The Most Frightening Thing I Have Ever Seen.
I have seen a lot of television and movies.
War movies, historical movies and documentaries, horror movies, television news.
But the most frightening thing I have ever seen whether live or on film was the following.
I attended a march for Troops Out of Ireland back in 1992. It ended in a rally in a London Park.
A man whose son was killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 stood up to talk.
He was bearded and he loomed very large on the rostrum. It was getting dark and he seemed dark as well.
He pronounced vehemently into the microphone the following:
"They toook my country and they partitioned it! And we give our warm greetings to the volunteers of the IRA on active service here in England!"
I am compelled by the truth of my feelings to relate that this is still the most frightening thing that I have ever seen.
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Throughout the 1980s around 15 people (civilians) - many of them children - were also murdered by the English Army by PLASTIC and other kinds of BULLETS.
Another set of killings by the English Army that - like Bloody Sunday - should not be forgotten.
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I grew up in a country at war.
But no one ever told me till I was 20!
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March 2018.
I now thoroughly repudiate ALL nationalism. The idea that a specific group of people has a right to a specific piece of territory now seems self-evidently absurd to me.
It is also irrationali, immoral and evil.
Whilst I am an anti-nationalist I am also, however, an anti-imperialist.
Anarchism as an ideology or tendency of thought is totally opposed to nationalism of all kinds.
Which means that I seek to end the domination of imperialism in whatever way it manifests itself.
In the case of Northern Ireland the problems may be imperialist in origin.
But the problems are now caused by nationalism - the nationalism of both sides.
If I lived there now, I would campaign and vote for full devolution and for the Green Party.
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I have seen a lot of television and movies.
War movies, historical movies and documentaries, horror movies, television news.
But the most frightening thing I have ever seen whether live or on film was the following.
I attended a march for Troops Out of Ireland back in 1992. It ended in a rally in a London Park.
A man whose son was killed on Bloody Sunday in 1972 stood up to talk.
He was bearded and he loomed very large on the rostrum. It was getting dark and he seemed dark as well.
He pronounced vehemently into the microphone the following:
"They toook my country and they partitioned it! And we give our warm greetings to the volunteers of the IRA on active service here in England!"
I am compelled by the truth of my feelings to relate that this is still the most frightening thing that I have ever seen.
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Throughout the 1980s around 15 people (civilians) - many of them children - were also murdered by the English Army by PLASTIC and other kinds of BULLETS.
Another set of killings by the English Army that - like Bloody Sunday - should not be forgotten.
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I grew up in a country at war.
But no one ever told me till I was 20!
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March 2018.
I now thoroughly repudiate ALL nationalism. The idea that a specific group of people has a right to a specific piece of territory now seems self-evidently absurd to me.
It is also irrationali, immoral and evil.
Whilst I am an anti-nationalist I am also, however, an anti-imperialist.
Anarchism as an ideology or tendency of thought is totally opposed to nationalism of all kinds.
Which means that I seek to end the domination of imperialism in whatever way it manifests itself.
In the case of Northern Ireland the problems may be imperialist in origin.
But the problems are now caused by nationalism - the nationalism of both sides.
If I lived there now, I would campaign and vote for full devolution and for the Green Party.
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