The John-Henry Westen Show - August 20, 2021


Meet the journalist fighting Ireland's corrupt, authoritarian COVID measures


Summary

In this episode, journalist Gemma Doherty talks to journalist John Henry about the crisis in Ireland over coronavirus vaccines and how the church is using deception tactics to keep the population on lockdown. She speaks to John Henry, a Catholic priest, about what is happening on the ground and what is being done to keep people safe.


Transcript

00:00:00.280 Ireland, like the rest of the world, is in COVID lockdowns and all sorts of things going on with coronavirus.
00:00:08.120 People are dying from the vaccines.
00:00:10.040 We're going to speak to someone on the ground.
00:00:11.920 Investigative journalist Gemma Doherty is with us.
00:00:14.700 You're going to want to stay tuned.
00:00:30.000 Gemma, welcome to the program.
00:00:36.660 Great to be with you, John Henry.
00:00:38.300 Thank you for having me.
00:00:39.740 Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross.
00:00:41.960 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
00:00:46.360 Amen.
00:00:48.460 So, like the rest of the world, Ireland has been in lockdown for over a year and a half now.
00:00:55.080 Things have been bad, both in the church and in society.
00:00:57.840 They're forcing the vaccines on everyone.
00:01:00.500 Tell us what's going on on the ground.
00:01:02.020 Well, we've had a very difficult year and a half, John Henry.
00:01:05.900 It's been relentless, really.
00:01:08.220 And I suppose Ireland, you know, being on the western edge of Europe has, well, we've seen our country change utterly.
00:01:18.920 You know, a lovely green island where everyone knew each other, profoundly Catholic nation.
00:01:24.720 It was probably the most Catholic country in the world, even though I know other countries might like to have that title.
00:01:32.420 But I think because of our fight over 800 years to battle for the soul of Catholicism in Ireland,
00:01:39.760 I think we realise now what we've lost and what was given to us by our faith and the long, hard centuries of martyrdom that our ancestors fought to retain the Catholic faith here.
00:01:56.380 And, you know, we have just thrown it all away.
00:01:59.520 And really, the Irish people, I don't like to be cruel, but they are getting by throwing God out of the picture.
00:02:06.500 They are getting everything they deserve.
00:02:08.800 And I keep saying to myself, we've got to go through this phase of punishment because it's the only thing that's going to bring people back to God, I feel, as hard as it is for our people.
00:02:20.700 So, you know, yes, we haven't really had a very hard lockdown in the last few months.
00:02:26.340 They've had us on release over the summer.
00:02:30.520 The summer has been difficult, very difficult weather.
00:02:33.240 We haven't really had any decent sunshine apart from maybe one week.
00:02:38.440 And we see now the children are preparing to go back to school and a gun is being put to the heads of parents.
00:02:45.760 They're starting to go down this road.
00:02:47.880 A lot of parents are very, very anxious about what's going to happen come September.
00:02:52.760 Are their children going to be forced to take this?
00:02:55.620 We've had an awful lot of compliance because they've been working so hard on the Irish people for the last three decades.
00:03:02.300 It's relentlessly the mainstream media telling them that the past was a terrible place.
00:03:08.300 The Catholic Church ruled them with an iron rod, which was not true.
00:03:12.380 They fabricated a lot of stories in order to bring in abortion in a profoundly pro-life country, the most pro-life country in Europe, bar Malta, probably, and Portugal.
00:03:24.880 And they told them the Irish people lies about what their country used to be like.
00:03:31.040 And now the Irish have given away everything that was great about our country.
00:03:36.320 I just spoke to a priest, Father Brendan, from there, who's very popular on YouTube and was telling me similarly about the church, about lockdowns, about all this stuff.
00:03:46.000 But in terms of COVID, in terms of vaccines, what are you seeing on the ground?
00:03:52.520 I mean, we've got reports from all over the world.
00:03:55.080 You know, in the United States, the VAERS report is indicating over 11,000 deaths already from the vaccine.
00:04:01.080 Have you seen any of that in Ireland?
00:04:03.220 Do you have some kind of reporting system like VAERS?
00:04:05.780 We do, yes.
00:04:07.140 Well, it's, again, it is very, very haphazard because nobody is being told about it, except perhaps on my channel and a few others.
00:04:15.160 But it's called the HPRA, the Health Products Regulatory Authority.
00:04:20.360 And they have admitted that about 70 people here have died.
00:04:24.720 Now, you know, we have a population of approximately 5 million here.
