Irish Minister for Children Roderick O'Gorman has sought legal advice from the Attorney General on the sealing of Mother and Baby Records. The Nazi did the same hiding their criminal files. So let me get this straight on Sunday, Bank-Holiday Weekend on the 25th. Of October, 2020 at 10.45pm exactly The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins signed the controversial Mother and Baby Homes Bill which will Seal Records both the crimes of the Irish Catholic Church and the Irish State for 30 years. I ask what have they to hide, my reply, “LOTS”
Under this Bill, which has caused great stress and anguish with Survivors and others when it passed through both Irish Houses of Parliament. All Mother and Baby Records apart from a database being sent to the child and family Irish agency, Tusla, will be Sealed for three decades. Unearthing the atrocities of the Religious run Institutions and what secrets are they trying to hide. We must as a matter of urgency uncover the remains and trace physical evidence to outline the true facts of the crimes of The Religious run Institutions in Ireland. We know that the Religious Orders that ran these Gulags have planted false information through their useful idiots, both in the Irish Press and Irish Government circles, to hide evidence of their misdeeds. By Sealing the records for the next 30 years, it serves no purpose, except to save the criminal Church from its criminal actions, of rape, brutality, murder and torture of hundreds of thousands of women and children. There is a feeling within the Survivor community that the Irish Government wants to erase the Religious Institutions of their crimes off the face of the earth. Still I suppose that it would suit both the Irish Government and the Irish Catholic Church if all Survivors just die, in 30 years time, yes we will all be dead, and nobody will care, it will be viewed as ancient history. I have no doubt that all the Religious Institutions will also be erased, our history sanitised and our rapists, and murderers turned into Saints. The Church fears any light that would illuminate a very dark past, we must continue to shine a lens on long-buried atrocities, in all the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. The Worst-Kept Secret that the classified Files might confirm that many Survivors suspect that the Irish Government collaborated with the Catholic Church in Ireland. Or do the classified Files contain salacious information about the Church’s involvement in planning the final solution or special duties, a euphemism for exterminating babies and other undesirables, disable children in their pastoral care in the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Maybe the classified Files contain a rogue’s gallery of Clerics who committed crimes against women and children in these same Institutions. Or better still vital information of the illegal drug experiments carried out on vulnerable Irish orphans of the Gulags. The real winners of hiding the Files will be the criminal Catholic Church and their Clerics who are able to escape justice because the classified Files are to be hidden for the next 30 years. No members of the Irish Religious Leaders, the Bishops were ever held accountable for the atrocities carried out in their name in their slave Gulags. We know that the Irish Catholic Church got a wink and a nod from the Irish Government. Or is there an unexpected twist: the manipulative Catholic Church was bankrolled by the Irish Government. Maybe the Irish Government has finally discovered that It was a horrendous mistake, morally, politically, to have offered blind support to the triumphalism and arrogant Catholic Church in Ireland. The classified Files debacle should serve as a cautionary tale, If nothing else, it underscores the need for the Irish Government to confront some of its own demons by taking on and dismantling this diabolical Catholic Church once and for all, if just release the Files. The stark choice is an honest balance between honouring the dead and gathering knowledge for future historians and generations. That is why the Files must be released immediately, what have they to hide, it would appear their criminality. I struggle daily to deal with the immensity of the Catholic Church’s betrayal and crimes. Most Irish people can’t imagine the suffering of people as children in the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Never finding closure as to what happened to their mothers, brothers and sisters, working as slaves, brutalised daily in the Industrial Gulags that the Irish Catholic Church ran. When you try to break the silence, there is always resistance. The Catholic Church is trying to destroy their Files so that there would be no evidence of their atrocities. The Files and the terrible information it holds are disintegrating, and historians and Survivors are now faced with unprecedented questions about how to preserve the memory of their Irish Genocide. The Files are symbols of the brutalities that took place in the Religious run Gulags in Ireland. The Catholic Church did not just rape and murder women and children, they experimented on them using the drug companies who came to test out their new products on vulnerable babies and children. After some of the babies and children died from the illegal drug vaccines, the Church and the Medical Schools in Ireland literally “harvested” their remains. There was a brisk trade which emerged between the Religious run Institutions and the Medical Schools of Ireland, and all for money. The sale of mutilated children’s bodies was very lucrative for both the Irish Catholic Church and the Drug Companies. The Files, themselves will shine a bright light into the inhuman conditions within the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Given the scale of the brutalities in all the Religious run Gulags, material evidence is very important, such as official documents, photographs, internal memos, and directives. That is why the Files must be made available to Researchers and Survivors and their families. You can not erase our collective history or memories by hiding the Files. You can not further support and collaborate with the Church by hiding their crimes and sins for another 30 years. Something else, archaeology can also play an important role in humanising individual babies and children within the septic tank, that’s where archaeology has great power, it shows people a side of the history you can’t get just from reading the Files and other documents. That is the real secret of the Files, they expose the filth of the Irish Catholic Church. The powerful Irish Catholic Church is one group of dissenters, predictably enough, is denying that the babies and children are in the septic tank, who seem affronted by the gathering of physical evidence to describe atrocities they insist never occurred. They of course do not want the septic tanks opened, the same goes for the Irish Government who are frightened at what the septic tanks might reveal, and also the Irish Government knows if it does open the septic tanks, then they will have to open every septic tank, cesspool, mass-pits in all the Religious run Gulags in Ireland, and that will and is a real horror show. No matter what new evidence comes to light from the septic tanks, the Church and their useful idiots will always say it didn’t happen or they in the septic tanks are Famine Babies. Another argument is from the criminal Irish Catholic religious leaders, who say that graves should not be opened, and the Bishops feel uneasy about researchers digging near any sites where human remains of children might be disturbed. Anytime an archaeologist excavates human remains, there is