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category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Sunday May 12, 2013 22:15author by M. 0’ hAnluain Report this post to the editors

Throughout my time taking an interest in Mr. McKevitt’s case, I uncovered some very distasteful information. The detail included that some of his former comrades had covertly assisted in the slanderous media campaign against him and the entire family including his wife Bernadette. The most prominent of those who gave assistance and misleading information was a former Sinn Fein publicity director, which shocked me greatly. Many creditable journalists will to this day verify my claim. Neither should it be overlooked that the McKevitts were singled out as the most prominent opponents of the Good Friday Agreement and for that very reason, perhaps those individuals felt justified in assisting in the vilification campaign against them

by M. 0’ hAnluain

On reading recent articles relating to Mr. McKevitt’s failure to have his conviction quashed in the Court of Criminal Appeal, I feel obliged to comment.

Realistically speaking Mr. McKevitt never had a chance of overturning any of his appeals for numerous reasons and careful scrutiny of the entire case would support my remarks. There is little doubt that his arrest and subsequent trial was unsavoury, particularly from a legal point of view. From the outset and even prior to his arrest (which we now know was unconstitutional) there was a calculated decision to remove Mr. McKevitt from the landscape of the then developing ‘new political scene’ on the island of Ireland.

The forces lined up against Mr. McKevitt included, British and U.S security service agencies (FBI and MI5) who assembled questionable evidence and supplied a paid police informer of dubious character to act as a prosecution witness. The witness, David Rupert, was supplied with specific details on what the charges against Mr. McKevitt would be, months before Rupert made his a statement to the Gardaí. Subsequently, the Irish policing authorities constructed a case which included evidence supplied by the external agencies and formally charged Mr. McKevitt with serious republican activity. A significant point, which should not be overlooked, was the influence used to assist in the arrest and conviction by McKevitt’s former (republican) comrades.

The part played by the print media in the vilification campaign against Mr. McKevitt and his entire family (including his young children) prior to and post his conviction is well documented. The media’s job was to ensure that few on the island of Ireland could say that they never heard the name Michael McKevitt in the lead up to his trial. However, the inclusion of young children in the vilification campaign was in itself a blatant human rights abuse against the children, yet few politicians uttered a word of condemnation, why?

It is difficult to ignore the fact that the McKevitt case was embroidered with multiple human rights breaches; some will say that it was deserved, but that is best described as mob rule mentality and should not be condoned by any right thinking person. The vilification campaign also ensured that McKevitt wouldn’t receive much sympathy let alone a fair trial, and on the face of it, it appears to have succeeded. The media campaign had him convicted in the eyes of the public long before the trial had even commenced.

One just has to look at the Leverson inquiry on the press regulation in England to see how the media preyed on vulnerable individuals and families, the Millie Dowler and Madelene McCann cases are two of the more familiar cases from the Leverson inquiry. This is just a small example of how the media operates and how they encroach, and in many cases destroy people’s lives with sensationalist and in many cases misleading, inaccurate reporting. Is the media in Ireland any different? There are numerous cases in Ireland to prove that they are no different.

For Mr. McKevitt to succeed with his appeals it would have caused great embarrassment to many people in high office and possibly would have exposed much of the crookedness used to vilify and subsequently convict him. That was never going to happen; those in high office would not allow it.

Throughout my time taking an interest in Mr. McKevitt’s case, I uncovered some very distasteful information. The detail included that some of his former comrades had covertly assisted in the slanderous media campaign against him and the entire family including his wife Bernadette. The most prominent of those who gave assistance and misleading information was a former Sinn Fein publicity director, which shocked me greatly. Many creditable journalists will to this day verify my claim. Neither should it be overlooked that the McKevitts were singled out as the most prominent opponents of the Good Friday Agreement and for that very reason, perhaps those individuals felt justified in assisting in the vilification campaign against them

