Surely it can't just be me who watches the news as working class people are turfed out of their jobs and frequently homes. As they systematically have their rights removed whilst those in charge continue to prosper at their expense. Worst of all barely a murmur from the masses in America, UK [more interested in the results of x factor than their own well being] or anywhere outside of Greece [riot on lads]. I'm from Belfast I can see the disillusioned looks among the proud Republican People who like me must be thinking is this really the outcome of 30 years of armed struggle, a couple of new Malls and Hotels we can't afford to go to and the outside chance of a mortgage [on a house which the “Man” can repossess to make more money for himself], and not a sniff of a descent job. Unlike most peoples we have tasted freedom [and can't get over the feeling] and I suspect brave men and women will soon be resisting this state of affairs. At the forefront will be the visionary, a Warrior/Poet like Bobby Sands or further back in time the man who left us these final words.
“Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours.... then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men”.
Sir Roger Casement
As powerful now as it was in 1916 orated from the dock before his execution for treason. All I'm saying is don't give up without a fight!
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