00:04:28.420 So that is quite high.
00:04:31.600 But I imagine it's multiples of that and thousands of injuries.
00:04:36.240 I mean, the thing about Ireland is that because the population is so small of Irish people, we, you know, generally know each other and we, you know, it's sort of two or three degrees of separation.
00:04:48.300 We're like one big family.
00:04:49.600 So we're able to find out about somebody quite quickly and, oh, that's Johnny's second cousin or whatever from, you know, the next county.
00:04:59.480 So anecdotally, I am hearing so many, so many reports.
00:05:03.920 And I was just talking to a wonderful teenager that we met during the summer.
00:05:09.060 We got a trailer out on the roads of Ireland to tell the truth about the COVID hoax deception.
00:05:17.240 And that was one of the tactics we deployed to try and waken up the Irish people.
00:05:22.860 And one day when we were out with this big trailer and putting up, you know, 99.9 percent recovery rate, et cetera, this young teenager, he's 17, he approached us.
00:05:34.340 He couldn't believe that he had seen the trailer and he was just coming home from school.
00:05:39.120 And he was telling us that he was the only boy in his school that was awake to the agenda.
00:05:46.520 And what a nightmare it was in school.
00:05:49.460 There were several hundred of them in the school.
00:05:52.480 But I was talking to him today and he had told me at the time that his parents were awake to the agenda, that they got it.
00:05:59.180 They were not going to get the vaccine.
00:06:01.480 But he was talking to me today and he told me both of them got it.
00:06:05.340 And his mother has been rushed to hospital today, four days after she got it.
00:06:11.800 A young woman, I'd say she's only in her 40s.
00:06:14.340 And this is, I mean, I am so devastated for him because, you know, he's so worried about his future.
00:06:24.820 And it is these children.
00:06:26.740 These are the ones that I mean, my heart is broken for the children of of not only my country, but our world.
00:06:34.140 How traumatized they have been in the last year by all of this fear, fear, fear.
00:06:41.420 And those that realize what's going on and see their parents getting sick and their grandparents dying.
00:06:48.280 It's it's you know, nothing has happened in this world like this before.
00:06:53.120 Really, it's such a global agenda.
00:06:55.560 It's one of the things that that parents need to wake up to the fact that our children, especially young children, have lived their lives under COVID in a way.
00:07:05.280 So I have a son who's nine and, you know, starting to remember back before COVID becomes difficult for little ones because they've lived their life a good portion of their lives under lockdowns.
00:07:18.680 Where masses are either closed and forbidden or they're done in their cars or if they're done inside, you have to wear a mask.
00:07:26.880 And, you know, if you're receiving Holy Communion on the tongue properly, oh, you have to wait till after mass is finished to do that.
00:07:32.520 You're a second class citizen already.
00:07:34.860 It's unreal.
00:07:36.480 And yet this is becoming what at least our young children will remember as normal life.
00:07:43.620 We've I think adults need to take into that into account is just absolutely horrifying.
00:07:48.680 Um, you've done a lot of courageous work.
00:07:51.980 You've spoken out, but yet you've faced some real backlash.
00:07:56.040 In fact, as I heard, you were threatened with arrest.
00:07:59.100 Can you tell us what happened?
00:08:00.260 Yes.
00:08:00.860 Well, I mean, I actually was arrested last year.
00:08:04.400 I have a long background in investigative journalism, focusing on police corruption.
00:08:08.640 And sadly, we have a profoundly corrupt police force in Ireland.
00:08:12.940 It gives me no joy to say this, but I've spent a lot of time exposing murders and child sexual abuse that have been covered up by the police in this state.
00:08:22.980 And so, you know, they're always on their guard when I'm around, because it usually means that I'm exposing them in some way.
00:08:32.820 But last summer we were doing a campaign of using banners because we knew that the forced vaccination agenda was coming.
00:08:42.920 So we had banners on some of the bridges, no forced vaccines.
00:08:47.680 That was last actually a year ago.
00:08:49.700 So, and, um, one day we were doing this and I was doing a stream.
00:08:56.360 I had about a thousand people watching.
00:08:58.360 And next thing, these three police came onto the bridge and started to cut down our banners.
00:09:03.740 So I went up and I was streaming and I was saying, look at these, you know, thugs, look at what they're doing.
00:09:10.140 This is disgraceful because it's perfectly legal what we were doing.
00:09:13.600 You know, it was absolutely lawful.
