Flags Shit On

Flags Shit On

Sir Hugh Orde has caused a stir recently in deploying under cover British military on the streets of Ulster to counteract the threat of violence from Republican dissidents. In doing so the British Sir Hugh has learnt nothing or forgotten nothing about Ireland. For 800 years the British, especially the English, have employed a brute force military solution to the Irish problem. Sir Hugh continues unabated in that tradition knowing full well that the brute force British / English solution has achieved nothing in Ireland except to rouse anti- British / English sentiment and hatred among the Irish.

That is of course half of the story. The other half of the story is the use of brute force violence by Republicans to over throw the U.K. constitution, which is imposed and undemocratic. The brute force of the Republican PI.R.A. failed to achieve this and ended in a constitutionally obscene Assembly constituted as joint rule by a neo- Marxist Late Sinn Fein and by an extremist Right Wing Union Jack Unionism. A state thus constituted cannot stand.

The constitutionally obscenity of the assembly can be examined in the defilement of the flags associated with Stormont. There is the Irish Tricolour. That flag has been shit upon by P.I.R.A. in the atrocities and criminality of Enniskillen, La Môn, Omagh, the disappeared, and the unnamed who have been dumped on roadsides after being shot in the head. But the Irish Tricolour was further defiled by being urinated on by Late Sinn Fein in their political support of the atrocities and criminality of P.I.R.A. After having defiled the Irish tricolour Late Sinn Fein, having been defeated militarily in their attempt overthrow the U.K. constitution by force, now sit in government at Stormont grinning from ear to ear as they feel their wallets saying they have now wiped their arse clean and are as fresh and clean as a daisy and the defilement of the national flag can be forgotten. But since the tricolour has been shit on in one part of the island it has been shit on in the whole island and is now unclean everywhere. As this is being written the Tricolour is shit upon once again at Mazarine in Antrim in the murder of unarmed soldiers and civilians, the soldiers being shot as they lay wounded on the ground

That is only half the story. The Union Jack has also been shit upon in its history. The parachute regiment shit on the flag on Bloody Sunday in Derry when they gunned down unarmed civilians and the British Establishment colluded in the defilement of their flag by not having the soldiers who carried out the Derry atrocity court marshalled. The Union Jack was also shit upon by the R.U.C. when they battoned a legitimate Civil Rights march off the streets and into the ground in Derry. Furthermore the Union Jack was shit upon and defiled by the U.D.A./U.V.F in their murder of innocent Catholic civilians. The Right Wing Unionist Establishment also relieved themselves on the Union Jack in their silence in condemning U.D.A./U.V.F. atrocities and the criminality of the Parachute Regiment in Derry. Since the Union Jack has been defiled in one part of the U.K. it is defiled dishonoured and shit on in every part of the U.K.

While one can describe the defilement that the U.K. and the Irish constitution are now in, it begs the desperate question---What can be done about all of that? To get at a starting point it has to be realized that that an imposed unwritten undemocratic U.K. constitution is in place in the six counties and is the root cause of unrest and violence in a part of Ireland. The current U.K. constitution was imposed undemocratically on all the Irish in 1801 and despite consistent efforts to have something done about it in the 19th century it remained imposed undemocratic and in place. This situation of frustration erupted in the violence of 1916 by misguided sectarian Republican zealots. There followed a bloody feud between the I.R.A. and the Black Tans. In this feud the I.R.A. in atrocity outrage and criminality shit upon the Irish Tricolour. Ultimately Republicans shit upon the Tricolour in the murder of Michael Collins. The other half of the story was of atrocity out rage and criminality carried out by the Black and Tans and again in this campaign the Union Jack was shit upon.


Federal Unionism Early Sinn Fein points to a route out of all of this constitutional mess. Since the two existing national flags are no longer worthy to be touched by human hand. Federal Unionism- Early Sinn Fein has created a new national flag for Ireland, which is at one and the same time the national flag of Ireland and the symbol of the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain. It should be called The Royal Flag of Ireland. To make that flag a reality in Ireland will require the enactment of the National Government of Ireland Act. This Act would become the written constitution of all Ireland within a Federal Kingdom context. . The Irish problem would then be resolved and the Island reunited.


Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist –Early Sinn Fein