STATEMENT ON BRITISH / U.S. IMPERIALISM - From Rev. Art

In a review of the insightful book, Ulster's White Negroes by Fionbarra O'Dochartaigh, Richard Wallace, Chicago, writes: "Anyone concerned with the rights of man should be aware of the meaning of the One-Eyed-Jack nature of English society - that is, a society that claims to be 'civilized' while claiming that other nations whose properties they covet are 'savages'. A One-Eyed-Jack is one who shows its good eye to the public, while its hidden, evil eye pursues its true agenda. The word 'Plantation' derives from the term 'Transplantation of English Society'. Throughout the world, England (Britain) has sought to take that which belonged to others, all in the name of 'Civilization'. Those who resisted were the savages or barbarians; and were treated as sub-human, subject to the whim of the Englishman, who usually exterminated them. Ulster is still called the 'Plantation' even today after all of England's other plantations have been forcefully dismantled. The Ulster Plantation's closest cousin are the Slave Plantations of America, where black tribespeople, stolen from Africa, were enslaved to plant and harvest the lands their masters, the English, stole from the Native American Indians. Methods learned in Ireland were improved upon in the Slave Plantations of America, and are today still being perfected in Ulster, in Ireland's six occupied Counties (Northern Ireland to the British). The Irish Civil Rights movement, launched in 1967 in Belfast, named the 'Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association', was very nearly crushed on Bloody Sunday in 1972. In Derry (the English still insist on calling it Londonderry in spite of the name change instituted by its City Council) - the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association was modeled after Martin Luther King and the American Civil Rights movement. It is true that a group of innocent college students sought to right the wrongs of a foreign occupying society that considered the Native Irish to be inferior, uncivilized and savage - a race of people not worthy of basic human rights. In the 1700's and 1800's it was not a crime to kill an Irish Native. Similarly, in White Anglo Saxon America it was not a crime to kill a Plantation negro or an American Indian; they all had something the English wanted. In Ireland, the English, for 1000 years have attempted to exterminate the Native Irish at every turn because they wanted what the Irish have; a rich island nation bursting with natural resources and land to spare. Britain is currently supporting itself on the oil resources of Scotland, which it has stolen at the point of a gun.   In Ulster the British have used their specially written laws, their non-jury political courts, their British Police Force, their British Military, and their highly financed Ulster Protestant population to crush and destroy any effort by the Native Irish to achieve any semblance of basic human rights. The Nationalists and/or Catholics are, to this day, terrorized by the State solely because of their national origin/religious heritage and the blatant fact that the land of their forefather's was stolen by the forefather's of their molesters. England's legacy to Ireland is written on the walls of their prisons and the tombstones of their cemeteries. And, by the way - the Mass Graves of their 1845 Genocide have long been obliterated." Is the beloved Republic of Jefferson, Paine and Madison, Washington and Franklin, genetically predisposed from our conception in Empire to inherit the mantle of Britain as warmonger for wealth, power and hegemony across the planet? Surely, as Irish-Americans, we should be able to see the incontrovertible irony of the unholy alliance between Bush and Blair and their ruinous War for Empire in the Middle East. All we need to do is revisit the history, the stories and the Rebel songs of our youth to see the parallels between Ulster and Iraq... or India and Iraq... A One-Eyed-Jack is one who shows its good eye to the public, while its hidden, evil eye pursues its true agenda. Tiocfaidh ár lá! Rev. Art - Secretary, Robert Emmet Unit-Irish Northern Aid Good fortune. COMMENT! Please spread the meme. Don't smoke in bed...