Saturday 5 November 2011

Alexandra Trotsenko fundraiser. Artist who had fingers cut off by skanger needs money for operation.

If you wanted to breed an underclass of superskanger, you could not have planned it better than the Irish authorities did.

Informed as they were by the Catholicism of the founding fathers which - along with Gaelic revivalism - was a key founding component of the 1922 state, they ensured that contraception remained an alien concept to the Irish up until relatively recently.

As a result, people popped them out like there was no tomorrow. Being able to provide, or notions of parental responsibility, did not crop up at all. Consequently, vast swathes of sink estates sprung up around the country's larger urban centres, as the nation's denizens were encouraged to breed without forethought. Or foreplay, as that was presumably sinful.

Then the state provided some generous incentives to perpetuate the paroxysm of procreation. You could only get a corpo place, for instance, if you had enough verminous devilspawn to form a football team.     Childless? Forget it...    Two or three kids?  Not enough, keep trying!

If you have a bit of imagination outside the bedroom department, you might be able to see how this social policy did not encourage responsible parenting. In turn, it might explain how we have some of the most vicious scumbags and skangers in Europe, despite having one of the most generous social welfare systems.

Here is an example. In 2009 a scumbag by the name of James Kenny (pic above) broke into the Finglas apartment of a talented artist, Alexandra Trotsenko (pic left). He assaulted her with two knives, cut off several of her fingers, and left her for dead before robbing her and making off with her cash cards.

Kenny was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment last week. Just for the record, he had previously attacked and stabbed a couple, in their fifties, in their own home back in 1998. He had received a four-year sentence for that. He had "form".

I could be making a very big presumption here, but it is quite likely that Kenny is not a diligent worker - unlike Ms Trotsenko, who was illustrating for a book around the time she was attacked. I will even push the boat out and make the assumption that Kenny came from Ireland's underclass of permanent "unemployed". If anyone has other information, please feel free to correct me.

Trotsenko, in contrast, came to Ireland to work.  Incredibly, however,  it seems that the Irish healthcare service will not provide her with prosthetic fingers to replace the ones that Kenny hacked off, as they are "very expensive".

The Adams Art Gallery in Blackrock is holding an auction of works donated by artists on November 27th, in order to raise the necessary finance. RTE Liveline has also set up a helpline, where people can donate.  See link below.

Alexandra Trotsenko fundraiser

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18 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you summed up the situation very correctly. The place is full of scumbags - and some of them didn't just roll down the inside of their mother's thigh either : some were considered the pillars of society.

I hope that lady gets her life back and is able to do her beautiful art work once again.

I too will make a donation.

Are we that broke that we can't give a little help ?

Dept of Health ?
Enda - where are ya ?

Regards - John

The Gombeen Man said...

Nice one, John. But, yes, is a disgrace that people have to rally like this, in order to afford someone access to a necessary medical care.

Harald said...

Thanks for bringing this one to our attention GM.
Am I the only one thinking about that one could possibly cut his fingers off in order to ...?
Well forget it. I know that's not the way the system works. But the idea crosses ones mind from time to time ...

Newbie said...

Irish Times 3rd November
"A CONVICTED killer serving a life sentence who is regarded as the leader of one of the Republic’s most violent drugs gangs has had cosmetic surgery for a scar on the public health service.

The surgery for the scar on his lip can be carried out if facial scarring is causing low self esteem."
The estimated cost was 120,000 Euro
Wonder who would pay if it happened to a politican. I will also donate to this cause

The Gombeen Man said...

@ Harald. Yep... know what you mean. 16 years? Excuse me, but this scumbag needs to be isolated lifelong, at least.

@ Newbie. What the ....? Thanks for that info.

Anonymous said...

YES INDEED MR--GM its hard to say who is the bigger scumbag here is it the health dept parasites or the horrid bastard going to jail for much too short a time ,i have written to barry oooh bama asking him to carpetbomb our entire little island with condoms till its kneedeep then i will have BISHOP CASEY ONBOARD with a megaphone extolling the advantages of using condomes on a regular basis, a tax based incentive where publicans exchange free beer for a certain number of used codoms ofc subject to the rigour of the dept of finance, this will give rise to a lot of drinking and shagging good for the exchequer you see also a make work project for the lads in the finance dept sorting and grading the specimens collected in the pubs, over a decade or two this will dilute the high concentration of vile arseholes in our holy island a win win dont you think OOH BTW there is a shortage of large size industrial strenght condoms used by us proffessional here in hollywood at the moment, we think its that blasted crises in the EUROZONE the angie and sarki squabble CHEERIO---BH

ponyboy said...

I haven't been able to get this posting out of my mind since you put it up GM. Happy to contribute. 16 years, what can you say although it's usually long enough in the slammer for pricks like this to piss off some bigger prick and hello shivsville and bye bye skanger

The Gombeen Man said...

@ BH. That sounds like a plan to me!

@ PB. Cheers for that mate.

Newbie said...

He won't do 16 years, he gets 25% instant remission, this is done all the time in Irsh goals to save money. he will be about 46 years old on release and with alot of agro about the "Injustice" of his imprisonment. The Brits would have had him sectioned and possible life in Broadmoor.

ponyboy said...

good point newbie. Hopefully the shiv within the 12 years then.

Dakota said...

Yes GM Dublin in reality is on a par with a 3rd world sinkhole. A cesspit, always was. Catholicism has a lot to answer for.

@Newbie 16:44 says it all.

The Gombeen Man said...

Agreed lads... What the feck can you do with someone like this? He can't be let out, full stop. Newbie does, indeed, say it all.

Anonymous said...

I for one am glad that my grandparents didn't contracept as my old man was 14 or 15...blaming this dirtbag on contraception is ridiculous...

Murphy

The Gombeen Man said...

Murphy.

Breeding with abandon, and without responsibility, for generations can only logically have meant more devilspawn dirtbags being concieved. I really can't see how anyone can contend otherwise. I think we are dealing with the legacy of that now.

Sure, you might be glad old grandpaps didn't put on a rubber all those years ago, but I'm sure Alexandra wishes this scumbag's predecessors had...

Ena Ronayne said...

most honest thing I've read in ages - well done! Thanks and yes I too will be supporting the auction. I do hope loads of money will be raised for Alexandra.

The Gombeen Man said...

Thank you for your kind words, Ena. I second your wishes regarding Alexandra's fundraiser.

Anonymous said...

I read that he has since expressed considerable remorse for his crime and does not know why he is the way he .

I don't believe a man like that is capable of remorse. As disturbing as it is, some people appear to be so sub-human that they are unaffected by their actions. Serial killers for instance who have killed dozens or the more recent Andre Brevick who spent most of his court hearing smiling gleefully.

I dont want to throw my hands up and say humanity is doomed, I don't believe that but I guess there is evil in the world as well as good. I had to write this to relieve some of the anger I felt but it does me no good hating this man. Im only causing myself pain by doing that. I'm going to let this go and move on, not pretend it didn;t happen but just acknowledge it and move on.

The Gombeen Man said...

I have to agree, Anon. I can't imagine this guy doing remorse at all.

I think we have to accept - very reluctantly - that there are bad people out there...