Blame the Constitution not the Rioters
IN his letter July 18 Mr Stevenson adopts the blinkered viewpoint that for him and people in general all that matters in a country is the bread and butter economy, to paraphrase his position. As a Christian economist I would bring this quote to Mr Stevenson’s attention: -
Not by bread alone does man live but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. Matthew 4:4
This suggests to me there is higher spiritual order in the life of the individual than bread and butter economics. An individual’s belly isn’t the whole person, as the adherents of a consumer, debt driven, obesity ridden, socio-economy would have us believe.
With that in mind I would point out to Mr Stevenson that in any state there is a higher order than the economy. It is the constitution. A state constitution that has the support of all of the people is a pre-condition for a stable peaceful state that will enjoy vital economic growth and wealth creation. This is missing in the six county/ N. Ireland state. There the state constitution has only the support of some of the people but not all. There are two conflicting heads of state involved two conflicting national flags and anthems, with two conflicting national passports. Such a state is constituted, as being at war with itself so it is not surprising that hotheaded youths in Ardoyne will resort to warlike acts. For Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein these misguided individuals cannot be written off as mindless thugs as the press does but are seen as the tragic victims of an unwritten, undemocratic, imposed and indefensible six county/ N. Ireland state constitution. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein can supply an answer. It is the reform of the United Kingdom constitution to the written Federal Kingdom constitution. The know-how for this is set out in the Blog: -
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
The know-how to change the United Kingdom to a Federal Kingdom will require the political centre in N. Ireland to unite into a single central party under the banner of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein. The political centre in N. Ireland is fractured in three into the U.U.P., the S.D.L.P. and the Alliance Party. These three parties should form a single party as indicated. This new central party should take as its platform the reform of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland into the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa depending on whether one is speaking from an Irish or British perspective. This reform should be expressed in the National Government of Ireland Act. The central party should make clear to all that it is United Ireland friendly, Union and Crown friendly. In this way the new central party Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein will be a party for all and is non-sectarian.
In such a reformed Federal kingdom in relation to Ireland expressed in the National Government of Ireland Act there would be: -
(a) One Head of State – a reformed Crown whose constitutional duties in all Ireland would be defined and stated clearly in writing in the Act.
(b) One national flag in Ireland---the Royal Flag of Ireland. This should be a redesign of the existing tricolour with the Red Cross of St Patrick imposed on the white central panel of the Tricolour along with a Crown and harp emblems in blue. At the bottom of the central panel there should be a shamrock in outline. This flag should be defined in the Act as being, 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. The Union Jack would be defined in the Act as the national flag of Great Britain and the symbol of Great Britain and the Sovereign Nation of Ireland. This is only a small piece in the jigsaw of the Act. A fully developed version of the Act can be found in the novel ---THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE--- Published by Authorhouse and available at Amazon Books. This version of the Act runs to over 20,000 words and is an attempt to cover all aspects of life in Ireland Joining the flags together as a composite is more sensible than attempting to join Peter Robinson and Martin Mc Guinness at the hip at Stormont; these men stand for division and violence in Ireland and their coalition at Stormont is a constitutional absurdity.
© One National Anthem, which can be sung by all. There are many fine songs in Ireland, any one of which would suit this.
(d) One National passport written in Irish and English showing a picture of the Crown as Head of State.
(e) One National Central Government in Dublin called Dail Eireann with legislative power devolved to four Provincial Houses: -
(1) The House of Ulster.
(2) The House of Munster.
(3) The House of Leinster.
(4) The House of Connaugh.
