Treat the Disease not the Symptoms

TREAT TH E DISEASE NOT THE SYMPTOMS.

COMMENT Page 30 in the Belfast Telegraph July 29 states: -

“The pledge by the first and deputy first ministers to lead to efforts to tear down the walls is a welcome one-----they cannot b e allowed to continue as symbols of a riven society”

In this proposition the symptoms of the sickness of sectarianism are being treated but the root cause of the illness is ignored. Tear down the walls and what does that change? There will still be two conflicting heads of state involved in Ireland, two conflicting national flags being flown, two conflicting national anthems being sung, with two conflicting national pass ports being travelled on. Even if the walls are down the people will skulk in sectarian ghettoes with the kerbstones painted red white and blue in one ghetto and green white and orange in the other. A right wing Protestant Union Jack Unionist First Minister voted in by Protestants and a left wing Catholic Irish tricolour Republican Deputy First Minister voted in by Catholics are in themselves symbols of a sick Irish society riven with sectarianism. COMMENT and the ministers have nothing to say about the tearing down of a sectarian border that scars the face of this island.

If the scars of sectarian walls and a sectarian border are to be removed radical corrective surgery will be necessary not the cosmetic of the G.F.A. Such surgery will require the change of U.K. constitution to a Federal Kingdom constitution to give a healthy non- sectarian written democratic constitution that is as acceptable to all. The procedure for such radical face transplant surgery to the face of Kathleen Ni Houlihan and my Dark Rosaleen is given in the trilogy –The Way Ireland Ought to Be – The Rape of Virgin Munchindun-- and in-- Size Matters (out in September) available from Amazon.

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