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Provos Snub Maghaberry POWs
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Monday August 14, 2006 16:12 by Seán Ó Murchú - Republican Sinn Féin - Cork
REPUBLICAN PRISONERS ACTION GROUP STATEMENT FROM REPUBLICAN PRISONERS, MAGHABERRY GAOL |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17I was present at the event and I thought that I heard Adams cough up some kind of support for the Maghaberry Prisoners. Is the pressure getting to him?
You would have had more chance of getting the SDLP to raise the issue of the Prisoners as $inn Feign seem to have been overwhelmed with their hypocrisy since taking their mandate.
agreed. The provos do not want the plight of the prisoners acknowledged. Their rally yesterday was reminiescent of fianna fail circa 1923. All pagentry no substance! They are not Republican. They are part and parcel of the partitionist system.
Support the prisoners. Support authentic Republicanism.
Harry while agreeing that your prisoners are as entitled to Political Status as were the prisoners of 1981 how do you expect us to believe that the planting of incendiary devices in Nationalist/ Republican areas putting your own people out of work will remove the Brits when Suicide bombers in London don't seem to have made any impact.
Perhaps if you concentrated in helping your own people where they most need you then you might be able to kick the feet from under the Provos and their benefactors in Downing Street.
Republicans will gather in Bundoran on August 26 at 3pm to remember their comrades with honour and dignity. It will be a sincere commemoration, not an electioneering stunt . Come show your support for the Republican prisoners of yesterday and today. Show you remember the hungerstrikers. Show you still care. Show you will stand by Republicanism. Be there!
It seems as if like the Provos that the Dissident Republicans avoid answering awkward questions. I asked what do they expect to achieve by blowing up Businesses in Nationalist areas and putting their own people out of work when suicide bombers in London don't seem capable of moving the Brits?
It's a simple question could we have an answer?
I'm sorry but the present day IRA Real or whatever fails to inspire those of us who knew Real Volunteers in the past, like Frank Hughes and others who were genuine and wouldn't have dreamed of wasting time with Mickey mouse jobs.
I accept that these men and women were ultimately betrayed by careerist Republicans but it seems that today's Republicans are wasting their lives in prison while their leadership looking more and more amateurish.
I agree that RSF have no answer for their amateur campaign of blowing up easy targets. While the prisoners of 81 lived in the hope that their comrades on the outside could achieve freedom the prisoners of today must surely be living in cloud cuckoo land if they believe that their comrades can achieve anything by blowing up B and Qs.
Don't expect any answers because like the present SF they can't answer them.
Why would RSF answer (or have to) for the actions of the so-called RIRA? Put those questions to the 32CSC.
Sean these questions are directed at those who carry on a fruitless war while their prisoners rot in jail.
OK what does RSF hope to achieve and how do they intend achieve it?
Those of us of a recent generation languished in jail and saw our comrades die for what ultimately turned out to be the acceptance of a 6 county State. I for one don't see any mini versions of the IRA achieving anything other than gaps in town centres and deaths of innocent people. Young people will spend the best years of their lives in jail and nothing will change except the Politicians.
You actually wrote "RSF have no answer for their amateur campaign of blowing up easy targets". RSF is a political organisation, not a military one. It engages solely in political activity. For an "ex-prisoner " you're very quick to ape red-top style journalism. For an ex-prisoner to write/say such a thing shows their is either an agenda at work (smear and lie) or you were never a prisoner at all. Why start your criticism with falsehoods?
Sean I was an Ex Prisoner whether you chose to believe me or not. I have no hidden agenda, perhaps I have become confused by all the Micro-Republican groups. Perhaps I have become disillusioned by the complete waste of life and years spent in prison for a leadership to take us in a direction which we would have been shot for even suggesting in those far off years. Perhaps I find it hard to believe that so many intelligent people continue to believe in lies.
I am pissed off but tell me this, What do you hope to achieve and how do you hope to achieve it when SF has stolen all the support with lies?
The Republican Movement has see far more depressing days than these. Those that know and understand its history know that. What do you think the 40s looked like? Was the RM a "micro group " then? (one cant fail to notice your use of red top jounalist/provo speak yet again) They were more on the side lines than today, but dedicated people carried on nontheless, insuring that the movement and the cause carried on. The were brave and did not allow themselves to be sidetracked or demoralised by those who were idealogically weak. They had their begrudgers and nay sayers than too. People who even called themselves Republican! much like today, eh? People like you have always been around. There are men, women and young people today who like those of the 40s and other lowpoints in our history who will stand by Republicanism. just because you find the road too harsh, dsapointed by setbacks (we all have but we will not all turn our backs and give up) and are put off by its unpopularity, doesnt mean there are others - however few - who have the temerity and dedication to continue to do the right thing and maintain authentic Irish Republicanism.
I also want to say that those years you spent in prison were not wasted, they were done for the betterment of our people and in the name of freedom. That was no waste of time. Do not allow yourself to put down what you and others did - and what other continue to do- because of the sell out and betrayals of others.
Sean you still haven't answered my question. What do you hope to achieve and how will you achieve it? A 32 County Socialist Republic? A United Ireland? WHAT?
Cannot help but laugh anytime I pass Fairview Park.
In the Arab countries they behead when they are alive. In Ireland we do it after they are dead 50 years.
White line picket for political status will be held on Saturday, the 19th of August in Lurgan, County Armagh. Assemble in North Street, 2pm.
A picket for in support of the prisoners in Maghaberry Prison who are currently fighting for political status will be held at the GPO, Dublin on Saturday, September 2nd. 12:45.
Republican Prisoners Action Group
hardly expect Adams etc to support their political enemies even if these prisoners were on the right side of history. Why would PSF lend oxygen to their competitors? maybe if some of these lads start dying on hunger strike it would complicate the story for Adams but while they are an irrelevant footnote to the neverending process of pretending to dismantle the northern state they can hardly expect solidarity from their ex pals who are busy waiting for stormont.
Actually though this circus of reclaiming the hunger strikers is becoming very tedious. I cant imagine those guys would be jumping up and down about the triumph of SF over the SDLP. I reckon they thought they killed and died for something more than a marginal improvement in electoral returns. SF seem to protest too much their love and admiration for the hunger strikers. The quicker they leave all that behind the better. And highjacking Casement Park for one of their death cult ceremonies was appalling. Can you imagine if FF moved into Croker for some party political sing song, or the PDs for that matter. Did they say the rosary?