an ethical dimension, so say the fearful Bishops. They are clearly afraid, that their genocide death of babies and children in the septic tanks will be expose not just here in Ireland but around the entire world. Something else the Irish Catholic Church’s new/old refrain is - That there is also a time for forgiveness and time to let bygones be bygones and please forget past offences or causes of pain and be reconciled. Irish Catholic religious leaders find it as a sinful act to disturb the dead, and by and large it’s not a good thing to do, so they shamefully say. Babies and children do not deserve to end up in glass bottles on shelves against their will, so says the Irish Bishops. By their reckoning it’s ok by the Irish Bishops to flush the babies and children into septic tanks, this is why the Files need to be opened and their contents exposed. Also there should be no memorials or acts of commemoration, however well-intentioned, still we Survivors and the Irish People have the full facts. The Files will add to our sum of knowledge, that is why they are important, and should not be hidden for the next 30 years. Building any kind of memorial would only be used to further camouflage the truth. The Church and their useful idiots will hijack the memorial with religious symbols and are blessed with latin bullshit, shrieking like banshees that we are all children of God. The babies and children couldn’t be children of God, they were rejected and flushed by the very servants of God into the dark crevices of the septic tanks. Any memorial will not represent the relatives of the babies and children in the septic tank, the memorial’s design would never respect the dignity of the babies and children flushed into the Convent Sewage system by the Nuns and abandoned by both the Irish State and the Irish Catholic Church. Many people assume that we, Survivors need to find human remains because it gives closure, no we don’t we just want the truth and the babies and children in all Religious run Institutions septic tanks, cesspools and mass-pits to be recovered, identified where possible and reburied with dignity. Just take the religion out of it and we have plain mass murder, and the criminal disposal of vulnerable babies and children into the Convent’s sewage system, where the Holy Nuns took a shit on them, the vulnerable babies and children daily and that’s the facts, plain and simple. Just release the Files unconditionally and remove the babies and children immediately from their hell that is a septic tank. Owen Felix O’Neill
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Jesus said “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven” Matthew 19:14 Babies and Children come into this world as innocents. Children are not irrelevant, babies are not to be discarded into septic tanks, they are to be valued, loved and shown compassion. Never to be sold or disposed of as commodities, but we know that the babies and children were. The targeting of babies and children, was not a unique phenomenon in Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes. The systematic disposal of both sick and disabled children was the means for realising a religious Catholic utopia. Children’s euthanasia” program was long a desire of the Irish Catholic Church. Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes were nothing more than killing and disposal abattoirs. The ferocious Nuns that ran all the Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes deliberately mislead the mothers, by stealing their babies, to sell on the illegal trafficking North American markets, like some fancy dolls. And the babies with disabilities were allowed to die because the rapacious Nuns wouldn’t buy medicines to sustain the babies, these rejected babies were also denied basic food for survival. The mercenary Nuns as perpetrators destroyed life they considered “unworthy” of existence. Many babies and children with disabilities, like congenital illnesses, and malformations were to be disposed of as damaged goods, something the evil Nuns couldn’t sell. A few of the babies were used in clinical trials by the drug companies that provided financial incentives to the avaricious Nuns their thirty pieces of silver which was the price the Nuns accepted for the betrayal of the vulnerable babies and children in their care. If a baby or child died the child’s mother might be informed of the “sudden unexpected” death of her child. But because the child was born out of wedlock the death was viewed as God’s punishment by the Nuns. In most cases the mother didn’t know if her child was dead or alive. More likely the mother was lied to by the Nuns, the child might be dead, more likely sold abroad if healthy, and allowed to die if the baby had disabilities. Some babies and children died of neglect, others of starvation, exposure to unsanitary conditions and cold temperatures, or the withholding of medical treatment, which we now know was very common in all the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. As we know also the Nuns never felt any remorse for their betrayal, of both the mothers and their children. Why else would they dispose of the babies and children into their septic tank, the same septic tank in which they disposed of their other human waste. ‘There must be no squeamish sentimentalism about our duty to preserve the purity of Irish motherhood through the sanctity of holy matrimony, according to the rites and traditions of the Irish Catholic Church, this was said at the time in the late 1940s.’ The Irish Bishops also said this;- “We must hasten this process with cold ruthlessness.” in eliminating this scourge from our pure Irish society, these unwed women, and their filth, their offsprings.’ The Nuns now claim in innocence, that they had no awareness of the illegality of their actions, and are hiding behind both their faith and church. According to the Sea Monkey Files the Religious Order of Nuns in Ireland were in effect running a children’s euthanasia programme in all their Mother and Baby Homes. We here in Ireland must deal with the trauma of the discarded Babies and Children in the many septic tanks in all the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. We Survivors do not deal with this trauma with the placement of commemorative objects, exhibits, or guided tours to an ex Magdalene Laundry in Dublin Ireland. But still something evil lurked near the newly built children’s playground in the town of Tuam in the West of Ireland. The final dark secret was this, the Sisters of Bon Secours, kept to themselves, praying that nobody would ever discover their deplorable deceit. In a closed off area at the north end of the children’s playground is a small bit of overgrown land, 50 feet by about 70 feet long, enclosed by grey stone walls. Its entrance is gained by a small rusty lime- green wrought iron gate, with a motif of a white cross symbol to the centre panel of this wrought iron gate. This bit of land the devious Bon Secours Sisters refused to sell for any amount of money. Over the years they had successfully sold off all their other lands to property developers, around it, they even demolished their Convent, with their Victorian Mother and Baby Home. Soon a spanking new modern housing estate was built on the sold Convent lands and populated with new families from near and afar. But the odd thing was that the little bit of overgrown land, enclosed by the stone grey walls, was never for sale, it didn’t make sense. It was an oddity in the new, growing housing estate.This parcel of land sat like a white elephant while the new housing estate formed a crescent around both the new children’s playing ground and this enclosed private