{"id":27,"date":"2013-10-30T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:17:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T11:17:16","slug":"let-us-now-gather-together-the-bust-bag-of-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/let-us-now-gather-together-the-bust-bag-of-feathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Us Now Gather Together the Bust Bag of Feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"
After the \u201cthey steal babies\u201d press in Ireland will the press devote as musch time and column inches to publicising that the children are the natural offspring of the Romani parents? The children taken by Irish police from their families as being \u201ctoo blond and blue eyed to be natural children of Romani (Gypsy) parents, have been proven to be related to their families.<\/address>\n

Hitlers dream of purest blood
\nWas shattered by millions of sacrificed lives
\nYet today behind liberal words
\nA dark stereotype of lies thrives<\/p>\n

\u201cThey steal babies, don\u2019t you know\u201d, they say,
\nIn Greece a couple dark had a child, hair blond, eyes blue,
\nAnd so every blue eyed blond baby in a gypsy family
\nIs deemed stolen, for gypsies steal, it is said, maybe babies too.<\/p>\n

And so in Tallaght, and in Athlone,
\nPeople look with suspicious eyes,
\nAnd wicket whispers fueled by hate,
\nIs dressed as concern, children\u2019s protection laws a disguise.<\/p>\n

Where were the whisperers when the clergy strayed
\nFrom their self imposed celibacy rule
\nNot with women and men of age to choose
\nBut with innocent children still in school?<\/p>\n

Ah, silent they were, children disbelieved
\nBecause no-one wanted to know,
\nToday acknowledged, mildly dismissed
\nAs now rectified, and a long time ago.<\/p>\n

We have new victims we can smear,
\nWe can about them tell lies
\nDehumanize them as the Nazis did
\nThat is how the Fascists rise.<\/p>\n

Then as now, a campaign, Propaganda
\nA media by a people trusted,
\nHas been shown to be but a vehicle of hate.
\nNow must gather a bag of feathers busted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the \u201cthey steal babies\u201d press in Ireland will the press devote as musch time and column inches to publicising that the children are the natural offspring of the Romani parents? The children taken by Irish police from their families as being \u201ctoo blond and blue eyed to be natural …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[53,55,54,56],"tags":[39,57,62,60,2345,61,63,59,58],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-current-affairs-in-ireland","category-ireland","category-racism-in-ireland","tag-athlone","tag-civil-right","tag-current-affairs","tag-gypsy","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-racism-in-ireland-2","tag-romani","tag-romany","column","twocol"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-r","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3609,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/that-ireland-that-he-dreamed-of\/","url_meta":{"origin":27,"position":0},"title":"That Ireland That He Dreamed Of","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th March 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"That Ireland that he dreamed of For which so many died Was to be the nightmare we now think of From which so many died. 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