Bereft of ideas on how to run their country in a functional manner, Ireland’s infantile rulers have resorted to micro managing accounts of local libraries in order to give the pretense of doing their job in any meaningful sense.
Councillors Daniel Whooley and Karen Power belong to the country's ruling Green Party, who are known for their shameful role in the IMF bailout that crippled families for the past decade.
The two, with little meaningful work on their desk apparently, caused a ruckus because the Fingal Library account was following ‘transphobic’ accounts.
Whooley, again with little to do, bragged of his background in ‘Cybersecurity’ and (without a hint of irony) expressed his outrage that JK Rowling would get involved in so small a matter.
“We thought it was strange behaviour from a library account which is supposed to be dealing with library events. I was not sure if it had been hacked or not. My background is in cybersecurity so I thought something like that.
The executive decided that it just should be kept down pending an investigation on whether it was hacked from the outside. I tweeted that it had happened and then it seemed to go off in its own direction. Obviously then, it took what I would call an anti-trans turn.
People were jumping on myself and Karen Power's backs then it escalated to where J.K. Rowling was in some of the comments. She was in replies to Karen. She has garnered a reputation for being transphobic and for those views.
One side of me is surprised she got involved at such a local level at what I would have thought was a very normal response that many companies would have taken after seeing confusing and concerning interactions on an account. Any corporate company would be like, 'this is weird, let's see what's happening.”
As most Irish politicians do when they are asked to behave in a reasonable and mature fashion, Whooley complained of being persecuted and mentioned Nazis:
“When I saw that there was more momentum building, I went straight to private. I have kind of seen how these pile ons can get. I logged off and then I was working in the cafe this morning and on council business so I didn't have a chance to look at it for a while.
"I got an email saying that the council were launching an investigation and I don't know any more beyond that. If you were to take the content and switch it to something else. If you saw Microsoft following a load of porn accounts, or if you saw a company following a load of Nazi or homophobic accounts, the first response of any corporate company would be to wonder what was happening there”.
The account ended up being suspended, but it has now been restored.
Secularist triumphalists will never cease to remind you of the bad old Ireland where censorship and fear reigned. Now, however, the church might be gone from political power, but the woke brigade have taken its place.
As young people face down another decade of emigration, inflation and misery under the Green Party, they can at least rest safe in the knowledge that their local library account is being monitored by those that they elected to make their lives better.