This is yet another episode in the Left’s ongoing efforts to rule any point of view other than their own beyond the bounds of acceptable discourse. The Irish Independent is still trying to hang Foley-Walsh by, among other things, association with Stephen Miller and me: “He said he did not support or endorse the views of Mr Miller or those of Robert Spencer, a previous speaker at YAF, who runs a website, Jihad Watch, and has written a book ‘Confessions of an Islamophobe.'”
Killian Foley-Walsh’s crime is that he went to a Young America’s Foundation conference. YAF is a mainstream and respected conservative organization, as evidenced by the fact that Vice President Pence and Senator Ted Cruz addressed the conference he attended. I wasn’t there and apparently Stephen Miller wasn’t either, but the Irish Independent uses the fact that I have spoken many times for YAF in the past, and apparently Miller has also, to intimidate Foley-Walsh into submission. Miller is a Trump adviser, and opposes same-sex marriage and abortion, which millions of Americans also oppose. Even Barack Obama opposed same-sex marriage before he didn’t.
Note also that the Irish Independent apparently thinks that even the simple act of running a website called Jihad Watch is something terrible — another manifestation of the Left’s attempt to demonize and silence all opposition to jihad mass murder and Sharia oppression of women and others. There is something wrong with keeping track of jihad activity? Would the Irish Independent similarly object to a website that tracked white supremacist activity? And apparently I need to explain to the irony-challenged people at the Irish Independent that Confessions of an Islamophobe is an ironic title, referring to the fact that essentially all opposition to jihad terror has now been stigmatized as “Islamophobia.” Is the Irish Independent in favor of the jihad murder of innocent civilians, the beating of disobedient women, and all the other atrocities sanctioned by Sharia? If not, they’re “Islamophobes,” too.
Killian Foley-Walsh should not have disavowed Miller or me, even if he disagreed with us. Yes, he is a young and inexperienced fellow, but at that YAF conference he attended he likely heard that the worst thing one can do in the face of Leftist intimidation is to cave in any way, and act as if the ruthless Inquisitors who are persecuting him have a point. He should have defended YAF and his decision to attend the YAF conference, and criticized the Independent for acting as if the positions of Miller and me, even if he disagreed with us, were ethically or morally unacceptable.
Instead, he caved. But he can’t really be faulted; he’s young and inexperienced. The Irish Independent should be ashamed of itself for this bullying of a callow youth.
“‘Entirely inappropriate’ – anger as Fine Gael Youth leader attends US right-wing conference,” by Hugh O’Connell, Independent.ie, August 5, 2019:
The president of Fine Gael’s youth wing has been criticised for attending a right-wing conservative youth conference in the US last week.
Young Fine Gael (YFG) president Killian Foley-Walsh, a member of Fine Gael’s ruling national executive, attended the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) conference in Washington DC last week along with YFG’s social media officer Chloe Kennedy.
Their attendance at the YAF conference has prompted criticism from a Fine Gael TD and caused disquiet within YFG, the party’s youth wing whose past members include Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.
YAF’s mission is to groom future conservative leaders, according to the ‘New York Times’, which cited far-right White House adviser Stephen Miller among its alumni. Many members are opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage.
This year’s conference was addressed by US vice-president Mike Pence and a number of conservative politicians, including former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz and former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker.
Mr Foley-Walsh, who said he was “strongly opposed” to abortion, posted a picture of himself with Mr Walker who has backed strict anti-abortion laws and has compared abortion to taking a baby home and killing it.
Fine Gael TD Noel Rock, who is also a member of YFG, said: “I don’t understand how any young person would want to align themselves with the present Republican administration – this certainly doesn’t represent the progressive Young Fine Gael members I know.”
Mr Foley-Walsh and Ms Kennedy said they attended the conference in a personal capacity and the trip was funded by themselves and the Edmund Burke Foundation, a conservative educational charity that advocates for market-based politics.
“I am in favour of same sex marriage and I am strongly opposed to abortion,” said Mr Foley-Walsh. “Fine Gael is a broad church and welcomes social conservatives as well as social liberals.”
He said he did not support or endorse the views of Mr Miller or those of Robert Spencer, a previous speaker at YAF, who runs a website, Jihad Watch, and has written a book ‘Confessions of an Islamophobe’….
CogitoErgoSum says
Can these people who support abortion define just when a human being becomes a human being and when that person stops being a human being? It’s treated by them the same way as they treat the definition of words — they get to decide.
Wellington says
On the matter of abortion that you raise, CES, to wit:
No, supporters of abortion can’t, CES, and there is indeed a real debate about when life begins, but per Aristotelian ethics, no religious “component” being necessarily involved here at all, how can one, in an optimally moral world, not give the benefit of the doubt to the fetus from zygote state onwards?
