Title: The Rising of the Moon - Irish Resistance Song *Music Club* Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jan 12, 2008 Author:John Keegan Casey Post Date:2008-01-12 14:17:01 by christine Keywords:None Views:165 Comments:7
If they aren't able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won't break you. They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show.
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution. That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.
Would dual-citizens running America's foreign and domestic policies count as "an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land"?
Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.
can we not relate? the elitist enemy within is to us as the british were to the irish.
The British banking system accepted $30 billion in American Federal Reserve funds to bail out the Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclay's last fall. That's our currency's value being diminished.
Kuwait is a British interest.
Pakistan is a British interest.
We are accepting the EU's principles, as the British have.
We are permitting ourselves to be disarmed, as the British have.
We are passing laws that restrict speech against religious groups, as the British have.