State stole from the dead and now they want to make it look legal
The Tanáiste and the Government have decreed that theft is legal and that restitution is no longer an accepted principle of a society that claims to be civilised and democratic.
The dead from whom money was stolen while they resided in long-stay community hospitals/nursing homes are to be erased from public consciousness. They are to have their years of toil ignored and their paltry pensions greedily retained by a thieving state.
The statute of limitations is to be invoked so that a semblance of legality can be given to that which is grossly wrong. There was no such talk of using that statute when it came to dealing with the Ansbacher and offshore account-holders.
The state gives glorious expression to that vilest of all evils - the double standard. One rule for itself and another for those who are voiceless.
Surely, somewhere in the Houses of the Oireachtas there sits some few who understand the common decency of respect for the dead. There must be at least one or two who feel compelled to raise their voices in defence of honesty and integrity. The money illegally taken by the state was used to benefit us, the citizens of Ireland.
We cannot feel hard done by if the state now makes full and fair restitution to those, our forebears, who have been wronged most cruelly.
Cllr Michael Gleeson
South Kerry Independent Alliance
Clasheen
Killarney
Co Kerry
