Showing posts with label Sinn Fein Meeting Queen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sinn Fein Meeting Queen. Show all posts
Guest writer Tony O'Hara with his thoughts on why a former Provisional IRA chief of staff, ostensibly committed to expelling the British state from Ireland, should end up toasting the British Queen while politically deferring to her government's authority.
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| The struggle has been well worth it ... for Martin |
Now that it has actually happened, and a former IRA Chief of Staff, Martin Mc Guinness has shook hands with and, toasted Queen Lizzie, and hung out with her Nazi loving Hubby, the hullabaloo will die down after a few weeks. But in thinking about the reasons for the above, and reading his explanation about reconciliation between everyone, it just didn't sit right with me. Things happen for a reason, and especially in politics. So I wondered what is the real motive?
Pauline Mellon with a piece from The Diary of a Derry Mother. It initially featured on 5 April 2014
So it's been confirmed Martin McGuinness is to attend a state banquet hosted by the British Queen, as they say, very little shocks me!!!
Opponents of change who might they be? Would these be people with long
memories? People who bear a cross, people who bear scars or just people
who can look beyond state banquets and see the state we are in?
Just maybe people would object to a so called socialist lording it up with the toffs as the people from his home town suffer from the highest rate of unemployment in the north. A place where many during the harsh winter months are forced to choose between heating and eating?
Could it be that the very notion of a monarchy is anti democratic? Could it be that people are disgusted that this is the same woman who decorated the paras after they murdered people on the streets of his home town in 1972?
Queen Elizabeth II is the world's primary feudal landowner is. She is Queen of 32 countries, head of a Commonwealth of 54 countries in which a quarter of the world's population lives, and legal owner of about 6.6 billion acres of land, one-sixth of the earth's land surface. With a net worth of hundreds of millions of pounds, yet her lavish lifestyle is funded by taxpayers. No minimum wage there Martin!
The British queen is the 'defender of the faith' – not representative of a multi cultural, multi faith society.
I personally couldn't care less who Martin McGuinness has dinner with however I would ask that he and his party president accept that people have different opinions for different reasons. There seems to be an inherent need within Sinn Fein to label people who have a different view point from their party machine.
However I'm much too polite, but what I will say is some people are living in 'cloud cuckoo land.'
So it's been confirmed Martin McGuinness is to attend a state banquet hosted by the British Queen, as they say, very little shocks me!!!
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| Stuffed Quail anyone? |
Gerry Adams in response
to the news stated that
While Martin McGuinness’s involvement in President Higgins’s state visit may 'not be welcome by opponents of change', it is yet another example of Sinn Féin’s
commitment to an inclusive future based on tolerance and equality.
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| An opponent of change? |
Just maybe people would object to a so called socialist lording it up with the toffs as the people from his home town suffer from the highest rate of unemployment in the north. A place where many during the harsh winter months are forced to choose between heating and eating?
Could it be that the very notion of a monarchy is anti democratic? Could it be that people are disgusted that this is the same woman who decorated the paras after they murdered people on the streets of his home town in 1972?
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| Murdered for seeking change! |
The British queen is the 'defender of the faith' – not representative of a multi cultural, multi faith society.
I personally couldn't care less who Martin McGuinness has dinner with however I would ask that he and his party president accept that people have different opinions for different reasons. There seems to be an inherent need within Sinn Fein to label people who have a different view point from their party machine.
However I'm much too polite, but what I will say is some people are living in 'cloud cuckoo land.'
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