The main problem to be faced in all of this is the reality that Ireland is bedevilled with rigid political doctrinal mindsets. If a Federal Kingdom is to be put in place these doctrinal mindsets will have to be replaced with secular politics. Secular politics are grounded in reason, logic and observation. To eradicate rigid mindsets that are frozen in belief about personalities of bygone times will be a difficult uphill struggle. Mind sets that embody Tone and Pearse on the one hand and King William at the Boyne, the U.V.F. at the Somme and Craig, Carson and the Ulster Covenant on the other,. are deeply embedded in the Irish psyche and will be difficult to uproot but this will have to be undertaken if a Federal Kingdom of peace harmony and reconciliation is to be realized. This rigid doctrinaire belief can be a preamble to violence.
But even so it is still possible to design a Federal Kingdom constitution for all Ireland, which should be as acceptable to the Catholics of Kerry as to the Protestants of Derry and in that way a peaceful stable United Ireland arrived at in which Catholic Protestant and Dissenter are united as Irishmen. The Government of Ireland Act partitioned the Island only the National Government of Ireland Act can reunite the island
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Monday, 20 July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009
The Orangefest on the Shankill
The Orangefest on the Shankill
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein has read in the press that the purpose of the Orangefest on the Shankill is to make the 12th of July parades more inclusive. What does inclusive mean? Inclusive of what? Does it mean in the future Catholics will be out on the Twelfth waving Union Jacks and singing—God Save the Queen? Or could it mean the Orangemen will be out waving Tricolours and singing Amhran na bhFiain. Any one with half a brain knows that neither scenario will ever happen so what does Inclusive mean?
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn sees clearly that the sectarian problem typified by the Twelfth demonstrations springs from the nature of the U.K. constitution. This constitution is unwritten undemocratic and imposed and the Orange marches are part of the imposition of this constitution on those who don’t want it. That is how this unwritten constitution works. Hence the inherent violence connected with Orange parades. The Orangefest fools no one. Those who object to the U.K. constitution are having it rammed down their throats by the Orange Order.
The only way the Orange Parades can be made genuinely inclusive and peaceful and acceptable to all is by reforming the U.K. constitution in relation to Ireland as envisaged in the Blog: -
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Scroll down to page 2 of-- Martin and the Orange Order-- and also c.f. the version of the National Government of Ireland Act given in the novel THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE, published by Authorhouse in Article 10 the Orange Order page 231
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein has read in the press that the purpose of the Orangefest on the Shankill is to make the 12th of July parades more inclusive. What does inclusive mean? Inclusive of what? Does it mean in the future Catholics will be out on the Twelfth waving Union Jacks and singing—God Save the Queen? Or could it mean the Orangemen will be out waving Tricolours and singing Amhran na bhFiain. Any one with half a brain knows that neither scenario will ever happen so what does Inclusive mean?
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn sees clearly that the sectarian problem typified by the Twelfth demonstrations springs from the nature of the U.K. constitution. This constitution is unwritten undemocratic and imposed and the Orange marches are part of the imposition of this constitution on those who don’t want it. That is how this unwritten constitution works. Hence the inherent violence connected with Orange parades. The Orangefest fools no one. Those who object to the U.K. constitution are having it rammed down their throats by the Orange Order.
The only way the Orange Parades can be made genuinely inclusive and peaceful and acceptable to all is by reforming the U.K. constitution in relation to Ireland as envisaged in the Blog: -
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Scroll down to page 2 of-- Martin and the Orange Order-- and also c.f. the version of the National Government of Ireland Act given in the novel THE WAY IRELAND OUGHT TO BE, published by Authorhouse in Article 10 the Orange Order page 231
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Mr Doibhilin is Dispirited
Mr O Doibhilin is dispirited.
Mr O Doibhilin in his letter to the press feels that since Nelson Mc Causland(the culture minister in the assembly) is Oxford educated he should be open minded, free from prejudice and bias when it comes to Irish culture. Mr O Doibhilin fails to understand the weighting educationalists give to schooling in the formation of person, character, attitude and mentality in the individual.
According to the thinking of educationists, in the formation of the individual, family background is given a weighting of 60, the community background is given a weighting of 30 and education and schooling are weighted as 10. So Mr Mc Causland’s Oxford education is neither here nor there. It is his family and community background that matters in the formation of Mr Mc Causland’s mentality.
