The annual summer holidays are now in flow right across Europe, something which can often seem like something close to an escape from prison for children and teachers alike. One particular educator out there who may experience such emotions upon a rather more intense and elevated plane than most of his peers, however, is a man named Enoch Burke, who was recently released from Ireland’s Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, where he spent over 400 days behind bars.
In our progressive modern era of ‘compassion’ within the criminal justice system (for the criminals, not their victims), Mr. Burke surely must have done something pretty serious to have ended up confined to a cell amongst thieves and murderers for more than 365 calendar days? Not especially, no. Quite why Enoch lost his freedom depends upon who you ask, and how you look at it.
If you ask the judge who sentenced him, the answer would be contempt of court due to Burke’s repeated failure to comply with an official court order. If you ask Burke himself, he would say he had been locked up just for refusing to refer to a transgender pupil by the fake pronoun ‘they’ instead of the more biologically accurate ‘he’, which Burke viewed as him being forced to publicly affirm the heretical doctrine of transgenderism whilst simultaneously repudiating his own more sincerely held doctrine of Christianity.
Technically, this latter interpretation is, on precise legal grounds, incorrect. Yet, in pure common-sense terms, it is self-evidently what in effect has happened, and is certainly how the majority of the general Irish public have tended to interpret the case – everywhere, that is, outside of the present, ostentatiously post-Christian, Irish governing class.
Enoching On Heaven’s Door
The story began in 2022, when Burke was suspended from his role teaching History and German at Wilson’s Hospital School, a Church of Ireland (i.e., Protestant) boarding school in County Westmeath. One male student had recently declared himself to be transgender, wanting to be known by both a new faux female name and the pronouns they/them, something the school now appeared to be mandating for all staff, because that’s the kind of ‘tolerant’ dictatorship we all now live in.
Unfortunately for school managers, Burke belonged to a large and prominent family of fundamentalist Evangelical bent, who were well-known for their community proselytising and involvement in various lawsuits, to the arguable point of being obsessive. Therefore, Enoch was unlikely to just knuckle down and quietly let the issue drop.
During a school chapel-service, Burke openly confronted the school’s then-principal, Niamh McShane, refusing to stop pressing her upon the subject until others intervened and she simply left. As a result of this behaviour – which some would call ‘harassing’, but others would say was principled and brave – Burke was suspended and told to stay away from the school estate. However, as Burke didn’t think he had done anything wrong, he refused to accept there were any justifiable grounds for him to be suspended from his job at all, so simply decided to continue turning up in class for lessons every day whether his employers wanted him to or not, in a kind of ‘reverse detention’ arrangement.
An injunction was then sought by the school to compel Burke to stay away from the premises whilst they decided how best to bloodlessly martyr him, but he kept on refusing to comply, leading to him being hauled up and charged with contempt of court. But Enoch didn’t care, saying he had an obligation to “only obey God” and “not obey man”, the transgender agenda blatantly contradicting Holy Scripture. Were his actions unwise? Was his attitude unreasonable, extreme, and excessively stubborn? Some may say so, but then so were the actions and attitudes of the school who had tried to make him publicly call someone with a penis a girl in defiance of all known biological reality.
Repeated non-compliance with the injunction led to Enoch being remanded in Mountjoy Prison for contempt of court, whilst racking up €140,000 in fines by the beginning of the 2023/24 academic year: €700 for every day he turned up outside the school gates to stare wistfully inside before being incarcerated, potentially indefinitely. Bizarrely, it seems the only time Ireland’s judges are now happy to allow this hazardous offender free from Mountjoy is during the school holidays, when there are no students in the school for him to ‘endanger’ by his very presence there – hence his current (presumably temporary) state of liberty for the summer.
As Burke once lamented, he could either be “a Christian in Mountjoy Prison” or “a pagan acceptor of transgenderism outside it”. But, very tellingly, it seems the Irish legal establishment completely failed to understand Burke’s motivations here.
