by Michael McGrath, Kilkenny, Ireland.
THE HARSH REALITY TO COME.
Mr. Michael McGrath appeared on Tuesday in front of Judge Joshua Barrington-Smythe at Kilkenny Circuit Court.
A member of the National Movement, McGrath was charged with the possession of proscribed writings, to wit a large 42 page A4 manuscript titled, “Did Six Million Really Die?” by an American history professor, William Frogitt, Alabama, USA.
He was further charged under the new Act of objecting over the Internet that too many people were being admitted to Ireland from Turkistan – a Turkistani being a person in possession of a “protected characteristic” under the Act.
So serious is the offence that McGrath was charged under indictment by Inspector Leopold Gilhooley at Kilkenny Garda station under new legislation popularly known as “McEntee’s Law”.
McGrath was faced with defending himself as Barrington Smythe judged he had too much money in the bank to qualify for legal aid – after Superintendent Timothy Mulrooney attested to this, stating that the Gardai had obtained details of his bank account under a warrant from the District Court.
Despite this, McGrath stated that although he had that money in the bank, it was insufficient in this day and age to pay even the most junior of barristers – and his own solicitor had refused to plead in the circuit court as the Bar Council might be offended.
The trial proceed after a jury of ten women and two men were sworn in. McGrath pleaded Not Guilty and proceeded to defend himself and his constitutional rights under Article 40.6.1. of the Constitution, Bunreacht na hEireann.
However, Judge Barrington Smythe ruled this specific defence out of order as the Article is subject to the public morality and what McGrath was up to was in his opinion highly immoral and contrary to the common good.
The trial proceeded as Superintendent Mulrooney swore in evidence that the copy of “Did Six Million Really Die?”, that was Exhibit Number One, the Gardai had seized on a raid of McGrath’s house at six in the morning on 24th May, 2023.
However McGrath replied that the gardai had found the publication in his toilet and that it was to be used therefore as toilet paper. Barrington Smythe interjected to rule that he would not accept this as the publication in question was too thick of a paper to be used as toilet paper as an expert from the Garda Technical Bureau had stated in evidence to the court.
The prosecution held that the Turkistanis entering the state – 34.000 of them this year already – were fleeing for relief from abject poverty at home, for an admittedly over-generous Irish dole, that they had a “protected characteristic” in Ireland as a non-Irish ethnicity and that therefore McGrath was guilty under section 47, subsection 9 of the Incitement to Hatred Act 2023, otherwise popularly known as “McEntee’s Law”.
And that he was also found flagrantly in possession of a publication, popularly known on the Internet as “Did Six Million Really Die?” that denied belief in the Holocaust, horror of horrors!
McGrath submitted in defence that the publication was written by a qualified historian, William Frogitt Ph.D (Yale), and that therefore everything stated therein was legitimate history, that it didn’t deny the Holocaust, but only the amount of people who had died, that Frogitt had researched to be 572,000 and that they had expired mostly from typhoid in the camps.
However, Barrington Smythe instructed the jury to ignore this statement as the figure was held to be six million dead by 93% of the world’s qualified historians, as Professor Dooley of UCD had already attested in evidence. Therefore that figure has to be adjudged as sacrosanct!
A professional photographer, McGrath submitted in evidence that they were not working and on the dole and constituted a heavy burden on the taxpayer like himself. Photos he had taken of several Turkistanis sleeping in the forecourt of Kilkenny town hall, he submitted in evidence.
However, Barrington Smythe ruled these photos out of order and refused to admit them into evidence on the basis that the people photographed possessed a “protected characteristic” under the new Act.
And, the learned judge added that the photos were taken of persons without their permission, as they were obviously asleep. McGrath objected that it was 3.00 PM in the afternoon when he had taken those photos, but the prosecution objected and he was overruled by Barrington Smythe, who warned that McGrath would be taken down to the cells and his trial continue without him if he didn’t desist from slandering those poor unfortunates.
Finally McGrath pleaded that he didn’t mean it, and that he was too old to be in jail. But Barrington Smythe observed that the charges were too serious.
When the jury returned, McGrath was found guilty by eleven out of twelve of them, and remanded in custody to await sentence that could be up to five years imprisonment in Midlands Prison, Portlaoise, the nearest prison, under the new Act.
“God help a poor Irish wretch like me!”, McGrath was heard to cry out as he was dragged from the court…..
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- Harry DempseyAnd you are a 100percent right, that will happen to the Irish people.
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