These weightings are borne out in my own experience. Many years ago when I was a student in Belfast students came up to Queens from Republican/ Nationalist backgrounds carrying with them a baggage of prejudice and bias. In Queen’s they joined Republican/Nationalist clubs and societies and had their bias and prejudice reinforced. They went down from Queens with their family and communal prejudice intact and strengthened. On the other hand students from a Union Jack Unionist family and community background went up to Queen’s with a different baggage of bias and prejudice joined Union Jack Unionist clubs and societies and went down from the university with their bias and prejudice intact and reinforced This is the only realistic verdict to be passed on education in the six counties/N. Ireland. Change will only come from the new unbiased thinking of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein not from Oxford or Q.U.B. Ireland needs new thinking, which can be found in the blog www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Mi9chael Gillespie B.Ed B.Sc(Econ) Dip.Ed D.A.S.E. M.A.(Ed)
Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Mr O Doibhilin in his letter to the press feels that since Nelson Mc Causland(the culture minister in the assembly) is Oxford educated he should be open minded, free from prejudice and bias when it comes to Irish culture. Mr O Doibhilin fails to understand the weighting educationalists give to schooling in the formation of person, character, attitude and mentality in the individual.
According to the thinking of educationists, in the formation of the individual, family background is given a weighting of 60, the community background is given a weighting of 30 and education and schooling are weighted as 10. So Mr Mc Causland’s Oxford education is neither here nor there. It is his family and community background that matters in the formation of Mr Mc Causland’s mentality.
These weightings are borne out in my own experience. Many years ago when I was a student in Belfast students came up to Queens from Republican/ Nationalist backgrounds carrying with them a baggage of prejudice and bias. In Queen’s they joined Republican/Nationalist clubs and societies and had their bias and prejudice reinforced. They went down from Queens with their family and communal prejudice intact and strengthened. On the other hand students from a Union Jack Unionist family and community background went up to Queen’s with a different baggage of bias and prejudice joined Union Jack Unionist clubs and societies and went down from the university with their bias and prejudice intact and reinforced This is the only realistic verdict to be passed on education in the six counties/N. Ireland. Change will only come from the new unbiased thinking of Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein not from Oxford or Q.U.B. Ireland needs new thinking, which can be found in the blog www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Mi9chael Gillespie B.Ed B.Sc(Econ) Dip.Ed D.A.S.E. M.A.(Ed)
Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Monday, 6 July 2009
The Ascendancy
The Ascendancy
Reflecting on the Irish problem as I often do, it seems to me that the existence of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland is at the root of this historic problem. The protestant ascendancy in Ireland rose to prominence and power in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne where the protestant King William defeated the catholic King James. In Ireland the protestant minority community became the ruling class as of right and ruled a defeated penalized catholic majority. This convention was retained in the 1801 Act of Union and thereafter the will of the protestant minority was what mattered while the will of the catholic majority was of little consequence.
With the setting up of the Northern Ireland six county statelet whose constitution was the unwritten imposed 1801 constitution, protestant ascendancy rule continued in the six counties and the state was kept constitutionally stable by the suppression of the catholic minority identity. I can recall living in West Belfast prior to the upsurge of the civil rights campaign in a new housing development whose inhabitants were 50/50 catholic/protestant. Relationships in the estate were excellent even though a few Union Jacks appeared on the Twelfth of July at the marching season but a display of the Irish Tricolour couldn’t be considered, as the police wouldn’t tolerate it. Indeed there are those who date the beginning of the troubles to a protestant protest led by Ian Paisley, against the display of an Irish Tricolour in a shop window in the catholic Lower Falls. My reading of the civil Rights Movement is that historically it mounted a challenge to Protestant ascendancy rule in the six counties and had the reforms envisaged by Terence O Neill been implemented with the backing of Ian Paisley there wouldn’t have been violence in the six county state. In later times Ian has made the magnanimous concession that in Northern Ireland Catholics can have anything they want and so they can, provided they don’t want rid of an unwritten imposed undemocratic U.K. constitution and don’t demand a catholic as first minister. However The Civil Rights Movement was hijacked by Republicans and corrupted by Republican violence and atrocity.
