At
the moment there is considerable interest in the
press and in the media concerning the peace process
and its direction and efforts are being made to
reconcile the DUP and Late Sinn Fein to one another.
Stormont has become the Mecca of the North for
Late Sinn Fein.
But
it may be time to stand back and examine what
is happening constitutionally in the six counties.
The crux of the matter seems to be that the DUP
and Late Sinn Fein will not bed down together
at Stormont until Late Sinn Fein accepts in full
the six county courts and cooperates in full with
the PSNI. Gerry Adams is now leading Late Sinn
Fein in that direction.
To
understand clearly what is afoot in the six counties,
the state's constitution has to be looked at and
the law courts and the police force are basic
to the six county constitutional make up. In this
unwritten constitution, derived from the 1801
Act of Union, the law, courts and the police are
the basic means whereby the six county unwritten
undemocratic Right Wing Union Jack Unionist constitution
is maintained. Indeed, one might say the courts
and the police are the heart and lungs of this
undemocratic constitution. This constitution has
been rejected by the vast majority of the people
of this island but in the six counties this undemocratic
constitution is being maintained militarily by
the British Army and by the PSNI with a gun strapped
to their hip.
Since
the 1801 Act of Union the primary function of
the police in Ireland, beginning with the RIC,
was the maintenance of the constitution on the
island as a whole. The maintenance of civil law
and order was a secondary function. When the six
county statelet was set up the RUC took on the
role as state enforcers of an unwritten, undemocratic
constitution even though the constitution was
unacceptable to a significant portion of the population.
The PSNI still has as its primary function the
enforcement of the constitution on those who don't
want it. That is why they travel the highways
and byways carrying guns. For the PSNI the maintenance
of civil law and order is a secondary function.
The ultimate back up to the PSNI in this role
is the British military garrison of 5000 whose
ultimate duty is to enforce the constitution at
the point of a gun on those who object to it.
For Gerry Adams and Late Sinn Fein this is now
to be accepted. In this acceptance Late Sinn Fein
is now accepting the 1801 Act of Union and in
so doing are propping up a Right Wing Union Jack
Unionist regime in the six counties. Late Sinn
Fein are now being hoodwinked, bamboozled, and
pressurized by the clever wiles of Ian Paisley
and the DUP into an acceptance of the Act of Union.
This deception is aided and abetted by the British
con artist, Tony Blair, using the sleight of hand,
"good community relations and peace".
Backing this up is the Irish con artist, the partitionist
Bertie Ahern, and a partitionist Dail Eireann,
and urging this on is the arch partitionist Catholic
potentate of a cosy Catholic foreign jurisdiction
— Mary Mc Aleese. Gerry Adams should now
come clean with the party faithful and go the
full constitutional hog and fly the Union Jack
on Late Sinn Fein headquarters, take a seat in
the House of Commons and take the oath of allegiance
to the Queen and end its Ard Fheis in Dublin with
"God Save the Queen". If Ian Paisley
and Tony Blair were to make all of that a condition
of entry to Stormont, Gerry Adams and Late Sinn
Fein would acquiesce, such is their lust for power
in the six counties.
This
is not so with Federal Unionism Early Sinn Fein.
There is no way it would buy into the Act of Union
1801 by selling its birth right for a mess of
pottage in the six counties. It rejects utterly
the Act of Union simply because the Act has been
rejected historically by the vast majority of
the people of this island. But Federal Unionism
Early Sinn Fein goes further than that and positively.
Recognising that Republicanism has been defeated
militarily in the six counties and because of
that, is defeated on the whole island and is now
partitionist in outlook, Federal Unionism Early
Sinn Fein advocates the repeal of the unacceptable
Act of Union 1801 and its removal from the statute
books, to be replaced by a new acceptable Act
of Union, the National Government of Ireland Act,
giving a Union that is democratically acceptable
to all, be it the Catholics of Kerry or the Protestants
of Derry. Those who have the best interest of
Ireland and the Irish at heart will find a proposal
for the National Government
of Ireland Act published in 22 articles in The
Blanket, 2006 The six counties are now
in a constitutional mess as is the island as a
whole, being partitioned into two statelets, the
one foreign to the other. This mess has been created
in the past by extremists north and south. It
is high time the mess was cleared up but Late
Sinn Fein cannot do that. All they can do is wallow
in it and now have their nose rubbed in it by
the DUP. But the mess can be cleared up in a UK
context in the National Government of Ireland
Act. That way, in a UK context lies a United Ireland
and only in that way.
When
it comes to policing a few twiddles of the constitutional
knobs by Chris Patten will not do. Patten has
left the primary role of the PSNI as constitutional
enforcers intact. In the National
Government of Ireland Act the police would
be subject to the constitution, not enforcers
of it and the maintenance of the constitution
would be in the hands of the Taoiseach but would
ultimately be determined by the democratic will
of the Irish people. The only constitutional duty
of the police would be the maintenance of civil
law and order. Likewise if the National Government
of Ireland Act were in place, ideally, in the
whole of Ireland or else in the six counties it
would then a constitutional imperative that English,
Scottish and Welsh soldiers leave Ireland and
an Irish Army in Ireland would have the constitutional
role of defending Irish territory and democracy,
or of defending the territory of the Isles of
the North Atlantic and democracy in conjunction
with the British Army should the need arise. Neither
the Irish Army nor the British Army would be constitutional
enforcers in Ireland. The constitution would be
maintained solely by the democratic will of the
Irish people.