Interestingly, in the immediate aftermath of Michael McKevitt’s conviction at Dublin’s non-jury Special Criminal Court, Gerry Adams was asked by a BBC reporter for his views on the conviction, his reply was hollow rhetoric and brief, “everyone knows that Mickey was set up”. A strange reply, but he could say little else at the time because it was blatantly obvious what had just taken place. However, if Mr. Adams felt that the case was “a set-up,” and Mr. McKevitt now being a constituent of his, then why has he never made a comment since? It is the opinion of many that Mr. Adams could say very little due to the fact that he played his part in the ‘stitch-up” of Michael McKevitt. END

author by JoeMcpublication date Wed May 15, 2013 16:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Commander James Casbolt would be well placed to know about the activities of Mi6 and their connection to the elite and the “Next Level” generally according to the websites I've been looking into. According to the link below, the ex MI6 commander was at a high society function recently, where a lot of the elite were in attendance . There he personally witnessed how some of the Next Levellers turned into 7-8 foot tall Lizards right in front of his eyes! That must have been very frightening , but the brave commander seems determined to carry on the good fight against this alien reptilian force nevertheless. see:
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=236708

Some interesting facts about Heaven’s Gate - the San Diego cult that committed mass suicide in the nineteen- nineties - appear on Commander James Casbalt’s own website . A friend of the commander - who for security reasons Casbolt refers to as X3 - was once a high ranking member of the US intelligence agency , NSA . X3 is the source of information that strongly suggests to Commander Casbolt that the "suicides" were in fact the work of an alien space ship , which was operating behind a comet that appeared in the skies around the same time the “suicides” occurred . ( It should be remembered of course that in 1986, the white-colored Draco Prime arrived into our solar system in the Draconian “Planetoid,” which we know on Earth as the Hale-Bopp comet. )

X3 explained to Commander Casbalt how , around the time of the deaths of the 39 cult members , his agency had made "telepathic contact with the Draco mother ship behind the Hale Bopp comet". He said that the agency’s Admiral Bobby Ray Inman had personally ordered a Hotshot (intel speak for a scalar weapon attack to activate sleeping mind control programs in people), and a white van pulled up outside the cult’s mansion with NSA agents inside who were armed with frequency generators to remotely trigger the Heavens Gate sleepers.

More startling disclosures on Commander Casbolt's website here: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_manne...3.htm

author by Brian Clarke - AllVoicespublication date Wed May 15, 2013 09:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Guineapigs were fourteen Irish political prisoners on whom the British Army experimented with sensory deprivation torture in 1971. It still continues 40 years later, on Marian Price who is experimented on, in a British military Hospital in Belfast today after her sister Dolours died as a result of drug experiments carried out on her while being forced fed 40 years ago. These 'techniques' were outlawed, following Britain's conviction at the International Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg, but were exported by SS UK and used by their WASPs in the USA.

In Ireland in 1971, there was a deliberate and careful use of modern torture techniques, not just to get information but to perfect the SS UK system of Sensory Deprivation for use against civilians. An ex-internee John McGuffin spent two years researching a book he wrote, following his release from where he had been held without charge or trial. The book called 'The Guineapigs" was dedicated to the blanket men in Long Kesh concentration camp and the women political prisoners in Armagh jail. 'Na reabhloidi Abu.'

The CIA operates under orders from British

intelligence and was created by British intelligence

in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the

international bankers based in the city of London

and the global elite aristocratic families like the

Rothschild’s and the Windsor’s. Since it was first

started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain.

