Tax chaos in Ireland -- worsened by pop anti-culture mania

My brother has just come back from a trip to Ireland. He and his lady found the Irish most welcoming and ameriKan-friendly, we're not sure why. Of course, the subject of Ireland's economic devastation didn't come up, since we're a very socially-proper family.

Just now another Irish oxymoron emerges: tax protest! ut not the kind you think.

Too many layers of irony and pain in the story below. Glastonbury is one of the most hallowed, storied Christian locales of the earth -- the idea of blasting its precincts with the utter garbage in question is unbearable. (By an odd coincidence, I just spotted my sister reading Capt's The Traditions of Glastonbury, and I was just turning a fellow Christian Identist on to the book last week.) A blithering idiot like Sting should never have fronted a decadent, deafening outfit like U2. Ireland should never have had an income tax. Young Irish folks should have been taught the Bible, not the PC fads of the day -- if they properly had, maybe they'd be disrupting the day's business at Revenue Commissioners, the Irish equivalent of the IRS, instead of this overrated culture-mulching U2 mob.

Nevertheless, it's good, good, GOOD that they've gone after Sting this way! The rich and famous are sorely overdue for a comeuppance re their gross hypocrisy where anything political, economic, moral or cultural is concerned. THEY ARE THE CANNIBALS -- they are the vampires. The millions who make them rich and famous know not that they're being eaten alive by their gods or that this addiction means a less sane mental life for each new generation.

Actually, this concert "intervention" is a major headline of sorts. The fact that it was attempted by a group calling itself Art Uncut appears to bode a long-overdue rift aong arts people, a social stratum in which an ironclad policy of unity in leftism has forever prevailed.

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http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/violence-erupts-as-u2-rocks-glastonbury-20110625-1gkbg.html

Violence erupts as U2 rocks Glastonbury

U2 and its frontman Bono, known for their global poverty-fighting efforts, were accused of dodging taxes in Ireland by activists who crashed their performance at England's Glastonbury festival.

The anti-capitalist group Art Uncut inflated a 6-metre balloon emblazoned with the message "U Pay Your Tax 2." Security guards wrestled them to the ground before deflating the balloon and taking it away. About 30 people were involved in the angry clash.

Bono fan Gary Noble, 45, said he found the security response "all a bit shocking"............