Enoch Burke in Durance Vile

 

Twitter is mostly a foolish forum and I fear it will bring out the worst aspect of my penchant for the short cutting remark.  So I would hope.  I’m already getting bored but however plunge on.  I’ve been following the Enoch Burke case to gauge sentiment amongst the populace.  He is now over a month in jail and the school have yet to come to a determination about the suspension that was visited upon him for his refusal to use the preferred pronoun of a minor who was ascribing to the condition of being a eunuch for the kingdom of Woke.   The sequence of events was 1: suspension on refusal to comply with school directive 2: A verbal interruption of a formal dinner for the school and the past pupils complaining of the abrogation of bible codes in a Protestant confessional school and the denial of his freedom of conscience.  (What - no private judgment) 3: his turning up at the school to teach even though suspended 4: Injunction against him appearing on the school grounds 5: jail for contempt of the court order.

Now on Twitter the bleating of those opposed to Burke is that he is only in jail because he refuses to purge his contempt.  True but entirely false and beside the point of the demonstration of the firmness of his beliefs.  Why haven’t the school come to a decision about his fate?  Their only option is to fire him.  Could it be that they are dithering because there is opposition from past pupils about the woke agenda?  Or are they just vindictive, the longer they delay the longer he will be in durance vile.  Naturally when he is dismissed he will have no reason to turn up to teach and the court order will lapse.  He will then bring a case of wrongful dismissal which may or may not be successful.

Oh yes I forgot.  Enoch Burke has brought a defamation case against the Sunday Independent for publishing a story that he was moved from his cell/wing because he was annoying the other prisoners, Ordinary Decent Criminals (O.D.C.s)  This was not true and has been denied officially by the prison authorities.  In court today the judge said that he was bemused by the suggestion that this libel might prejudice his future legal actions by representing him as ‘hard time ' for O.D.C.s  I think the judge meant ‘amused’ but let ‘bemused’ stand as a state of fatuous bewilderment.