Again, religion does not need to be involved in this, though it has a perfect right to be so, but on “merely” logical grounds, per Aristotle, how can the fetus, from conception onwards, not be given the “benefit” of being a life?
Hope you and yours are doing well. So, best to you and yours.
CogitoErgoSum says
I agree. No one knows for sure when a human being becomes human. I think life in this universe is quite rare and destroying any form of it is something not to take lightly. Don’t most of these abortion supporters condemn the death penalty because life is so valuable? I do try to see things logically and so much of what leftists believe is just downright illogical — and with them words mean what they say they mean depending on the topic of discussion.
Anyway, best regards to you as well. Hope you are having a good week.
CRUSADER says
When one sees a baby forming through the technique below, one becomes a believer in the sanctity of life:
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Ultrasound (also called sonogram) is a prenatal test offered to most pregnant women. It uses sound waves to show a picture of your baby in the uterus (womb). Ultrasound helps your health care provider check on your baby’s health and development.
Ultrasound can be a special part of pregnancy—it’s the first time you get to “see” your baby! Depending on when it’s done and your baby’s position, you may be able to see his hands, legs and other body parts. You may be able to tell if your baby’s a boy or a girl, so be sure to tell your provider if you don’t want to know!
Most women get an ultrasound in their second trimester at 16 to 20 weeks of pregnancy. Some also get a first-trimester ultrasound (also called an early ultrasound) before 14 weeks of pregnancy. Talk to your provider about when an ultrasound is right for you.
What are some reasons for having an ultrasound?
Your provider uses ultrasound to do several things, including:
To confirm (make sure) you’re pregnant
To check your baby’s age and growth. This helps your provider figure out your due date.
To check your baby’s heartbeat, muscle tone, movement and overall development
To check to see if you’re pregnant with twins, triplets or more (also called multiples)
To help with other prenatal tests, like chorionic villus sampling
To examine your ovaries and uterus (womb). Ovaries are where eggs are stored in your body.
To check for pregnancy complications, including ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy and miscarriage.
To screen for birth defects, like spina bifida or heart defects. Screening means seeing if your baby is more likely than others to have a health condition; it doesn’t mean finding out for sure if your baby has the condition. After an ultrasound, your provider may want to do more tests, called diagnostic tests, to see for sure if your baby has a birth defect. Birth defects are health conditions that a baby has at birth. Birth defects change the shape or function of one or more parts of the body. They can cause problems in overall health, in how the body develops, or in how the body works.
CRUSADER says
However, where FAITH enters into this is when those who believe do not have to see in order to believe!!!!!
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It is found in John 20:29, when Jesus was showing His wounds to Thomas the apostle who earned the name of “Doubting Thomas” for his unbelief that the other disciples had seen Jesus….
At this, Jesus said, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who believe without seeing.”
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Rufolino says
It now appears to be well-attested that the development of a human being does not begin at birth. Identity begins at conception.
The unborn child has been shown to be aware of the feelings of the mother during pregnancy, and is affected by them.
If the pregnant mother is, for an example, experiencing grief, the unborn child senses it without outstanding it, and can be born carrying a load of incomprehensible sadness which can affect them into adulthood.
The foetus is a person, a human being, well before birth and probably from conception.
Wellington says
An Irish RINO. Such folks are virtually useless in the preservation of real freedom.
You know, I’ll give clueless Leftists (excuse the redundancy) this much: They don’t buckle; they don’t cringe. At least they have the integrity of their own freedom-crushing convictions. But so many on the Right don’t even have this. Like this Irish milk-toast.
The correct ideas without fortitude means very little. Rather like very nice people possessed (double entendre definitely meant here) of wretched ideas (and thus leftists) are pretty much worthless too.
Tough people with the correct ideas are necessary for the preservation of freedom. Sadly, such people are in short supply in our age. Hope this changes. Better.
CRUSADER says
Some off-hand references of Miller and a different Spencer which the Left gets hot and bothered over….
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Miller and the Duke Conservative Union helped co-member Richard Spencer, a Duke graduate student at the time, with fundraising and promotion for an immigration policy debate in March 2007 between Peter Laufer, an open-borders activist and University of Oregon professor, and journalist Peter Brimelow, founder of the anti-immigration website VDARE. Spencer later became an important figure in the white supremacist movement and president of the National Policy Institute.
Spencer coined the term “alt-right”. Spencer said in a 2016 media interview that he had mentored Miller at Duke. Describing their close relationship, Spencer said that he was “kind of glad no one’s talked about this”, for fear of harming Trump. In a later blog post he said the relationship had been exaggerated. Miller has said he has “absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer” and that he “completely repudiate[s] his views, and his claims are 100 percent false.”
