NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE FACT THAT ENGLAND’S PARTITION OF IRELAND WAS WRONG.–TENTH SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO AND TEXT

Posted By: November 28, 2020

VIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/7O4YpSj2bCE

 

NOTHING CAN CHANGE THE FACT THAT ENGLAND’S PARTITION

OF IRELAND WAS INTRINSICALLY UNDEMOCRATIC.

Monday, November 9, 2020

 

Hi, I’m Fr. Sean McManus, president of the Irish National Caucus in Washington, DC, and Chief Judge of the World Peace Prize….

 

 And this is our tenth social- media-video on our One Ireland Petition and on England’s undemocratic partition of Ireland.

 

England’s cruel partition of Ireland was unilaterally enacted by the London Parliament —with the assent of the King of England—on December 23, 1920. … So, the 100th Anniversary of this criminal Act is this December 2020.

 

Now, thank God, the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 stopped the war between the IRA and the British Army—each, in effect, accepting they could not defeat the other, and enabling politics to lead the way. Full credit must be given to Tony Blair, the first British Prime Minister to ever, perhaps, try to do the fair and just thing in Ireland.

 

However, no matter how important the Good Friday Agreement is, nothing can change the fact that England’s partition of Ireland was intrinsically and utterly undemocratic.

 

Furthermore, the Good Friday Agreement accepts the fact that Ireland can be re-united when a majority of people in Northern Ireland vote for unity in a Border Poll. Now remember that the large artificial, gerrymandered, Protestant /Unionist majority no longer exists. So, the Border Poll is a very relevant issue.

 

The odd thing, however, is that that the  ONLY PERSON  who can determine when  the Border Poll should be called is London’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland! … If that is not a residue of colonialism, what is?

 Reminiscent of the days of the British Raj in India, and when the racist and anti-Catholic Churchill was Secretary for the Colonies, for goodness sake.

 

Anyway, pending a Border Poll, signing the One Ireland Petition is a perfect, practical thing all people who respect international human rights and democracy can do right now. It is free and only takes a moment. Our splendid Petition proudly declares:

“Ireland, too, has the right  to be ONE NATION

under God, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty and

justice for all.

 

Meanwhile, the good news is that Joe Biden, President-elect, is a dedicated Irishman and true friend of Ireland. He has warned the London Government that there will be no trade deal with the United States if London harms the Good Friday Agreement.

 

And Vice President-elect Kamala Harris is a proud daughter of India, a country that has always been close to Ireland. Indeed, Ireland’s struggle for independence inspired India’s own struggle for independence.

 

I am sure that her Mother, who came from India to the United States in 1958, would have told Vice President-elect Harris all about England’s oppression, genocide, and forced starvations in India.

 

 Most likely she would have told her daughter about Churchill’s racist hatred of the people of India.  How he declared: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

 

And how Churchill ranted that Gandhi “ought to be laid, bound hand and foot, at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new [British]viceroy seated on its back”.

 

I bet you will not see a bust of Churchill in Vice President Harris’ office, or in President Biden’s office.

 

Well, that’s it. Thank you for watching.

 

Please sign the One Ireland Petition. It is posted on Change.org

On Facebook. And on IrishNationalCaucus.org.

 

Let’s help to build up The Beloved Community, as taught by Blessed Martin Luther King, Jr., in ONE, INDIVISIBLE, UNITED IRELAND. And let us always remember the teaching of Pope John Paul II that “peace is the fruit of solidarity.”

 

 

God save Ireland.