VIDEO: Sinead O'Connor circa 1992, A brave visionary.

When I was 21 I watched this video live on SNL and it hit me deeply. As someone who grew up Catholic I knew exactly what she was talking about when she discussed child abuse, war and then ripped up a picture of the pope and said "fight the real enemy,"

It's well worth watching this almost two decade old video today and thinking about the decades of suffering and coverups by the Pope and Church in the systemic raping of thousands of children.

After that video Sinead O'Connor's career was ended--literally. 

They would not play her on the radio and when I went to the Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert at MSG with my pal Charlie they booed her off stage. These were BOB DYLAN fans that booed her off stage... sickening.

On top of raping children and covering it up for decades, the Popes we were taught to blindly follow over the last couple of decades were also:

1. anti-gay in the age of Mathew Sheppard (for those of you under the age of 30 read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard )
2. anti-condom and safe sex in the age of AIDS http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/09/aids
3. anti-women in the age of.... well.... ummm... basic human rights? http://jc.is/bsi9hY

Hopefully 100 years from now history will remember the brave little girl who stood up, and was taken down, for doing the right thing.

Love you Sinead.  

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