Different types of Santa Claus

We are all familiar with Santa Claus or Father Christmas. This is the guy that squeezes down a chimney, rides a sleigh pulled by reindeer and delivers presents all around the world, in particular Ireland, the UK and the US amongst many others. However, Santa Claus has many transformations and molds around the world. Let's go through a few of these. 

In the Netherlands Sinterklaas and Schwarz Pete arrive by boat on the evening of the 5th of December, children leave a wooden shoe filled with hay and carrots for the donkey which carries St. Nicholas' pack of toys. The good children get gifts. On the 6th of December St. Nicholas arrives in eastern Europe, the night before children leave a boot on the window and if the have been good it is filled with treats and if they are bad coal and onions. In Germany on  Christmas Eve whilst the family is out at mass the Christkind arrives with presents. In Australia Santa Claus wears a red bathing suit and rides along on water skis. In China Dun Che Lao Ren is on old man who arrives on Christmas and gives children gifts. 

In Sweden Juletomten a gnome that is pulled on sleigh by goats delivers presents to the children. In France Pere Noel brings the gifts for children. In Switzerland it is the Christkindl who is an angel that comes from heaven to deliver gifts. In Italy the kids have to wait for a witch called La Befana to arrive on the 6th of January with gifts, she too goes down the chimney, except she flies around on a broomstick and seems to have been reinvented recently, probably a decision made by the incumbent Italian Prime-minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Children in Spain, Mexico and South America also have to wait until the 6th of January for the three wise men to arrive bearing gifts, children leave shoes at the door for them to fill. Things have advanced from frankincense and myrrh. And finally what about the real Santa Claus, what is he up to now? I read a recent report that because Christmas had become so commercial and all meaning was lost (for most people) along time ago, Santa Claus gave up the sleigh and now runs ultra-marathons around the world. Good luck to you Santa Claus and Merry Christmas to all from MRHP!!

Wheelchair Boy Witnesses the Tyranny of the 21st Century

A young man can be seen in this footage paying to be thrown out of his wheelchair and beaten. If these men were not paid to do this, they would be in prison by now. Who pays them, we do! They get paid from our taxes. What do we get...? The archetypal bully who threatens you for your pocket money, claiming they will save you from blows and bruises and then once the money is handed over they will beat you to a pulp. Then if you talk back about your rights, they in fact threaten you further for even daring to accuse the bullies and their tyrannical authority.

So the message is kids, once you put on the blue uniform can you do what the fuck you want? You don’t have to have any cognitive skills or ethical training to be a Cop, no no, none of that, just the art of thuggery. Being a policeman has the same appeal to child molesters and malevolent men as it was to be a priest back in the heyday of Catholic oppressed Ireland; raping young boys, good wage, authority beyond question...? Ring any bells?

What was this young man in a wheel chair doing? Fighting for his rights in education and equality.  So this raises the question, are our supposedly progressive European regimes and democracies any different that Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia? A scientist from the depths of a laboratory in the alps bordering Switzerland has done experiments using computer date extracted from biographies, interviews and profiles of such political leaders as  David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy and Pope Benedict XVI. In his research he found these leaders to be worse than either Hitler or Stalin, ‘if they have any more power, god help us all’, concluded the report. The only leader who came out with any credibility was Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who was compared with that of the personality of a well fed bear from Hamleys toy store with plenty of young girls to cuddle him.

I proclaim we reanimate Che Guevara from the passive sewn seams of t-shirt merchandise and symbolically behead these leaders in a tribute to the French Revolution. We use this anachronistic act to show history can be used to empower and not just oppress people. It can be done, if everyone fights the tyranny, if everyone uses history not to make the same mistakes as NAZI Germany and go along with the oppressive government (whom nobody wanted there in the first place) and not to hide their support for students (i.e. your children, sisters, brothers and friends) like those who turned a blind eye to the massacre and genocide of Jews, you are just as bad as them, massacring their education, changing their lives by depriving them of the education that would give them agency, instead you pay the police to systematically beat up a young man in wheelchair, nice, go you! NO not go you! Now stop the tyranny before Auschwitz 2: Return of Ignorance arrives!