the resignation of trevor sargent from the government

Trevor Sargent should not have resigned from the government.
Trevor Sargent was a Minister in the Green Party/Fianna Fail coalition which has been in power in Ireland for a couple of years.
The Green Party/Fianna Fail coalition came to power after Fianna Fail gerrymandered the electoral rolls, simultaneously taking half a million Irish citizens off the register while adding three hundred thousand foreign nationals.
All the foreign nationals vote Fianna Fail.
They vote for their free passports and their free money.
That's how it was done.
The Greens are poor little rich boys with no mandate to govern who have suddenly found themselves in possession of near limitless power.
The Greens have just three seats in parliament but by propping up Fianna Fail they have achieved an unprecedented measure of nationwide influence.
It should be noted that the Greens hold a grand total of nought seats in local government.
They were wiped out of local government in the last local elections.
There won't be many of them left in parliament after the next general election either.
Unless Fianna Fail declares a fascist dictatorship.
Which just might happen.
The three Green seats in parliament represent the Greens' last waning presence on the Irish political stage.
But those are the three seats that matter.
Because Fianna Fail is so terrified of facing the electorate and is willing to buy power by caving in to the Green Party on every issue.
At a time of economic collapse, petrol prices have shot up again because of Green Party stealth charges styled a carbon tax.
Dublin city is paralysed because the government has implemented Green Party recommendations on traffic flow.
Householders everywhere are required by law to spend thousands of pounds insulating their homes to standards contrived by the Green Party.

As you might guess, I am loath to speak in favour of a member of the Green Party.

However today it appears to be regrettably necessary.

Green Party Government Minister Trevor Sargent was compelled to resign for what the media suggested was his attempts to influence Irish police (known as An Garda Siochana) to drop charges against one of his constituents.

This reporting of Green Party Minister Trevor Sargent's actions is grossly unfair and completely untrue.

Here is what happened in the case where he intervened.

A man saw a boy committing vandalism on a housing estate.

The man went to the boy's parent to complain.

The boy's parent headbutted the man.

The Irish police, with their usual crass incompetence, charged the man who had been headbutted along with the person who headbutted him.

The man who sought to report the child's vandalism to the child's parent was fined 500 Euro by an idiot Judge.

The headbutting parent received a sentence of four months.

So the Irish police charged the decent citizen along with the thug parent.

That's An Garda Siochana for you.

Those were the circumstance in which Green Party Government Minister Trevor Sargent quite openly wrote to our idiot police, on headed parliamentary notepaper, saying firstly that he was concerned the case against the headbutting parent was proceeding very slowly, and secondly that it seemed to him thoroughly unreasonable in these circumstances to press charges against the man who had received the headbutt.

For contacting the police and suggesting that it was unreasonable to press charges against a man who had just been headbutted by a parent whose son had been vandalising the estate, for his dutiful and courageous intervention in this matter, Trevor Sargent has been forced to resign from the government.

This resignation is absolutely unwarranted.

This regisgnation connotes exponential power to our dysfunctionally corrupt police force.

If an elected representative of the people of Ireland may not contact the police to express his concerns about their actions, why then the police are more powerful than our parliament.

We will in effect be ruled by the police.

Ireland will be a Police State.

It's already happening.

Trevor Sargent did not act as disgraced former Minister Bobby Molloy acted several years ago when Bobby Molloy sought to have child abusers released from jail.

Trevor Sargent acted in plain view without subterfuge.

Trevor Sargent acted as any of us would have acted to address deliberate foot dragging by the police in their slowness to charge the headbutter.

Trevor Sargent acted righteously to bring to police attention their own crassly deliberate incompetence in presuming to charge the victim of the headbutter.

Trevor Sargent behaved impeccably throughout the whole matter from start to finish and has nothing to atone for.

His representations to the police were decent, right minded and brave.

His only mistake was in accepting he had done anything wrong.

The suggestion that Trevor Sargent did anything wrong in this matter is utter nonsense.

In the morass of mediocrity which is Irish public life, he acted with rare integrity.

Trevor Sargent is an elected official in the Irish parliament.

He is entitled to approach anyone he wants to approach about any matter in the interests of the Irish people.

He is entitled to make any representations to any government department or police department that he sees fit to make representations to.

If we take this right away from Trevor Sargent we are making the police force more powerful than the elected representatives of the people.

By accepting this resignation we are ensuring that the police, those goonish clypes so wont to terrorise citizens at the side of the road, will be subject to even less scrutiny than before.

So it goes.

There is one other factor in this wrongfully enforced resignation that we should be aware of.

Last week a certain William O'Dea, a Minister in the same government as Trevor Sargent, was forced to resign.

Willie O'Dea was a member of Fianna Fail.

Willie O'Dea was forced to resign for attempting to mislead a journalist into believing that a local politician (a member of former terrorist group Sinn Fein) owned a building which contained a brothel.

The Fianna Fail Minister was forced to resign because the Greens threatened to withdraw their support if he didn't resign.

It seems likely, to a level beyond reasonable doubt, that Fianna Fail has contrived the present media circus against Trevor Sargent as an act of revenge.