water influx)

Screenshot of her original post…

This mistake was pointed out to Catherine Corless, and yet she has not decided to withdraw it or admit her mistake.

 

Tumulus Hystericus

The Mass Grave Lie

Would you consider your local cemetery to be a mass grave, perhaps an old burial ground with no headstones or grave markers? The term mass grave is used to imply a criminal act, but mass graves have a short time component. A criminal mass grave is defined by the United Nations as a burial site containing three or more victims of execution. Mass graves are used in times of natural disasters, war, disease epidemics when many corpses are buried together; in peacetime, the motivation is often for reasons of sanitation. Mass graves also have been used to cover up crimes, but a key feature of such graves is that a number of burials have to take place over a short period of time. A place where burials take place over a long period is called a cemetery. The children’s burial ground in Tuam was not unmarked nor is it a mass grave, it is a children’s cemetery. The term ‘mass grave’ is used fallaciously and is, therefore, a significant constituent of a much bigger lie.

Recently, the same lie has been used in Canada following the discovery of forgotten burial plots at former residential schools. They are not mass graves, and the similarity of the excitable claims to those made in Ireland is striking.

Sensationalism triumphs over reason because of political obscurantism and supremacism, i.e. the same psychological deficit which is gratified through racism, sectarianism and the full gamut of prejudices directed at cohorts and individuals.

Without competent leadership, crackpot notions masquerade as fact ahead of the facts being obtained. The damage is always far more widespread than envisioned and causes self-inflicted wounds.  The Canadian government is entirely responsible for the establishment of schools to re-educate the indigenous peoples in the ways of their colonisers. The WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) governments have a long track record of abuse and mass murder. When the dust settles, Canada will have exposed its true history and will have brought much shame on itself, and particularly on its WASPish elite.