31 July 1997 Edition
Back issue: Eliza-Brit out, peace in
The Irish people have never yet succumbed to English Royalty and proof, if ever proof were needed, that that proud tradition still remains will be amply supplied in the Six Counties on August 10th when Elizabrit sails up Belfast Lough, Our Lough, on her proposed visit to ``view the natives''.
The Brits have done a messy, bloody job attempting to rub us into the ground, and they've done it in her name. Feeble, inoffensive people claim she's only a ``figurehead'', and it's ``not her fault''. This is a ridiculous and servile attitude. This woman hasn't an ounce of integrity: and though the Brits universally proclaim her as the benign queen, ``the nice lady'', we can't forget, and Derry can't forget, how Elizabrit expressed pleasure when decorating with medals the Paras who murdered 14 people on Bloody Sunday; how Her Majesty's Forces have killed hundreds of Irish people and children with impunity; how Her Majesty's perjuring Courts are nothing but sentencing tribunals; how Her Majesty's prisons are nothing but glorified concentration camps, and how Her Majesty's signature is at the bottom of every piece of repressive law we've experienced.
Far from the image of a universal philanthropist, in Ireland she represents War and Death.
So on August 10th/11th in a world propaganda exercise she arrives close to, but warily doesn't enter, the capital city of the Irish Revolutionary War of Liberation. From the detailed schedule of her itinerary, which has come into our possession, we see that she will be avoiding the considerable areas where the blood is spilled on her behalf.
As a sop to Orangeism the loyal UDR will be providing a guard of honour (a major joke in itself), and won't British soldiers (who are increasingly getting killed these days) be filled with hope if for a few hours Coleraine and Hillsborough were safe enough for their Queen?
In a recent address Elizabrit said: ``I cannot forget that I was crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...''
She Won't!
The Brits have done a messy, bloody job attempting to rub us into the ground, and they've done it in her name. Feeble, inoffensive people claim she's only a ``figurehead'', and it's ``not her fault''. This is a ridiculous and servile attitude. This woman hasn't an ounce of integrity: and though the Brits universally proclaim her as the benign queen, ``the nice lady'', we can't forget, and Derry can't forget, how Elizabrit expressed pleasure when decorating with medals the Paras who murdered 14 people on Bloody Sunday; how Her Majesty's Forces have killed hundreds of Irish people and children with impunity; how Her Majesty's perjuring Courts are nothing but sentencing tribunals; how Her Majesty's prisons are nothing but glorified concentration camps, and how Her Majesty's signature is at the bottom of every piece of repressive law we've experienced.
Far from the image of a universal philanthropist, in Ireland she represents War and Death.
So on August 10th/11th in a world propaganda exercise she arrives close to, but warily doesn't enter, the capital city of the Irish Revolutionary War of Liberation. From the detailed schedule of her itinerary, which has come into our possession, we see that she will be avoiding the considerable areas where the blood is spilled on her behalf.
As a sop to Orangeism the loyal UDR will be providing a guard of honour (a major joke in itself), and won't British soldiers (who are increasingly getting killed these days) be filled with hope if for a few hours Coleraine and Hillsborough were safe enough for their Queen?
In a recent address Elizabrit said: ``I cannot forget that I was crowned Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...''
She Won't!