Today some of us stood on a white line picket with political activists and for that hour people drove by sounding their horns or waved to us.
The irony is whilst the protest took place outside a building which claims to support political prisoners it was open and none of their committee joined us. Such is the the club nowadays that promotes soccer and English culture.
Those objectives were never fulfilled because I and many others never took their membership because it became an 'old boy's club'. Sad and all that it is, it doesn't stop me, my comrades and others, saying we are proud to be Felons.
The irony is whilst the protest took place outside a building which claims to support political prisoners it was open and none of their committee joined us. Such is the the club nowadays that promotes soccer and English culture.
My father, Pat McCotter, was one of the founders of the Felons. He done time in Arbour Hill and Crumlin Road gaol and he was one of the last to get the 'cat o nine tails' in 1940. After his release from the Crum in 1948 he and his comrades founded the Felons and their objective was to include All of those incarcerated in different campaigns to highlight the issue of political prisoners (and not crawl to the British)
Those objectives were never fulfilled because I and many others never took their membership because it became an 'old boy's club'. Sad and all that it is, it doesn't stop me, my comrades and others, saying we are proud to be Felons.
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| Padraic Mac Coitir is a former republican prisoner and current political activist. |
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