In a December 2023 ruling, presiding Judge Brian O’Moore expressed the view that the “only plausible interpretation” of Burke’s actions was that he was “exploiting his imprisonment for his own ends” to gain fame as otherwise he would surely have “taken the opportunity to bring it to an end” by meekly capitulating. Yes, that could be the “only plausible interpretation” to a judge in the now aggressively secularised nation of Eire – the very idea Mr. Burke may actually have been acting from sincere religious motives was clearly completely ridiculous and unthinkable.
Enoch Ardent
It seems Mr. Burke’s former students had a more mature understanding of his reasons than their adult ‘betters’ did. According to Burke’s own 2023 testimony, whilst maintaining his lonely vigil outside the school gates, he was mobbed by senior students “wanting me to sign their shirts, wanting autographs, wanting pictures and wishing me well.” As he then added, “I think it’s very regrettable in our country that children have a greater conscience and a greater grasp of right and wrong than the judge in the chair that’s getting paid €250,000 [in salary, not bribes from Mermaids]. I think that’s a very sad state for our country to be in.” So do I.
Also more understanding of Burke’s plight were his fellow prisoners in Mountjoy Prison – not that you would have known it from Irish media coverage. This June, Enoch lost yet another court case, this time a defamation lawsuit brought by himself against Irish newspaper The Sunday Independent, who had falsely claimed Burke had annoyed fellow felons so much by his constant preaching of the Gospel that he was moved to a different wing for his own safety, lest they beat him up.
If Burke lost his defamation case, this must mean the newspaper’s story was true, right? Wrong. In fact, other prisoners had sympathised with their new inmate, telling him they agreed with him, that “you should not be in here”, and to “keep [your] head up” before leaving gifts of popcorn and biscuits at his cell door. In Ireland, the criminals are now more morally sane than the judges.
During the defamation hearing, the judge, Justice Rory Mulcahy, agreed that, whilst Burke had indeed been moved to another cell, this was purely for mundane logistical reasons, not to protect him from violence, and that the press story had been completely untrue, all of which was “unfortunate”. And yet still, Mulcahy ruled in the newspaper’s favour; on 18 July, Enoch was even ordered to pay the publisher’s legal costs.
How come? Because, under Ireland’s Defamation Act 2009, to count as actually being defamation, public statements have to not only be demonstrably untrue, but also to materially injure the plaintiff’s reputation “in the eyes of a reasonable member of society”. And who counts as being “a reasonable member of society” in the eyes of Irish law these days? Certainly not a lunatic, bigoted old Christian, who swans around the land openly disagreeing with the new, State-ordained dogma that ‘trans women are women’!
Whilst admitting Irish case law did explicitly state that even a previously blemished reputation could be further injured by the making of new false allegations – calling Hitler a paedophile, for example – Mulcahy expressed the view that “The suggestion that [Burke] severely annoyed his fellow prisoners by the repeated expression of his religious beliefs is … a whisper in the hurricane of noise which his [previous] actions … created.”
I’m no legal scholar, but it seems to me the basic layman’s translation of these words would be something like ‘Thanks to prior biased media coverage, the general public already thought Mr. Burke was a religious nutcase, so falsely claiming all the other prisoners thought he was one too wouldn’t make any difference to his general negative perception in the eyes of the world.’ To those post-religious ‘right-thinking’ souls who now control Ireland, Enoch Burke’s public reputation could not possibly sink any lower than it already was – after all, he’s a known Christian.
Enoch Was Right!
Whilst actually an Evangelical Protestant, by adopting such a principled public religious stance on anti-trans issues, Burke still stands in as a handy proxy for the supposedly ‘outmoded’ and soon-to-be-abolished moral values of old Catholic Ireland, traditionally the most religious and Rome-influenced nation in Western Europe, at least until the sudden secular liberal revolution which occurred there from the 1990s onwards when they started handing out condoms, divorces, dildos, amyl nitrate and abortions like confetti and claiming Father Ted was a documentary series.
