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Disrupting the road to stability
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anti-war / imperialism |
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Thursday March 12, 2009 09:53 by Deirdre Niamh Duffy - University of Nottingham duffythegreat at gmail dot com
the key to avoiding the abyss is to step around it The recent events in Northern Ireland have brought back a whole host of dark memories. The attacks have placed a question mark over both the stability and success of the peace process. However, in many ways the attacks are very different from those during the Troubles. Unlike the violence in the past, these attacks are not really aimed at gaining public support or making a political point but at destabilising Northern Ireland in its transition from post-conflict zone to stable society. The recent attacks on police officers and soldiers in Northern Ireland have brought back dark memories to most Irish people, North and South, of a time they would prefer to forget. Through the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998, the subsequent decommissioning process and the success of power-sharing in Stormont, the people of Northern Ireland have made every effort to put the ‘dark days’ of the Troubles behind them and leave the violence – which seemed endless in the 1970s and ‘80s – in the past. And they have become very good at it. Rebuilding a community which at one point was losing approximately 300 of its members every year to political violence has not been an easy process and is still quite some way from completion. But, for many, the Northern Ireland of today seems worlds away from the Northern Ireland of the Troubles. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3British troops are an army of occupation in the beknighted 6 counties who maintain the control of the British settlers who threw the native Gaelic population off their own land. This artificial minority who were parachuted into Ulster by the British ruling aristocracy (whose descendents still rule from London over a fake democracy at Westminister) are aliens on Irish soil and they claim to have democratic right to decide the destiny of this island?
Northern Ireland is a colony of the British-American imperialist capitalist system which has tendrals throughout the world.
The Irish people have struggled for 800 years to free their native land from foreign occupation and oppression and the yoke of British tyranny is still on our shoulders.
The so-called Republic of Ireland is economically and culturally shackled to the Britain - our people speak English, play English sports, drink English beer, watch English television, read English publications and are part of a European capitalist tyranny that England plays a large part in along with France and Germany, with home the English are currently in a fickle strategic alliance.
Ireland is unfree and can never be at peace.
It's people are maintained in a perverse illusion - they were told they are modern educated, confident, cosmopolitan and part of a global community but a essentially glorified serfs of British global capitalism.
Our language, our music, our culture and our Catholic faith have been fatally undermined.
Our British capitalist controlled media have undermined every institution of our society and nation.
The Irish people are enslaved and have been deluded into thinking that they have democratic voice.
Thankfully a small band of Irish patriots have not fallen into the trap and are prepared to strike again for liberty.
That is why the forces of British occupation who were struck last weekend and a cowardly native Irish collaborator in peeler uniform recieved his just sentence.
Naturally enough the masters of the enslaved Irish people organised "peace protests" against their liberators!
A band of Irish republican brothers is once again standing fast to fight for Mother Ireland and to free her people from bondage!
We will not be swayed by sentimental pleading and childish naivete of the brainwashed masses who have discovered that poverty and unemployment await them now that the absurd Celtic Tiger has come to a crashing halt!
Our revolutionary brothers will continue the fight taking the war of liberation to the British occupier, their satraps in Stormont and Dail Eireann, to undermine the twin occupations of the Northern Ireland entity and the so-called Republic of Ireland which will both fall, rotten and morally bankrupt.
One day the British will flee from these shores with their tails between their legs, the British alien settlers who stole the land of Ulster will follow them into the sea, the West Brits elite in Dail Eireann will crumble too and then the process of cleansing all British political, economic and cultural influence from Ireland will commense.
A true Irish Socialist Republic will be established over the entire island - the rich and powerful will be liquidated and the common factory worker and farm labourer will control the destiny of the nation.
Mother Ireland once again calls us to the Green flag and the ghosts of the patriot dead fill us with their spirit of zeal.
We must restore our people from bondage and slavery, proud, strong in their Catholic faith, speaking Gaelic as their tongue and scorning the barbarian culture of their foreign oppressors.
"our (sic) people speak English, play English sports, drink English beer, watch English television, read English publications......Ireland is unfree and can never be at peace."
So Ireland will be "unfree" until you can figure out a way to stop people:
speaking English ?
playing English sports ?
watching English television ?
reading English publications ?
Oh and until you can get rid of those nasty "settlers"
Your sick screwed up notion of "freedom" is completly at odds whith the meaning of the word as understood by anyone who happen to inhabit the real world.
Maybe you should go hang with the Taliban for a while ?
Or better yet just go hang !
Ireland will one day be united, not though by bloodshed. Unity shall be made manifest, through the goodwill of all of the peoples on this island of Ireland.
That time is not yet.
The personal confidence of all this islands people has to be strengthened, the bigotry on both sides has to be recognised, acknowledged and dealt with in a sincere manner by all organisations.
Then when the divisions have been removed, we can move together as one people, living together on this island and hold our heads up high, for we shall have reclaimed our ancestral dignity and walk into the future united.