They do not bring ‘some’ of the drugs into Britain but

I would estimate MI6 bring in around ninety

percent of the drugs in. They do this by pulling the

strings of many organised crime and terrorist

groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI6

agents... James Casbolt

Web: http://www.jamescasbolt.com

Project Mannequin, UK cloning, Mind Control and Genetic Enhancement Program By James Casbolt

[2006] Underground Bases, Missing Children and Extra-Terrestrials By James Casbolt,

[2006] Global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies by James Casbolt

Clones, bio-plasmics and world leaders by James Casbolt

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[2006] Whistleblower dies in suspicious circumstances on stage at UFO conference

BookAgent Buried Alive, The Autobiography of Commander James Casbolt (2008)

http://www.jamescasbolt.com/mi6.htm

"It may be a revelation to many people that the global drug trade is controlled and run by the intelligence agencies. In this global drug trade British intelligence reigns supreme. As intelligence insiders know MI5 and MI6 control many of the other intelligence agencies in the world (CIA, MOSSAD etc) in a vast web of intrigue and corruption that has its global power base in the city of London, the square mile. My name is James Casbolt, and I worked for MI6 in ‘black ops’ cocaine trafficking with the IRA and MOSSAD in London and Brighton between 1995 and 1999. My father Peter Casbolt was also MI6 and worked with the CIA and mafia in Rome, trafficking cocaine into Britain. My experience was that the distinctions of all these groups became blurred until in the end we were all one international group working together for the same goals. We were puppets who had our strings pulled by global puppet masters based in the city of London. Most levels of the intelligence agencies are not loyal to the people of the country they are based in and see themselves as ‘super national’.
It had been proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the CIA has been bringing in most of the drugs into America for the last fifty years (see ex LAPD officer Michael Rupert’s ‘From the wilderness’ website for proof). The CIA operates under orders from British intelligence and was created by British intelligence in 1947. The CIA today is still loyal to the international bankers based in the city of London and the global elite aristocratic families like the Rothschild’s and the Windsor’s. Since it was first started, MI6 has always brought drugs into Britain. They do not bring ‘some’ of the drugs into Britain but I would estimate MI6 bring in around ninety percent of the drugs in. They do this by pulling the strings of many organised crime and terrorist groups and these groups like the IRA are full of MI6 agents.

MI6 bring in heroin from the middle east, cocaine from south America and cannabis from morocco as well as other places. British intelligence also designed and created the drug LSD in the 1950′s through places like the Tavistock Institute in London. By the 1960′s MI5, MI6 and the CIA were using LSD as a weapon against the angry protestors of the sixties and turned them into ‘flower children’ who were too tripped out to organise a revolution.

Dr Timothy Leary the LSD guru of the sixties was a CIA puppet. Funds and drugs for Leary’s research came from the CIA and Leary says that Cord Meyer, the CIA agent in charge of funding the sixties LSD counter culture has ”helped me to understand my political cultural role more clearly”. In 1998, I was sent 3000 LSD doses on blotting paper by MI5 with pictures of the European union flag on them. The MI5 man who sent them told my father this was a government ‘signature’ and this LSD was called ‘Europa’.
This global drugs trade controlled by British intelligence is worth at least 500 billion a year. This is more than the global oil trade and the economy in Britain and America is totally dependent on this drug money. Mafia crime boss John Gotti exposed the situation when asked in court if he was involved in drug trafficking. He replied “No we can’t compete with the government”. I believe this was only a half truth because the mafia and the CIA are the same group at the upper levels. In Britain, the MI6 drug money is laundered through the Bank of England, Barclays Bank and other household name companies. The drug money is passed from account to account until its origins are lost in a huge web of transactions. The drug money comes out ‘cleaner’ but not totally clean. Diamonds are then bought with this money from the corrupt diamond business families like the Oppenheimers. These diamonds are then sold and the drug money is clean. MI6 and the CIA are also responsible for the crack cocaine epidemic in Britain and America. In 1978, MI6 and the CIA were in south America researching the effects of the natives smoking ‘basuco’ cocaine paste. This has the same effect as crack cocaine. They saw that the strength and addiction potential was far greater than ordinary cocaine and created crack cocaine from the basuco formula. MI6 and the CIA then flooded Britain and America with crack [see Gary Webb--ed]. Two years later, in 1980, Britain and America were starting to see the first signs of the crack cocaine epidemic on the streets. On august 23, 1987, in a rural community south of Little Rock in America, two teenage boys named Kevin Ives and Don Henry were murdered and dismembered after witnessing a CIA cocaine drop that was part of a CIA drug trafficking operation based at a small airport in Mena, Arkansas. Bill Clinton was the governor of Arkansas at the time. Bill Clinton was involved with the CIA at this time and $100 million worth of cocaine was coming through the Mena, Arkansas airport each month. For proofsee the books ‘Compromise’ and ‘Dope Inc’.

