What was it he used as a sales pitch?
Easter's not just about the Easter Rising, its about Easter Eggs.
Now he's trying to sell this one about 'a First Minister For All.'
It's just a lame excuse for becoming what Sinn Féin have become. For the wasted lives of brave IRA volunteers and civilians.
How can you possibly convince people, who's culture is based entirely on the hatred of everything Irish, and who constantly refuse to budge an inch from that position, to accept Irish Unification by taking part in everything which is repugnant about British imperialism?
These betrayals of principle merely feeds their desire to see an end to any aspiration to Irish Unity and more importantly the defeat of Irish Republicanism.
"Never a country gained her freedom.
When she sued on bended knee. - Lady Jane Wilde.
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Thomas Dixie Elliot is a Derry artist and a former H Block Blanketman. Follow Dixie Elliot on Twitter @IsMise_Dixie |
Dixie for how long and how far did you put personalities before principles?
ReplyDeleteHow, and to what degree, and for how long did you collude with a counter-revelutionary cabal? How come it was that way? How come people who now whinge allowed themselves to be mislead?
What unfolded was a betrayal of principles, a betrayal of the Republic, a betrayal of the volunteers and those who supported them, a betrayal of those who endured the hardest of hard time, particularly those who endured the blanket protest.
In real terms it matters little, save but to those in the future who may try to write a history.The Republic is lost. Pursuing it, is now anti-democratic, futile, and open to substantiate criticism as being undemocratic.
Reflection on how one fails, or how one allows oneself manipulated, will pay better dividends all round.
Outrage, even when wrapped in satire is rarely a strategy for getting to the truth.
Pursuing the Republic through arms has always been criticised for being anti-democratic. It was hurled at the Provisional IRA as much as it was at the 1916 leaders until the latter were incorporated into the foundational myths of statehood.
DeleteDixie's observation is from the school of fair comment rather than from the school of screamers. I doubt you see it much differently.
True, but resistance was against an imposed occupation and an imposed partition. What came about through the GFA is a democratic acceptance of partition, acceptance until a majority in the partitioned portion decides otherwise. The expressed will of the people North and South accepts partition.
DeleteDixie, you and I opposed the agreement. Alas the crowd chose Barabbas. The Repulic is lost, lost and gone forever.
It's only natural that some grieve and lament its passing.
Once the consent principle was accepted (long before the GFA) by the majority in the country and the coercion principle was rejected then the argument is easily made that partition was democratically accepted and the GFA merely regularised it.
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