Christian Brothers play the market while the taxpayer foots the bill for their crimes, writes Emer O’Kelly
Sunday June 14 2009
Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS), a New York-based investment company founded by the De La Salle Brothers in 1981, has recently established a company called CBIS Global Funds which is described as an “off-shore fund based in Dublin”. The company wants to attract what it calls “ethical investments” from Catholic institutions in Europe and beyond.
Does everybody feel sick? Or is nausea reserved only for those who did not have their moral outlook warped by the kind of “good Catholic education” offered by these people and their ilk? It’s the kind of warped schooling that still has thousands of people in this country prepared, apparently, to trust their own children to schools owned and controlled by these greedy, blood-sucking, cruel, dishonest, unprincipled, immoral men and women who have creamed off millions of taxpayers’ money on the backs of abused child slaves. And just what do the holy brothers plan to do with these funds and the rest of their ill-gotten gains? On recently revealed experience we can be sure the main aim will be to ensure that the State authorities can’t get their hands on them. What a wonderful example of a moral code with which to imbue the coming generations. And we know how well they passed it on during past generations: they have produced serried ranks of thousands of Irish citizens who have equally warped moral codes when it comes to doing down their fellow citizens through greed and chicanery, and who persist in defending these people as offering a good moral and ethical grounding for life.
Solidarity with their tormented victims is easy when it doesn’t require action. Words and walking are cheap, as we saw on Wednesday. The words that would have required a sea-change in Irish thought weren’t uttered: “Get into the High Court. Now. Freeze their assets. Put in train the mechanism for taking them collectively and individually into the criminal court to answer for their sins — financial, violent, and sexual. Draft legislation to sequester all their funds on behalf of the State.”
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