00:09:15.500 And, um, before I knew it, I had a set of handcuffs on me and I was being taken away in a police car.
00:09:23.400 I couldn't believe it.
00:09:24.420 I mean, I, I now, as it happened, it was sort of the local mafia within the, the, the local police force that had done it.
00:09:33.280 A man with a terrible track record, but I was thrown into a cell for three hours.
00:09:38.660 And I will say that I never felt closer to God in that period.
00:09:44.360 I, you know, cause I've done a lot of stories through the years on miscarriages of justice and people who have been wrongly jailed.
00:09:52.240 And it gave me such an insight to suddenly lose my freedom to be, uh, thrown into handcuffs, thrown into a cell.
00:10:00.700 And to be in the hands of, of complete maniacs for that period.
00:10:06.180 So that case is, I haven't even had a court appearance.
00:10:10.840 I mean, there's been court appearances, but my, my lawyer has gone, but, uh, I, that's going to come up at the end of September.
00:10:16.860 Three charges, three charges of public order and refusing to give name and address, which I actually did because they had handcuffed my hands so severely and they damaged my shoulder and the way it was three of three of them.
00:10:34.120 So, uh, I did give in and give my, they knew exactly who I was anyway.
00:10:38.300 Um, and, but then they came up with another charge of obstruction.
00:10:43.700 So, which I didn't do.
00:10:45.300 I was like, I was filming the whole time.
00:10:47.620 And, you know, as soon as I saw that he was really out of control, I walked away and he came from behind and grabbed me.
00:10:55.540 Um, so that's the, that's what they call obstruction.
00:10:58.200 But so that has been dragging on.
00:11:00.680 And I think they hoped that that would stop me from my anti lockdown work, but obviously it didn't.
00:11:07.360 But we had a scenario a few weeks ago where a group of healthcare workers from the biggest neurological acute hospital in Dublin in the country came to me and they said that they had been under severe pressure since January to take the vaccine.
00:11:27.120 And that the management of the hospital had been saying extraordinary things to them, which they had recorded secretly because they knew that they were lying.
00:11:37.880 And they were saying things like AstraZeneca is going to save the world.
00:11:42.800 The vaccines are very safe.
00:11:44.800 They were not providing informed consent on any level.
00:11:48.560 And so they came to me and I told their story and I stood outside the hospital a few times doing streams.
00:11:56.060 I didn't identify them at that stage, but we did a few anonymous streams.
00:12:01.360 But I, you know, did, did some reports from the hospital in which I said, what's going on in this hospital is, is, you know, it's, it's effectively a death camp.
00:12:13.040 And, um, before I knew it, there was a court case a few days later in which the hospital had gone into court to try and get an injunction against me from telling this story.
00:12:24.560 So I had to appear in court the following week and they were taking a defamation action, which is usually heard in front of a jury.
00:12:35.180 Um, but in this matter, they tried to actually just get the judge to gag me before it could go before a jury.
00:12:43.180 So I went into court the following week.
00:12:46.140 The complainants did not turn up the CEO of the hospital, the head of nursing, neither of them turned up.
00:12:53.180 They just filed affidavits.
00:12:55.440 Uh, I could see that the judge did not want to know.
00:12:58.140 I told the judge that I had recordings of these people stating things about the vaccine that were not true, coercing staff, telling staff that they would have to go home if they did not get the vaccine.
00:13:12.540 Telling staff who had had allergic reactions to drugs in the past, who had had a stroke, for example, in one case, that it was fine for them to get the vaccine and they really needed to get the vaccine.
00:13:26.140 I mean, this was endangerment of life, reckless endangerment.
00:13:30.560 But the judge, he didn't want to know.
00:13:33.100 So he ruled against me.
00:13:34.820 But I decided on principle that I was not going to take down my reports because they were truthful.
00:13:40.120 And the judge called me a liar effectively in court.
00:13:44.260 Our judiciary is rotten, rotten, rotten.
00:13:47.280 So, um, I then got a letter from the hospital to say that they were going to seek a committal order to have me jailed if I refuse to take down.
00:13:57.620 Um, so the videos, so I did pray hard and I thought, what, what will I do?
00:14:02.740 Because if I am jailed, they'll do the PCR, they'll probably leave me in there, you know, and I really didn't want that.
00:14:10.220 But then I think there was some sort of, I'm not going to claim divine intervention, but my website was then taken down.
00:14:17.000 Um, and I don't know how they managed to do that because I, I probably have the biggest conservative website in Ireland, uh, in terms of views on that.