plot of land. The new residences of the new housing estate didn’t know what lurked, hidden beneath this hidden garden, while the ruthless killers, the beneficiaries, the old conniving Nuns still lurked in broad daylight. Sure the local kids played football nearby and occasionally climbed over the grey walls or gate to retrieve their football, not knowing that grim death was concealed but a few inches beneath the surface. The years flew by, families came and went, the kids, now adults, married and had kids of their own to repeat the cycle of life. The enclosed land had an eerie feel about it, the frightened local kids said- the land was lifeless, some other kids whispered haunted, intractable weeds, never lived for long, refusing to root, or supping from any passing underground stream. There was no nourishment to be obtained within the gravel ground and any nourishment was tainted with the poisonous flesh of the unaccountable dead. No wildlife dare roam or crawl along the borders of the grey stone walls. Invasiveness bugleweed, chameleon plant, bishop's weed, and yellow archangel ran or crept and rooted into the surrounding green patches or better still to safer climes a few gardens away. Distress cats and yapping dogs by natural instinct avoided the hidden garden. Yet the pallor air is always rancid within this barren garden, the stench is ominous, once you realise something profoundly immoral and evil was committed there. The odour smells wicked as does the heavy air of sadness. The early morning shimmering mist that occasionally hangs over this plot of land, were thousands of tears of dew, suspended a few feet above the bedevilled ground. The murmuring sound of flowing tears can be heard, carried by passing birds, and insects avoiding the sullen air. In the surrounding gardens of the nearby housing estate some of the better behaved but durable plants include spring bulbs such as daffodils and crocuses, summer-blooming bulbs such as lilies, and durable perennials such as salvia, iris, refuse to surface. Instead lay dormant in the cracked gravel ground, hardy succulents such as creeping sedum and hens and chicks, creep away to die. In the nearby gardens, when the moon hides behind broken clouds, many flowers fold their cups, as they bow their heads to sigh. Yet roses for years planted by the deceitful Nuns would never grow upon an earth filled with sorrow and tears. Every year, alone, a guilt ridden depraved, elderly lady of the Bon Secours Sisters, the last few of her breed, but not dressed as a nun of the Bon Secours Sisters tries to plant new seeds and plants into this secret garden. She prays to herself for atonement for she knows the garden’s dark secret, her crimes as of the others is buried mixed within the tormented soil. The old remorseful Nun had a fondness for the bleeding heart flowers, but the seeds, they never took to the contaminated gravel ground, despite her feverish prayers, and her pleadings to higher powers. The bleeding heart flower doesn't ever appear in season in the secret plot of land, instead adorns the neighbourhood gardens with attention-getting, heart-shaped flowers borne on arching stems. Their attractive bluish-green foliage emerges first as the plant wakes from dormancy. Flowers of the bleeding heart, though generally red, can be seen in blushing pink, and solid ivory white. Much to her dismay, the solitaire Sister seeks penance in the secret garden but like all things there, she and they mix with the already dead. She refuses to speak or acknowledge any passing, gossiping neighbours as she has done the last twenty or more years. Her inner secret is safe, from prying eyes and open mouths, or so she believes. No amount of perfumed flowers or evil deceit can hide the secret of the septic tank, but a few inches beneath her feet. Some local residences living but a few feet away in their houses, spoke of hearing at midnight, rustlings amid the bleak darkness and gloom, muffled cries of abandoned babies. Other residences spoke of occasionally seen ghostly figures of shrouded desperate women searching eternity with unlit lamps, looking for a connection, a spark of any human life. The shrouded ghostly weeping women return day after day, year in year out, time doesn’t exist in their restless world. There were no flowers to memorialise or flourish in the shaded sun, instinctively birds avoided overflying this hidden plot of land. Still the secret lay but a few inches beneath any passing trespasser, mainly children retrieving a ball, scarpering back across the stone grey walls immediately. The wretched, necromancer Sisters of Bon Secours, who ran the Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home, now rehouse in elegant housing miles away, are slowly dying off, of guilty old age, ailments their worthless prayers couldn’t help. All were interned with their dark secrets embedded with their bitter hearts, and into their worthless graves. Still a few were spooked by the burden of their wickedness and crimes, dark secrets, a fear that lay like a smothering blanket that stalked their dead eyes, and hauntings of confusing sins sitting on their lying faces. Their despicable lives and reprehensible souls were and are empty of any human empathy. Since they assume that a place is assigned for their censured souls in keeping with their rewards or punishment, as soon as their denigrated soul is set free from their decrepit bodies. It is either plunged straight into hell or soars to heaven, poor babbling Sisters, it would only be hell in which they can never be cleansed. Their numerous crimes are not mere venial sins, but the gravest of mortal sins known to humanity, the murder and disposal of babies and children into septic tanks. The venomous Sisters injected their toxins of hate into the unwed mothers, vulnerable babies and children. No amount of candle burning will save them, their paschal candles symbolises darkness, their ambiance of death, no amount of candles will ever illuminate their horrors. The incomprehensible Sisters cannot be united with their God, ever. They cannot love God if they have sinned gravely against him, against their neighbour or against ourselves: He who does not love remains in death. The Bon Secours Sister didn’t know or understand love, they couldn’t love the babies and children, because if they did love them, they wouldn’t have flushed the 800 into their septic tank. Anyone who hates a child is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him or her. Their Jesus warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones, children who are his brethren. The unquenchable fire of hate that laid in their collective hearts drove the Bon Secours Sisters to madness by disembowelled and disrespecting the children. The barbaric cruel act of flushing the babies and children into the Convent’s septic tanks, was an act of pure evil. Where both the child’s soul and body were lost, into the cesspool of the Nuns hate. Where was God's merciful love, I ask? Jesus solemnly proclaims that he will send his angels, and they will gather, all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire. The arrogant Nuns, threw the vulnerable babies and children into the Convent’s furnace of contempt and into eternal punishment. The truly wicked Nuns actions were disgusting and shameful. In their arrogance they think that both the Irish people and Survivors will never do anything. The Bon Secours Sisters have nothing but contempt for the Mothers, their Babies and the Children. They clearly laugh at any idea of judgment, in fact, they do not worship any God, the Nuns worship only themselves. “For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Lord. In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” (10:3, 