On my father’s international MI6 drug runs, whatever fell off the back of the lorry so to speak he would keep and we would sell it in Britain. As long as my father was meeting the speedboats from Morocco in the Costa del Sol and then moving the lorry loads of cannabis through their MI6, IRA lorry business into Britain every month, British intelligence were happy. As long as my father was moving shipments of cocaine out of Rome every month, MI5 and MI6 were happy. If my father kept a bit to sell himself no one cared because there was enough drugs and money to go round in this £500 billion a year global drugs trade. The ones who were really paying were the people addicted. Who were paying with suffering. But karma always catches up and both myself and my father became addicted to heroin in later years and my father died addicted, and poor in prison under very strange circumstances. Today, I am clean and drug-free and wish to help stop the untold suffering this global drugs trade causes. The intelligence agencies have always used addictive drugs as a weapon against the masses to bring in their long term plan for a one world government, a one world police force designed to be NATO and a micro chipped population known as the New World Order. As the population is in a drug or alcohol-induced trance watching ‘Coronation Street’, the new world order is being crept in behind them.
To properly expose this global intelligence run drugs trade we need to expose the key players in this area:
1- Tibor Rosenbaum, a MOSSAD agent and head of the Geneva based Banque du Credit international. This bank was the forerunner to the notorious Bank of Credit and Commerce international (BCCI) which is a major intelligence drug money laundering bank. ‘Life’ magazine exposed Rosenbaum’s bank as a money launderer for the Meyer Lanksky American organised crime family and Tibor Rosenbaum funded and supported ‘Permindex’ the MI6 assassination unit which
was at the heart of the John F. Kennedy assassination.
2- Robert Vesco, sponsored by the Swiss branch of the Rothchilds and part of the American connection to the Medellin drug cartel in Columbia.
3- Sir Francis de Guingand, former head of British intelligence, now living in south Africa (and every head of MI5 and MI6 has been involved in the drug world before and after him).
4- Henry Keswick, chairman of Jardine Matheson which is one of the biggest drug trafficking operations in the world. His brother John Keswick is chairman of the bank of England.
5- Sir Martin Wakefield Jacomb, Bank of England director from 1987 to 1995, Barclays Bank Deputy Chairman in 1985, Telegraph newspapers director in 1986 ( This is the reason why this can of worms doesn’t get out in the mainstream media. The people who are perpetrating these crimes control most of the mainstream media. In America former director of the CIA William Casey was, before his death in 1987, head of the council of the media network ABC. Many insiders refer to ABC as ‘The CIA network.)
6- George Bush, Snr, former President and former head of the CIA and America’s leading drug baron who has fronted more wars on drugs than any other president. Which in reality is just a method to eliminate competition. A whole book could be written on George Bush’s involvement in the global drug trade but it is well-covered in the book ‘Dark Alliance’ by investigative journalist Gary Webb.
Gary Webb was found dead with two gunshot wounds to the back of his head with a revolver. The case was declared a ‘suicide’. You figure that out. Gary Webb as well as myself and other investigators, found that much of this ‘black ops’ drug money is being used to fund projects classified ab ove top secret. These projects include the building and maintaining of deep level underground bases in Dulce in New Mexico, Pine gap in Australia, Snowy mountains in Australia, The Nyala range in Africa, west of Kindu in Africa, next to the Libyan border in Egypt, Mount Blanc in Switzerland, Narvik in Scandinavia, Gottland island in Sweden and many other places around the world (more about these underground bases in my next issue). The information on this global drugs trade run by the intelligence agencies desperately needs to get out on a large scale. Any information, comments or feedback to help me with my work would be greatly welcomed."

