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About meUn-fence-ible-in Free Spirit, and Un-categorisable. FACEBOOK and YOUTUBE fan. Profile on www.ZoomInfo.com and www.LinkedIn.com
Available for media appearances, articles, commissions, panels, talks. New Irish BLOGGER & Writer & Philosopher. "Strenuus pro Virili Libertatis Vindicator" [Dean Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745]. Activist, a radical reformer but Counter-Revolutionary. A ROUNDHEAD, neither Cavalier, nor Digger, a GIRONDIN, neither Ancien Regime, nor Jacobin, and a TRUDOV(N)IK, neither Tzarist nor Bolshevik. For Lilburne, Condorcet and Kerensky, neither Winstanley, Robespierre nor Lenin. And more Socratic than either Platonic or even Aristotelian. Chronic Refractory Night-Owl. Acutely and chronically Gyno-tropic. Avid reader.

Independent Re-SEARCH-er, ANALYST, COMMENTATOR, especially on ME conflict, Israel, Islamicist Jihadi Ideology and movements, Principled [Interest-based] Conflict Resolution, Mediation, Security/Defence, and Ethics.
Also member of: virtualtourist.com, community.webshots.com, Friends of the IDF [Israeli Defence Forces], SPME -Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Irish Friends of Israel [Executive,Ireland-Israel Friendship League, and HDCA [ Human Development and Capability Asssociation] . Director [a] Advisory Board: Foundation for Constitutional Democracy, Jerusalem, and [b]Board of Dialogue Ireland. Former National President, and Honorary Life Member [from 2005]-Public Service Executive Union. Former Secretary/Treasurer [a] Post Office Trade Union Group and [b] Peace Train Organisation, and [c] STOP-96 [Solidarity To Organise Peace], and [d ] AGM Recording Secretary, JORT -Journey of Reconciliation Trust [Mesen Round Tower, Flanders, Island of Ireland WW I War Memorial.

Passionate explorer of people, places, ideas and periods. Supporting Principled Interventionist Internationalism, I believe in strong, open UNIVERSAL Democracy and universal Human Rights, in a context of national sovereignty, and in the indivisible Atlantic & wider Anglo-Spheric freedoms, culture, ethics and heritage, and in the total defeat of terror gangs from Belfast to Bali, from Madrid to Basra, from Kabul to Haifa, from Manhattan to Istanbul, from Adare to Beirut, from Bogota to Tehran, from London to Beslan, from Casablanca to Karachi, and from Manila to Mumbai.

Freedom is never free - you are either an ARMED Democrat, or else you end up a Dead SLAVE. Strength is necessary, but not sufficient, for Freedom. And the Bleu in the French tricolor- LIBERTE, is the foundation of [and indeed the primary and over-riding value among ] both the Blanc- Fraternite, and the Red-Equalite. The Good is what we grasp by the un-fettered operation of free, open, critical reasoning, and for reasons verified in such a structured process, and then embrace and authentically live - not on any external command, or fashion, or tradition, or feelings, but because we recognize and freely assent to its real and intrinsic merits, which we have personally discovered in thinking FOR, but not merely BY, ourselves.

You back either the Arsonist or the Fire-Fighter, the Drug Gang or the Drug Squad, the Suicide-Bomber or the Bomb Squad.

A Zetetic, Tri-chotomic Tri-Lemma-ist, and Critical Realist, I reject the 11 simplistic Dualistic Binary Di-Lemmas of [a] tyranny or terror, [b] pacifist neutrality or belligerent partiality, [c] totally unrestricted, unregulated market or statist, centralised monopoloy, [d] obscurantist fideism or arrogant rationalism, [e] puritanical repression or porno obsession, [f] moral absolutism or anarchic relativism, [g] alienated individualism or coercive collectivism, [h] patri-archy or mis-andry, [i] body or mind, [j] nature or culture, and [k] cynical exploitation or naive optimism, which may be mutually exclusive dichotomies, but are certainly not collectviely exhaustive options.
I believe in "Both-And", not "Either/Or", and in the "via media". I believe in the dynamic "Virtuous Spiral", not the static "Vicious Circle". A simple "Contradictory" [denial] is not a total "Contrary" [OPPOSITE position, nature, tendency, direction]. "Not-A" is not necessarily "Anti-A". Re-frame the old, Closed Question and you may create a new, Open Answer. Our interests and concerns do not necessarily provide the solution or the strategy. And the strategy does not define the tactics.

My 14 mottos would be:
[1] Be the Hammer, or the Anvil - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832,
[2] What goes with the flow ? Dead fish! - Dr. Roy Maurice Keane [ born Aug 10, 1971, Mayfield, Cork City, ex-Capt of both Man Utd FC (2008 3rd-time European Champions winner) & Rep of Ireland, then Sunderland FC and now Ipswich Town Manager].
[3] Those who can make you believe Absurdities can make you commit Atrocities - Voltaire =Francois-Marie Arouet [1694-1778].
[4] Life is for living, not denying, for enjoying, not controlling. And challenges are for confronting, and winning, not for evading or ignoring.
Who never dares never wins.
[5] Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty - Edmund Burke, 1729-1797.
[6] The RHF [Royal Highland Fusiliers] motto - Nemo Nos Impune Lacessit [ no-one provokes us with impunity.
[7] Pote Paradidomai - I never surrender.
[8] And I cherish those 6 words of Ulster poet, Louis MacNeice, 1907-1963, - the drunkeness of things being various.
[9] Thaumazein esti arches tes sofias - To wonder is the root of wisdom - Aristotle, 384-322 BCE, {Metaphysics].
[10] Ho de anexestatos bios ou biwtos anthrwpou - The un-examined life is not worth living for humans - Socrates in the Apology - Plato, 427-347 BCE .
[11] The clouds are lies. They cannot last. The blue sky is the truth [Geoffrey A. Studdert-Kennedy, 1883-1929, WW I Chaplain - **Woodbine Willy**].
[12] They that sow in tears shall reap in joy - Tanakh, Psalm 126, verse 5.
[13] Put not your trust in princes -Tanakh, Psalm 146, verse 3.
[14] Strenuus pro Virili Libertatis Vindicator - Dean Jonathan Swift, 1667-1745.

An INTP/ENTJ personality on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator,and a Type 8 [The Challenger] on the Enneagram, born in the Chinese Year of the Ox, and a Leo.

About my libraryOnly some [1,681 ] catalogued so far. Interests include: Irish, Ulster, European, US, Military, Greek and Jewish History and Literature, Philosophy, Aviation, Space, Poetry, Spirituality, Theology, Israel/Middle East, Sam Keen, Sam Beckett, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Nikos Kazantzakis, Richard Kearney, Hubert Butler.

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