While there is now a bogus peace in the six counties since the Assembly was set up yet there remains an under-belly of violent discord in sectarian clashes in the streets of Derry between Catholic and Protestant youths, in the defacing of Orange and G.A.A. halls and in the continued existence of dissident Republican groups, namely the Real and Continuity I.R.A. to say northing of the peace walls in Belfast. Still in this analysis, this violence and discord will persist as long as an imposed unwritten undemocratic constitution remains in place in the six counties. The impact of this constitutional set-up is a clash of wills between the marginal Protestant majority and a significant Catholic minority. This clash of wills is expressed in the painting of kerbstones red, white and blue, and green, white and orange and in the flying of disparate conflicting flags. In this dichotomy the two communities sulk in mutual resentment behind peace walls in Belfast and in Derry in a bogus peace.. In the Assembly defeated Republicans sit in collaboration with a diametrically opposed Party, Right Wing Union Jack Unionism who have still to come to terms with the new reality that the days of the ascendancy are now over, but these are being propped up by Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies of and the implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Late Sinn Fein first used brute force but that effort was defeated; now they resort to political stealth but the destruction of the union remains their sole aim. But Late Sinn Fein must accept the cold reality that the only strategic rout to an all Ireland Republic is by the Protestant minority in Ireland converting en masse to Republicanism, a conversion that will not happen now or never since the central plank of Protestant culture is loyalty to the Crown. That said the Protestant loyalist community must also face the cold reality that since the days of the protestant ascendancy are over, the unwritten imposed U.K. constitution that goes with the ascendancy notion, has collapsed and is finished. There was a strong whiff of ascendancy rule about Ian Paisley and this whiff lingers with the D.U.P. and as long as this remains there will be Republicans to oppose it. There is also a strong whiff of ascendancy in the mentality of the Orange Order in the clash of communal wills at Garvaghey Road. The British cut the Provisional head off the I.R.A. monster but like the Lernean Hydra of old, the decapitated I.R.A. monster sprouted two new heads, The Real and Continuity I.R.A.
If this horror scenario is to be avoided in the six county state, then the people there will have to think again and anew about their constitutional future. New thinking will need a new party, which should be a united Ireland friendly, and the union and Kingdom friendly party. Such a party can be Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, which should promote a new concept of a Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain in a National Government of Ireland Act. This Act should synthesise Unionism and Nationalism and in so doing draw up institutions and symbols, in a written constitution, which is acceptable to all, be they Catholic Protestant or Dissenter. In this way a genuinely peaceful united Ireland can be realized within a Federal Kingdom dimension.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Reflecting on the Irish problem as I often do, it seems to me that the existence of the protestant ascendancy in Ireland is at the root of this historic problem. The protestant ascendancy in Ireland rose to prominence and power in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne where the protestant King William defeated the catholic King James. In Ireland the protestant minority community became the ruling class as of right and ruled a defeated penalized catholic majority. This convention was retained in the 1801 Act of Union and thereafter the will of the protestant minority was what mattered while the will of the catholic majority was of little consequence.
