CAPITOL HILL. Monday, August 17, 2020— The popular and fast-growing internet
Petition of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus is now being seen
as a perfect response to the approaching 100th Anniversary of
England’s partition of Ireland.
Fr. Sean Mc Manus, Caucus president, said: “Our 1974 founding motto,
‘Ireland, too, has the right to be One Nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all’ —https://www.change.org/IrelandOneNation—serves as a perfect response for the worldwide Irish to
England’s partition of Ireland. As of this date, the Petition has
been signed by 14, 265 people.
December 23, 1920, is an infamous day in England’s long infamous history
in Ireland. For on that day, the London Parliament imperially enacted its
Government of Ireland Act (“Partition Act”). In an act of State-terrorism,
this Act violently ripped six small counties—Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry,
Antrim, Down, and Armagh (about one-sixth of Ireland)—from the other 26
Counties of Ireland, with frightful and deadly consequences.
The new mini-state of the Six Counties/Northern Ireland came into
existence later in 1921….But the racist/sectarian Act was done on December
23, 1920, in England’s Parliament—where all infamous deeds regarding
Ireland were done (with some still being done, despite the Good Friday
Agreement). It was not the Orangemen who enacted the Government of Ireland
Act. It was the London Parliament, with the Royal Consent of King George
V, and the buck stops there, and nowhere else.”
Fr. McManus explained: “ I use the term England rather than British
because one can hardly blame Wales or Scotland—despite villains like Lloyd
George or Lord “Bloody” Balfour— especially since Scotland now seems to be
heading towards independence.
It was always England that was the major culprit; it just dragged Wales
and Scotland along in its evil Empire that spread and institutionalized
racism/sectarianism (the twin evils of the British Empire) across
about one-quarter of the earth.”
Fr. Mc Manus continued:“This Act was criminal, undemocratic, racist
(anti-Irish) and sectarian (anti-Catholic), cruelly and
obscenely enacted two days before Christmas … England’s Christmas gift to
long-suffering Ireland.
The only way that England would be able to hold on to a part of Ireland
was through the creation of an artificial, gerrymandered, anti-Catholic
state in which Catholics would be systematically discriminated against
and excluded from all power. Anti-Catholicism became, in effect, the State
Religion of the Six Counties/Northern Ireland.
The Good Friday Agreement, thank God, mostly brought an end to the
violence by all sides —British Army/police, Unionists, IRA, etc.— and
showed the world that the sectarian, anti-Catholic state of The
North/Northern Ireland was a failed State. It was founded on the deeply
undemocratic predicate that the artificially
created Unionist/Protestant majority —created by England’s damn
Border— would endure forever. … The hubris of Empire!
Today, experts seem to agree that the 2021 Census will show that the 1920
two-to-one undemocratically created Protestant majority has vanished,
with Nationalists/Republicans/ Catholics being numerically equal.
Furthermore, the Brexit madness has changed everything, showing, among
other things, that England cares little about Catholics or
Protestants in Northern Ireland. As Lord Palmerston (1874-1865) said:
‘England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies,
England has only eternal and perpetual interests.’ And as General
de Gaulle said: ‘For England when she was stronger, there is no
alliance which holds, no treaty which is respected, no truth
which matters.’”
Fr. Mc Manus concluded: “Our motto—based, of course, on the American
Pledge of Allegiance— offers the vision of The Beloved Community: unity,
solidarity, equality, mutual respect, with ‘liberty and justice for all.’
The Irish National Caucus urges the worldwide Irish and all who
respect international human rights and justice to please sign this
splendid Petition—https://www.change.org/IrelandOneNation ’’
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