00:14:27.720 And I had it securely, um, hosted in America where I thought it was safe, but no.
00:14:34.940 So the whole thing was taken down, everything gone, my email, everything for nearly a week.
00:14:41.900 And, um, we managed to get it up and we had to leave the United States.
00:14:46.380 But as a result of that, the videos all basically were taken down.
00:14:51.040 So they backed off, but I've put some of them back up now and I continue to report on that.
00:14:57.740 You are, uh, willing to sacrifice yourself, uh, for the truth.
00:15:02.580 And I think that's what makes you so dangerous to the powers that be.
00:15:06.460 And I think we need more journalists, um, who are willing to do that.
00:15:10.200 The thing with journalism today is that it is mostly bought and paid for.
00:15:14.920 And I hate to say that, but it's, you know, what like medicine today was once a noble profession, uh, has now become just, you know, part of the, uh, either big government platform or else bought and sold and paid for by big pharma or, or whatever else.
00:15:32.260 So, um, I, I can see that them thinking that you might be dangerous.
00:15:37.760 Um, so, well, praise God for what you've done and, uh, for your courage and which, which obviously comes from your faith.
00:15:44.600 I mean, you, that, that shines forth very clearly.
00:15:47.140 We were all sent to a Dominican convent and me and my siblings.
00:15:52.400 And I really put it down to just having that ethos of, you know, our, our school jumper had the word, the motto, very tasks on it.
00:16:01.920 And every day when you pull that on, I mean, I'm not, we were far from perfect, but we knew that the nuns who educated us were good women.
00:16:09.060 And they, they taught us values that have stood to a lot of us, I think, throughout our lives.
00:16:15.820 And we were probably the last generation who really got that good classical Catholic education, um, where it was about right and wrong.
00:16:24.900 We were constantly debating issues, you know, around, think not so much abortion, cause that really hadn't come in, but, you know, maybe euthanasia and, and protecting life.
00:16:37.100 And, um, we were allowed to debate in those days and that's all gone now.
00:16:43.020 Children are not allowed to think critically.
00:16:44.980 They're not allowed to think they're told what to think.
00:16:48.680 And, you know, our church gets such a bashing all the time, as you know, but it, it really, I can see no better way to, you know, to, to create a culture than from Catholicism.
00:17:02.800 And I think people are realizing that.
00:17:04.580 Yeah. Now what's going on around Ireland with regard to George Soros?
00:17:08.500 Because I hear there's, there's, uh, activity going on, uh, that Soros is controlling or, or, or doing in Ireland.
00:17:14.820 What's, tell us what's happening.
00:17:16.340 George Soros has been, you know, he's been funding a lot of the NGOs over here.
00:17:20.980 Amnesty, for example, got a big chunk of money in advance of the abortion referendum.
00:17:26.040 Um, I believe that he is a major shareholder in a big Chinese company called Wuxi Pharmaceuticals, who've just opened a huge plant here on the northeast coast of Ireland.
00:17:39.180 And, and I was up there actually a few days ago and it is terrifying.
00:17:44.340 I think they make vaccines there.
00:17:45.880 There was an allegation that it was the firm where the so-called virus had been released from, but I don't know how true that is.
00:17:53.860 It's, it's, it's a Wuhan based company called Wuxi and Soros is supposed to be involved, but we have, of course, the Clintons here are very, very, very influential.
00:18:04.560 They have a lot of connections and have homes here where they come and stay and if they're still alive, but yeah, there's a lot of, a lot of connections.
00:18:14.820 So he's certainly been the financial drive behind a number of referenda that we have had in recent years, which have utterly turned our culture upside down.
00:18:26.840 Gay marriage, no such thing, obviously, um, abortion, and we had a children's rights referendum a few years ago, which basically took, uh, the rights of children out of the hands of the family and their parents and put them into the hands of the state.
00:18:43.920 Many people didn't realize that at the time they thought this was about giving children rights, but of course, children, you know, the, the family was always a very strong thing in Ireland.
00:18:55.040 And the Irish family is, is known around the world and certainly in America, you know, for being a strong unit and loyal and typically Catholic.
00:19:06.300 Um, and of our constitution, which I have here is very clear in that it is a Catholic constitution and the preamble states, and I might just read it to you if you're aware of this about our constitution,
00:19:22.140 but it begins in the name of the most holy Trinity from whom is all authority and to whom as our final end, all actions, both of men and states must be referred.