4) The Irish Catholic Church turned on the poor long ago and the helpless because they first turned against God. The Irish Catholic Church was only for raw power and wealth. The Clerics are proud of their desires, their cravings for rape, murder and other exotic mortal sins are a real virtue. After all, didn’t they succeed because of their will to win against the downtrodden? Their filthy greed got them where they are, climbing on the dead bodies of women and children. The Irish Catholic Church preached for years that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind endowed with greed. Contentious lies will not only destroy the Irish Catholic Church but that other malfunctioning Institution the whore of Babylon, the mother of prostitutes and abominations of the earth as mentioned in the Book of Revelations - Rome. The Irish Catholic Church War on Women continues to this day, they, the modern woman, they care about abortion and gay marriage. Many clerics including Bishops lament the fact that they can no longer call unwed women or other women “sluts.” The Irish Catholic Church has a long and well documented history of misogyny, often expressing a callous contempt for women in general in Irish society. An Irish Bishop once said he doesn’t see slavery, as a problem. If you don’t like slavery, don’t own slaves, but please don’t tell others, like us, they shouldn’t own people as slaves. Our Bible supports slavery, you only have to read up on - Ephesians 6:5-8 Paul states, “Slaves, be obedient to your human masters with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ” which is Paul instructing Slaves to obey their master. Similar statements regarding obedient Slaves can be found in Colossians 3:22-24, 1 Timothy 6:1-2, and Titus 2:9-10. And my friends that’s the problem, the Bible, or the Good Book of distorted lies, all dressed up in Latin. Owen Felix O’Neill In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as INJUSTICE. Charles Dickens. - Great Expectations Something I soon discovered in St. Joseph’s Industrial School, Tralee, for 6 years I was there. That there were a very small group of boys who were known as Travellers, who were always singled out for further punishment and other abuses by the Christian Brothers. At that time at least in my eyes we were all the same, friends, playmates, brothers, enemies, children. I didn’t know the difference, Oh sure, all the boys were different, some with red hair, blond hair, brown hair, curly hair. Many had also different eye colourings, blue, grey, brown, pain as a colour, sadness, and for many, oceans of tears and fears. There was a smorgasbord of boys, who came in all shapes and sizes, tall boys, small boys, fat boys, thin boys, all with a variety of different Irish accents. But Two boys stood out because they were black in colour, it was to us white boys, exotic, they had more friends because of this. They too endured their share of personal pain because they were different. We didn’t really discriminate against them, yes we may have if we had a fight with them like most boys do, calling them N….s, but only because we heard others do so, or the Christian Brothers using the word, often. We did the same with the Traveller boys, but in most cases they could take care of themselves. I have to admit I didn’t see anything different about them, the Travellers boys. They too were the same as me, in colour, hair, size, and with different accents, but then I came from Dublin, I was called a Jackeen and they were Culchies as I learned. I didn’t fully understand what it meant, except I knew it was bad if thrown at me, the same I though, as me shouting “N….r,” or monkey at a black boy or me shouting “Pavee” at the top of my lungs at a boy I thought was a Traveller, in most cases the boy I shouted “Pavee” at, was just a common Culchie. How stupid was I, I couldn’t tell the difference. Shouting “Pavee” at a boy, whether he was a Traveller or not, would more likely get you a swift smack across the mouth, if you called them, “Pavee” or any mean names. We learned to avoid entanglements if possible, to avoid a black eye, or a cut lip. We didn’t of course know that name calling was hurtful, yes we could see the reaction, the tears in the eye, the doleful look but we were stupid boys. One day in the play yard one of the Christian Brother’s, pulled me aside, inviting me to walk with him as he wanted to have a quiet word with me. I looked puzzled, and fearful, I expected a beating from this particular cruel Brother. I fell in beside him, my eyes darting, here and there, like a spooked rabbit. I walked around the busy yard of boys with him. He leaned over to me and asked me why I was a friend with that boy, pointed to Patsy, the boy I was playing with. I blundered out to this sadistic Brother, I like him, we are friends. The Brother stopped and I stopped, he looked me over from head to foot, as if I had taken leave of my senses. Honestly I was expecting a smack across my face from him, he was known as a brutal Brother among the boys with a very short fuse. Do you know who that boy is, he thundered at me. I replied yes I do, his name is Patsy, no he whispered to me like a conspirator, his yellow teeth, and decaying breath is all I saw and smelled, I pulled slightly away, but his whispers was dripping with spit, contempt and hatred, he is a filthy, filthy tinker, I looked again puzzled. I never heard of the word “tinker” I asked him ``Sir what is a “tinker”.. with a raised voice he roared at me, (Carthy) a “tinker” is him, and him and him over there, and a few more around the schoolyard. I looked very confused, I saw boys the same as me, playing in the yard, but all with different colour hair, and boys in all shapes and sizes. I thought to myself, filthy, as I’m dirty too, but so is Patsy as are all the other boys. He looked at me, wiping his cruel, snarling mouth with the back of his hand, get away from me, (Carthy), he sneered at me, kicking me in the gut, you’re probably one of them yourself he shouted, in anger and disgust, I painfully ran as I saw his changing red face. But I ran away frightened and confused back to Patsy to play, Patsy asked- what did he want;- I said .. he said you are a “tinker”, black haired Patsy, stopped to think, knitted his eyebrows together for split second, roaring with laughter, turning away, shouting at me —your a “tinker” your a “tinker” he sang, shouting at me as he further moved away, doing a little jig around me, laughing. His open face was flushed with happiness as I watched him dancing away, laughing. I ran after him laughing and shouting at him, No!! No!! ….your the “tinker”, We both ran and danced around the yard full of other boys, a few times shouting out to each other “tinker” Of course we both didn’t know what the word meant nor understood its true meaning, after all we were both 9 years of age. Patsy was one of my oldest friend in the Industrial school for 6 years, I called him “tinker” Patsy and he called me “tinker” Carthy, we both said it with great affection. If Pasty wanted to be called a “tinker” so did I. We backed each other up in many a fight over the years against all comers, with ridiculous arguments, fist fights, imaginary fights amid floods of tears. You see to me Travellers as children, like every other boy or boys, also shared pain, shared clothing, shared towels, shared food, tears, fights, laughter, more importantly shared friendships. Some I got along with, some I didn’t, but that also applied to all the boys, not just the Traveller boys. We all knew with instinct that it was about our individual survival. Dehumanisation and dehumanised perception did occur