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For 829 year, since the First Invasion of Ireland from Saxon Soil, led by a blaggard named StrongBow (and recently discovered to be a direct ancestor of George Bush, Junior) the indigenous Irish people have fought the hordes who have invaded.
Then, in an amazing event occurred in 1998. An event that Irish and Scots-Irish (and I descend from both) toasted in every pub around the world, and were dubbed "the Easter Accords". It was brokered by Bill Clinton's man George Mitchell between all of the Northern Irish parties and with the inestimable help of (GULP!)Tony Blair.
Fully implemented, it would have ended the violence in N.I. Sinn Fein, convinced their military counterparts, the Provos (Provional Wing of the IRA) that it was desirable to "decommission" their weaponry. Putting them "beyond use", an exercise which was approved of after, having taken a jaundiced view of the words, the Highest Military authority of Canada approved of the movement and guaranteed its approach and success.
That led to a new government with power split between the indigenous Irish and the "Planters", or Ulstermen/Orangemen and the restoration of a, more or less civil government in Northern Ireland.
This was seen as workable for both sides as the Nationalists (those for Union with the Twenty Six counties in the Republic of Eire to the South) saw a majority vote shaping up in twenty or twenty five years as the outcome anyway, and also by the Unionists, who had no desire to see the tables turned on them and to be forced to suffer the Civil Rights abuses and bigotry which had been the lot of the Nationalist Northern Irish for the past century and more.
And this measure would finally bring to an end the "legal problems" of the control of the northern six counties which have been up in the air for over fifty years.
The Constitution of the Republic of Eire claims as its territory all thirty two counties on the Island of Eire (one reason Sinn Fein carries on its political battles and the Provos carry on theirs, nonpolitically... though it is worth noting that the IRA was largely moribund until the British Army shot down unarmed Irish Civil Rights marchers on Bloody Sunday, in 1968).
The Republic of Ireland, after the "Rising of 1916" and the following Civil War, was at first a Dominion of England from 1922 until 1932.
From that point, Fianna Fail came to power under Eamonn de Valera, a leader of 1916, refused fealty to Britain and carried on an "economic war" until the declaration of the Irish Free State in 1938. That status continued until 1949 (through WWII, Ireland was a neutral country, much to the distress of Britain), when it declared itself the Republic of Ireland.
In 1955 Eire, and its Constitution, was accepted by the UN as equal at the table... and Britain was one of the five permanent members of the Security Council accepting Eire. Yet Eire has never tried to occupy the land which is its own, the northern six counties, under its Constitution.
So despite the 50 years or so of uncertainty, and civil rights abuse, Bill Clinton was able to put together a solution... and then...
In November, 2000, the rats slipped into the White House. Tony Blair and George Junior look deep into each others eyes and Junior whispers the magic question to Tony Blair... "Would you like to hear about Diebold??".
And, after hearing the most amazing new twist on Democracy ever conceived, and after proving his own fealty to Junior by going to a fictitious war for fictitious reasons, Tony now sees that the Nationalists will *never* be in a majority, as long as the Stalinistas are still counting the votes. "Well, they can just go bugger themselves", thinks Tony.
And so, just a couple of month or so ago, George Bush dispatches an envoy to Northern Ireland (along with a plane load of Voting Machines Vendors, if memory serves) and,
"US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Mitchell Reiss, said it was "time for the IRA to go out of business".
Mr Reiss added: "It's time for Sinn Fein to be able to say explicitly, without ambiguity, without ambivalence, that criminality will not be tolerated."
My thoughts about this??
It's a bloody goddamned shame that the IRA's Unionists counterparts, the U.D.A., U.D.P., and the U. F. F. are not acknowledged as being no better or worse than the IRA by both Britain and the US.
But worse even than that is that the greatest terrorist organization in Northern Ireland, Britain's MI6, is not lumped in with the murderous (and often complicitly deluded lot) that both Britain and the US have dispatched to Iraq. To kill, loot, maim for oil and American's Radical Religious Zealots in the good ole US of A.
This is a blood sport, so let's do a head(less) count.
Britain and the US of A lose 1800+ low paid "expendables" (Henry Kissinger's words, not mine versus 100,000 plus Iraqis and soil poisoned for hundreds of centuries by Depleted Uranium, in two years.
Northern Ireland with a total of less than 4000 dead on both sides in 35 years??
What is George II doing looking for specks in the Irish eyes?? It is the frickin' Tongass National Forest he has in his own!!
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