Telling Ronnie Flanagan First Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. - Patrick Henry Brendan Hughes • 27 March 2001 How does Ronnie Flanagan know before we do? He now tells us that there is about to be a second round of decommissioning. Who told him that the IRA were poised to destroy more weapons? Who gives the IRA permission to destroy or hand over guns to the British or their friends? I certainly did not. I was never even asked what I thought. The British still occupy this country. The British still control us. And while they do no one has the right to hand over or destroy weapons to please the British. Weapons belong to republicans. They do not belong to Stormont politicians. We fought and died with those hard won weapons. We went to jail for holding onto them. People were executed for informing on them. And now the Sinn Fein leadership are destroying them to meet the enemy demands. Our only means of defence are surrendered. Nationalists are being attacked daily. Why not be honest and admit defeat? No, why not be honest and admit surrender? Liam Mellows always warned republicans about those people who get power solely for the privileges that power brings. To my friends who ask why I speak out this is the reason. A love of people, a love of justice, a love of truth - and a hatred of power that gives privilege to the few and abuse to the many.                                                                                                     Index: Current Articles + Latest News and Views + Book Reviews + Letters + Archives

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to the lake of fire upon hearing it. - Frank Zappa Index: Current Articles   17 February 2007 Brendan Hughes Archive Material 6 February 2008 Other Articles From This Issue: Was it a War? Michael Gillespie Impossible Task for Truth Body David Adams Pandora's Box John Kennedy Villians of the Peace Mick Hall India's Undeclared War Cedric Gouverneur Borders Exist to be Crossed: Maryam Namazie Anthony McIntyre That This House Believes That Irish Republicanism Has No Future: Opposed Ruairí Ó Brádaigh Dismantling Partition 32 County Sovereignty Movement We Shall Not Be Deterred Brian Mór Martin Meehan Anthony McIntyre Washington Pressure on Dodds Fr Sean Mc Manus No Pope Here Brian Mór Fundamental Primer Dr John Coulter Internal Exiles Seaghán Ó Murchú • 14 January 2008 • Republicanism...Alive or Dying? Anthony McIntyre Pillocks of the Community John Kennedy Irish Unity Cannot Be Ruled Out David Adams A Great Republican and a Great Man Aine Doherty John Kelly Anthony McIntyre How Urgent the Need? John Kelly, from an interview with Liam Clarke My Grandfather's Insurgency Eoghan O'Suilleabhain Kitsonian Success With the Provos...? Liam O Comain McGuinness Takes the Peace...to Finland! John Kennedy Provisional Sinn Fein - Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater Jerry Pepin Disappeared John Kennedy Operation Helvetic: To Be Expected Michael Gillespie Hung Out to Dry John Kennedy Re-Imagining Ireland Seaghán Ó Murchú Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Mick Hall One Armed Bandit John Kennedy Terrorism and Leftism Paddy Hackett Power to the People John Kennedy

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