Occupied Ireland
My Take on the Situation in Ulster
         The situation in occupied Northern Ireland is complicated and anyone who says otherwise clearly does not understand the long standing political, cultural and religion history of the region. It can be easy to forget today since we now have the power-sharing government with DUP members and Sinn Fein cooperating, however, as welcome as that news is to the war weary population it is not something I can feel good about. Make no mistake about it, the current compromise came about because of war weariness and for no other reason. The people were justly tired of the violence, carried on now by only a few socialist PIRA and ILA nut jobs, but we must remember that nothing has really been settled. The core issues still remain and those are that Northern Ireland is still under the official jurisdiction of Protestant Britain and Ireland remains divided. Until that changes the tension will always remain and violence will never be far away, at least in some circles, until that issue is settled.
          It is not hard to see where my sympathies are; I favor the Irish Catholics and I support a united Ireland. The division of Ireland was a gross injustice and "Northern Ireland" is an invented state made up by greedy politicians in London which was clawed out of the body of Ireland so that the Protestants could have a fabricated majority and "democratically" choose to stay in the British union. It never existed before and it should not exist now. Ireland always was and always should be a united country; one island with one government and if I had my way it would be one as Catholic as Saint Patrick too. The British Empire, which was not all bad, is dead and gone and the Ulster Protestants need to deal with this fact, work through their "issues" and make Ireland whole again. It is totally unacceptable that there are still six counties in Ireland under the control of people who hold their first loyalty to Great Britain rather than Ireland itself and who see themselves as more British than Irish!
           Now, as I have said before, I am no Anglophobe and I feel strongly that if the British had treated the Irish even as well as they treated the French in Canada or the Boers in South Africa we would not have come to this situation, however, we are here and the past cannot be erased. Ireland must be set free completely and totally and, in truth, the British are not the great enemies of that policy. Over the years I think (and many others have said the same) that the U.K. would have been glad to rid themselves of the troubles of Ulster but the arrogant, hateful Protestants who make up the ruling elite would not hear of it and exerted undue political influence to see that they remained clinging to the skirts of mother Brittania. I am no enemy of the United Kingdom but I say that if the Protestants of occupied Ireland are such zealous unionists then Britain itself needs them much more than Ireland does. Britain has already lost most of Ireland, chalk it up to paying the stupid tax and go home and fight for the union there where you still have a chance of success. Do you hear me unionists? I am trying to help you out!
           I am being rather blatant and politically incorrect I realize. However, one cannot erase the 800 years of social, cultural, political and religious oppression that Ireland has endured at British hands. Even in modern times it has continued with the Catholics of occupied Ireland being denied their most basic civil rights. In short, if the Protestants are holding out because of some hope that their side will ultimate prevail in recovering all of Ireland they had best lay those hopes to rest because it ain't gonna happen folks! Longer than most people would admit I think it would have been possible for Great Britain and Ireland to remain associated to some degree or other but time and time again that chance was sacrificed for vengance and bigotry and it is long gone by now I can assure anyone. It is high time for the Ulster Protestants and (to a lesser extent) Great Britain to simply give up the ghost, count Ireland as a loss and learn the lesson and let the country go entirely so that Ireland is again a single, united (and hopefully Catholic) country as it always was and always should be.
"While the wicked stand confounded,
call me, with Thy saints surrounded,"
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