March 3, 2015

I'll answer it.

Official British Intent

Below is what happens when royal imperialist British babykilling psychopath occupiers occupy your country. They deliberately starve you, and your children, in a genocidal effort that results in a major holocaust. This is just a fraction of my family's kids that were murdered by the kinder, gentler psychopathic royal British imperialist babykilling occupiers. If you want to see more, no problem.

I've got a million of them.

A typical Irish farm family in 1854 enjoys the abundant fruits of the Royal Imperial British Psychopath Occupation of Ireland. After a splendid, lavish meal of field grass and boiled road kill, they play a fun game of "Let's Pretend We're Warm" in their cozy mansion while they wait for little Patrick to die of starvation after the British psychopaths took all the food they grew as payment of tithes to the Church of Ireland and the Crown and sold it to the highest bidder in England.



Name: Patrick K*****y Date of Death: 19-May-1888
Age: 5 Parish / District:
Address: Balla**** County:
Status: Bachelor Denomination: Civil Parish / District
Occupation: FARMERS SON Sex: Male

Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Father
Parish: Name: K*****y Michael
County: Address: Balla****

Name: Mary K*****y Date of Death: 15-Apr-1888
Age: 7 Parish / District:
Address: Balla**** County:
Status: Spinster Denomination: Civil Parish / District
Occupation: FARMERS DAUGHTER Sex: Female

Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Father
Parish: Name: K*****y Michael
County: Address: Balla****

Name: Mary K****** Date of Death: 17-Apr-1870
Age: 18 Parish / District:
Address: Bally**** County:
Status: Spinster Denomination: Civil Parish / District
Occupation: FARMERS DAUGHTER Sex: Female

Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Present At Death
Parish: Name: K******y John
County: Address: Bally****

Civil Death Record
Name: Bridget K*****y Date of Death: 03-Feb-1869
Age: 12 Parish / District:
Address: Bally**** County:
Status: Spinster Denomination: Civil Parish / District
Occupation: FARMERS DAUGHTER Sex: Female

Graveyard Informant
Graveyard: Relationship: Present At Death
Parish: Name: K*****y John
County: Address: Bally****

There's no possible valid comparison between the IRA and the groups you mentioned, especially the religion motivated jihadists, and the comparison you made is ludicrous. The Irish have been engaged in a centuries long war to drive British fascists from their country. Now, if you compared the IRA to the Iraqis who tried/try to drive Americans from Iraq after Bush's war and occupation, you'd have a strong argument. No reasonable person would blame the Iraqi people, no matter what religion they are, for trying to drive the imperialist occupiers from their country.

The British can simply end the violence by leaving the land they stole from the people of Ireland forever. It's really that simple. Just go. Don't go away mad, just go away. Better to do it now before the occupation results in any more violence occurs. Protestants don't have to leave, just the Crown, and its cronies, need go.

A unified Ireland is inevitable.

While most Irish folk don't want violence, there is a small faction that does. Possibly because of a small thing, like the millions of of Irish babies the royal imperialist British psychopaths have murdered in Ireland over the past 8 centuries.

All the IRA ever really wanted to do was drive the psychopathic royal British imperialist babykilling occupiers out of their home lands in Ireland.

That's all.

Tiocfaidh ár lá

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February 27, 2015

In nations where oligarchs own and control both the media and the political process,

there is no real democracy.

It's very simple. Buy the mainstream media, control your mainstream media, use the mainstream media to create culture and public opinion, and use it for your purposes.

Buy the government, control the government, and use it to control the populace for your purposes.

It's not rocket science.

The folks referred to by conservatives as "far left" are generally democrats who advocate for possible effective avenues of changing our system of government from oligarchy to some genuine form of democracy.

Many of these conservatives even consider leaders like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren to be "far left", when, in fact, they are simply plain old democrats.



No offense meant, cbayer, but if you are, for some reason, not aware of this obvious reality, we cannot conduct a conversation as peers. The frustration expressed by Fumesucker in the OP is the same frustration expressed by most democrats in general, certainly the majority of democrats on DU. If such a large number of "Big D" Democrats are so unaware of global political realities that they refer to folks like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and DUers like Fumesucker, and the other democrats among us who see that the system is obviously rigged against us, there is no real hope for instituting democracy in the US, except through focused and effective direct action from outside the system.

The oligarchs will not allow democracy to manifest while they control the information and the political process; it's simply against their personal, and class, material interests.

February 27, 2015

So True. It's a very clever and effective trap that the 1% has devised for us.

The 1% buys and controls the global media in order to create, and control, cultures and public opinion. Give the voters in pseudo democracies a choice in order to continue the illusion of liberty and democracy.

The "choice": Either vote for the corporatist candidate who will support human rights, or vote for the corporatist candidate who will crush human rights. Meanwhile, economic injustice (particularly concerning the ramifications of the polarization of wealth), inequality (see previous parenthesized sentence fragment), and rule by oligarch continues to expand exponentially.

Marcos defines the maintaining principle of government of, by, and for, the wealthy ~

February 26, 2015

The IRA is a politically motivated resistance/revolutionary movement dedicated to

freeing Ireland from imperialist British occupiers.