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author by W. Finnertypublication date Wed May 15, 2013 07:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

'Democracy of the genuine, republican, Article 6.1 referred-to-above constitutional type, and the tyranny, bullying, and criminal activities of non-constitutional totalitarianism which the "ruling elites" are at present desperately trying to saddle the world with, by underhand and sneaky means, and with the banksters playing the lead role in developing their "New World Order" (as some refer to it), are two VERY different things: regardless of all the verbal trickery and hoodwinking which the "ruling elites" are using to pretend otherwise. It's all "democracy", the "same difference", the ruling elites would have us all believe. It's no such thing I would say.'

The above excerpt formed part of the message-text of an e-mail sent yesterday (May 14th 2013) to the United Nations.

The full text of the my e-mail of yesterday to the UN can be viewed at:
http://www.humanrightsireland.com/UnitedNations/14May20...l.htm

As can be seen at the www address just above, the e-mail was copied to the British Monarchy, and to former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton who is at present in Dublin -- I think (?) -- for the Third Global Diaspora Forum.

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Gerry Adams has informed the Dáil or Irish parliament that decisions made by the British Tory government, have seriously undermined the Belfast Agreement and the work of political institutions of the Irish Peace Process.

He also accused the current and past Irish governments in the Republic of taking their eye off the North. There are outstanding issues, such as a bill of rights an Irish language act, also to be dealt with.

“The Government is a co-equal guarantor with the British government of this agreement.This is not the British government’s agreement.’’

Mr Adams said the British government had reneged on an €18 billion commitment agreed to develop an economic peace dividend. He called on Taoiseach Enda Kenny to join with him in calling on the British government to honour its commitments.Besides the examples of several breaches by the British of the Peace Process mentioned above, other Tory Government broken promises are as follows.

In the instance of the murder by the British Government death squads of a human rights lawyer, the party on behalf of Pat Finucane visiting Downing Street recently, included Pat’s widow Geraldine, children, Michael, Katherine and John; Pat’s brothers Martin and Seamus, former business partner, Peter Madden and campaigner, Jane Winter, arrived on a Tuesday afternoon.

Cameron entered the room, accompanied by VIceroyal for British Occupied Ireland, Owen Paterson and Cameron’s private secretary.Initially, things looked promising with Cameron, according to John Finucane:

“He came into the room and apologised to us on behalf of the British government for the collusion in my father’s murder. He also apologised for all the delays and broken promises which successive British governments have made to us for the last 10 years.

“We fully expected at that point that he was going to announce to us that he was going to allow an inquiry into my father’s murder. We had been led to believe for more than a year that this was what was going to happen. Instead he proceeded to inform us that he had asked a barrister to review papers in the case and report back to the Secretary of State. It was a total insult.”

The meeting was then immediately ended by Geraldine Finucane, when it was clear the British Prime Minister was ruling out any inquiry.John Finucane, said, “I think Mummy had had enough, she just said she didn’t want to hear anymore.She said she wanted the meeting to end.” Outside 10 Downing Street, Mrs Finucane said her rage was such that she could barely speak.There has also been an angry response from nationalist and human rights quarters.

Cameron’s handling of this case has surprised those who praised him for his handling of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry when he apologised to the 14 innocent victims shot by the British Army on the streets of Derry.

His treatment of the Finucanes, in contrast, reneges on the international agreement his government made with its Irish counterparts at Weston Park in 2001 as part of the Irish Peaxe Process to hold an inquiry into the Finucane murder.So what have the British got to hide?

British/Irish Rights Watch spokesperson Jane Winter, who was at the Downing Street meeting, said she is convinced that there are individuals in the highest echleons of the British establishment who do not want their role in the events surrounding Pat Finucane’s murder to become public.

“I have come to the conclusion that there is something about Patrick Finucane’s death that successive governments have tried to hide and still want to hide,” she said.

“There’s something so utterly damning that they don’t want the public to know.”