as a result of the language used to describe groups of boys, it was something the Religious Orders knew how to use and did. In the Religious run Institutions all the women and children suffered violence on a daily basis. The Nuns and the Clerics that ran Religious Institutions, dehumanised the women and children as either animals or objects of desire to be raped, sexually harassed and beaten, daily. Dehumanisation was viewed as a central component by all the Religious Orders that ran the Religious Institutions in Ireland. It was a way of brutal control. What now is shocking for me and many other Survivors, is that the Nuns, the Christian Brothers and other Religious Orders, - “it’s that they were very, very ordinary human beings”- The Religious Orders that ran the Religious Institutions began an orgy of rape, torture and death. They were encouraged by the Irish Catholic Church itself and to a lesser extent the Irish Government and State. Gratuitous violence was used for example in the Magdalene Asylum/Laundries, Mother and Baby Homes, Industrial Schools, and Orphanages as a ploy to extend the Religious Orders sense of power over another human being, the hapless women and vulnerable children. The Nuns and Christian Brothers used to roar, “ These aren’t human, these are animals” Dehumanisation is on the list of the “Ten Stages of Genocide” “When the Nuns or other religious Orders dehumanise others, they actually conceive of them as subhuman creatures, thus allowing them to inflict humiliation on them. The Catholic Church as Slave owners throughout history considered their slaves, the unwed women and children as subhuman creatures. Thus allowed then the Religious Orders to opens the door for cruelty and genocide, in the Religious run Institutions, like the Magdalene Asylums/Laundries. To the Religious way of thinking, and especially the Religious Order of Nuns these wretched women and their offsprings were not individuals at all. They came in wholesale lots and were to be treated worse than animals. The Nuns were explicit about the status of their victims. They were subhumans — and as such were excluded from the system of moral rights and obligations that bind humankind together. The Nuns and other Religious Orders know it was wrong to kill a person, just like the Nazis did, but to their way of thinking it was permissible to exterminate a rat. To the Religious Orders, all the unwed women and their children, specially Travellers, were degraded as Pavees or Mincéirí, in most case theses Travellers, the women and their children were singled out for worse treatment, nothing short of vermin or parasites, according to all the Religious Orders and the Irish Catholic Church. In fact the Nuns, the Christian Brothers, in fact all Religious Orders treated the Travelling Community in their Gulags as less than human. You only have to ask any Traveller who was in any of these Religious Institutions. It was truly the marginalisation of a group of Irish people known as Travellers Community by the Irish Catholic Church itself, The Irish Government and the wider Irish Society. I know as a Survivor of 18 years in these Religious run Institutions how badly the Travellers Community of boys and girls were treated. By stigmatising Traveller children, as "less human" and more like animals, within the Religious run Institutions, the brutality by the Religious orders was far worse for them, purely because they came from the Travellers Community. One cannot do serious injury to another without first dehumanising him or her in one's mind, this I heard from a few Nuns and Christian Brothers as a child when talking about the Travellers Community, it was ingrained to everybody in the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Humiliation is something that is brought upon us by others. Ritual humiliation was a common form of punishment, abuse, and oppression, used in all the Religious run Institutions, in Ireland. The great German Philosopher, Immanuel Kant famously argued that, by virtue of their free will, human beings are not means-to-an-end but ends-in- themselves, with a moral dimension that invests them with dignity and the right to ethical treatment. To humiliate people, that is, to treat them as anything less than ends-in-themselves, is therefore to deny them their very humanity. Many Survivors never recovered from their humiliations at the hands of the Religious Orders, their overburdened hearts shrivelled. For many years, the Survivors were and are preoccupied and obsessed by their humiliation and its real or imagined perpetrators, myself included. Many reacted with anger, with fantasies of revenge, sadism, delinquency. Survivors couldn’t internalise their trauma, leading many to fear and constant anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, sleeplessness, suspicion and paranoia, solidly isolation, apathy, depression, and suicidal thoughts. For many Survivors, their humiliation is a fate worse even than death. Owen Felix O’Neill Irish Official accounts say almost 60,000 vulnerable babies and children were "disappeared" by the Irish Catholic Church, illegally trafficked, sold like cattle into North America by the Religious Orders of Ireland. But many groups of Survivors say the figure is at least 100,000. The disappeared children have left a deep scar on Irish Society for decades and for decades to come. Figures as high as 35,000 children are known to be buried in secret graves and septic tanks that haunt the landscape of former Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes and Orphanages of Ireland. This pattern was similar for those stolen, the women and their children who were taken from their homes in the middle of the night, only to be tortured, raped, enslaved for life at the many Religious run Institutions of Ireland. The weak among the children were deliberately starved to death and then crudely disposed of at clandestine septic tank sewage systems. Most of the babies and a few children were disposed of by flushing them down toilets, flushed into secret Victorian sewage systems attached to all Religious run Institutions. After years of investigations, it is thought that some bodies of the disposable babies and children were destroyed with caustic soda, in the abattoirs that operated in all the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. We also know that caustic soda was added soon afterward to prevent blockages in the sewage drains, the Nuns taught of everything. Caustic soda we also known for it corrosive effects by the Nuns and was added by the Nuns to speed up with the decomposition of the child’s body to erase the baby's identification, while others, babies and children were just dumped, or dismantled into unknown mass graves. Many Religious run Institutions in Ireland have mass secret graveyards for the disappeared, the mothers, the babies, the children, unwanted, not profited by the Catholic Church in Ireland. Children Raped, mothers brutalised by the Religious Orders in their rape rooms of Orphanages, Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes. I still have hopes of finding the remains of my own Mother, my Brother/s and Sister/s, one day I hope to find them and learn with them, their stories, my story. Today, families of some of the disappeared children are watching closely to see what is recovered from the long delayed septic tank at Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home in the West of Ireland. Over 800 babies and children still remain in the septic tank since it was discovered four years ago. One excuse after another is offered, it’s all to do with saving the Irish Catholic Church public humiliation. After all it was from a Mother and