With the setting up of the Northern Ireland six county statelet whose constitution was the unwritten imposed 1801 constitution, protestant ascendancy rule continued in the six counties and the state was kept constitutionally stable by the suppression of the catholic minority identity. I can recall living in West Belfast prior to the upsurge of the civil rights campaign in a new housing development whose inhabitants were 50/50 catholic/protestant. Relationships in the estate were excellent even though a few Union Jacks appeared on the Twelfth of July at the marching season but a display of the Irish Tricolour couldn’t be considered, as the police wouldn’t tolerate it. Indeed there are those who date the beginning of the troubles to a protestant protest led by Ian Paisley, against the display of an Irish Tricolour in a shop window in the catholic Lower Falls. My reading of the civil Rights Movement is that historically it mounted a challenge to Protestant ascendancy rule in the six counties and had the reforms envisaged by Terence O Neill been implemented with the backing of Ian Paisley there wouldn’t have been violence in the six county state. In later times Ian has made the magnanimous concession that in Northern Ireland Catholics can have anything they want and so they can, provided they don’t want rid of an unwritten imposed undemocratic U.K. constitution and don’t demand a catholic as first minister. However The Civil Rights Movement was hijacked by Republicans and corrupted by Republican violence and atrocity.
While there is now a bogus peace in the six counties since the Assembly was set up yet there remains an under-belly of violent discord in sectarian clashes in the streets of Derry between Catholic and Protestant youths, in the defacing of Orange and G.A.A. halls and in the continued existence of dissident Republican groups, namely the Real and Continuity I.R.A. to say northing of the peace walls in Belfast. Still in this analysis, this violence and discord will persist as long as an imposed unwritten undemocratic constitution remains in place in the six counties. The impact of this constitutional set-up is a clash of wills between the marginal Protestant majority and a significant Catholic minority. This clash of wills is expressed in the painting of kerbstones red, white and blue, and green, white and orange and in the flying of disparate conflicting flags. In this dichotomy the two communities sulk in mutual resentment behind peace walls in Belfast and in Derry in a bogus peace.. In the Assembly defeated Republicans sit in collaboration with a diametrically opposed Party, Right Wing Union Jack Unionism who have still to come to terms with the new reality that the days of the ascendancy are now over, but these are being propped up by Late Sinn Fein who are the arch enemies of and the implacable foes of the Union and are out to destroy it. Late Sinn Fein first used brute force but that effort was defeated; now they resort to political stealth but the destruction of the union remains their sole aim. But Late Sinn Fein must accept the cold reality that the only strategic rout to an all Ireland Republic is by the Protestant minority in Ireland converting en masse to Republicanism, a conversion that will not happen now or never since the central plank of Protestant culture is loyalty to the Crown. That said the Protestant loyalist community must also face the cold reality that since the days of the protestant ascendancy are over, the unwritten imposed U.K. constitution that goes with the ascendancy notion, has collapsed and is finished. There was a strong whiff of ascendancy rule about Ian Paisley and this whiff lingers with the D.U.P. and as long as this remains there will be Republicans to oppose it. There is also a strong whiff of ascendancy in the mentality of the Orange Order in the clash of communal wills at Garvaghey Road. The British cut the Provisional head off the I.R.A. monster but like the Lernean Hydra of old, the decapitated I.R.A. monster sprouted two new heads, The Real and Continuity I.R.A.
If this horror scenario is to be avoided in the six county state, then the people there will have to think again and anew about their constitutional future. New thinking will need a new party, which should be a united Ireland friendly, and the union and Kingdom friendly party. Such a party can be Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein, which should promote a new concept of a Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain in a National Government of Ireland Act. This Act should synthesise Unionism and Nationalism and in so doing draw up institutions and symbols, in a written constitution, which is acceptable to all, be they Catholic Protestant or Dissenter. In this way a genuinely peaceful united Ireland can be realized within a Federal Kingdom dimension.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Saturday, 4 July 2009
When is a war over?
When is a War over?
Federal Unionism reads with scepticism the current hype in the press about arm’s decommissioning and the peace process. For the unionist establishment parties and the press, everything in the garden is now rosy because the war is over but when is a war over?
