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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, in addition to
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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of 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 RSFand 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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