Baby Home run by the Catholic Order of Bon Secours Sisters. The unscrupulous Catholic Nuns disposed of the babies and children into an active septic tank with regularity for over 40 or 50 years. The septic tank was used for human waste, so the babies they flushed down the septic tank were also human waste. It was the diabolical Nuns that disposed of the babies and children into the septic tank with their own human waste. The same order of Nuns, also trafficked illegally, over 1,000 more babies and children from Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home into North America. Now we learn that both the Irish Government and the Irish Catholic Church want the septic tank to be kept secret, forever. It is understandable, because if they remove the babies and children’s bodies from this septic tank, they know that they will have to investigate and open probably dozens of other septic tanks and mass grave-pits that dot the religious houses of Ireland. Child Euthanasia was carried enthusiastically out by the Religious Order of Nuns and endorsed by the Catholic Church in Ireland in most of the Mother and Baby Home of Ireland. The sanctioned murder of severely mentally and physically handicapped children and young people up to 14 years old during The Cults reign in Ireland. We know that there were so-called special children's wards at all Mother and Baby Homes in the Irish State. The organised euthanasia of babies and children was carried out with religious fervour, ruthless efficiency by the Nuns that ran all the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. There are documents to support this, many of the documents come from what are now known as the “Sea Money Files”. Many of the documents are marked "Strictly Confidential" The Nuns called the shots, in all the Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. Doctors and other medical experts were absent, as were reports that were to be filed with the appropriate health authorities in Ireland. The pitiless Nuns had decided that if a newborn child is suspected of being afflicted with the following congenital disorders, the child was to die. Down's Syndrome, known at the time as Mongolism, is microcephaly in which the brain does not develop properly, resulting in a shorter-than-normal head. Malformations of all kinds, particularly the absence of limbs, severe midline defects of the head and spine. Paralysis, including Cerebral Palsy which in most cases was caused by the Nuns themselves, have been untrained as medics. Cerebral palsy is caused by abnormal development or damage to the parts of the brain that control movement, balance, and posture. In some cases the Nuns pulled by force babies out of their mothers. Many within the Catholic Church in Ireland supported euthanasia with great enthusiasm. Make no mistake about it, euthanasia was carried out with ruthless efficiency in all Mother and Baby Homes in Ireland. We know that the Nuns spoke to each other, regularly by phone and letters on their many mutual problems of the Mother and Baby Homes. Exchanging ideas, like what to do with a problem baby with birth defects, how to dispose of the baby, how to continuously collect money from the Irish Government, and finally how to dispose of the baby’s body once it dies. More importantly to the Nuns was how to deal with the unwed mother whose baby they killed and her family. The answer was with fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, and fanatical devotion to Holy Mother Church with many a night of inhumane pain, visited upon the unwed mothers, a few as young as 11 years old. We also know that even though the babies authorised for disposing off by the Nuns, didn’t died immediately, many of the babies instead were used for months in scientific research run by the International drug companies that paid the Nuns for the live babies, and more shocking kept the dead baby’s bodies long after the child die. Something else, there was close collaboration between the Nuns and their enablers, the Doctors, by the placing of some sick children in Irish asylums, where further experiments were carried out under medical supervision. There were "Special Children's Ward" in all Irish Asylums, there is evidence that a few hundred children with disabilities ended up in Irish Asylums up and down Ireland. Many of these children died and their bodies were preserved as were their brains for future research. There was no family to object, no written consent, and more importantly no documentation to worry about. A few thousand children lost their lives through deliberate malnutrition, disease, and neglect, there was no official autopsy ever performed on the babies or children. Yet many of their brains and organs were kept for research, certainly by the Irish medical schools, a few are kept to this day in both Trinity College Dublin and The Royal College of Surgeons also in Dublin. We know from documentations that two International Drug Companies performed their own unauthorised autopsies on the brains of the dead babies and children. We also know that hundreds, if not thousands of children who had been used in medical experiments, died, soon after they were experimented on, and a few died within a few years after, from the complications of the different drugs they were exposed to. I say that the babies and children who had also been used in the drug experiments were brought to the Religious run Institutions to be murdered. Babies as young as a few weeks old and up to children in the age range of 14 were sadly murdered in all the Religious run Institutions in Ireland and that is a fact. A few professional Researchers were hired by the Irish Government, most of them Academics who would soon shocked at what they discovered trawling through the religious secret archives, now known as The Sea Monkey Files. All the Academics found themselves at a loss to convey the horrors they encountered and uncovered while compiling, and trawling through the different archives of all the Religious run Institutions in Ireland. Thousands of Boxes filled with alphabetical lists of heinous crimes, documented in thousands of documents, oversized ledger- books filled with the names of the inmates of the various labour camps they worked in. Many Academics were still trying to grasp the reality of what they read and saw, all were horrified. The Academics discovered and saw the vast crimes committed by all the Religious Orders. To most Academics it was like the death camps of Nazi Germany, they read about in history lessons. One professor wrote that it was “Evidence of pure Evil” as a staunch catholic he wouldn’t believe that he was reading. His notes, his account is unsparing and graphic, with descriptions of what he was reading as he went through the documentation. He also noted that he could smell the odour of fear leaping straight from the old letters and musty journals in the archives. The professor was still trying to grasp the reality of what he was reading. The large industrial processing – of human beings” the illegal trafficking of babies and children. The Academics were stunned to learn, this was Ireland after all they were reading about and not Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Nazi Germany. In the early 20th century, a group of powerful and bloody-minded religious men in Ireland hit on the idea of enslaving unwed women and their children, thus adapting the methods of the death camps in Nazi Germany, and pioneering for themselves or what they preferred to call the processing – of human beings.” Every act of cruelty suffered by tens of thousands of babies, children, and their mothers was and is a crime against humanity. Yet the Nuns and other Religious