Duke University’s former senior vice president, John Burness, told The News & Observer in February 2017 that, while at Duke, Miller “seemed to assume that if you were in disagreement with him, there was something malevolent or stupid about your thinking—incredibly intolerant.” History professor KC Johnson criticized Duke for “not [having] an atmosphere conducive to speaking up” and praised Miller’s role at Duke: “I think it did take a lot of courage, and he has to get credit for that.”
(Wikipedia)
LB says
Yeah, it’s not that hard to have integrity of your own belief when the majority of common people, as well as almost all public institutions and figures, share that same belief. Opposing them means exclusion from them, which is equivalent to social suicide. This is how Hitler came to power (among other methods) — by using peer pressure to make not supporting him morally wrong.
Also, do you really believe that these overly emotional, soy-infused, snowflake millennials, that cry at the drop of a hat, would bravely hold their belief if their views were not backed by the mainstream majority? Get real. They only act that way because they know they have the protection of their leftist mob, eager to pounce on any opposition they come across.
What I’m trying to say is: it’s not difficult going with the flow; it is, however, difficult to swim against the current. So you saying that many on the right not having integrity, when compared to the left, is not a fair comparison. The most vehement opponents of Hitler were either imprisoned or killed, which is not a fate willing to be shared by many others.
CRUSADER says
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Well, that’s what courage is about.
Patriots are willing to put everything on the line.
Many of the USA Founding Fathers are so honored because they were WILLING to have pledged their lives, fortunes and their sacred honor!!!
Rare these days.
The reason THEY could do so was because they knew there was a far larger Truth standing by them, and a far longer Life (Eternal) for them to live. So, they kept personal fears at bay.
There is a reason why the devil wishes to have us cower, so that we will bow to the here and now and not seek a more honorable and secured existence. Think of the courage early Christians had in the Roman stadiums as they faced sure and horrible deaths in front of seething crowds who wished them ill but would later admire their bravery and fortitude….
Yes! Society has lost courage, because most don’t learn what it really takes, anymore. There was a time when people did worship the Lord, for good reason. Nowadays, self interest rules.
No honor in that.
CRUSADER says
Deroy Murdock has important things to say about the virtue signaling leftists which are crazed enough to invert social values:
Nike and Colin Kaepernick are the grinches who divided the Fourth of July.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/deroy-murdock-for-july-4-nike-and-kaepernick-give-national-unity-the-boot
sheliak says
The Irish political class has turned on the nation’s history, culture and religion with a vengeance. While Irish monks were instrumental in preserving western civilization between the fall of Rome, while barbarians overran Europe, and the Middle Ages; today’s Irish leaders court the barbarian and invite him into their land to destroy western civilization. Sad and tragic irony.
CRUSADER says
“How The Irish Saved Civilization:
The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”
Book by Thomas Cahill.
kaboooooooooooooom says
Ireland’s Taoiseach (Prime Minister as Bearla (English) is only half Irish; Indian father (doctor) and Irish mother (nurse) who met while practicing Medicine in the UK. He is also a “Bobber” with an American boyfriend. His politics most resemble those of Barry Soetoro (aka B Hussein Obama); his loyalty is to the European Union (EU) foreign entity and is as anti-Cultural-Irish as Soetoro is anti-American. He is trying to push through bringing in 1 (ONE) million MENA migrant culture enrichers to Ireland by by 2040 – that is more than 20% of Ireland’s current indigenous population.
The traitor attended Montreal’s 2017 “Gay Pride” extravaganza accompanied by his boyfriend and wackjob Justine Trudeau. Ireland is a mess – the Celtic Tiger is toothless and clawless. The largest “mosk” in Europe is located in Dublin a function of the financial deal Ireland was forced to make with the EU following the collapse of the Tiger.
God Save Ireland
High upon the gallows tree
Swung the noble hearted three
By the vengeful tyrant stricken in their bloom
But they met him face to face
With the courage of their race
And they went with souls undaunted to their doom
God save Ireland, said the heroes
God save Ireland, said they all
Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall?
When they’re up the rugged stair
Rang their voices out in prayer
Then with England’s fatal cord around them cast
Close beside the gallows tree
Kissed like brothers lovingly
True to home and faith and freedom to the last
God save Ireland, said the heroes
God save Ireland, said they all
Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall?
Never till the latest day
Shall the memory pass away?
Oh, the gallant lives thus given for our land
But on the cause must go
Amid joy and weal and woe
Till we make our Isle a nation free and grand
God save Ireland, said the heroes
God save Ireland, said they all
Whether on the scaffold high
Or the battlefield we die
Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall?
An Irishman abroad.
Lydia Church says
THIS IS BIG!!!
Over at infowars, there are 3 articles you need to look at.
