Sinn Fein/IRA terrorist Gerry Adams said yesterday that he wants to being his campaign for a united Ireland to the USA and Britain:
Campaigns to lobby for a united Ireland could tap into the huge Irish populations living in the US and in Britain, Sinn Fein said today.
Later this month the party is to stage a major event at Dublin's Mansion House marking the sitting of the first Dail, which followed the rise of Sinn Fein nearly a century ago.
But 90 years after the events that led to the war of independence in Ireland, modern republicans hope to build on the current peace process to lobby internationally for Irish unity.
While the Good Friday Agreement ensured Northern Ireland's constitutional position within the UK cannot change without the consent of a majority of voters, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said his party wanted to encourage debate towards ending partition.
“All of this is part of a process,” he said.
“If you consider what things were like here [across Ireland] 40 years ago, in terms of both the Orange state, the conservative, impoverished state in the south, the fragmented and very minimalist republican development.
“And then you fast forward to now — without for a moment minimising all the tragedies and difficulties that have occurred in between — you can see how things have moved ahead.
“That's what's going to happen in the up-coming period. It's an incremental process of building the republic day-by-day.”
He conceded the international media had moved on from focusing on Ireland.
“But the Irish diaspora haven't,” he said.
“And if you move outside the diaspora and talk to anyone, they will tell you — and I defy anyone to contradict this — that most people who know anything about Ireland know the British government should have no claim or jurisdiction.”
It is quite easy to contradict you, Mr. Adams. It is clear that Northern Ireland should be under the jurisdiction of the British government so long as the majority of the people in Northern Ireland want it to be so.
Mr Adams added that they have “to engage in a way which makes unionists comfortable with a new Ireland” and with an Ireland where the people who live here, would be sovereign.
It will not be possible for you to make the unionists 'comfortable' with your vision of a new Ireland because for the last 40 years you have waged a war on them. These people, whether they are referred to as Irish Protestants or Ulster Scots or Ulstermen know you and your despicable band of baby-killers all too well.
And furthermore, if Sinn Fein were to govern your "new Ireland". The people would definitely not be sovereign. The country would be governed by a handful of people in the Irish version of the Politburo, consisting of yourself, Mr. McGuinness, and a select few others. There would be no democratic elections nor any civil rights nor private property at all.
The Sinn Fein president also touched on the Celtic Tiger economic boom, describing the Irish governments that presided over that period as lottery winners who ‘went on the tear’ and squandered their money.
Mr Adams said republicans had called for better use of the wealth and believed those warnings were now being fulfilled in the economic crisis gripping the Republic.
Prior to the last election pollsters had predicted major gains for Sinn Fein, but in the end it lost one of its five Dail seats, claiming it had been squeezed out in the major battle between Fianna Fail and Fine Gael.
But Mr Adams said: “The message that we had in the election — I think you can see now given what has happened since.
“The unprecedented wealth was not used in a sensible, egalitarian way to build public services, to plan strategically for when there was going to be a decline in the economy.
“It was as if you won the lotto and went off on the tear and treated all your friends, then you woke-up one morning and your money had all gone, but in this case it was public money.”
The people of the Republic of Ireland don't want you running their country either. They know that however bad things may be right now, they would be much worse off in a Sinn Fein regime. Your socialist ideals have been tried in various forms in many countries all over the world. In every case, the results have been dismal.
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