Orders are desperately trying to destroy their terrible relics, the death camps, slave camps of Magdalene Laundries, Industrial Schools, Mother and Baby Homes and Orphanages of Ireland. As long as these slave and death camps stand, all are evidence and living testament to the atrocities committed within their cold stone grey walls by the Catholic Church. Remember too that all the Religious run Institutions have vast unmarked mass graves and septic tanks, filled with women and children. We Survivors must preserve the memory of the our Holocaust, we owe it to the tens of thousands who died brutal deaths as chattel slaves of both the Irish State and - The Banality-of-Evil, that is the Catholic Church. We must never allow these remnants of human beings, the babies and children to be forgotten. The Septic Tank of Tuam’s Mother and Baby Home and other Septic Tanks in all the Religious run Institutions in Ireland will and must stand as one of the most chilling symbols of the dark days of our most recent history. Let us also not forget that the amoral Nuns had quietly and methodically organised the flushing of over 800 babies and children into their Septic Tank, in Tuam and doing so for over 40 years. Where was their Christian duty of love then, or their Christian compassion. Maybe the Nuns forgot — Isaiah 49:10 “They will neither hunger nor thirst, nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them. He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.” The Catholic Church did not just murder thousand of babies, and children, but their mothers and other women, and their children, but literally “harvested” their remains to the International Drug Companies allowing them to do illegal drug experiments in the Religious run Institutions. Researchers and Academics were highly shocked when they also discovered illegal drug experiments, committed on vulnerable babies and children. The Academics also discovered a brisk trade which emerged between the death /slave camps,The Mother and Baby Homes, Orphanages the Magdalene Laundries and the International Drug Companies. The Researchers and Academics were reading the reprehensible crimes from the account books kept by all the Religious Orders and their Institutions. Not only did the International Drug Companies gave money to the Religious run Institutions, but so did local textile manufacturers. The Laundry was a profitable business for all the Magdalene Laundries, why not it was run entirely by slave labour. Carpets were also made and sold in many Religious run Institutions in Ireland. As was carpentry, tailoring, shoe making, farming, and hiring out domestic servants to locals and the hospitality industry, as well as hospitals, schools, universities. All Irish Government Departments, all the Irish Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána, The Prisons. The true profits made from the illegal selling of babies, children, women and orphanage boys and girls, that ran into tens of millions of dollars a year. All can now be found and seen in the many well kept ledger-books used as account books by all the Religious Orders. My question is “Can one do evil without being evil? And my answer after 18 years in a few Religious run Institutions in Ireland is a resounding YES. What is extraordinary was that many of the Nuns, Christian Brothers, Priests were just ordinary, probably from good middle class homes. Once in religious life and donning their uniforms many turned into amoral monsters, perverts, pedophiles, sadistic, and yes ‘terrifyingly normal’. Most performed evil deeds with evil intentions, many seem to get pure joy at inflicting pain on children, and women. What is sad is now I understand, many Religious people I met later in life and spoke to seemed disengaged from the reality of their evil acts. Many ‘never realised what they were doing’ due to an ‘inability to think from the standpoint of somebody else’. Lacking this particular cognitive ability, they ‘committed heinous crimes, against children and women under circumstances that made it well-nigh impossible for them to know or to feel what they were doing wrong’. All said they were doing the Lord’s work, many religious people said that they drifted into the Religious Orders of the Catholic Church, in search of purpose and direction, not out of deep ideological belief. Sadly many of the Religious Orders afterwards felt no remorse at their actions. There was no particular intention or obvious evil motive they said, things just ‘happened’, many claimed it was the work of the devil or they were led astray by seductive children and their immoral mothers. Owen Felix O’Neill Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an everlasting stream. Book of Amos. The book of Amos holds God's people accountable for their ill-treatment of others. I denounce the crimes against humanity committed by the Catholic Church in Ireland. God did not exempt them from accountability for rape and murder of vulnerable women and children. The Irish Catholic Church were illegally trafficking needy, vulnerable Babies and Children for cash, taking advantage of the helpless, oppressing the poor, and the Clerics were using women immorally and as slaves. Drunk on their own economic success and corrupt power, intent on strengthening their financial position, the Clerics had lost the concept of caring for another. Religion without justice is an affront to God I was raped as a boy for 18 years by the Clerics of the Irish Catholic Church, as were tens of thousands of other vulnerable women and children, in the rape rooms of Orphanages, Industrial Schools and Magdalene Laundries /Asylums of Ireland. My youth, my continuous haunting memories are a living testament to the rules, the practices, the causes of the Irish Catholic Church. If there are those who still want to remember the legacy of The Cult, the Irish Catholic Church. If they, the Catholic Church in Ireland want sepulchres, well, then, my body is a living monument, as are tens of thousands of other Survivors, alive today. My battered and bruised mind and skin is a testament to their brutality. My memories are never out of print but sepulchred in the dust of libraries of my tormented mind. Dead Saints, Scoundrels, and Clerical Paedophiles are venerated all across Ireland. Thousands of women and children are still hidden in the many septic tanks, cesspools and mass graves that grace beneath the fine lawns of many Religious run Institutions, like the Convents of Ireland. Genocide was committed, there were multiple crimes against humanity, rape, torture, trafficking of babies and children, and even murder of women and children, still there were no accountability and little or no prosecutions. To this day, the Catholic Church in Ireland and the rest of the world, is still struggling to come to terms with its deplorable past, according to many historians. Irish people are still having a hard time openly addressing the country’s ecclesiastical government of the Gestapo Clerics of the past. The Irish government was ruled by tyrannical ecclesiastical rulers, who even wrote the Irish Constitution for them. They pledged loyalty and recognised as the supreme ruler of Ireland, The Pope in Rome. This of course was high treason, pledging allegiance to another State. The crime of Treason is defined by Article 39 of the Constitution of Ireland, adopted in 1937, which states: “Treason shall consist only in levying war against the State, or assisting any State or person or inciting or conspiring with any person to levy war against the State, or attempting by force of arms or other violent means to overthrow the organs of government established by the Constitution, or taking part or