Supposedly, this was all done in the name of ‘increasing tolerance’ – but in practice, it seems to have been done far more with the aim of dismantling normative Irish society wholesale in mind, something which could never be done without taking on its traditional normative religion first. Those who run twenty-first century Ireland in the supposed name of tolerating the endlessly diverse lifestyles of all the nation’s many and varied citizens seem to have one main exception to this rule: sincere Christians like Enoch Burke.
Given they were clearly being attacked by proxy like this, what was the response of the Catholic Church in Ireland to Burke’s plight? In one short word, ‘risible’. The Vatican’s leader there, Eamon Martin, Archbishop of Armagh, had only this to say about the situation when quizzed by journalists in 2023:
I’m very saddened … Clearly, what we are talking about here is this man’s very strong personal beliefs, but also a school has to deal with the management and with the disciplinary issues, and I wouldn’t want to get into that because I wouldn’t be very familiar with the reasons why [this has happened] from all sides. Clearly this has been going through the law… [and is] complex legally and in all other ways… I’m aware from conversations with those involved in Catholic schools that issues to do with gender identity, issues to do with sexual orientation, have already become quite common within our schools and are being dealt with very gently, and pastorally, and sensitively within the pastoral programs of those schools.
Why are such subjects being dealt with in supposedly ‘Catholic’ [sic] schools at all? Do you reckon they’re being “dealt with very gently” in Ireland’s madrassas, Archbishop Martin?
Pathetic, mealy-mouthed, equivocating moral cowardice: just because the Archbishop is himself yet another grown man who goes around wearing a big silk dress in public, it doesn’t mean he should start pandering to his more emotionally disturbed and gleefully anti-Christian queer peers in this respect.
School of Hard Enochs
And, now, it seems this whole plague is spreading across the Irish Sea towards the British mainland. Former Christian Maths teacher Joshua Sutcliffe, who was barred from his role at an Oxford school after accidentally saying “well done girls” to a group of female students, one of whom delusionally self-identified as being male when she wasn’t, has just lost his appeal against being struck off as a registered teacher by the UK’s Teaching Registration Agency (TRA) at the High Court – Peter Sutcliffe may have got off lighter.
“I still stand by my Christian convictions that it is harmful and detrimental to affirm gender-confused children,” said Sutcliffe following his unsuccessful appeal. “This is the belief I am fighting for which is shared by not only Christians but many who do not believe in harmful transgender ideology. I have been a marked man ever since I dared to express my Christian beliefs in a school.” He should have just said he was expressing the beliefs of Islam about queerness in the name of spreading religious tolerance, plurality, and inter-faith dialogue, to see what the TRA would have done to him then. (Or maybe not. In 2019, Joshua was forced to resign – i.e., sacked, but in Newspeak – from another school after criticising the Religion of Peace on YouTube.)
Sutcliffe’s lawyers had argued, not unreasonably, that there was no actual legal obligation upon any teacher to call a child by the fake pronoun of their own disturbed choosing, hence his treatment by the TRA was in itself unlawful. According to the presiding judge, however, “Just because misgendering a transgender pupil might not be unlawful, does not mean that it is appropriate conduct for a teacher,” and that instead, as a qualified pedagogue, Mr. Sutcliffe had an alleged professional duty to “respect and celebrate the pupils’ personal autonomy” in such matters. I thought it was only Stonewall who got to interpret the law as being what they wanted it to be, as opposed to what it actually is?
So far, it seems to have been mainly Christian teachers who have been prominently punished and persecuted for classroom heresies against the trans cult: but it won’t end that way. Most likely they’re just the ones who, having the strongest public moral belief-systems, happen to have stuck their heads up above the parapets first. Once other, non-believing, educators and school employees try to resist, they too will surely be dealt with in the same contemptuous and dismissive manner. As Mr. Sutcliffe warned following his lost appeal, “every teacher is at risk” if they dare share their personal beliefs in class now – unless, of course, their personal beliefs happen to be loony far-Left ones about children’s vaginas magically being able to be redefined as penises.
