Monica Lewinsky, the founder of modern
Ireland
With some justice, it has often been
postulated that Oliver Cromwell is the true father of the Irish
nation. While his own surveyor, Petty, documented that OC did a
population cull of about 1/3 of the population, the fact remains that
the factionalism that weakened the Irish response to him attenuated
considerably – for a while, at least.
20 years ago, it was reasonable to
think, in the wake of the IRA ceasefire, that a 32-county united
Ireland was in the offing for 2014. Moreover, it was to be a country
with considerable cultural and technological clout; our software
engineers and musicians were acknowledged as wold class. It looked
like Joyce's dream in the “Voyage of Bran” final section of
Ulysses was to be realized.
So what happened? First of all, John
Major allowed the Republicans rifle through Bill Clinton's personnel
file at oxford to see if, in his zeal to avoid Vietnam, he had
applied for a British passport. Once elected, BC's response was to
overrule all the advice of his security staff and inflict Gerry Adams
on the world. GA up to that point was an incompetent and deeply
compromised ex-activist in the IRA, surrounded by spies like
Scappaticci and Donaldson, and responsible for at least 4 unnecessary
deaths in the hunger strike as Richard O'Rawe has demonstrated.
Yet the Americans were still respecting
Ireland's national aspirations until the Monica Lewinsky incident.
Then the game between “deal at all costs” to burnish BC's image.
The fact that the 26-county state was sacrificed for GA and his
cronies should not escape anyone at this stage. It is also clear from
Mitch Reiss's public statements (eg UC Berkeley Mar 8 2012) that the
British kept GA alive to push through this deal
So we Irish have ended up as a “state”
with no national territory under an “agreement” any detail of
which the Brits can welsh on at any moment, as Mandelson
demonstrated when he collapsed the assembly. In my book “Ireland in
crisis” I have proposed a solution – we reinstate the claim on
the whole island and allow the referendum proposed in the 6 counties
under the GFA take place as a secession license by individual
counties. Moreover, just in case anyone ever says again that Ulster
is majority British, we allow Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan the right
to join Britain Residents of counties voting to leave Ireland would
lose automatic entitlement to Irish passports, and would have to
qualify in tests similar to the ones the French use to assess
citizenship material.
These tests can indeed be spread to the
USA, whose Irish population is doing nothing for Ireland in the absence of direction from the Irish "state", , and
Argentina, whose Irish population is very culturally simpatico. The
USA has always sided with Britain against Ireland; it is absurd that
so many of its population have Irish passports without any commitment to the country. There should be a quid
pro quo where these passports are retracted unless the 50k
"undocumented' Irish in the USA get green cards.
The result would be that only Antrim
and Down would stay with Britain and it would not be difficult to
control these areas. To hang on to your passport, you would have to
re-qualify. With his lack of knowledge of Irish, no Gaelic games
background, and a selective version of Irish history, it is likely
that the right honorable GA – like many of his cronies – would
fail to qualify.
PS The Free State has of course decided
to interfere with our lives as Irish living in the USA. Get us
citizenship? You must be joking! Junior minister Joan Burton of the
Labour parasite party has decided not to grace the St pat's day
Parade in NY. Hopefully the NY community will exclude her and others
of her ilk from the Free State from other events, since they are
obviously not happy here.
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