00:19:38.780 We, the people of era Ireland, humbly acknowledging all of our obligations to our divine Lord Jesus Christ, who sustained our fathers through centuries of trial,
00:19:53.340 gratefully remembering their heroic and unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of our nation,
00:20:00.760 and seeking to promote the common good with due observance of prudence, justice and charity, so that the dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured,
00:20:10.920 true social order attained, the unity of our country restored and concord established with other nations do hereby adopt, enact and give to ourselves this constitution.
00:20:23.120 So, given that it is based on the Holy Trinity, it's, it's fundamentally Catholic.
00:20:29.460 And I think our history is often rewritten as being a battle between the Irish and the English.
00:20:36.280 It wasn't that.
00:20:37.480 It was a battle between our Catholic faith and the Book of Common Prayer, that we were not going to adopt Protestantism,
00:20:48.320 because we believe in the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
00:20:55.160 And during our famine in the 1840s, we had our own Holocaust in Ireland,
00:21:02.060 where at least a million people died as a result of their refusal to take the soup.
00:21:07.600 And that meant to renounce their Catholic faith and adopt Protestantism under Henry VIII, Cromwell, etc.
00:21:16.620 We now are seeing a new form of that with the vaccine, that people who take the vaccine are effectively taking the soup.
00:21:25.080 And the soup was the food that was being offered by our colonizers in return for renouncing our Catholic faith.
00:21:33.840 And, you know, we, we see, we see what we have lost.
00:21:40.220 And we were once known as the land of saints and scholars.
00:21:43.420 And our country gave so much, given its small size.
00:21:47.740 But it was basically one large monastic settlement where the Bible was preserved by the monks who lived out on little islands in the Atlantic and,
00:22:00.100 and lived for Christ, and, you know, up until very recent generations, you know, my parents' generation, they were profoundly holy people.
00:22:10.200 They were profoundly spiritual.
00:22:12.620 So I, God must look down on this island and feel desperately, you know, I think our punishment is going to be severe.
00:22:20.180 It's an incredible thing, as I was telling Father Brendan to, to even imagine what's happening when, both in, in Portugal and Ireland,
00:22:28.320 you had this promises from heaven that there would be faith left, that, you know, St. Patrick on the rock forever and ever,
00:22:34.120 and Our Lady of Fatima to the three children.
00:22:37.060 And yet, in both countries, this devastation around same-sex marriage, around abortion, that seemed impossible to those who had paid attention.
00:22:49.240 And it really does bring back what Our Lady said, you know, there will still be faith in Portugal, for instance.
00:22:56.860 What does that even mean once they've gone for abortion?
00:23:00.040 And so, very, very, well, it's alarming, but one thing is sure and true, there will always be faith.
00:23:09.420 And I want to thank you for standing up for faith, because it's an amazing thing in the midst of such loss of faith and scary threats to still stand for it and still love it.
00:23:20.280 And what you read from the Constitution was just so beautiful.
00:23:23.400 I would be so proud to be Irish without my Constitution.
00:23:28.380 We're so proud of North America, and we've learned so much.
00:23:33.220 I mean, North America, Canada, the United States, Christians there have been at the forefront of this.
00:23:40.900 And they have helped us here in Ireland to remind us, you know, that our faith is all that matters.
00:23:49.260 So, the Renaissance is happening, I think, in North America this time, rather than the old country.
00:23:55.800 And that's the way it should be, I think.
00:23:59.760 I think that's appropriate.
00:24:01.980 We're learning from you guys, what we've given away.
00:24:05.880 Thank you so much for being with us on this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
00:24:08.980 Where can people go and find Gemma Doherty and all that you offer?
00:24:13.020 Well, my website is Gemma O. Doherty.
00:24:15.560 We're very proud of the O.
00:24:16.880 During the colonial times, people were encouraged to give up the O, which was, it means like daughter or son of.
00:24:24.080 In order to find my site, you'll have to go through an awful lot of far-right conspiracy theorists, neo-Nazi, whatever else I call it.
00:24:33.780 So, a lot of fake news there, but it goes with the territory, doesn't it?
00:24:37.600 You're used to it.
00:24:38.680 It does indeed, and it'll be listed in my blog.
00:24:41.340 Gemma, thank you for joining us on the episode of this show.
00:24:43.920 May God bless you.
00:24:44.740 Thank you for all the great work you do on LifeSite News.
00:24:47.600 It's phenomenal.
00:24:48.900 And God bless all of you.
00:24:50.320 We'll see you next time.
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