Northern Ireland

 I think, perhaps,that I have not been calling a spade a spade over this last twenty-eight years..

In my view,the North of Ireland is an example of a state governed and administered through AUTHORITARIAN ways and  means,a police state in other words. No amount of media publicity for judges, police, lawyers and politicians can conceal the fact that nor is the state which most of its inhabitants seek to distance themselves from.

The North's future is mortgaged to its past.

 There is no point in keeping up a pretence any longer. 

The Stormont Assembly is an insult to all Irish nationalists and the Northern police and public service are an affront to democracy.

Let us get rid of both and integrate with the South on a fair and equitable basis. 

No matter who runs the North,the whip changes but the lash goes on.We can not reform the Northern Ireland state no more than the South could work Home Rule in 1919. 

A message too progressive for the times?

There is no such thing as political history ending. Public justice is an eternal verity and civil peace can only be secured when a country is strong enough to repel an outside attacker.

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4.4.2022

The irrefutable truth of the matter is that many of the worst offenders in the police and army left years ago and many more are preparing to depart.

There are clear signs in my instance since September 2020 that the police realise their covert tactics have not worked. A mindless thug such as Chief Inspector Pat Brogan must always get his way. He cannot tolerate the fact that his critic has survived medical defamation, police entrapment and random acts of thuggery. He has to admit defeat.

In a two-sided fight,there can not be two winners as in Catholic Church fairytales. There can only be one.

 If the police are not prepared to leave,they must be PUT OUT.

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17.5.2022

The sectarian and national tensions which feed conflict bedevil this society.

The times when passions are at fever-pitch are at the New Year and Twelfth of July. That is well-known. What is less well-known is those areas where there is very little friction or where old hatreds are in decline and community politics hold sway. We think in particular of non-divisive leaders in North Belfast,Fermanagh,West Belfast and Derry City.

Try as we might there is no possibility of avoiding constitutional rancour and opposition to the outdated armed policing. As Elizabeth of England says herself she would have preferred some arrangements "somewhat differently".

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24.12.2022

Civil society. The Welfare State bestowed to us by the English 

Who is a friend to a Catholic or a needy or homeless person in the North of Ireland?

He is someone who stands up to the Orange bully-boys and brings them to court for unpaid wages and tackles the Provos for war-profiteering or simply knocks the head off them. As you would in Germany on a building site,knock the stuffing out of a Bavarian digger driver with no manners.

Should we in Northern Ireland extend succour to the wanderer and the homeless person?

Yes,offer him food and comfort but inviting him into your home,unless he is Canadian,a Cavanman or a family member brings danger and offers only false comfort to the pilgrim. In the end he has to sort out his own problems. Of these, simple-minded Cavanman is the best to help since he will invariably return the favour when you need his assistance as you inevitably will if you were born in the North of Ireland.

Cosi fan tutti!

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10.4.2023

Trouble is forecast by nincompoops in Whitehall.

Is trouble imminent?

Clearly,not. Policing spending is about to be reduced because even English politicians realise that the police are two ends of the one shitty stick and the existence of any police force depends on contrivance to generate crime and violence. Change is coming not because people such as former nationalist militants have dispersed and changed,rather because of Reichsmarschall Gerhard Adams ' friend, demographics.

Adams got it right,I (glasnosteire, blogspot, com) got it wrong. Natural death has dealt with an ageing,medically-dependant unionist population and Irish unity is coming.

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28.3.2025

Will we be any better off under existing arrangements involving police in the South?

Clearly not. Politicians and soldiers are high on narcotics and morphine and go around untrammeled,terrorising anyone with a modicum of intelligence.

That is why people such as Trump feel free to mock the Irish as stupid and greedy. Trump in particular,likes to condescend to us and to forget that we are part of the largest trading bloc in the world. This trading bloc could well be America's nemesis and it does not believe in bully boy tactics or riding roughshod over national and social rights as Trump does.

We say of Trump in Ireland,"Go and get your head seen too. The goods you are manufacturing in Ireland are not of US invention. They are the product of our own creativity and that of other nationalities. If you are not prepared to get your head seen to,go away and jump in the river. The Irish survived without the United States and we will survive without you in the future. Give back what you stole from me and others."