Referring to the detailed discussions which had taken place between Downing Street officials and the Finucane’s lawyers, Ms Winter said:

“There have been extensive talks for over a year between the two legal teams.

“All the talk was about what sort of public inquiry could be agreed.

“It certainly was more than what was offered by David Cameron.”

“The prime minister expressed his profound sympathy for the family and said it was clear from (the) Stevens and Cory (inquiries) that state collusion had taken place in Mr Finucane’s murder and he accepted these conclusions.

“On behalf of the government he apologised to the family.

“He confirmed that the government’s priority was to get to the truth in the best and most effective way and the secretary of state will set out the details for this process shortly.”

Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet Secretary, also questioned whether the Prime Minister believed it was right to “renege” on a previous Government's commitment to hold a public inquiry into a killing he referred to as “a dark moment in the country's history.”

In an email Sir Jeremy sent to Simon King, the private secretary to the British Prime Minister he asked, “Does the PM seriously think that it's right to renege on a previous Government's clear commitment to hold a full judicial inquiry?

“This was a dark moment in the country's history, far worse than anything that was alleged in Iraq/Afghanistan. I can’t really think of any argument to defend not having a public inquiry. What am I missing?” A reply email stated that Cameron “shares the view this is an awful case, and far worse than any post 9/11 allegation.”

Another item reneged on by the British, is the reintroduction of internment without trial, with the theft of a Royal Pardon by Britain's secret services MI5 and the shredding of the Royal document by the out of control British spooks. Both of these innocent, senior traditional Irish republicans, Marian Price and Martin Corey, have been kidnapped by the British Secret Service Mafia MI5 and imprisoned indefinitely by secret kangaroo courts.

Few British prime ministers have been as tireless in promoting Britain's arms industry as David Cameron. He calls it a key part of the UK's economy and he was heavily sponsored in the last election by the the British industrial war complex. He has promoted wars, arms and sectarianism not just in Afghanistan and the rich Gulf States in huge arms deals but has also promoted sectarianism in Libya and Syria.

The British Tory Government policies, aside from breaking and ignoring the Irish Peace Process, is hell bent on promoting sectarianism in Ireland, as an excuse and justification for another profitable British war, on ordinary Irish people. The British Tories are dismantling the Irish Peace Process, as part of their permanent war business worldwide.

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Reply to Brian Clarke - AllVoices Mon May 13, 2013 06:48 ...

"Irish Republican Principles before personalities. Whether we like it or not we have to stick together."

I would fully agree with this statement of yours.

And regardless of whether others agree with me or not, for my own purposes, I believe -- for a number of reasons, and until and if someone comes up with a better definition -- that Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann is the best way to define "Irish Republican Principles" at the present time.

Article 6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann (the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland):

"All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people, whose right it is to designate the rulers of the State and, in final appeal, to decide all questions of national policy, according to the requirements of the common good."

Like it or not, Article 6.1 sits at the heart of Bunreacht na hEireann: which, as the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland, is the SUPREME LAW of the Republic of Ireland; and, it's not the fault of Article 6.1 that the present corruption-and-crime-ridden Government of the Republic of Ireland (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial) is displaying contempt for it: by -- and, in effect -- unconstitutionally and treasonously substituting the word "banksters" for the word "people", and the words "common good" for the words "the good of the banksters".

Looked at this way, and although I believe Bunreacht na hEireann is flawed in ways -- a bit like a pub piano with some bad and very obvious cigarette burns on a number of the fingerboard keys (which would not be at all difficult to put right, in my opinion) -- "we" (because of Article 6.1) are more than half-way there (I'd say) on the road to genuine "Republicanism", compared to "the people" of many other nations.

By "we" I mean those who recognise "the government of the people, by the people, for the people" potential that is irrefutably and undeniably embedded in Article 6.1, and which cannot be interpreted in multiple ways: as the corruption-and-crime-ridden "ruling elites" absolutely love to do, given the opportunity that is!!