So, whilst Enoch Burke himself may often come across as a rather obstreperous, uncompromising and cantankerous fellow, whose overall Evangelical belief-system neither I, nor you, may well agree with, he has nonetheless done us all a huge favour by standing up to be countered in the way he has done against the malign arrayed forces of the Irish Unfree State: his public martyrdom has engendered much public sympathy worldwide, and helped illustrate to many appalled citizens who otherwise might not have been paying very much attention just what unbelievable levels of intolerance in the name of tolerance we are up against with these people.
When it comes to resisting the overreaching diktats of the Rainbow Reich these days, it seems to me we could all do far worse than to take a leaf or two from the Book of Enoch.
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Glaringly missing is Israel damningly hauled in front of the International Court of Justice on genocide.
Of course it’s missing from most news headlines in the MSM. So remember if they don’t want you to hear about it guess what that generally means…
Opening argument: Genocidal intent
https://youtu.be/0or-RacPDiM?si=ep64wvwjWN_Z1z0w
Closing argument:
https://youtu.be/yhsWyBWGoCU?si=Hn00TXHbOwe8UHcl
In a well timed attempt to deflect attention from the disgrace of Israel, the US bombs the poorest country in the world and its capital city in Sana.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12954065/US-UK-launch-airstrikes-Iran-backed-rebels-Explosions-heard-Yemen-Houthis-reporting-enemy-raids-Sunak-said-no-defensive-options-left.html
When in doubt bomb the brown people.
When in doubt allow:
‘The General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution requesting an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on the obligations of States in respect of climate change’
‘Turning to the Court’s budget, she also informed the General Assembly the Court is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods of its history. “Members of the Court are honoured by the confidence that the international community continues to place in the Court,” she said. However, resources allocated to it do not match the significant docket increase, she reported, expressing hope appropriate adjustments will ensure adequate resources to continue to meet the growing needs of the international community.’
UN meetings coverage
Be very careful what you wish for…….
Believe me I’m not happy about any of this. It has been predicted and it fits well with globalist plans, that the US is supporting televised genocide as the final straw in the collapse of the unipolar system.
The actions of the US and Israel, the last trully ethnic supremacist and hence ultranationalist state will unite the world to reinforce globalist institutions to prevent this from ever happening again.
Thats not what I would want either. We lose in all scenarios.
It’s also worth noting that, as pointed out elsewhere, the number of people represented by the countries supporting SA’s suit is well over 1 billion, significantly more than the US/UK/EU combined. Worth thinking about.
https://ejmagnier.com/2024/01/11/south-africa-corners-the-judges-of-the-icj-to-stop-israels-war-on-gaza/
….South Africa’s decision has received considerable international support. The 22-member Arab League and the 65-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation back it. In addition, a diverse group of nations, including Belgium (vice Prime Minister), Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Brazil, Morocco, Nicaragua, Turkey, Jordan, Malaysia, Bolivia, Venezuela, the Maldives and Namibia, have also expressed their support for South Africa’s legal action. This broad support underlines the global concern over the situation in Gaza. It reflects a collective call for accountability and justice in the international arena. ….
In this context, South Africa’s case against Israel is profoundly significant. By legally challenging Israel’s actions in an international forum, South Africa is not only seeking accountability but also striking at the heart of Israel’s international image and legitimacy. The case symbolises a broader global dissatisfaction with Israel’s policies, particularly on the Palestinian issue.
The potential impact of this trial goes beyond its immediate legal implications. It represents a significant moment in international relations, highlighting the growing willingness of nations to confront and challenge powerful states through legal and diplomatic channels. This shift reflects a changing dynamic in international politics, where public opinion and moral considerations are increasingly influential.
It also serves as a reminder of the importance of respecting international law and norms. It underlines the principle that no nation is above the law regardless of its power or alliances. The outcome of this case could have far-reaching implications not only for Israel and its allies but also for the international legal system and the enforcement of global justice.
