In
this year of 2006, in which we honor and commemorate
not only the heroes and heroines of 1916, but also
the horrific deaths of ten young patriots in 1981;
those who remain faithful to the ideals and promise
of the true Irish Republic must rededicate themselves
to the task that is unfinished. For, on this 90th
Anniversary of Easter Week, 1916, we must admit
that the sufferings and sacrifices of those splendid
Irishmen and Women, the majority vote that enthroned
a 32-County Republic, and certainly the upsurge
in native pride and patriotism which had built upon
the Hunger Strikes of 25 years ago, all-all have
been compromised and their practical values in effecting
a united, sovereign Ireland have been seriously
negated by the gombeen-men and traitors of our era.
We
state this both in anger and in sorrow that, unfortunately,
Mother Ireland had once again been sold out by her
own children. Going back to 1916, as the vengeful
Brits assassinated the POWs who included the poets,
the writers, the Gaelic scholars as well as the
leading proponent of labor unions -- all leadership
material for a nation emerging from centuries of
brutal occupation, genocide and mass murder, the
effective and potentially successful beginnings
for an independent Republic were thwarted and smothered
by Brit guns in the hands of native traitors. And
certainly the refusal by President Woodrow Wilson
to accept the credentials of the Irish Republican
delegation to the Versailles "Peace Conference"
of 1918 assured the Brits of American neutrality,
resulting in the forcible partition of an ancient
island nation.
It
is evident that since their inceptions in 1921 the
statelets known as the "Free State" and
Brit-titled "Northern Ireland" have been
maintained by terror and rigid censorship. Whether
by the WWII internment of patriots by the faux-republican
De Valera, which resulted in the deaths of at least
40 good men; or the continuous harassment, assault
and imprisonment of those who reject the Quisling,
West-Brit statelet; successive Free State governments
have well-served the British queen. Although the
horrors and inhumane regimen of Long Kesh were well
known to the spineless "leaders" in Leinster
House, they stood silently by in 1981 as the long,
agonizing hours brought our ten beloved young Irish
Republicans to their Maker. To quote an old saying:
"One can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear",
and so today's Free State, a.k.a. "The Republic
of Ireland", remains a dutiful and always amenable
servant of the Crown. While banning truly patriotic,
republican music and lore from the airwaves and
TV, censoring speech and the written word, and eliminating
the most relevant and important aspects of Ireland's
heroic struggle from textbooks, the Free State has
now brazenly announced a state-sponsored, major
parade in Dublin to "commemorate" the
90th anniversary of Easter Week 1916. Still portraying
themselves as "The Republican Party",
de Valera's Fianna Fail party are totally shameless.
As one who had sacrificed all for Ireland, Theobald
Wolf Tone, stated; "We have no national government;
we are ruled by Englishmen and the servants of Englishmen,
whose object is the interest of another country."
No more fitting words can be found to describe this
26-county statelet in 2006.
Unfortunately
and sadly, the great support and fealty shown to
the leadership of the Provisional Movement has been
found to have been misplaced and betrayed. The lionization
of personalities, viz of Gerry Adams and Martin
McGuinness, rather than strict adherence to the
Cause has, of course, resulted in faux-Peace, say:
Pacification. In 1998, both the unconscionable treachery
by the 26-county statelet in signing over six counties
to the Brits, and the Provo's acceptance of continued
misrule by Ireland's only enemy, will forever be
noted as egregious treacheries to the common interests
of all citizens of Ireland. For those who continue
to trust the "bona fides" of the Provo
leadership, a look at the March 28, 1999 statement
to the Sunday Times by Francie Malloy, Provo Sinn
Fein and member of the Brit Parliament in Ireland,
is mandatory: "Republicans are prepared to
work as an Executive. We are really prepared to
administer British rule in Ireland for the foreseeable
future. The very principle of partition is accepted."
In
conclusion, the words spoken in 1915 by Patrick
Pearse in his eulogy of the great Fenian O'Donovan
Rossa, are as relevant today as then: "They
have left us our Fenian dead, and while Ireland
holds these graves, Ireland unfree shall never be
at Peace!" Let us come together and strive
mightily for true unity, bereft of personality and
personal ambition, in order to attain the common
goal of freedom and nationhood. Our pledge at Eastertide
is Solidarity with all Republican prisoners held
in both England and Ireland, as well as continuing
support for their loved ones.
