FR. SEAN MCMANUS’ 35TH SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO: SOLIDARITY CALL FOR NORTHERN IRELAND ELECTIONS

Posted By: February 20, 2022

VIDEO #35—FR. SEAN MCMANUS’ VIDEO: SOLIDARITY CALL FOR NORTHERN IRELAND ELECTIONS 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2022

VIDEO LINK-–https://youtu.be/9fQJCJSL8YI

SCRIPT

Sunday, February 20, 2022

SOLIDARITY CALL FOR NORTHERN IRELAND ELECTIONS 

DID YOU KNOW THERE’S GOING TO BE AN ELECTION IN NORTHERN IRELAND IN MAY?

DO YOU REALIZE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS ELECTION?

Hi, I’m Fr. Sean McManus, President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus in Washington, DC, and Chief Judge of the World Peace Prize. 

And this is our Thirty-Fifth —yes, Thirty-Fifth! —social-media video.

The Northern Ireland Assembly elections will be held on Bobby Sands Day, May 5, 2022.

This could be a historic election that could speed the end of England’s Partition of Ireland, unilaterally enacted on December 23, 1920, by the London parliament, with the assent of the King of England.

So, the Irish National Caucus has issued a Solidarity Call —and what better day for a Solidarity Call than Bobby Sands Day, May 5, the day of his death many years ago? We have issued this Call to the Nationalists/Republicans/Catholics in Northern Ireland to put aside “internal ’’differences and vote with self-confidence—just like Black Americans did in electing Joe Biden as President of the United States.

 Although the situation for Catholics has greatly improved, thank God,  since the Good Friday Agreement, nonetheless, it is ever more clear that England’s Partition must end. Therefore, the enduring, over-arching issue in the upcoming election is: Are you for Irish unity and against England’s Partition? There is no escaping that question. No escaping.

Now, being against England’s partition, of course, also means being against all its attendant evils: racism (meaning anti-Irish), sectarianism (meaning anti-Catholicism), and the denial of equality, human rights, truth, justice, and national self-determination … not to mention, being against State-collusion, State-assassinations, and State-coverups—and being against amnesty for British security forces and their political bosses who committed war crimes in Ireland (the real reason for the proposed amnesty plans by the London government).

Nationalists/Republicans/Catholics in Northern Ireland must not be blackmailed or brow-beaten into thinking “it’s time to let go of all that” because it’s in the past. No, it is not. Injustice, if not righted, is always—always—in the present, as Black Americans now have the confidence to assert. It is not about revenge or failure to forgive. It is about building up The Beloved Community in solidarity, justice, truth, and equality—based on democracy, respect for human rights, and national self-determination.

And Catholics in Northern Ireland must not listen to false and outrageous charges that if they vote AGAINST racism and sectarianism, they are being racist and sectarian! A strategy often tried against Blacks in America.

Everyone—in Ireland, America, and all over the world who love justice, human rights, and democracy—can play their part in this Solidarity Call by signing the One Ireland Petition:

                                   “Ireland, too, has the right to be

                                     One Nation under God,

                                     indivisible,

                                     with liberty and justice for all.”

The Petition is hosted by Change.org

It’s on Twitter and Facebook

And, of course, on our web site IrishNationalCaucus.org

Please join almost 30,000 signers and sign right away.

And please donate to the Irish National Caucus to help our great work and mission on Capitol Hill. Donations made to Change .org, by the way—if it is made on their site—that donation goes to  Change.org, not the Irish National Caucus,

So, please, to donate go to the Irish National Caucus you must go to Irish National Caucus .org and please be as generous as you can.

Thank you.

God save Ireland. END.