RE-IMAGING

brown-paper-envelope

After talking to a friend earlier today, I have come to the conclusion that the “talks” presently taking place must face up to the fact that N.Ireland needs first and foremost a thorough re-imaging.

risingsun

A new name is essential, instead of N.Ireland it could be given a more exotic name along the lines of Japan`s famous epithet, “The land of the rising sun.”

bribe-in-a-envelope

The new name for N.Ireland could be and should be, “The land of the brown envelope.”  After all it is a true reflection of how government and most other life forms really work.

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My friend had been telling people the reason John Lewis cannot get building at Sprucefield is simply because they are not putting enough money in the brown envelopes! 

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Exodus 23:8  And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

1 Samuel 8:3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment.

Job 15:34For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

Psalm 26:10 In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Isaiah 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;

 Amos 5:12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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