1. One is about some leftie posting fliers in NY that call for putting Trump supporters in death camps.
2. The other is about a movie coming out on Sept. 27th called “The Hunt,” that calls for violence and murder of Trump supporters… you know… to stop the ‘hate.’ Overtones of civil war are throughout.
3. There is one about MSM revving up the hype and getting people hysterical about guns and white nationalism.
Death camps.
Here we go!
Lydia Church says
By the way, their ultimate target is Christians. Real ones, not just professing Christians.
Anyone like me, who stands against abortion, gay marriage, and anything else that is contrary to the Bible, and who live by their faith according to God’s Word, no matter what. It even says something in the one about the movie where someone comes after another for being ‘anti choice.’ This thing has a lot of layers, but we are their target, not just ‘conservatives’ or Trump supporters.
CRUSADER says
How about Castro from TX who doxes district supporters to the extent of circling their names as targets by also revealing their work places. When the officials who represent us go to radical extremes like that, infringing the Constitutional protections, we are looking toward CIVIL WARFARE ! No other recourse will seem viable…
Lydia Church says
Another resource is a website called The New American.
Some interesting articles over there today:
1. The Ugly Legacy of the French Revolution
While perhaps most people think of the French Revolution as a movement to empower commoners…
2. Bilderberg’s “Ruling Class Journalists”
Journalists in Big Media are hiding their active participation in bringing about a world government,…
3. World Government Summit – Behind the Deep State
VIDEO – In this episode, host Alex Newman brings attention to the annual global summit which…
4. The Next Jihadist Terror Attack Could Be the Mass Poisoning of Food
With news about a jihadist attempt to poison the food of 40,000 Indian worshippers, it…
among others.
CRUSADER says
Dennis Prager has much to say about the lasting ills of the French Revolution, as does our own Wellington, here ….
Donovan Nuera says
It’s time to deport the 45,000 Illegal Alien Irish citizens from our East Coast cities so they can take the place of the proposed 1, 000,000 parallel-society types that Saint Leo is trying to cram into that small island of only 5,000,000 to feed his suicidal population Ponzi-scheme.
gravenimage says
Ireland: Youth leader bows to Leftist mob, disavows conservatives associated with conference he attended
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Very disturbing. I know he’s a kid, but it wasn’t hard to cow Killian Foley-Walsh.
More:
He said he did not support or endorse the views of Mr Miller or those of Robert Spencer, a previous speaker at YAF, who runs a website, Jihad Watch…
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Does Killian Foley-Walsh *really* disavow taking a stance against *Jihad terrorism*? More likely he just doesn’t want any more “bad press”.
CRUSADER says
If you saw how easy Sean Hannity let off DESPICABLE NYC Mayor DeBlasio in an interview this evening on FoxNews, you’d see how even those we count on will falter to being nice enough as to not get so bad of press that they can’t function enough to gain such interviews in the future… careerism raises its ugly head.
Round two of the interview broadcast is set for tomorrow’s show, promising more “feet to the fire”…
gravenimage says
Grimly true, CRUSADER.
mortimer says
Irish Leftists have not realized that 2 can play at their game. They are asking for a fight and if they don’t back down other Irish people will stand up to them. This is guaranteed. And the Irish Leftists will rue the day they started this foolish fight for Stalinism. The last thing the Irish will tolerate is Stalinism.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer’s values are the US constitution, the Golden Rule, freedom of expression, human rights and the rule of law. What do those Irish twits find objectionable there? Oh, I know … those are the values that STALINISTS hate.
jayell says
Fine Gael TD Noel Rock……“I don’t understand how any young person would want to align themselves with the present Republican administration ….”
‘Don’t understand’? ‘Can’t understand’? Or perhaps ‘Can’t be bothered to understand’? So the fact that Killian Foley-Walsh’s opinions or actions don’t happen to fit with Noel Rock’s mindset means that either (a) Rock is intellectually incapable of understanding Mr. Foley-Walsh’s position (so why is he in a position of influence?), or (b) Mr. Foley-walsh’s opinions don’t matter to him; which is the classic position of a bigot. Do we therefore assume that , if this is the case, this kind of bigotry is also reflected throughout the membership of Fine Gael? If so, that would help to explain why the petty-tribalist ‘Irish problem’ has dragged on for centuries.
John Acord says
The kid ha sno backbone, is a snowflake that somehow passes for a “conservative”in the once great Irish Republic. I suppose that’s required to pursue a political career in Ireland.
WVinMN most says
Good riddance to the little twerp. The conservative movement certainly doesn’t need anymore Fifth Columnists.
Angemon says
One book? Mr. Spencer wrote several books, many of which NYT best-sellers. “Journalistic” malfeasance at its finest…
Joseph Foley says
I am Irish and I know that all Irish media are complete and utter garbage. They have no journalistic ethics and in my opinion are better ignored, and they don’t merit being taken seriously.