Politics.ie (pro Libertas?) site in alleged indirect government censorship attempt

There seems to be some rather interesting happens at Politics.ie as elaborated upon by JC Skinner.

Visual Confusion or Deliberate Design?

It seems in FF's hurry to get some vague campaign website up and running that they've missed out on hiring some competent designer for their new "Next Steps" campaign site. The resulting image is shown here:


The site, as it now stands, has a confusing visual effect occuring on the main page which does not seem to serve any design rationale. I would love to understand why such a distracting effect was added or if it was just a typical blunder by the party of blunders. This website has more information on the Hermann-grid illusion.