Also, I believe that the Internet has the potential to become a BLOODLESS "weapon of mass destruction" for all (or almost all) of the corruption-and-crime-ridden MINDSETS of those who -- openly or otherwise, while keeping in mind that the two-faced "concealed" ones are the most difficult to outmanoeuvre -- crave for YET MORE "government of the ruling-elites, by the ruling-elites, for the ruling-elites": which many of them still knowingly and fraudulently label as "democracy", and which many among the young, the inexperienced, the gullible, and so on, still "buy into": and get completely fooled by.

We could think of it this way maybe: Article 6.1 could be the "carriage", and the Internet could be the "horse"?

Hitch the two together, and "we, the people" could really "go places" maybe: using such a "horse and carriage" combination?

And, if that happened, the days of the "bombs and bullets" on the Island of Ireland might later be seen by future generations as having ended -- permanently!! -- "a decade or two after the arrival of The Internet Age"?

Changing the subject slightly, I tried to "educate myself" a bit this morning regarding Michael McKevitt, and the unhappy situation (as I now see it) which seems to surround it all. My search for information did not go much beyond what I found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_McKevitt

As can be seen at the www address just above, there is a link to "Bobby Sands" (and to some others involved in the Michael McKevitt "situation").

As almost always happens to me whenever I read such information, particularly that relating to the manner and circumstances in which Bobby Sands died (at only 27, and well before the arrival of the "WWW AGE"), the following lines penned by Abraham Lincoln quickly entered my mind:

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Put in a nutshell, it seems to me that 1), before the Internet, "the people" of Ireland possibly did not have any real alternative to the "bombs and bullets" when it came to trying to "doing something" of significance in response to the overwhelming excesses of the "ruling elites" -- which for me, in May 2013, seem to be manifesting themselves (worse than ever in some respects) in the activities of the banksters, and their many accomplices in and around the puppet-governments (which includes the Republic of Ireland) who are supporting the banksters; and, 2) that the Internet, used responsibly and well, might be the BLOODLESS "weapon of 'mindset' mass destruction" that "the people" learn to use for the purpose of keeping the unconstitutional and unlawful "government activities" of the arrogant "ruling elites" within the limits of "the lawful place" that the "ruling elites" (dodgy mindsets and all) have a right to be.

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author by Brian Clarke - AllVoicespublication date Mon May 13, 2013 06:48author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, everyone knows that Michael McKevitt was set up by the British using the Gardai and FBI. This article however without and evidence, is clearly doing the the 'Republican Movement' in Ireland no favours. There is currently a persistent campaign by those who should know better, orchestrated by the Brits in the media, to have Irish republicans at each others throats.or to produce the heat to create the cover for their well know dirty work.

Like the Hunger Strike, its easy to be wise after the event and the individual who has not made mistakes, has done feck all for the irish Cause. If you can't substantiate the claim, it serves no purpose, other than a British one. these "Thatcher Papers,'' on the hunger strike, were not left around to do Ireland any favours. Indeed it is highly likely bearing in mind her history in the matter, that this is meant to be more of her legacy of hate. We are not going to achieve a United Ireland, fighting among ourselves. Irish Republican Principles before personalities. Whether we like it or not we have to stick together.

Like Bobby Sands' said, everyone has their part to play, even dare i say 'constitutional.' It's very hard to forgive, bearing in mind the type of injustices visited on Michael and his family. But the Cause of Ireland is born out of love for our country and and not hate which is ultimately self defeating. I personally am very upset about what has happened to Michael and his family but I am not going to give the Brits or any of their collaborators the power to destroy my life with hate for them or anyone else. Bobby Sands' gave his life out of love for Ireland and our day will come. He and his comrades sacrifices will stand the test of time and like the sacrifices of 1916 will prevail despite the best efforts of the revisionists.

Love is patient and I know it is easier said than done, especially for families like the McKevitts who have suffered so much but I know they are a very strong family, filled with hope and we need to rally round them, stick together and help them as best we can. Tiocfaifh Ar La !

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