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein obstinately maintains that the historic roots of discord and violence in Ireland past and present, lie in the constitution. If correctly observed, the six-counties/ N. Ireland is now constituted as being at war. There are two heads of state involved, two national flags being flown, two national anthems being sung and two national conflicting passports being travelled on. As well, the citizens of Belfast and Derry have barricaded themselves behind walls with kerbs painted in conflicting national colours. The war mentality persists in the constitution and is expressed in the murders at Mazareen and in Craigavon and in other diverse sectarian killings. The peace processes is phoney and fake.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein holds that a true genuine peace can only be found in a united Ireland context. To achieve this the U.K. constitution, which is undemocratic unwritten and imposed militarily, will have to be changed and replaced by a written democratic constitution which is acceptable to all on the Island. In this way the Island can be democratically constituted as united within a Federal Kingdom context as the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa. That is the only way Ireland can be made constitutionally stable, united and genuinely at peace. C.F. www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Federal Unionism reads with scepticism the current hype in the press about arm’s decommissioning and the peace process. For the unionist establishment parties and the press, everything in the garden is now rosy because the war is over but when is a war over?
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein obstinately maintains that the historic roots of discord and violence in Ireland past and present, lie in the constitution. If correctly observed, the six-counties/ N. Ireland is now constituted as being at war. There are two heads of state involved, two national flags being flown, two national anthems being sung and two national conflicting passports being travelled on. As well, the citizens of Belfast and Derry have barricaded themselves behind walls with kerbs painted in conflicting national colours. The war mentality persists in the constitution and is expressed in the murders at Mazareen and in Craigavon and in other diverse sectarian killings. The peace processes is phoney and fake.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein holds that a true genuine peace can only be found in a united Ireland context. To achieve this the U.K. constitution, which is undemocratic unwritten and imposed militarily, will have to be changed and replaced by a written democratic constitution which is acceptable to all on the Island. In this way the Island can be democratically constituted as united within a Federal Kingdom context as the Federal Kingdom of the Sovereign Nation of Ireland and Great Britain or vice versa. That is the only way Ireland can be made constitutionally stable, united and genuinely at peace. C.F. www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Friday, 3 July 2009
Is Esther Rantzen anti-Irish
Is the English woman Esther Rantzen anti-Irish?
The English woman Esther Rantzen is of the opinion that the people here are addicted to violence. This is a new variation by Esther on the old stage–Irish image of the fighting Irish. But do we deserve this image?
It is true the people here fought each other to a standstill over a period of 34 years. During that time there was an element in England who wrote that off, as characteristic of the Irish and these English would say they expected nothing else from the Irish but fighting.
It is indubitable that if the English had stayed out of Ireland violence on the island would have been at a minimum but if the English were at loggerheads over the constitution as the people here are, there would be wide spread violence in England as in the English Civil War. Our violence isn’t addictive; it is a product of our history of which the English are a part and carry much of the blame, past and present.A So Esther a more charitable and understanding view of the Irish would be in order.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
The English woman Esther Rantzen is of the opinion that the people here are addicted to violence. This is a new variation by Esther on the old stage–Irish image of the fighting Irish. But do we deserve this image?
It is true the people here fought each other to a standstill over a period of 34 years. During that time there was an element in England who wrote that off, as characteristic of the Irish and these English would say they expected nothing else from the Irish but fighting.
