Ours is not a civilised country
What kind of country has Ireland become that a mere 18-year-old can have a criminal career of the kind that reached such an appalling climax?
In a civilised society this menace would have been jailed years ago to shield that society from his vicious thuggery. If Ireland was indeed a civilised country, those two unfortunate men would probably be alive today.
However, as we all know, Ireland is not a civilised country. Anything but.
Forty years ago the very idea of stealing a car and ploughing into two policemen doing their duty would have ben simply unthinkable.
Irish society signalled its abhorrence of murder by hanging those who committed the worst of all crimes. Even the most hardened outlaw knew that to kill a garda meant the rope.
Of course Ireland is modern now, and we know better. Our criminals, with their heroin and machine guns, are in fact misunderstood victims of an uncaring society. They are poor, so how can they be expected not to steal?
Weren’t people poor 40 years ago? What kind of terrible deprivation and social exclusion exists in contemporary Ireland that can explain, let alone excuse, this horrible crime?
Ireland has employment for those who want it, and generous welfare for those who don’t. Perhaps we are not so deprived after all. There exists a contract between government and governed. It return for observing the law, the citizenry can expect protection from criminals.
Successive administrations have repudiated this pact by caving in to left-wing pressure groups who insist that criminality is a treatable condition that requires therapy and a hundred second chances. Thus yobs and gangsters run amok, terrorising the rest of us.
Radio phone-ins seethe with the anger of ordinary people demanding the restoration of law and order. They need not bother. Their concerns are dismissed by our liberal elites as unsophisticated, knee-jerk and stupid.
It is fashionable in Ireland to scoff at the bizarre attachment of American citizens to the electric chair and their right to bear arms. What the scoffers don’t say is that American crime levels have been falling for years... that New York is a safer city than Dublin.
When the Irish people eventually tire of the hand-wringing impotence of spineless politicians, they will take the defence of their lives and property into their own hands. The law of the lynch mob is something we should all dread.
In the meantime Raymond Dowdall, sentenced to eight years in prison, can look forward to being out in four. I wonder what he will do then?
Henry McCarthy,
22, Crowood Road,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2, 4DS.
England.