Unfortunately, the carnage in Palestine will just be used to highlight the problems of superpower politics and reinforce globalist models of governance.
The best move would be for the US to stop Israel from committing genocide by ending its supply of weapons and aid.
All this would stop, but instead they choose to widen the conflict. That kind of irrational and irresponsible behaviour can only be explained by elements in the deep state intentionally wanting to commit international pariah status.
Or maybe it’s just a mega cock-up.
You are right, that would stop the fighting. Jews in the area would be exterminated and the problem, for the middle east, would have been resolved.
What Hamas and Iran would then do to Egypt, Jordan and the other neighbouring countries can be imagined from what has happened to Lebanon, once a lovely and multi religious nation.
Fantastical arguments used to maintain an infected wound on global relations.
What happened to Lebanon can be directly traced to Israeli policies from the 1967 war onwards.
Agreed, and there has been much discussion on various geopolitical forums on exactly this and other related issues. What the SA suit has done, however, is for the first time (and IMHO most comprehensively) question the special status and exceptionalism of Israel in the international arena. No one dared before because of the weaponisation of the usual slurs – which have lost power in recent years because of the utterly indiscriminate way they gave been applied. Regardless of outcome (and I’m not hopeful of justice prevailing) the idea is now out there in the zeitgeist. If the US-led ‘rules based order’ (their rules, their order) of international law and global justice fails here, multiple countries will shift their allegiances elsewhere, to the significant political, economic and reputational loss of the West.
Back in April 2020, government adviser Robert Dingwall said much the same as Fauci in relation to social distancing accompanied by “conjured out of nowhere”.
Yes, it’s ‘back of the fag packet’ stuff, like so much of the guff that comes from our interfering government. six feet distance for covid, only drink so may units a week, five veggies a day, or is it ten now? There must be more.
Leave us alone, for heaven’s sake.
Common sense surely dictates that we ignore government announcements intended to modify our personal lives.
I will not comply.
Brownstone Institute did a good article a while back on the Wharton Business School tech bros who felt the enormous sense of entitlement to come up with back of an envelope rules for millions of people:
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/america-covid-pandemic-lockdown-jared-kushner/
Although the AfD in Germany are riding high in the polls I’m a bit cynical about this latest claim. I think what one wants to happen and what is possible in reality are two entirely different things most of the time. But wouldn’t ”remigration” of the riff raff by the million be awesome?
”The AfD has been promoting its policy on “remigration” as of late, but focusing primarily on migrants convicted of crimes, whom Germany has been unable to remove. However, although there are hundreds of thousands of migrants who are “tolerated” in Germany, the figure of millions presented by Springer would represent a far loftier goal in terms of deportations.
In a statement earlier this week, the AfD detailed a long list of offenses involving migrants during New Year’s celebrations, including the case of three migrants knocking a doctor unconscious on video in a Berlin hospital, a 20-year-old Somali beating a woman with a fire extinguisher on a train near Schwetzingen, and a Ukrainian migrant hitting a 46-year-old with a bottle in Bad Lippspringe.
“Everyday life in the ‘colorful republic,’ Such everyday conditions are shocking and make it clear: 2024 must be the year of remigration! Anyone who vandalizes restaurants and train stations, attacks doctors, or riots on trains has no place here and must be deported immediately. Action must finally be taken,” wrote the AfD in its statement.
Springer’s message on deportation comes at a time when the AfD just hit a record high of 24 percent in a new national poll from YouGov, a poll result once thought unthinkable by most just a year ago.
Some X users have taken a victory lap over AfD’s surging poll numbers.
“New Forsa surveys! AfD Saxony: 37%, AfD Thuringia: 36%, AfD Brandenburg: 32%. Do you finally understand it, dear old parties and old media? It doesn’t bother us that the AfD wants #Remigration. On the contrary, we – and more and more Germans – are voting for the AfD BECAUSE they want remigration!” wrote one user.”
https://rmx.news/trending/we-will-return-foreigners-to-their-homeland-by-the-millions-afd-politician-vows-mass-deportations-as-his-party-reaches-record-polling-high/
Covid Con Great Care Home Cull
latest leaflet to print at home and deliver to neighbours or forward to politicians, media, friends online.