being concerned in or inciting or conspiring with any person to make or to take part or be concerned in any such attempt” The Catholic Church in Ireland waged a total war against the Irish People, explicitly against hundreds of thousands of women and their children. It ran Religious Detention Camps, through, State funded Magdalene Laundries /Asylums, Industrial Schools, Orphanages, funded by State Aid, Slavery, and Trafficking of stolen Babies and Children. There was and still is no "outrage of the Christian conscience”. The Irish Catholic Church "engaged in a bitter war of attrition with the Irish People, especially its women and children. Clerical oppression to anything that threatened their wealth or power was fought to a bitter end. One only has to think of Dr. Noel Browne’s Mother and Child Scheme, which was a healthcare programme in Ireland that would later become remembered as a major political crisis involving the Irish Government and Irish Catholic Church in the early 1950s. The Irish Clerics criminal efforts to undermine various Irish Government institutions, practices and beliefs was always ongoing. Their iron grip on say, education and schools is another case in point. The Irish Bishops were hostile to the emerging programme that Dr. Noel Browne laid out in the Irish Parliament, his mistake was to defy the Bishops. The Irish Bishops publicly and energetically denounced its "false doctrines” and the fearless Dr. Noel Browne as the new satan. They dragged Dr. Noel Browne down and politically buried him. The Irish Bishops had won even though they were not elected by the people of Ireland, the Irish Bishops were having none of that, it was a direct threat to their power. Irish People didn’t want to know that the Rebels of 1916 lost their lives as the Irish Catholic Church seized the real power, the Rebels deaths were in glorious vain. The Irish Catholic Church formed the new government immediately with its henchmen, acolyte followers who were prepared to engage in crime or violence by way of service to the Catholic Church in Ireland. The nation of Ireland was in mortal danger, these dangers lay in the tyrannical ecclesiastical rulers. As I reach my retirement age of 66 years of painful memories, there is no retirement of my raped youth. All my religious tormentors were rapists, dressed or undressed as religious paedophiles, hid in plain sight, glorified and encouraged by the Irish Catholic Church. All my tormentors and rapists were Clerics. My very existence is a relic of slavery and rape, compounded by the Catholic Church in Ireland. As far as my family history goes and what I learned and can confirm, I am the descendant of slaves. I am the son of a slave; my slave mother was also a daughter of a slave. My mother, and grandmother were domestic servants in the Religious run Institutions, like Magdalene Laundries /Asylums of Ireland. My mother Nora McCarthy, brutalised as a slave, died, penniless as a slave in a Magdalene Laundry /Asylum of Ireland. Her disfigured body unceremoniously dumped with hundreds more helpless women and vulnerable children into an unmarked mass pit. The Irish Catholic Church as an enemy of Ireland, was and is guilty of injustice toward the innocent, poor, women and children. Many boys and girls of the Religious run Institutions of Ireland that were sold out to outside businesses for profit, like hotels, farms, guesthouses, clerical residences, were all domestic servants, none of the boys or girls were ever paid. Because they were mistreated as domestic servants, and slaves, many if not all were raped, brutalised at random. Many of the girls and women after being raped ended up pregnant to continue a very vicious cycle, the children were abandoned by their rapist fathers. The Irish Clerics took what they wanted, there was nothing to stop them, they were encouraged by both the weak Irish State, and a corrupt An Garda Síochána. A fearful, ignorant Irish population fell silent, as their daughters, their children were dragged, screaming out of their homes, their local communities looking on in silence. In many cases the local communities helped by betraying their neighbours over petty disputes, and vicious gossip. All to appraise the local Catholic Church. The Clerics of the Catholic Church in Ireland took what they wanted from women and children they raped and enslaved, they brutally used and even murdered some of the enslaved women and children. The Clerics did not love them, did not care about them, the vulnerable women and children, over whom they had extraordinary power. My battered body and haunted mind are a continuous tangible truth of the brutality of the Irish Catholic Church and its past. Myself, My Mother, my Grandmother, her Mother and even her Grandmother were owned by the holier-than-thou Irish Catholic Church. My Brothers and Sisters, who I never met were also owned, brutalised, and raped, murdered by the Irish Catholic Church. In fact, hundreds of thousands of other Mothers, women, children were enslaved, stolen babies trafficked, brutalised, tortured, raped, and murdered, in all the Religious run Gulags of Ireland. You cannot dismiss me as someone who doesn’t understand what happens in the Religious run Institutions of Ireland. You cannot say it wasn’t my family members who were enslaved, brutalised, tortured and murdered in these Gulags. I am squarely at the heart of this debate; I will speak out till my last breath of pain. I am Irish, I come from Ireland, I got Celtic blood flowing through my veins from hundreds of generations, I am here. The crimes and corruptions of the Catholic Church in Ireland must be reckoned with now, we cannot go on for generations without true accountability. Our Irish history is rich in greatness, great historical figures, even a few Nobel Laureates. Our causes are justified, our Celtic ancestors lie but just a footstep beneath our soil. I am proud of every one of the Survivors who survived slavery in the Religious run Gulags of Orphanages, Industrial Schools and Magdalene Laundries /Asylums of Ireland. I am not proud of the sanctimonious Catholic Church in Ireland whom I know, by virtue of my very existence, their lies, their hypocrisy in all things pertaining to life. Their treatment of my entire family, and many other families of Ireland is a continuous scandal. Whatever happened to all their sanctimonious talk about putting family first, and the sanctity of life. Where was their sanctity of life as they raped, murdered, and sold women and children for profit? For the Clerics and Christians, human life is sacred and is a gift from God, so they preach and scream daily, and must be respected and protected. The Bible teaches that human beings are created in the image of God. It also teaches that murder and rape are forbidden yet was carried out in all the Religious run Institutions of Ireland. Among the many apologists for the Catholic Church in Ireland. there are still those who dismiss the brutality of the past. They imagine a world of benevolent Clerics, and speak with dreamy or sentimental loss, of a romantic Ireland that never existed. These same clerical enablers deny the brutal rape, trafficking of stolen babies, torture, enslavement, illegal drug experiments and murder of tens of thousands of women and children in all the Religious run Institutions of Ireland. My reply to them both, the enablers and Clerics, I am living proof as are thousands of the other Survivors. Still a few are blind to the truth, but Survivors still are telling their stories. We need a full reckoning with the truth, the Catholic Church and its monuments to lies must fall. Owen Felix O’Neill |
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