Last month, Terry McMahon, an Irish director, producer, writer and actor, delivered a powerful speech in Dublin about the power and weaponisation of words.

“Words matter. Words alter lives. Words change worlds,” he said.

“[And] without words, we lose sight of the fact that the truth of a single word declared clearly and unambiguously can still cut through all the ideological noise and divisive smoke screens and sum up precisely what these banks and politicians and controlling class psychopaths are doing to our country.

“And that word is treason.”

On 18 September, the March for Justice 2024 took place in Dublin, Ireland, to raise awareness of the failure of Ireland’s judicial system to provide fair trials.  A press release from the organisers stated:

The campaigners are taking to the streets of Dublin, assembling at The Four Courts on the morning of Wednesday 18th September at 10:30 am, to protest about a long list of long-standing grievances, including:

● Barriers to Justice that include bans on Third Party Funding, Contingency Fees, the Right to Assign cases and retrospective Representative Actions.

● The unlawful repossession of family homes, farms and businesses by banks and vulture funds through fraudulent misrepresentation.

● The weaponisation of the asymmetry of power between big, powerful corporations and institutions including the State, when pitted against ordinary people, small business owners and farmers, who are often acting alone in the Courts as unrepresented lay litigants.

● The secrecy and corruption enabled by the in-camera rule in the family courts.

● The need for the appointment of Judges to be separated from Politics; and the need for Judges to make Declarations of Interest properly.

Press Statement: March for Justice Dublin 2024, The March for Justice, 17 September 2024

The march began outside the Four Courts – the principal seat of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the Dublin Circuit Court – and ended at Leinster House, the Dail Éireann (lower house of the Oireachtas or Irish Parliament).  At various points along the route, the march stopped to listen to a speech.  One of the speakers was award-winning film director Terry McMahon who gave a speech outside the Four Courts about the power and weaponisation of words.

Some people may hate what is being said, McMahon said, but the intention is to tell it as it is.

Words have power and history has shown that those in power are obsessed with controlling information, knowledge and wisdom.

The invention of the printing press led to a revolution in Europe by making previously inaccessible books widely available.  The new free flow of information threatened those in power, who responded by burning books.

Then the internet became the new printing press and it has become the largest library in human history.  And so, censorship and cancel culture have become the modern forms of book burning.  But that’s not enough for the controlling class.

The controlling class has gone beyond censoring specific words and has instead tried to subvert reality and destroy truth by manipulating words and their meanings.  This has led to a pattern of intellectual imprisonment, relentless dread, and the promotion of a “New Normal” that is actually a return to the old abnormal. The result is a society that now teaches racism and sexism, and promotes a culture of fear and control.

 In schools and universities, the politics of division is celebrated, fuelled by factors such as gender, skin colour and sexuality, under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion. 

The education system prioritises teaching about 107 genders over basic skills like reading, writing, and critical thinking, and the controlling class uses this to invert the truth of words and convince people that concepts like knowledge, freedom and happiness are foolish.

The Government’s need to criminalise words and thoughts through censorship has created a smokescreen to hide systemic class prejudice, which is the most damaging and sustained prejudice of all.

The controlling class don’t care about children and uses them as props to further their agendas.  McMahon gave several examples of how the Government has failed in its duties.  For example, the Government can’t find funding to treat children suffering from scoliosis but has no problem allocating €84 million for vaccines and €41 billion to bail out corrupt banks.  The economic collapse has led to people losing their homes yet instead of protecting homeowners, the Government prioritises the interests of the banks. 

McMahon explained that 18% of all mortgages in the country have been acquired by foreign vulture funds, which have purchased these mortgages from state-owned banks, meaning taxpayer-owned banks. The true cost of allowing these “vampires” into people’s homes will only be discovered when the mortgages are paid off, and the houses are sold. He continued:

“We know they’re not really vampires, they’re just vulture funds. We know they’re not really vultures, they’re just thieves. We know they’re not really thieves, they’re just business people sucking the lifeblood out of the vulnerable for profit. That’s how inversion works,” he said.

“When we willingly refer to blood-sucking vampires as simple business people and our courts and our banks and our government reward those foreign vulture funds by handing over even more Irish homes to them, words have lost all meaning.  

“How else would it have been possible to turn the word ‘thief’ into the word ‘banker’, to turn the word ‘killer’ into the word ‘politician’, to turn the word ‘liar’ into the word ‘judge’, ‘man’ into ‘woman’, ‘abuser’ into ‘protector’, ‘compassion’ into ‘killing’, the second-degree murder of 11 travellers into an accident and the first-degree murder of Terence Wheelock into a statistic.”

“Words matter. Words alter lives. Words change worlds.

“Without words, we are lost. Without words, we are easy prey.  Without words, we lose sight of the fact that the truth of a single word declared clearly and unambiguously can still cut through all the ideological noise and divisive smoke screens and sum up precisely what these banks and politicians and controlling class psychopaths are doing to our country.

“And that word is treason.”