Dick Roche not part of secret masonic conspiracy ...but still an arsehole

Irish minister Dick Roche has denied he is a Freemason or a member of controversial Catholic group, Opus Dei.

In the run-up to the Lisbon referendum, it was alleged that the Government contained high-ranking Freemasons, but Mr Roche said he is not one of them.

"There are many decent people in the Masons and Opus Dei, but I haven't been a member of any of them."

Belfast Telegraph

There we have it then. No big conspiratorial, NWO organisation backing this man's actions. He's just a good old fashioned self serving prick - like most in the Irish political classes.

Some people seem to find it easier to believe there are secretive organisations behind every misdeed and mistake society makes than to admit that really, our society has messed up big time.
Weakness, ineptitude and a bad system that rewards the wrong people are all perfectly obvious reasons for our decline - however accepting that entails also accepting that our problems are our own fault.

Within this pretty ridiculous "news" story there was one interesting thing:

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In the interview, which appears in the current edition of Hot Press magazine, Minister Roche said he is convinced that anti-Lisbon Treaty group, Libertas has an agenda to reduce the European Union to a trade organisation -- something which everyone assumed was the EU's original purpose.

Hold on, isn't that what we were told it was when we were first asked to join? This sort of salesman-like doublespeak is precisely why people don't trust politicians. Everyone is tired of deception being the modus operandi of politics. Why can we not have honesty from our leaders and a political plan that does not conflict with our national aspirations and way of life? People are fine with a trade agreement between European countries; they are decidedly uncomfortable however about setting up and handing over all of their political and legal sovereignty to a European bureaucratic super-state.