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"We prate and babble,
and write books, and publish them, filled with
sentiments of freedom, and abhorrence of tyranny, and
lofty praises of the Rights of Man! Yet we
are content to hold three millions of our fellow
creatures, and fellow subjects, in degradation and in
infamy, and contempt, or to sum up all in one word, in
Slavery!" (This statement was written
by the Republican Irish lawyer and army officer Theobald
Wolfe Tone well
over 200 years ago.)
"Dept
Slavery" comes next for the present "three
millions" plus Republic of Ireland
citizens: if we're not all very
vigilant, and very cautious?
The
e-mail reproduced below to 83 Republic of Ireland
TDs (half of the total 166) can
also be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/Dail31TDs/Group1of2/3June2011/Email.htm
The
version of the e-mail at the above address has
rich-text hyperlinks which are not available in
plain-text.
A very similar e-mail has also been
sent to the Group which makes up the 2nd half of the
TDs, and it can be viewed at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/Dail31TDs/Group2of2/3June2011/Email.htm
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On Fri, 3/6/11, William Finnerty
<newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
From: William Finnerty
<newinngalway@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Irish
Republicanism To: "Members of the 31st Dail (Group 1
of 2)" <gerry.adams@oireachtas.ie>,
james.bannon@oireachtas.ie, sean.barrett@oireachtas.ie,
tom.barry@oireachtas.ie,
richard.boydbarrett@oireachtas.ie,
pat.breen@oireachtas.ie, tommy.broughan@oireachtas.ie,
john.browne@oireachtas.ie, richard.bruton@oireachtas.ie,
joan.burton@oireachtas.ie, ray.butler@oireachtas.ie,
jerry.buttimer@oireachtas.ie,
catherine.byrne@oireachtas.ie, eric.byrne@oireachtas.ie,
dara.calleary@oireachtas.ie,
ciaran.cannon@oireachtas.ie, joe.carey@oireachtas.ie,
paudie.coffey@oireachtas.ie, joan.collins@oireachtas.ie,
niall.collins@oireachtas.ie,
michael.colreavy@oireachtas.ie,
michael.conaghan@oireachtas.ie,
sean.conlan@oireachtas.ie,
paul.connaughton@oireachtas.ie,
ciara.conway@oireachtas.ie, noel.coonan@oireachtas.ie,
marcella.corcorankennedy@oireachtas.ie,
joe.costello@oireachtas.ie, simon.coveney@oireachtas.ie,
barry.cowen@oireachtas.ie, michael.creed@oireachtas.ie,
lucinda.creighton@oireachtas.ie,
sean.crowe@oireachtas.ie, clare.daly@oireachtas.ie,
jim.daly@oireachtas.ie, john.deasy@oireachtas.ie,
jimmy.deenihan@oireachtas.ie, pat.deering@oireachtas.ie,
pearse.doherty@oireachtas.ie,
regina.doherty@oireachtas.ie,
stephen.donnelly@oireachtas.ie,
paschal.donohoe@oireachtas.ie,
tommy.dooley@oireachtas.ie, robert.dowds@oireachtas.ie,
andrew.doyle@oireachtas.ie,
bernard.durkan@oireachtas.ie,
dessie.ellis@oireachtas.ie,
damien.english@oireachtas.ie,
alan.farrell@oireachtas.ie, frank.feighan@oireachtas.ie,
anne.ferris@oireachtas.ie, martin.ferris@oireachtas.ie,
frances.fitzgerald@oireachtas.ie,
peterm.fitzpatrick@oireachtas.ie,
charles.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
lukeming.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
terence.flanagan@oireachtas.ie,
sean.fleming@oireachtas.ie, tom.fleming@oireachtas.ie,
eamon.gilmore@oireachtas.ie,
noel.grealish@oireachtas.ie,
brendan.griffin@oireachtas.ie,
john.halligan@oireachtas.ie,
dominic.hannigan@oireachtas.ie,
noel.harrington@oireachtas.ie,
simon.harris@oireachtas.ie, brian.hayes@oireachtas.ie,
tom.hayes@oireachtas.ie, seamus.healy@oireachtas.ie,
michael.healy-rae@oireachtas.ie,
martin.heyden@oireachtas.ie, joe.higgins@oireachtas.ie,
phil.hogan@oireachtas.ie, brendan.howlin@oireachtas.ie,
heather.humphreys@oireachtas.ie,
kevin.humphreys@oireachtas.ie,
derek.keating@oireachtas.ie,
colm.keaveney@oireachtas.ie, paul.kehoe@oireachtas.ie,
bily.kelleher@oireachtas.ie, alan.kelly@oireachtas.ie,
enda.kenny@oireachtas.ie Cc: "The Spirit of Celtic
Queen Boadicea (East Anglia)"
<iceniqueenboadicea@yahoo.co.uk>, "The Spirit of