The man’s a fool. Everyone knows it should have been 2 metres. The extra 17cm were crucial.
But blimey, I had no idea Bret Weinstein ever had this stance regarding the face muzzles. The 180 that some ( inc the learned and respected ) folk have done… 😮
https://twitter.com/LawHealthTech/status/1745706660822384716
Apparently he supported lockdowns initially.
Yes, and metric is science, innit?
‘Hours before the U.S. and British strikes in Yemen, the U.S. military said the Houthis fired an anti-ship ballistic missile into international shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden’
At last….some resolute action.
‘”This strike was two months overdue, but it is a good first step toward restoring deterrence in the Red Sea,” U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement.
In December, more than 20 countries agreed to participate in a defensive U.S.-led coalition, known as Operation Prosperity Guardian, safeguarding commercial traffic in the Red Sea.’
Reuters 12 Jan 2024
The very people who will complain about this action will also have been complaining about a rise in the cost of living
As a consequence of Houthi interdiction of commercial shipping in the Red Sea, longer shipping times, higher freight costs and an energy price shock all contribute to a rise in the cost of living.
If you wish for peace, then prepare for war.
Useful observation piece by Larry C Johnson on US/UK direct action against Yemen:
https://sonar21.com/will-crossing-the-rubicon-in-yemen-expose-u-s-and-u-k-weakness/
This bombing is unlikely to achieve any meaningful degrading of Yemeni missile and drone capabilities, but it will rally more of the global Arab and muslim street to the side of the Houthis. It also raises the risk that the Houthis, who up until now had only targeted ships linked to Israel, will expand targets to include U.S. and U.K. vessels. Important to remember that the U.S. and U.K. ships can only spend a limited time in the Red Sea before they have to set sail for a port, such as Dubai, where the destroyers can replace the empty VLS missile tubes.
I think it also is likely that U.S. and U.K. embassies, consulates will be attacked and that commercial enterprises viewed as U.S. or U.K. will be targeted. Nabil Khoury, a former deputy chief of the US mission in Yemen, appeared on Al Jazeera and observed, “the attacks on Yemen are a “failure of American diplomacy.” He also noted that as a result of these actions:
Yes that is a far better action then restraining your rabid killer dog nation Israel.
If it had been your country, your people, how would you have wanted your government to respond to an attack exactly similar to that of October 7th on Israel?
How should the Israeli government have responded, in your view?
“How Lord Arbuthnot became Post Office victims’ most trusted voice”
Why has Andrew Bridgen been airbrushed out of the script along with the former PO executive who now works for ITV.
Just asking.
My thoughts exactly.
What the WHO proposals are really about and why our elites really love and want them:
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-whos-managerial-gambit/
“Technocrats learned a lot from Covid. Not how to avoid policy mistakes, but how to exercise control.
These proposals will make next time worse. Not because they override sovereignty, but because they will protect domestic authorities from responsibility. States will still have their powers. The WHO plan will shield them from the scrutiny of their own people.
The WHO proposals are a shell game. The scheme will provide cover to domestic public health authorities. Power will be ubiquitous but no one will be accountable.
The WHO proposals would not replace or define the meaning of constitutional rights. But they would not be irrelevant either.
The WHO is not undermining democracy. Countries have done that over time by themselves.
The WHO proposals will protect power from accountability. National governments will be in on the plan. The people are the problem they seek to manage. The new regime will not override sovereignty but that is small comfort. Sovereignty provides no protection from your own authoritarian state.”
The German professor who correctly calculated an over 200x larger QALY loss than benefit of lockdowns has now calculated that the current migration leads to a €5.8trillion higher net cost instead of a benefit in Germany.
https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2024/raffelhueschen-zuwanderung-kostet-58-billionen-euro/