SAORADH claims it is being subjected to unprecedented censorship on the internet.
Following the tragic killing of Lyra McKee in Derry a fortnight ago, Saoradh offered its analysis of the events that led to the journalists death; we did so as a political party on behalf of our membership who share our analysis of the terrible events.
We did not and do not speak on behalf of any other organisation and contrary to a hostile media and state narrative we do not speak on behalf of the Irish Republican Army.
Saoradh was roundly attacked in the media and by the political aristocracy for doing so. Quickly a public discourse was built up accusing Saoradh and its activists for Lyra’s death. Saoradh played no role in the events that led to the death of Lyra McKee.
Saoradh is an open and publicly accessible political party, though we offer an analysis on armed actions in the pursuit of Irish national liberation, Saoradh does not engage in armed struggle. Saoradh is not a proscribed organisation, we have as our means political agitation, mobilisation and grassroots activism. Since our formation in 2016 we have grown and we continue to grow, we have three public offices with more planned, each one open and accessible to the public.
Everyone has a fundamental right under international law and European human rights legislation to organise, hold and impart their political opinion and freedom of expression. However since the events in Derry at Easter a campaign to remove those rights from Saoradh has been launched.
We have had our access to the internet and various online platforms curtailed in an effort to deny us those basic fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression. Saoradh place the blame for this orchestrated attack on everyone's rights at the door of the British and Dublin Governments who ironically are using the death of a journalist to impose unprecedented levels of censorship. Presently no political party in western Europe is subjected to the level of censorship now imposed on Saoradh.
Saoradh is currently pursuing a number of avenues to address these attacks on the freedom of speech. What the state does today on Irish Republicans it will not hesitate to use tomorrow on the rest of society. You may not share our opinion, you may be diametrically opposed to it, as is your right, but you must understand that the denial of our rights today is the denial of your rights tomorrow.
"Tragic Killing".... Cold blooded murder of a young innocent woman, by someone firing shots indiscriminately is a much more accurate analysis.
ReplyDeleteStevie,
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't have mattered what words the NIRA used. For own my reasons I don't believe the NIRA planned to kill Lyra and I believe they are sorry for her loss of life. What is clear is some people are jumping on band wagons and using Lyra's name and legacy to promote their own agenda. People have to remember she was the 160th person to lose her life since the signing of the GFA at the hands of paramilitaries.
As for Saoradh being black balled by the big three (Facebook, Youtube and Twitter)..Fcuk them, there are other platforms available. There is nothing stopping Saoradh setting up an account/social media with facebook alternativies, Youtube goes down or you get kicked off it... bittube or put your videos on dtube..There are loads of social media sites that aren't connected to the big 3..Personally if I was in Saoradh, I would wear banning from internet sites as a badge of honor..
A heads up, if Saoradh decide to host their own site etc...Start using IPFS basically circumventing silicon valley..Here is a 10min video of how it works (<---deffo worth a watch to beat internet censorship)
frankie,
DeleteWhat is the intent when you fire shots at people?
Frankie
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that NIRA gangsters fired indiscrimately with the intention of killing "legitimate targets" They are only sorry because in their warped reasoning the wrong person died at their hands. The way to deal with Saoradh/NIRA is to do what paramilitaries have always done wnhoever crosses them - run them out of town.
I wait in hope that those new found human rights campaigners who plastered Junior Mc Dade house with red hand prints will do the same to Stormont , dup hq ,psni hq, $inn £anny,s Thatcher house, or is it only gays lives that matter, all the above have decades of deaths on their doorsteps ,also while at it why not cover those massive big houses owned by the new big house unionists ie, quisling $inn £anny with big ?????????? marks the question being where did the money come from most of these wasters never worked a day in their lives, the demonization of Saoradh and it,s members will not cure the problem here,
ReplyDeleteBarry, the piece is about internet censorship. Soon it could be coming to a place near you. And Saoradh are (have been for a while) getting hammered by the powers that be not because of the murder of Lyra McKee but because they are seen as threat to the status quo.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember (outside of Omagh) the cries from certain quarters about how 'they should go away'..When Loyalist's were killing each other around 2007/09, there wasn't the same public cry of 'not in our name' or when Republicans were murdered on the streets of Dublin, same people didn't pay any heed..But their grief and loss was just as hard on them as what Lyra's family are going through.
You can sit in a pub in England with your friends and call Irish Republicans murdering bastards until your heart is content but until both Westminster and Brussels get off the island and let the Irish sort out their problems, there will be more deaths, there will always be (argue the rights and wrongs all you want) people who will rationalize that the only way for Britain to leave is through the barrel of a gun. ...Irish history has taught me that.
Frankie
ReplyDeleteI have always felt that paramilitaries, both nationalist and loyalist, were murderers and armed patriacrhies whether I was resident in Nortern Ireland or Britain.
"There will always be people who will rationalise that the only way for Britian is to leave hrough the barrel of a gun" just as there will always be racists and fascists in society. People who push that narrative are pushing poison. Saoradh belong in the same rubbish receptable as Alex Jones, Britian First, Tommy Robinson, anti-vaccers etc. Fcuk those scumbags.