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Wednesday March 16, 2011 17:29 by Sharon. - Individual.
British Army Commander-in-Chief NOT WELCOME! NO WELCOME HERE FOR BRITISH 'ROYALS' ! A Republican Sinn Féin-organised picket against the visit here of a British 'queen' will be placed on the British Embassy in Dublin on Tuesday 29th March 2011 , from 2pm to 4pm. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12and kindly pay for your own luxury holidays abroad too Lizzy.
'Cause we poor folk have had enough subsidising your useless parasite class.
Hi!
The Republican sinn Féin-organised picket at the British Embassy , Dublin, in opposition to any visit here by a member of the British 'royal' family , went ahead as planned yesterday afternoon (Tuesday 29th March 2011) under the 'watchful eye' of both uniformed Gardaí and their colleagues in the 'Political Police'....
A brief write-up can be read at the 'Related Link' below.
Thanks,
Sharon.
RSF picket on the British Embassy in Dublin , Tuesday 29th March 2011.
Thanks Sharon and everyone else for representing the views of myself and many other Irish people by holding this action. Sorry I could not attend. Quite aside from all other considerations, this upper class parasite should not be stealing 8 million out of the pockets of beleaguered irish taxpayers at a time of economic crisis.
While we are at it, Obama should stay home too unless Goldman Sachs agree to sponsor his cynical electioneering visit to Ireland from the money they made out of Anglo Irish bank. After all, they didn't mind sponsoring his election (and no doubt his re-election)!!
What is needed is a united protest campaign like we had in 1995. At the moment Eirigi, RSF, RNU , 32CSM and some in SF as well as independents are prepared to protest against the visit.
The IAWM are organising a protest as well focusing on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya.
Where is the person of standing to unite all of these groups?
I agree highly with Jerry Cornelius on this--someone needs to unite all the protesters under the one banner, damn own differences. I mentioned the same in a previous post about this.
I've written a song about Liz's planned sojourn with special reference to the Councillors here in Killarney who wanted Liz to come and commemorate Victoria's visit of 1861. Though I can't see the song becoming a rallying call (given its rambling nature!), I do hope it adds to the variety of voices that oppose "The Royal Visit." You can listen to the song about half way down the blog post on the link below, the first part of the post is about Fredrick Douglass and Obama's visit to Cork. Although I do have some reservations about Obama's coming to Ireland, the idea of him coming to Cork, to commemorate Fredrick Douglass's visit there, is much more palatable than Liz coming to commemorate Victoria! Most especially, given Obama is the first African-American President of the U.S.A.
I hope those placards are going to show a little more wit than a lot of the half-think reaction that is floating about. Progress is slow. She is headed for the Garden of Remembrance and Croke Park. If her apologies are as comprehensive as Cameron's for Bloody Sunday do you think acceptance is acceptable?Or do we sulk spectacularly?
I'm well aware bloody april is unrolling across Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya etc; and pending for Iran, Syria and who-knows-where, but try to keep the protest focused on the big picture rather than historic grievances(otherwise I suspect its just political masturbation for the same moral superiority that drives the imperialist chariot).
If the placards ask is she a bondholder, fire away, if its just 'remember skiberreen' I'd rather go listen to Ronnie Drew's Zoological Gardens, thanks all the same.
If it asks how many shares in BAe she holds, then its relevant, if it demands she abdicate, I think thats a question for her home ground. And yes I object to her being subsidised, but not as much as I do to Noonan being a fucking bondholder while running Finance, and Shatter getting Justice, Defence and ,wait for it, EQUALITY. Or the fact our TDs hold multiple pensions and positions and land and property while us peasants are getting set up for more fleecings.
No surprise the gards are turning over North-side Dublin. If you rise to their bait, expect escalation. They relish it. But then so do quite a few right-wing 'republicans'. I've met enough of them, they're always the quickest to the flagpole. They usually have a superficial grasp of history and its complexity, but are convinced they've got the inside track. Bit like the average tory when you boil them down.
"I served in the Irish Army for 31 years, and am proud of it."
I guess when you are trained to obey authority for 31 years, it's hard to shake the habit of deferring to authority when asked to. I'm glad you survived what I would consider to be very questionable choices in the past but please don't try to impose your trained pavlovian respect for authority on others who have a more healthy disrespect for our lords and masters who are, more often than not, up to no good.
You are very lucky not to have been sent to your death to help make money for such people in a third world country. I cannot understand how you can support them now. might I recommend the documentary "sir yes sir" to you. You may find it thought provoking.
peace
cf
Its one-eyed analysis like that that will drive otherwise rational individuals to violent anger.
I spent time arguing against the 'armed struggle', right back to BEFORE lift-off after Bloody Sunday. It was a considered option among hot-heads(and this is just Dublin)as the civil rights movement evolved.
But if you cannot see that the para uniformed aSASsins were terrorists then I suggest you go pick a royal regiment and kill a few Middle Eastern civilians and inter them in yet more 'democratic' graves. Thats your monocular logic.
Your upward delegation of responsibility is a deriliction of your human responsibility to take personal ADULT responsibility for your own beliefs and actions, not something the average enlisted soldier is allowed. He is expected to follow orders as strictly as any other funcionary on penalty, at the 'wrong' time, of judicial murder, with or without courts martial.
The truism of no peace without justice still holds.
The trouble about your sort Opus is that you don't realise that democracies are armed to the teeth.
Ben Laden found that out.
Is that diiots like your sort can spell democracy, swear by it, sacrafice(usually unarmed women and kids)for it, but wont recognise it till we at some future date in a more enlightened culture decommission ye.
Heres an example of western democracy at work. This particulat piece of democratic progress originates from that great campaign for liberating democracy in Iraq.
Opus,
If you change the clothes on those two people it could have been taken at, Omagh, Le Mon, Enniskillen, Belfast or any other bomb attack in Northern Ireland.
As for democracy, the terrorists didnt like the word and never used it.
So as I have said in other threads here deal with our own problems first, and accept that our own countrymen done as much damage.
..on eight different tangent. I' dont buy into that 'our own'(echoes of ourselves alone). The human species is my nation. I'm trying to get a little balance into your equation of one-sided demonising. republican terror was promoted by MI5 and 6, as surely as they work with the al qaida they created and are using in libya at the moment for their oil snatch.
The loudest calls for democracy are coming from those who for centuries insist, at gunpoint it be THEIR VERSION.
read yourself, if you wont read me accurately. calling for democracy as you promote royalty????