I reckon that the British imperialist occupiers have directly or indirectly murdered over a million Irish folk, including lots of babies and children. It was all a very deliberate genocide, complete with many of the horrors that usually accompany genocides committed by imperialist fascist pigs everywhere ~ destruction of the land and exploitation of natural resources, enslavement, torture, dispossession, etc.

One of my grandparents (who would not allow anything colored orange to be brought into the house) came from Ireland, and, according to specific statements in Irish histories about our tribe, I am descended from a long line of Irish Nationalist freedom fighters, back to antiquity. My Native Irish sept is related by blood or marriage to the Larkin, Kelly, Madden, Treacy, and Fahy tribes, to name just a few. Our families are all part of an alliance of septs that comprised a larger tribe, who once allied with Brian Boru to begin the end of the Viking occupation of Ireland at the the Battle of Clontarf. Our families, and other related families, shared the same tribal territory for 1500 years or more. And still do.

That said, paramilitary groups comprised of Protestant colonists from the British Isle, financed and supported by the British government, have dispossessed tortured, injured and killed thousands of Irish civilians, primarily Native Irish Catholics.

The IRA still exists primarily to help protect Catholic communities from ongoing oppression, persecution, and aggression by agents and supporters sanctioned by British Empire political/economic interests in occupied Ulster, who presently (and historically) use religion as a tool divide the inhabitants of Ulster, in order prevent Ireland from becoming a unified island nation.

The IRA, and Sinn Fein, don't care what religion people belong to, they just want a united Ireland that governs itself, not a fragmented nation which in part is ostensibly ruled by a hereditary monarchy and which is a puppet government dedicated to serving the interests of the British Empire at the expense of the people of Ulster.

The only thing the IRA and other Irish independence groups want is for the British and their cronies to get the fuck out of Ireland and leave Ireland alone forever. It took 6 centuries of persistent resistance to finally kick the imperialist British occupiers out of most of Ireland, and eventually the Irish people will kick them out of Ulster, even if it takes another 6 centuries.

Irish Republican Brotherhood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Brotherhood

Irish Republican Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army

Republican Sinn Fein

THE NEED FOR JUSTICE

Republican Sinn Féin campaigns for a just settlement to the conflict in Ireland. It is our belief that a key ingredient missing from the Stormont Agreement is justice for all the Irish people. The “solution”, so-called, leaves the people in the 26 Counties stranded in a neo-colonial State, which by nature is heavily centralised (it is only now seeming to go contrary to its centralist nature at the behest of its European masters in order to receive maximum grant aid), with a political system contaminated beyond repair by an ethos of cronyism.
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This agreement, if it runs its course, promises many more decades of working class alienation and institutionalised sectarianism. The sooner it falls, the better.

THE STRUGGLE ON ALL FRONTS

We stand for the complete separation of Church and State.

In these and in other matters, Republican Sinn Féin will not hesitate to take issues into the streets or wherever may be necessary to ensure the interests of the people they serve.

https://rsfnational.wordpress.com/

Regarding the story below, those known as unionists are people who support the British occupation of Ulster, and the term as used in the article has nothing to do with labor unions whatsoever.

Gay marriage in Northern Ireland: Catholics and unionists block motion

The Catholic church has backed unionist politicians' moves to block marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

A Sinn Féin motion to introduce legislation that would allow gay people to marry in the region is likely to be defeated at the Northern Ireland assembly on Tuesday.

Before the vote, the Catholic hierarchy wrote to every assembly member to urge them to reject the bill.

The Catholic bishops in Northern Ireland said: "We write to you today out of concern that the 'Marriage Equality' motion undermines a key foundation of that common good. We say this not only out of religious conviction, but also as a matter of human reason. Religious and non-religious people alike have long acknowledged and know from their experience that the family, based on the marriage of a woman and a man, is the best and ideal place for children. It is a fundamental building block of society which makes a unique and irreplaceable contribution to the common good. It is therefore deserving of special recognition and promotion by the State.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/29/gay-marriage-northern-ireland-catholic-church-unionist

Below is the graveyard, and ruins of the chapel where some of my Irish ancestors and relatives are buried. At least 10 of the children of my direct ancestors were indirectly murdered in the 1800's by the imperialist British occupiers before their 30th birthday.





The British could bring good will to all concerned, and put an end to any and all violence connected to their occupation, by simply going back to the British Isle forever, and leaving Irish folk to govern themselves.


The violence in Ulster is unfortunate, but imperialist occupiers should expect it. Those who invade and occupy another people's ancestral lands through use of force and violence are terrorists, and the original inhabitants of the occupied land have every right to try to do whatever they feel necessary drive imperialist terrorists from their lands and homes if the terrorist occupiers refuse to leave peacefully.

Denis Donaldson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Donaldson

For anyone who wishes to get some background of the horror and ultimate genocide of the Irish people by the British imperialist occupiers, the defeat of the British and their expulsion from the southern provinces, the background of the IRB, IRA, and Sinn Fein, etc, I recommend two classic novels by Leon Uris, Trinity, and Redemption. While these are fiction novels, they mirror historical events pretty well, and are very enlightening and entertaining.

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