We have received the following post from a supporter in Ulster. Although it is outside the geographical scope of this website, it raises a number of issues that are currently in the news.
It is not just ourselves in Northern Ireland who have an expansionist state trying to take us over. Argentina is trying to take over the Falklands, again. How Argentinian imperialists speak of the Falklands is exactly how Southern Irish imperialists – and their dupes and proxies in the North – speak about Northern Ireland. Argentina’s quarrel is not with the United Kingdom, thousands of miles away, in a different hemisphere, but with the Falkland islanders.
The Falkland islanders have repeatedly exercised their self-determination so as to remain British. Similarly, the Southern Irish imperialists’ or “Irish Nationalists”, quarrel is not with Great Britain, but with the British people living in Ulster, who, as the Good Friday Agreement states “freely and legitimately have determined to remain within the United Kingdom.” Great Britain only stays in the territories that it is wanted in. Falklanders, Ulstermen and Gibraltarians wish the British to remain in the Falklands, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar, respectively.
There was some beautiful Northern Irish/Gibraltarian solidarity when the Gibraltar 3 were assassinated by the SAS. Nobody in Gibraltar wanted to process the bodies, which meant that they were stranded in Gibraltar. Indeed, even the Spanish were appalled by this Enniskillen-style massive bomb that was to be detonated on the rock. The undertaker who provided the coffins for the three “volunteers”, not because he in any way approved of what they were up to, but merely because he considered it his duty to bury the dead, was boycotted out of business, in the wake of this. The airport staff refused to process the bodies, and all of the airlines refused to process the bodies.
In the end, the British Army loaded the bodies onto a private plane headed for Dublin, and they, touchingly, gave the bodies a soldiers’ lift onto the plane. One of the things that I think eventually happened was that the IRA eventually perceived the British Army as a noble enemy, because of things like this, such that they began to feel that murdering them was distasteful. Gibraltar is basically just a massive Army/Navy/RAF base, and the soldiers stationed there were extremely apologetic. They kept saying to Joe Austin, who went over to retrieve the bodies that nobody at the Gibraltar base had anything to do with their assassination: these were SAS outsiders, unknown, even to them.
In the same way that we in Northern Ireland must endure the expansionist phrase “the North of Ireland”, so too must the Falklanders endure the expansionist phrase “Malvinas”. The UK refuses to engage in talks with Argentina concerning the sovereignty of the Falklands because there is nothing to talk about.
A similar thing happened to Northern Ireland with “the New Ireland forum”. A bunch of Southern Irishmen gathered to discuss the future sovereignty of Northern Ireland, and all three proposals diluted the Sovereignty of the United Kingdom over Northern Ireland. The Chutzpah/Barefaced cheek of these people!
Margaret Thatcher summarily dismissed all three of the above chutzpathic proposals with “that is out… that is out… that is out…”, and she is still vilified by Nationalist Ireland to this day for having done so. In Northern Ireland, there is nothing for Great Britain to discuss with Éire as to the sovereignty of Northern Ireland. The Northern Irish have “freely and legitimately” determined to remain part of the United Kingdom.
To engage in dialogue simply gives legitimacy to crazy proposals such as what Argentina is up to, and such as what (Southern) Ireland was up to with its “New Ireland Forum”. Never dialogue with crazy belligerence!
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Main Image: Stock Photo.
Lower Image: Republican mourners line the streets of Dublin during the funeral of the Gibraltar Three.
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