…inherent in the system!” is Eric Idle’s iconic wail in the Monty Python And The Holy Grail movie, when King Arthur finally loses his patience and pushes the mouthy peasant to the ground. Funny as hell.
And then we have this:
Enoch Burke has been at the centre of a trans right row in Ireland for over two years now – but he’s not the only member of his family facing endless legal woes.
In May 2022, the former history teacher told the headteacher at his school in County Westmeath that his Evangelical Christian beliefs meant he ‘opposed transgenderism’ and later criticised his boss’ ‘demand’ to use the child’s new name in front of staff and students.
It sparked a chain of events that has led to him being jailed for repeatedly showing up at Wilson’s Hospital School in County Westmeath after being sacked, and entering the staff room saying he was there to do his job.
Enoch has spent over 300 days in Mountjoy Prison in Dublin and has no prospect of release because he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from the school premises. Earlier this year, he refused a High Court offer to spend Easter out of prison and accused the judge of colluding with the school.
Earlier this week, Enoch’s sister Ammi lost an unlawful dismissal appeal at the Court of Appeal and was criticised for her ‘utterly appalling and egregious’ behaviour during proceedings.
In May this year, Ms Burke was also found guilty of obstructing a garda during a ‘commotion’ on 7th March last year at the Four Courts.
During the incident, her father ‘flung’ a female garda to the ground behaving ‘like a red rag to a bull’ after his wife was escorted out of court.
Mind you, it should be said that the entire family in question seems to be a bunch of raving nutcases (although this is not too uncommon in Ireland), but note how the whole thing has snowballed into some serious shit, all from something completely innocuous: because a man refused to use someone’s “proper” name.
That’s almost as bad as calling an anarcho-syndicalist a “bloody peasant”.
One thinks the family would also say, “help, help. I’m being repressed…”
Let me be the first to point out that it was Michael Palin, who in the intervening 50 years since he did this sketch has become something of a watery tart himself.
They all look the same to me.
“Enoch Burke has been at the centre of a trans right row in Ireland for over two years now – but he’s not the only member of his family facing endless legal woes.”
What’s that foreign gibberish you’re a speakin’, stranger? Sounds like a drunk explainin’ how a flux capacitor works. 😉