an open letter to david quinn feature writer with the near bankrupt irish independent newspaper

Quinn.

Last week you wrote that it was a fifty fifty call whether Bishop Eamon Walsh should have been fired.

How dare you.

How dare you flippantly impute guilt to a decent honorable man.

How dare you Quinn.

Of course Bishop Eamon doesn't have the use of an entire near bankrupt newspaper group to defend his good name when a scruff like yourself casually demeans it.

Nor does any Bishop have access to the power of the courts when a Nazi bitch like Judge Yvonne Murphy, or a failing newspaper group like your own, casually misconstrues past attempts to exercise responsible discretion in dealing with sex abuse cases as a cover up.

Nor does any sex abuse victim have access to due recompense and atonement when Independent Newspapers blithely conceals the 99.99 percent of the most extreme sex abuse cases that do not involve anyone with a connection to the Catholic Church while perpetually recycling the 0.01 percent of relatively minor cases that do, cheapening even the victimhood of those whom you have hijacked in order to use them as little more than a tawdry Trojan Horse in your permanent culture war with the ancient, true and beautiful Christian faith.

Quinn, oh Quinn, tis a far far worse thing ye did then than you had ever done.

Well you know what I mean.

I note that Independent Newspapers owes its creditors more than 1.5 thousand million dollars.

I note that the Irish Independent admits its sales figures fell by five percent last year.

That meant one in twenty of your readers simply walked away.

But those are the figures the Independent admits to.

The real figure for your loss of readership will be higher.

Quinn.

Many years ago my Uncle Scutch told me about a situation that prevailed in the United States during the 1960's.

Large corporations became terrified of being accused of institutional racism.

Each company quickly appointed a black member on its Board Of Directors.

Civil rights activists were not impressed and referred to such appointees as token niggers.

I always thought Uncle Scutch was being a bit of a Bolshevick when he trotted out this story.

For years I thought the corporate behaviour he described was improbable in the extreme.

I waited all my life to actually see a token nigger.

Quinn you pose Catholic.

You were hired by Independent Newspapers simply to give that organisation the ability to conduct a bigoted anti Catholic persecution while posing in plain sight as an organisation with high profile Catholics on its staff.

I've waited thirty years.

At least I've seen a token nigger.

Quinn you are the token nigger.

James Healy