Celtic Chieftain Vercingetorix (Alesia and Turoe)"
<vercingetorixireland@yahoo.ie>, "The Spirit of
King Ollamh Fodhla (Tara and Ulster)"
<ollamhfodhla@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Friday, 3
June, 2011, 17:00
June 3,
2011
Irish
Republicanism
By William
Finnerty
Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763 -
1798), who died by his own hand in a Dublin prison after
being refused a "soldier's execution", is widely
regarded as the "father of Irish republicanism". He was
a leading member of the group of aristocrats who
vigorously supported the Irish independence movement
known as "The United Irishmen". The aristocrats
in question included the English poet Percy
Bysshe Shelley, who, in addition to now being
widely considered one of the very best lyric poets of
the English language, was closely associated with contemporaries Lord
Byron and John Keats, as well being an
enthusiastic supporter of contemporary "United Irishman"
journalist Peter Finnerty who came from Loughrea
in County Galway. Shelley also became the idol of a
number of other famous poets including Alfred Lord
Tennyson and William Butler
Yeats.
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text below is largely based on a recent "comment" at the
following www location: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/99376#comment281136
A
backup copy of the original comment has been placed
at: http://www.humanrightsireland.com/IndyMediaIreland/3June2011/Comment.htm#comment281136
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Puzzled by
W. Finnerty Fri Jun 03, 2011 09:48
How
have we ended up with such narrow views on republican
forms of government, and the wide range of people and
groups who have supported them since the days of Ancient
Greece at least?
"The word 'republic' is derived
from the Latin phrase 'res publica', which can be
translated as 'a public affair', and often used to
describe a state using this form of
government."
The above excerpt has been copied
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
Basically,
when all the verbal "smoke and mirrors" are filtered out
from the "big picture", there seems to me to be just two
main forms of government:
Government of the people, by the people,
for the people and Government of the ruling elites, by the
ruling elites, for the ruling
elites.
Although I believe I know
which form of government Wolfe
Tone and his fellow United Irishmen
supported, I'm genuinely unsure about which side RSF
and many other political groups and parties are
really on? It often appears to me that political groups
who claim to be "republican" are (in reality) little
more than "ruling elites" of one kind or another (at
heart) trying to replace some other group of virtually
identical "ruling elites" (under a different name):
often through the ballot box, and under the pretence of
genuine democracy.
What choice did "Republic
(so called) of Ireland" voters have at the
general election earlier this year: "six" of one type of
"ruling elites", or "half a dozen" of the
other?
And where, especially with regard to
current issues of extreme importance relating to the
"common good" of the people of the Republic of Ireland,
issues such as the "bankers
bailouts" and the "giveaway" of our oil and gas
resources (for example), do all of our present set of
"elected
representatives" (so called) stand at the
present time -- in reality -- regarding their support
for the basic set of republican principles expressed in
the following piece of text:
"All powers of
government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive,
under God, from the people, whose right it is to
designate the rulers of the State and, in final appeal,
to decide all questions of national policy, according to
the requirements of the common good": which, as
some will already know, is the full text of Article
6.1 of Bunreacht na hEireann, the Basic Law
(i.e. The HIGHEST
LAW) of the Republic of
Ireland?
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