It is indubitable that if the English had stayed out of Ireland violence on the island would have been at a minimum but if the English were at loggerheads over the constitution as the people here are, there would be wide spread violence in England as in the English Civil War. Our violence isn’t addictive; it is a product of our history of which the English are a part and carry much of the blame, past and present.A So Esther a more charitable and understanding view of the Irish would be in order.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Adams and a United Ireland
Adams and a United Ireland
The correspondent Jane Enwright writes with an air of pique about Mr Adams’ assertion that Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland. Ms Enwright fails to understand politics in general and Irish politics in particular. The curse of Irish politics is that it is dogma-driven but Ms Enwright should note that President Bush was a dogma-driven American politician so dogmatic politics is not unique to Ireland. The dogmatic politics of Mr Adams relies on the use of hurrah words and statements and boo words and statements. For an audience of Irish Republican Americans a united Ireland is an hurrah term which Mr Adams hasn’t thought through but when repeated often enough it will draw in sectarian votes in support. On the other hand if the boo term a United Kingdom is repeated often enough with derision in Republican circles sectarian votes will roll in in support. To look at the unionist side The United Kingdom is an hurrah term and if repeated often by Peter Robinson sectarian votes will be cast in abundance. However if the boo term a United Ireland is repeated often with derision in unionist ranks, a rich reward of sectarian votes will follow.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein yearns for the day in Ireland when secular politics relying on reason logic and observation will replace this form of dogmatic politics. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein sees clearly that the only way Republicans can bring about a united Ireland is by having Protestant Ireland convert en masse to Republicanism but such a volte face is highly unlikely seeing that the central aspect of the Irish protestant psyche is loyalty to the Crown. But to look at the other side of the coin for as long as there is a military imposed U.K constitution in the six counties for so long will the peace process be phoney and a violent opposition will remain.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein is loyalist and Crown friendly and is also a united Ireland friendly for no other reason than that that approach to Ireland is morally right. To maintain division in Ireland is morally wrong. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein points to a new united Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context in the blog –
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
It is of special importance that this blog be brought to the attention of Jane Enwright, as she should find it instructive about Ireland.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Adams and a United Ireland
Jane Enwright takes exception to Mr Adams’ assertion that Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland. A united Ireland is a complex constitutional matter but a united Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context is developed in full in the blog: -
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
This blog should be brought to the attention of Jane Enwright.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
The correspondent Jane Enwright writes with an air of pique about Mr Adams’ assertion that Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland. Ms Enwright fails to understand politics in general and Irish politics in particular. The curse of Irish politics is that it is dogma-driven but Ms Enwright should note that President Bush was a dogma-driven American politician so dogmatic politics is not unique to Ireland. The dogmatic politics of Mr Adams relies on the use of hurrah words and statements and boo words and statements. For an audience of Irish Republican Americans a united Ireland is an hurrah term which Mr Adams hasn’t thought through but when repeated often enough it will draw in sectarian votes in support. On the other hand if the boo term a United Kingdom is repeated often enough with derision in Republican circles sectarian votes will roll in in support. To look at the unionist side The United Kingdom is an hurrah term and if repeated often by Peter Robinson sectarian votes will be cast in abundance. However if the boo term a United Ireland is repeated often with derision in unionist ranks, a rich reward of sectarian votes will follow.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein yearns for the day in Ireland when secular politics relying on reason logic and observation will replace this form of dogmatic politics. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein sees clearly that the only way Republicans can bring about a united Ireland is by having Protestant Ireland convert en masse to Republicanism but such a volte face is highly unlikely seeing that the central aspect of the Irish protestant psyche is loyalty to the Crown. But to look at the other side of the coin for as long as there is a military imposed U.K constitution in the six counties for so long will the peace process be phoney and a violent opposition will remain.
Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein is loyalist and Crown friendly and is also a united Ireland friendly for no other reason than that that approach to Ireland is morally right. To maintain division in Ireland is morally wrong. Federal Unionism-Early Sinn Fein points to a new united Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context in the blog –
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
It is of special importance that this blog be brought to the attention of Jane Enwright, as she should find it instructive about Ireland.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
Adams and a United Ireland
Jane Enwright takes exception to Mr Adams’ assertion that Irish America holds the key to a united Ireland. A united Ireland is a complex constitutional matter but a united Ireland in a Federal Kingdom context is developed in full in the blog: -
www.blogstoday.co.uk/irishproblemsolved.blog
This blog should be brought to the attention of Jane Enwright.
Michael Gillespie Federal Unionist-Early Sinn Fein Derry
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