Autistic Activist to be arrested for exposing Jew Hatred

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26 Jul 2021, 1:08 pm

Woman to be arrested over allegations from ultra-conservative religious group

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Gardaí are to arrest a Cork activist next week on charges of “inciting hatred” against a Christian fundamentalist group operating in the county.

The group, which is part of a loose worldwide network called the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance (SSPX Resistance), was founded by an ex-Catholic bishop who recently gave a sermon in Cork linking Jewish people to the start of Covid-19 and calling them “master servants of the devil”.

SSPX Resistance has made a complaint to gardaí alleging incitement to hatred, harassment and trespass by Cork resident and campaigner Fiona O’Leary, who lives close to the church.

Ms O’Leary has written about the group on her blog and visited its compound to take pictures and question its leaders. She also photographed and published pictures of two of its priests after spotting them in the supermarket.

Incitement to hatred is a rarely prosecuted offence which makes it a crime to publish material “likely to stir up hatred” against a group or individual.

Last week, Ms O’Leary was informed by gardaí in west Cork that she is to be arrested by appointment next Tuesday for the purposes of interview in relation to the allegations. She was told she will be arrested in public if she does not attend the Garda station by arrangement.

The Drimoleague woman has a long history of campaigning on various topics through her blog and social media channels. She has previously clashed with Scientology, far-right movements and promoters of fake autism cures.

Mr Williamson was once a bishop in the Catholic Church before being excommunicated in the late 1980s. He was later readmitted to the church before being excommunicated again in 2009 after his conviction in a German court of Holocaust denial.

I am not familiar with Irish law but she is the one being arrested for incitement? :roll:


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26 Jul 2021, 4:25 pm

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Woman to be arrested over allegations from ultra-conservative religious group
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Gardaí are to arrest a Cork activist next week on charges of “inciting hatred” against a Christian fundamentalist group operating in the county.

The group, which is part of a loose worldwide network called the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance (SSPX Resistance), was founded by an ex-Catholic bishop who recently gave a sermon in Cork linking Jewish people to the start of Covid-19 and calling them “master servants of the devil”.

SSPX Resistance has made a complaint to gardaí alleging incitement to hatred, harassment and trespass by Cork resident and campaigner Fiona O’Leary, who lives close to the church.

Ms O’Leary has written about the group on her blog and visited its compound to take pictures and question its leaders. She also photographed and published pictures of two of its priests after spotting them in the supermarket.

Incitement to hatred is a rarely prosecuted offence which makes it a crime to publish material “likely to stir up hatred” against a group or individual.

Last week, Ms O’Leary was informed by gardaí in west Cork that she is to be arrested by appointment next Tuesday for the purposes of interview in relation to the allegations. She was told she will be arrested in public if she does not attend the Garda station by arrangement.

The Drimoleague woman has a long history of campaigning on various topics through her blog and social media channels. She has previously clashed with Scientology, far-right movements and promoters of fake autism cures.

Mr Williamson was once a bishop in the Catholic Church before being excommunicated in the late 1980s. He was later readmitted to the church before being excommunicated again in 2009 after his conviction in a German court of Holocaust denial.

I am not familiar with Irish law but she is the one being arrested for incitement? :roll:


Ireland clearly gives the Catholic Church special treatment.


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26 Jul 2021, 4:43 pm

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...makes it a crime to publish material “likely to stir up hatred” against a group or individual.
Um...how much of the stuff on American TV has been banned? It seems like a lot of it qualifies... :?


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26 Jul 2021, 5:57 pm

So...they invoke an Irish law against "hate crimes" to arrest a whistleblower who exposes hate...for...committing a hate crime?

Thats rich! :roll:

Yes...libeling the RCC in the Republic of Ireland is about like libeling Shiite Islam in Iran.



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05 Jan 2023, 10:01 pm

Cork autism campaigner avoids jail for trespassing at property of Christian fundamentalist group

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An autism campaigner has received a 60-day suspended jail sentence after she pleaded guilty to trespassing at the property of a Christian group she believed to be “a cult”, in what was described as “an endeavour borne out of misplaced public concern”.

Fiona O’Leary, 51, of Knockduff, Dunmanway, Co Cork, pleaded guilty at Bandon District Court to the charge of trespass at the property at Reenascreena, owned by the Society of Saint Pius X Resistance, or SSPX Resistance, on August 10, 2020.

Inspector Deborah Walsh told Judge James McNulty that at 5.20pm that day, Ms O’Leary, in the company of others, including some of her children, entered the property, owned by a man named in court as Fr Giacomo Ballini.

The judge heard she said she was a member of the press, and the “Covid police”, and began filming different areas of the property, including an office and a bedroom.

Insp Walsh said the footage was then uploaded onto social media.

In court, Insp Walsh said Fr Ballini had contacted gardaí, and his statement was read out in court. In it, he said five people, including two adults, parked a car on the property and then proceeded into the building, despite a request from two women there for them to leave.

The statement outlined that Ms O’Leary was recording as she walked around the property, that she said she was from the “Covid police” and that she rebuked those there for not wearing face masks. The court heard the filming included that of a private room and office, despite a request that she not do so. Ms O’Leary left at 5.50pm.

Ms O’Leary’s barrister, Alan O’Dwyer, agreed this was a fair representation of the facts. Outlining his plea of mitigation for his client, who had no previous convictions, Mr O’Dwyer said Fr Ballini had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church, but Judge McNulty said the court was not interested in politics or religion being discussed in court.

She would describe herself as a campaigner for people’s rights,” Mr O’Dwyer said of Ms O’Leary.

“This group [SSPX Resistance] refer to themselves as the resistance and she feels that they are acting outside legality.

“She may believe that they are a cult."

Using what he said were his own words, Mr O’Dwyer added: "This was an endeavour borne out of misplaced public concern.”

Mr O’Dwyer said his client was pleading guilty to the Section 13 Public Order offence, was apologetic and had said if she could go back in time she would have acted in a different way.

Judge McNulty said it was a “grave offence”, given it involved a “wilful intrusion on private property” in contravention of rights upheld in the Constitution.

“She is entitled to her antipathy,” the judge said. “She may harbour antipathy towards them [the group], but the antipathy is not permitted to escalate to the stage of enmity, of hostility, or vitriol.

“One has the distinct impression here that your client has taken on the role, herself, of the political correctness police.”

He said neither a fine nor community service would be appropriate and taking into account aggravating factors — such as the presence of her teenage son during the incident — and mitigating factors, such as her caring responsibilities, he sentenced Ms O’Leary to 60 days in prison, fully suspended for a period of two years.

That suspended sentence, on her own bond of €2,000, is on condition she keep the peace and be of good behaviour, and also on a special condition that for the next two years she does not engage in any behaviour in any public place or public forum, to include social media, which is abusive or offensive to any person or group with whom she disagrees.

The judge said Ms O’Leary can have and hold her opinions and nurture antipathies but there were boundaries which he said were necessary for civil public discourse and debate.


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