Bailout used to support a ‘big lie’

THE infamous “big lie” quote from Joseph Goebbels had a haunting resonance in Ireland on March 30, 2010 – a day that will live in infamy.

It succinctly describes the astonishing betrayal of the vanquished Irish nation as we begin to absorb the debts adopted by our Government on September 30, 2008.

Goebbels wrote: “If you tell a big enough lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the state can shield the people from the political and economic consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the state to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the state.”