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"Progressive" Michael D honours those who died under the Union Jack in imperial wars
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Sunday November 13, 2011 19:39 by Karina
Michael D is showing his true colours ahead of 2016 proving he does not deserve to be leading commemeorations for that event in history. Isn't it time to start organising an independent committee to commemorate 1916 and to boycott State activities? After all there is little to celebrate for this sorry Republic: a new form of colonial dependancy to international financial capital, a republic that surely does not cherish her children equally, which is a satellite of the UK, a westbrit elite sold out to the Queen and bankers. To sum it up, a republic which is the contrary to everything the 1916 patriots wanted. This is the news from Associated Press: <<President Michael D Higgins carried out his first official duty as Head of State when he laid a wreath at a Remembrance Sunday service in Dublin. The President, who was inaugurated on Friday, attended the Evensong at St Patrick's Cathedral to pay his respects to the 10,000 Irish soldiers killed in World Wars One and Two. In an address to the congregation, journalist and military historian Kevin Myers spoke of the significance of the President's attendance. "I begin today by honouring our new President, the commander in chief of our Defence Forces," he said. "Mr President sir, that is surely an honour you will hold closest to your heart - and in this place especially." Mr Higgins greeted members of the public on his way in and out of the cathedral. Following hymns, a welcome by St Patrick's Dean the Very Reverend Robert McCarthy, an introduction by his Vicar the Rev Charles Mullen and the address from Mr Myers, President Higgins laid a wreath of poppies at the foot of the cathedral's war memorial. Others in attendance were Mr Higgins' wife Sabina, Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor Andrew Montague and a small number of surviving World War Two soldiers. In his address, Mr Myers spoke of Irish soldiers and nurses who were killed during the wars, including the first victim, a career-airman from Co Cork. "Those Irish soldiers helped to end a regime of gas chambers and the guillotine, slavery and the firing squad," said Mr Myers. "In those liberated lands in due course emerged what is now the European Union. Our bondholders there might be completely unaware of the debt that they owe the ten thousand Irish dead, who died freeing an unfree Europe. "But at least we in this cathedral do know it. And we do remember. Which is why we are here today.">> The first act of Michael D. as president: honour those who died under the Union Jack, first in a typically colonial war (while in Dublin others with real honour where fighting for Irish independent) and the second, another imperial war which had nothing to do with fighting fascism (after all, they left Franco there and they had once supported Mussolini and Hitler as "strongmen against communism" -they only became a nuisance when they challenged British colonies and European areas of influence), but with a second round of inter-imperial fighting. All this, while sharing platform with infamous bigot, racist and misogynist Kevin Myers. Oh Michael D., sure you are showing your true colours from the start! So much for the president who would made us proud! It will be an embarassment that someone like yourself, from a party who never did anything for our sisters and borthers in the North, will be president for the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rebellion. Take your revisionist rubbish with you please, here there are still people who are proud to be Irish and don't share your happy serf mentality! Michael D is showing his true colours ahead of 2016 proving he does not deserve to be leading commemeorations for that event in history. Isn't it time to start organising an independent committee to commemorate 1916 and to boycott State activities? After all there is little to celebrate for this sorry Republic: a new form of colonial dependancy to international financial capital, a republic that surely does not cherish her children equally, which is a satellite of the UK, a westbrit elite sold out to the Queen and bankers. To sum it up, a republic which is the contrary to everything the 1916 patriots wanted. If Connolly came back to life and saw the State of Labour (a party which should change its name to "Business" to be more honest), the muppets in the leadership of the party. the Westbrit mentality of the elite and the sorry state of the Republic he probably would ask to be shot again. |
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